Onboarding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 208 253
Rank change year-on-year +13 +45 +12
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 226 269 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.10% 1.15% 1.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.79% 3.53% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 202 202
10th Percentile £213 £251 £313
25th Percentile £402 £420 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £700 £721 £699
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 6
10th Percentile £12.48 £16.95 £12.48
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.44 £15.09
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +51.49%
75th Percentile £30.06 £23.38 -
90th Percentile £30.38 £26.15 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% +19.78%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Onboarding is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,968 7,613 9,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.14% 32.45% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,580 5,131 6,667
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 433 451
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
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 Onboarding 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
South East -3 58 £575 +4.55% 89
South West +19 45 £525 -4.55% 53
North of England -18 40 £525 -2.78% 120
Midlands +48 37 £483 -17.17% 62
West Midlands +31 28 £500 -20.00% 38
Scotland +46 26 £500 +17.79% 39
North West -7 25 £566 +8.37% 67
East of England +18 20 £450 -16.28% 21
East Midlands +27 8 £465 +3.33% 24
North East +19 8 £175 -61.75% 11
Yorkshire -15 7 £538 -0.46% 44
Wales +18 3 £413 +1.23% 10
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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 18 (7.96%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.88%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.44%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.44%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (7.08%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.21%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.88%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 3 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.88%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.88%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.44%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 26 (11.50%) Azure
2 20 (8.85%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.64%) AWS
4 13 (5.75%) SuccessFactors
5 9 (3.98%) OCI
6 8 (3.54%) Power Platform
7 7 (3.10%) Azure Data Factory
8 5 (2.21%) OneDrive
9 4 (1.77%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.33%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.33%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 3 (1.33%) SaaS
11 2 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.44%) Amazon SQS
12 1 (0.44%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.44%) GitHub
12 1 (0.44%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.65%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.21%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (2.21%) InfiniBand
2 5 (2.21%) LAN
2 5 (2.21%) NetScaler
2 5 (2.21%) VPN
3 4 (1.77%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (1.77%) Firewall
3 4 (1.77%) WAN
3 4 (1.77%) Wireless
4 3 (1.33%) DHCP
4 3 (1.33%) WLAN
5 2 (0.88%) SMS
6 1 (0.44%) AMQP
6 1 (0.44%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.44%) DMZ
6 1 (0.44%) Modbus
6 1 (0.44%) MQTT
6 1 (0.44%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.75%) Tableau
2 10 (4.42%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.54%) Power BI
4 6 (2.65%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 6 (2.65%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.65%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.33%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.88%) MySQL
8 1 (0.44%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.44%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.44%) HBase
8 1 (0.44%) IDMS
8 1 (0.44%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (2.65%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.77%) Ant
3 3 (1.33%) JIRA
4 1 (0.44%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) JMeter
4 1 (0.44%) MSI
General
1 59 (26.11%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.12%) Finance
3 26 (11.50%) Public Sector
4 22 (9.73%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.31%) Banking
6 8 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.65%) Marketing
7 6 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.21%) Legal
8 5 (2.21%) Local Government
8 5 (2.21%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.21%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.77%) Automotive
9 4 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.77%) Retail
10 3 (1.33%) Electronics
10 3 (1.33%) German Language
10 3 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.88%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (11.95%) Lead
2 24 (10.62%) Project Manager
3 18 (7.96%) Senior
4 16 (7.08%) IT Support
5 15 (6.64%) Consultant
5 15 (6.64%) Developer
6 13 (5.75%) Analyst
6 13 (5.75%) Support Engineer
7 12 (5.31%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.42%) Administrator
8 10 (4.42%) Architect
