CA Contracts in the UK excluding London

CA
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 9 May 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 393 463
Rank change year-on-year +69 +70 -76
Contract jobs citing CA 72 54 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.23% 0.16%
As % of the Vendors category 0.82% 0.52% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 39 31
10th Percentile £363 £225 £400
25th Percentile £402 £285 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £400 £468
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -14.53% +12.77%
75th Percentile £500 £488 £578
90th Percentile £581 £541 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £66.00
% change year-on-year -4.76% +11.36% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,753 10,431 12,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.73% 44.46% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,261 7,157 8,182
10th Percentile £208 £205 £185
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 477 626
10th Percentile £11.82 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%
75th Percentile £59.50 £62.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -3.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CA in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for CA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for CA in the UK excluding London

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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 CA 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 +55 30 £430 -9.47% 15
Yorkshire +40 24 £430 -9.47% 3
Midlands +40 18 - - 2
West Midlands +35 18 - - 2
South West +19 13 £439 +9.81% 3
North West +20 6 £805 +130.00% 9
Scotland +36 3 £500 -4.76% 10
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Wales - 3 £500 - 1
South East +7 2 £400 +6.67% 6
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UK

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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 7 (9.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Apache
3 1 (1.39%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.39%) IIS
3 1 (1.39%) SAS
3 1 (1.39%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
1 16 (22.22%) Entra ID
2 15 (20.83%) GitHub
3 10 (13.89%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (13.89%) Power Platform
4 7 (9.72%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.78%) PaaS
6 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.39%) AWS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS KMS
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (34.72%) Firewall
2 5 (6.94%) DNS
3 4 (5.56%) BIG-IP
3 4 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (5.56%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 1 (1.39%) Internet
4 1 (1.39%) Network Security
4 1 (1.39%) SAN
4 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.89%) Power BI
2 6 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.39%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 15 (20.83%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.56%) CA Gen
3 1 (1.39%) MSI
General
1 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.56%) Local Government
5 3 (4.17%) Banking
5 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (1.39%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (23.61%) 1st Line Engineer
2 16 (22.22%) Storage Manager
3 10 (13.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Applications Engineer
5 5 (6.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Analyst
6 3 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Programmer
6 3 (4.17%) Systems Programmer
6 3 (4.17%) z/OS Systems Programmer
7 2 (2.78%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Lead
7 2 (2.78%) Power Apps Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) ICT Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) ICT Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (1.39%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.83%) YAML
2 3 (4.17%) ISPF
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 22 (30.56%) PKI
2 17 (23.61%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (19.44%) Data Centre
4 7 (9.72%) Mainframe
5 3 (4.17%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.39%) CMDB
7 1 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.39%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 21 (29.17%) zOS
2 18 (25.00%) Linux
3 8 (11.11%) VMS
4 3 (4.17%) MVS
5 2 (2.78%) Unix
6 1 (1.39%) Windows
6 1 (1.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Agile
2 18 (25.00%) Storage Management
3 17 (23.61%) Impact Assessments
3 17 (23.61%) Problem Management
3 17 (23.61%) Project Management
4 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (18.06%) Cost Management
5 13 (18.06%) Migration
5 13 (18.06%) Software Testing
6 12 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (13.89%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.11%) Containerisation
9 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
9 6 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (5.56%) Computer Science
11 3 (4.17%) Change Management
11 3 (4.17%) Cost Reduction
11 3 (4.17%) Fintech
11 3 (4.17%) High Availability
12 2 (2.78%) Cost Control
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) JCL
2 16 (22.22%) REXX
3 15 (20.83%) Python
4 8 (11.11%) SQL
5 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.78%) Java
7 1 (1.39%) Assembly Language
7 1 (1.39%) CLIST
7 1 (1.39%) Natural
Qualifications
1 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 7 (9.72%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Degree
3 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.39%) GDPR
1 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) Time Sharing Option
2 18 (25.00%) NFS
3 12 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 8 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (2.78%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 16 (22.22%) Ansible
3 14 (19.44%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.78%) CA Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.39%) CA Service Virtualization
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.39%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) IBM
2 18 (25.00%) Broadcom
2 18 (25.00%) Brocade
2 18 (25.00%) Dell
3 7 (9.72%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.56%) F5
5 2 (2.78%) Ariba
5 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 2 (2.78%) VMware
6 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.39%) Micro Focus
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow