Active Listening Contracts

Active Listening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 658 796
Rank change year-on-year +89 +138 -188
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 29 61 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.067% 0.10% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.11% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 29
10th Percentile £418 £385 £442
25th Percentile £463 £460 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £559 £556 £638
90th Percentile £602 £728 £778
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
10th Percentile £21.36 - -
25th Percentile £35.85 £9.50 £8.37
Median hourly rate £60.00 £10.00 £9.74
Median % change year-on-year +500.00% +2.67% -47.35%
75th Percentile £61.25 £10.50 £10.00
90th Percentile £62.00 - £21.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £60.00 £10.00 £9.62
% change year-on-year +500.00% +4.00% -48.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 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
England +106 22 £506 -3.57% 44
UK excluding London +60 17 £475 -5.00% 19
London +82 11 £550 +4.76% 22
Work from Home +109 10 £488 -2.50% 18
North of England +38 8 £475 - 2
Scotland +33 6 £475 -
North West +21 6 £475 +50.79% 1
South East +23 2 £525 +10.53% 5
Yorkshire +21 2 £481 +1.32%
South West +22 1 £600 -11.11% 1

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.45%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (3.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Ethernet
1 1 (3.45%) MPLS
1 1 (3.45%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GoCD
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
1 1 (3.45%) Pa11y
1 1 (3.45%) TestCafe
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Change Manager
2 6 (20.69%) Senior
3 4 (13.79%) Scrum Master
3 4 (13.79%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) IT Change Manager
4 3 (10.34%) IT Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Change Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Administrator
6 1 (3.45%) Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) SAP Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Technical Architect
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Telecoms Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) React
2 1 (3.45%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.45%) Jest
2 1 (3.45%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) CMDB
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.45%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) Agile
1 13 (44.83%) Project Management
2 12 (41.38%) Change Management
3 11 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Collaborative Working
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 6 (20.69%) Impact Assessments
6 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 5 (17.24%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (17.24%) DevOps
7 5 (17.24%) Digital Strategy
7 5 (17.24%) People Management
7 5 (17.24%) Project Delivery
7 5 (17.24%) Roadmaps
8 4 (13.79%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Load Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Security Testing
8 4 (13.79%) Test Automation
8 4 (13.79%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
2 1 (3.45%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) Accessibility
2 3 (10.34%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.45%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Grafana
1 1 (3.45%) Kibana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
1 2 (6.90%) SAP
2 1 (3.45%) McAfee
2 1 (3.45%) NetCracker
2 1 (3.45%) Sparx
2 1 (3.45%) VMware