9 9 (3.98%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.98%) IT Support Engineer
10 8 (3.54%) Desktop Support
11 6 (2.65%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (2.65%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.65%) Splunk Engineer
12 5 (2.21%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.21%) Subject Matter Expert
12 5 (2.21%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.21%) JSON
2 3 (1.33%) Middleware
3 2 (0.88%) OAuth
3 2 (0.88%) RESTful
3 2 (0.88%) Web Services
4 1 (0.44%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.44%) JWT
4 1 (0.44%) Kafka
4 1 (0.44%) LDAP
4 1 (0.44%) Node.js
4 1 (0.44%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.44%) OpenID
4 1 (0.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.44%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.44%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.44%) Sensu
4 1 (0.44%) Spring
4 1 (0.44%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.44%) XML
4 1 (0.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.98%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (1.77%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.33%) PKI
5 3 (1.33%) Solar Power
5 3 (1.33%) Tandem
6 2 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.88%) e-Learning
6 2 (0.88%) Insider Threat
6 2 (0.88%) NHS
6 2 (0.88%) PMI
6 2 (0.88%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.44%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.44%) Cyberattack
7 1 (0.44%) IoT
7 1 (0.44%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (0.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (11.50%) Windows
2 12 (5.31%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.42%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.54%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.10%) Linux
5 7 (3.10%) Unix
6 1 (0.44%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.70%) Project Management
2 33 (14.60%) Agile
3 22 (9.73%) Migration
3 22 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (6.64%) Client Onboarding
5 14 (6.19%) Analytics
5 14 (6.19%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (6.19%) Project Delivery
5 14 (6.19%) Service Delivery
6 13 (5.75%) Customer Service
6 13 (5.75%) ERP
7 12 (5.31%) Change Management
7 12 (5.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (5.31%) Data Security
7 12 (5.31%) DevOps
7 12 (5.31%) ETL
8 11 (4.87%) Data Modelling
9 10 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (4.42%) PRINCE2
9 10 (4.42%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.50%) SQL
2 13 (5.75%) Python
3 7 (3.10%) Shell Script
4 6 (2.65%) Bash
4 6 (2.65%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (2.65%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.21%) Bourne shell
5 5 (2.21%) Korn
5 5 (2.21%) MATLAB
5 5 (2.21%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.77%) ActionScript
7 3 (1.33%) Go
7 3 (1.33%) Java
7 3 (1.33%) Scala
7 3 (1.33%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.88%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.44%) C#
9 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.44%) Perl
9 1 (0.44%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (19.47%) Security Cleared
2 31 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 22 (9.73%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (5.75%) Degree
5 5 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (2.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.77%) PMP
7 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.88%) APMG
8 2 (0.88%) APMP
8 2 (0.88%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.88%) ISEB
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.44%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CIPD
9 1 (0.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.52%) PMO
2 16 (7.08%) QA
3 6 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.77%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.77%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.77%) Def Stans
5 2 (0.88%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.88%) GDPR
5 2 (0.88%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (0.88%) P3O
6 1 (0.44%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (11.06%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.21%) Firmware
2 5 (2.21%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.44%) Docker
4 1 (0.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.44%) IAG
4 1 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (2.21%) Dell DRAC
2 4 (1.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.77%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (1.77%) Terraform
3 3 (1.33%) SCCM
4 2 (0.88%) Grafana
4 2 (0.88%) IBM BigFix
4 2 (0.88%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.44%) Ansible
5 1 (0.44%) Endace
5 1 (0.44%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.44%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.44%) Nagios
Vendors
1 32 (14.16%) Microsoft
2 27 (11.95%) SAP
3 20 (8.85%) Oracle
4 15 (6.64%) Virgin Media
5 10 (4.42%) Splunk
6 9 (3.98%) ServiceNow
7 8 (3.54%) Ariba
8 6 (2.65%) Dell
8 6 (2.65%) F5
9 5 (2.21%) Isilon
9 5 (2.21%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.77%) Blue Prism
10 4 (1.77%) VMware
11 3 (1.33%) Apple
11 3 (1.33%) CA
11 3 (1.33%) Remedy
11 3 (1.33%) Workday
12 2 (0.88%) Adobe
12 2 (0.88%) Cisco
12 2 (0.88%) HP