Collaborative Working Contracts in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 108 89
Rank change year-on-year +42 -19 +32
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 74 36 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.76% 1.24% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.18% 1.36% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 46
10th Percentile £173 £266 £397
25th Percentile £240 £300 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £419 £576
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -27.33% +21.96%
75th Percentile £495 £581 £640
90th Percentile £553 £645 £675
South East median daily rate £479 £600 £523
% change year-on-year -20.25% +14.83% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,329 2,650 3,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.00% 91.60% 89.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,310 1,849 2,109
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year - +3.63% +7.22%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 62 88
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £24.86 £11.91
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.18
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.63
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -5.00% +127.27% -20.00%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Berkshire +31 61 £485 +15.82% 45
Oxfordshire +13 10 £275 -42.41% 23
Buckinghamshire +23 3 £525 +10.53% 11
Collaborative Working
South East

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.05%) Appian
1 3 (4.05%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (9.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 13 (17.57%) OpenShift
2 8 (10.81%) AWS
2 8 (10.81%) Azure
3 7 (9.46%) GCP
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.35%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.35%) GitHub
4 1 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.46%) VSAN
2 1 (1.35%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.46%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (8.11%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.35%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.35%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.35%) JMeter
2 1 (1.35%) JUnit
2 1 (1.35%) Mockito
General
1 34 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 21 (28.38%) Telecoms
3 13 (17.57%) Legal
4 10 (13.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.46%) Mandarin Language
5 7 (9.46%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (8.11%) Law
6 6 (8.11%) Marketing
7 2 (2.70%) Finance
7 2 (2.70%) Police
7 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.35%) Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (13.51%) Analyst
2 9 (12.16%) Senior
3 7 (9.46%) Senior Analyst
3 7 (9.46%) VMware Expert
4 6 (8.11%) Site Engineer
4 6 (8.11%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Cabling Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Data Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Lead
5 4 (5.41%) Telecoms Specialist
6 3 (4.05%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Project Leader
6 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.05%) Requirements Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.05%) Senior Requirements Analyst
7 2 (2.70%) Compliance Specialist
7 2 (2.70%) Deployment Project Manager
7 2 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.35%) Apache Camel
2 1 (1.35%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.35%) HTML
2 1 (1.35%) jQuery
2 1 (1.35%) REST
2 1 (1.35%) Spring
2 1 (1.35%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.35%) Web Services
2 1 (1.35%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Cloud Native
2 6 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.41%) Fibre Optics
4 3 (4.05%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) Time Management
2 20 (27.03%) DevOps
3 16 (21.62%) Project Management
4 15 (20.27%) CI/CD
5 14 (18.92%) Infrastructure as Code
5 14 (18.92%) Performance Optimisation
5 14 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
5 14 (18.92%) Translating Business Requirements
6 13 (17.57%) Agile
6 13 (17.57%) Containerisation
6 13 (17.57%) Risk Management
7 10 (13.51%) Data Analysis
7 10 (13.51%) GAP Analysis
7 10 (13.51%) Risk Assessment
7 10 (13.51%) User Stories
8 8 (10.81%) Change Management
8 8 (10.81%) Data Protection
8 8 (10.81%) User Experience
9 7 (9.46%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.05%) SQL
2 1 (1.35%) Java
2 1 (1.35%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.35%) Python
2 1 (1.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (8.11%) ISEB
1 6 (8.11%) SC Cleared
1 6 (8.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) GDPR
1 7 (9.46%) PMO
2 2 (2.70%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (10.81%) Docker
2 7 (9.46%) vCloud
2 7 (9.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.46%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Kubernetes
2 13 (17.57%) Istio
3 7 (9.46%) Kibana
3 7 (9.46%) Rancher
3 7 (9.46%) Terraform
3 7 (9.46%) vCenter Server
4 6 (8.11%) Argo
4 6 (8.11%) Grafana
4 6 (8.11%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.51%) BT
2 7 (9.46%) Google
2 7 (9.46%) VMware
3 6 (8.11%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.05%) Oracle
4 3 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.35%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.35%) IBM
5 1 (1.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.35%) Splunk