CA Contracts in England

CA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CA over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within CA Technologies.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 568 613
Rank change year-on-year +135 +45 -91
Contract jobs citing CA 102 95 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.45% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 98
10th Percentile £354 £225 £400
25th Percentile £389 £231 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.50% -27.27% +16.40%
75th Percentile £475 £488 £675
90th Percentile £575 £625 £716
UK median daily rate £439 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +9.81% -27.27% +16.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £64.10 £34.98
25th Percentile - £67.25 £52.67
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +13.08% -4.92%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £69.92
90th Percentile - £81.30 £74.28
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.21% +7.06%

All Vendors
England

CA is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,613 21,186 27,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.24% 41.91% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,913 14,600 19,083
10th Percentile £256 £265 £270
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £631 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,002 609 793
10th Percentile £12.01 £15.19 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £18.75 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.40 £39.55 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% +88.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.50 £43.80
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.15 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
% change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%

CA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CA in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CA in England.

Daily rate trend for CA in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CA in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CA in England.

Hourly rate trend for CA in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CA within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +92 30 £413 -30.67% 22
North of England +59 30 £430 -9.47% 14
Yorkshire +41 24 £430 -9.47% 4
West Midlands +43 18 - - 4
Midlands +24 18 - - 4
South West +23 13 £439 +9.81% 5
North West +21 6 £805 +130.00% 7
South East +7 1 £400 +28.00% 9
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.96%) SAS
2 2 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.98%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.96%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.96%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.98%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 30 (29.41%) Azure
2 28 (27.45%) Entra ID
3 16 (15.69%) GitHub
3 16 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.80%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 7 (6.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 5 (4.90%) PaaS
7 4 (3.92%) SaaS
8 3 (2.94%) Azure Storage
8 3 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.94%) IaaS
9 2 (1.96%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (1.96%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.98%) AWS
10 1 (0.98%) AWS KMS
10 1 (0.98%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 37 (36.27%) Firewall
2 15 (14.71%) DNS
3 2 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (1.96%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (1.96%) NAS
3 2 (1.96%) Network Security
3 2 (1.96%) SAN
3 2 (1.96%) SD-WAN
3 2 (1.96%) SSL
3 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.96%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (12.75%) SQL Server
2 10 (9.80%) Power BI
3 6 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.96%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.96%) MySQL
4 2 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.98%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.96%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.98%) MSI
General
1 23 (22.55%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.63%) Finance
3 13 (12.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.92%) Banking
5 4 (3.92%) Electronics
5 4 (3.92%) Local Government
5 4 (3.92%) Manufacturing
5 4 (3.92%) Marketing
5 4 (3.92%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.98%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (16.67%) 1st Line Engineer
2 16 (15.69%) Storage Manager
3 15 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 11 (10.78%) Lead
5 7 (6.86%) Cloud Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Applications Engineer
6 6 (5.88%) Consultant
6 6 (5.88%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.90%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.92%) Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) IT Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Operations Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Programmer
9 3 (2.94%) Server Engineer
9 3 (2.94%) Systems Programmer
9 3 (2.94%) z/OS Systems Programmer
10 2 (1.96%) Cybersecurity Architect
10 2 (1.96%) Microsoft 365 Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (15.69%) YAML
2 5 (4.90%) ISPF
3 2 (1.96%) JSON
3 2 (1.96%) LDAP
3 2 (1.96%) OAuth
3 2 (1.96%) OpenID
3 2 (1.96%) RESTful
3 2 (1.96%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.96%) SAML
3 2 (1.96%) SOAP
3 2 (1.96%) SPML
3 2 (1.96%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 26 (25.49%) PKI
2 17 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (14.71%) Data Centre
4 9 (8.82%) Mainframe
5 7 (6.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (3.92%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.92%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.94%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.96%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.96%) Clustering
8 2 (1.96%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.96%) IoT
8 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.96%) NHS
8 2 (1.96%) Replication
9 1 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.98%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.98%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.53%) zOS
2 21 (20.59%) Linux
3 14 (13.73%) Windows
4 13 (12.75%) Windows Server
5 9 (8.82%) Windows 10
6 8 (7.84%) VMS
7 3 (2.94%) MVS
7 3 (2.94%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.98%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.63%) Agile
1 19 (18.63%) Project Management
1 19 (18.63%) Storage Management
2 18 (17.65%) Problem Management
3 17 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
3 17 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 16 (15.69%) Migration
5 14 (13.73%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (12.75%) Cost Management
6 13 (12.75%) Software Testing
6 13 (12.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (9.80%) Mentoring
8 8 (7.84%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (7.84%) Containerisation
8 8 (7.84%) Mobile Device Management
8 8 (7.84%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (6.86%) Data Security
9 7 (6.86%) DDoS Mitigation
9 7 (6.86%) Vulnerability Management
9 7 (6.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 24 (23.53%) JCL
2 20 (19.61%) Python
3 18 (17.65%) REXX
4 11 (10.78%) SQL
5 5 (4.90%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.96%) Assembly Language
6 2 (1.96%) CLIST
7 1 (0.98%) Natural
Qualifications
1 9 (8.82%) SC Cleared
1 9 (8.82%) Security Cleared
2 7 (6.86%) Degree
2 7 (6.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.96%) CISA
3 2 (1.96%) CISM
3 2 (1.96%) CISSP
3 2 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.96%) MCSE
4 1 (0.98%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.86%) GDPR
1 7 (6.86%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.94%) SLA
3 2 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.96%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.98%) QA
System Software
1 26 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 24 (23.53%) Time Sharing Option
3 19 (18.63%) NFS
4 8 (7.84%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.96%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (17.65%) Ansible
1 18 (17.65%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 15 (14.71%) Single Sign-On
3 11 (10.78%) CA Service Virtualization
4 8 (7.84%) SCCM
5 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (2.94%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.96%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
7 2 (1.96%) OMEGAMON
7 2 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 26 (25.49%) IBM
2 21 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 19 (18.63%) Broadcom
3 19 (18.63%) Brocade
3 19 (18.63%) Dell
4 13 (12.75%) VMware
5 11 (10.78%) Micro Focus
6 7 (6.86%) Qualys
6 7 (6.86%) SAP
7 3 (2.94%) Ariba
8 2 (1.96%) Cisco
8 2 (1.96%) Fortinet
8 2 (1.96%) Novell
8 2 (1.96%) Okta
8 2 (1.96%) OpenText
8 2 (1.96%) SolarWinds
9 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.98%) Oracle
9 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow