Active Listening Contracts in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Active Listening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Listening over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 424 487
Rank change year-on-year +44 +63 -109
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 16 23 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.098% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.093% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 18 15
10th Percentile - £399 £449
25th Percentile £463 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
75th Percentile £505 £550 £563
90th Percentile £549 £651 £788
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 8
10th Percentile £16.78 - £8.37
25th Percentile £24.40 £9.50 £9.21
Median hourly rate £37.10 £10.00 £9.87
Median % change year-on-year +271.00% +1.32% -46.65%
75th Percentile £49.80 £10.50 £10.00
90th Percentile £57.42 - £17.85
UK median hourly rate £37.10 £10.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year +271.00% - -45.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Active Listening 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England +34 8 £475 - 9
North West +20 6 £475 +50.79% 8
Scotland +40 5 £475 -
South East +21 2 £525 +12.30% 5
Yorkshire +20 2 £481 +1.32% 1
South West +15 1 £600 -11.11% 4
Active Listening
UK

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
2 1 (6.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Serverless
2 1 (6.25%) SpeedCurve
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) GoCD
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
1 1 (6.25%) Pa11y
1 1 (6.25%) TestCafe
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Change Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Senior
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) IT Change Manager
4 3 (18.75%) IT Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Help Desk Administrator
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Delivery Manager
5 1 (6.25%) SAP Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Change Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) React
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) Jest
2 1 (6.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.25%) CMDB
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Change Management
2 7 (43.75%) Project Management
3 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (31.25%) Analytical Thinking
4 5 (31.25%) Collaborative Working
4 5 (31.25%) Project Delivery
5 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (25.00%) Digital Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Load Testing
5 4 (25.00%) People Management
5 4 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Map
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 3 (18.75%) Customer Experience
6 3 (18.75%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
3 1 (6.25%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft