CA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 478 591 644
Rank change year-on-year +113 +53 -91
Contract jobs citing CA 120 128 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.28% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Vendors category 0.65% 0.50% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 76 121
10th Percentile £363 £231 £400
25th Percentile £399 £322 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.81% -27.27% +16.40%
75th Percentile £494 £528 £638
90th Percentile £575 £648 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £388 £468
% change year-on-year +13.35% -17.20% +12.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £64.10 £42.84
25th Percentile - £67.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.21% +7.06%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - £81.30 £72.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £44.73

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

CA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CA in the UK

CA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CA in the UK

CA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for CA in the UK

CA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CA in the UK

CA
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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 +135 102 £430 +7.50% 56
UK excluding London +75 71 £439 +13.35% 38
Work from Home +126 44 £450 +5.88% 18
London +92 30 £413 -30.67% 23
North of England +59 30 £430 -9.47% 13
Yorkshire +41 24 £430 -9.47% 4
West Midlands +43 18 - - 4
Midlands +24 18 - - 4
South West +23 13 £439 +9.81% 5
North West +21 6 £805 +130.00% 6
Scotland +28 3 £500 -4.76% 5
Wales - 3 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
South East +7 1 £400 +28.00% 9

CA
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 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (4.17%) SAS
3 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.67%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) EPiServer
4 1 (0.83%) IIS
4 1 (0.83%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.50%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 2 (1.67%) Maximo
2 2 (1.67%) SAP IBP
2 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 33 (27.50%) Azure
2 31 (25.83%) Entra ID
3 19 (15.83%) GitHub
4 17 (14.17%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 5 (4.17%) PaaS
8 4 (3.33%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.33%) SaaS
9 3 (2.50%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.50%) IaaS
10 2 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.83%) AWS
11 1 (0.83%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.83%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 37 (30.83%) Firewall
2 16 (13.33%) DNS
3 4 (3.33%) BIG-IP
3 4 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (3.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 3 (2.50%) Network Security
4 3 (2.50%) SAN
4 3 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (1.67%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.67%) NAS
5 2 (1.67%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.67%) SSL
5 2 (1.67%) WAN
6 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.83%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.00%) Power BI
3 6 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.67%) Adabas
4 2 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (15.83%) Jenkins
2 5 (4.17%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.83%) MSI
General
1 32 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.33%) Finance
3 18 (15.00%) Public Sector
4 6 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.33%) Banking
6 4 (3.33%) Electronics
6 4 (3.33%) Local Government
6 4 (3.33%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.33%) Marketing
6 4 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.50%) Law
8 2 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (14.17%) 1st Line Engineer
2 16 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 16 (13.33%) Storage Manager
3 11 (9.17%) Lead
4 8 (6.67%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (5.83%) Consultant
6 6 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 5 (4.17%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.17%) Storage Specialist
7 5 (4.17%) z/OS Specialist
8 4 (3.33%) Analyst
8 4 (3.33%) Architect
8 4 (3.33%) Programmer
8 4 (3.33%) Systems Programmer
8 4 (3.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (3.33%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (15.83%) YAML
2 8 (6.67%) ISPF
3 3 (2.50%) Web Services
4 2 (1.67%) JSON
4 2 (1.67%) LDAP
4 2 (1.67%) OAuth
4 2 (1.67%) OpenID
4 2 (1.67%) RESTful
4 2 (1.67%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.67%) SAML
4 2 (1.67%) SOAP
4 2 (1.67%) SPML
5 1 (0.83%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (22.50%) PKI
2 18 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 17 (14.17%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (10.00%) Mainframe
5 7 (5.83%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (3.33%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.33%) Security Posture
7 3 (2.50%) Client/Server
7 3 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.67%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.67%) Clustering
8 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.67%) IoT
8 2 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.67%) NHS
8 2 (1.67%) Replication
9 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.83%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 30 (25.00%) zOS
2 24 (20.00%) Linux
3 15 (12.50%) Windows
4 13 (10.83%) Windows Server
5 10 (8.33%) Windows 10
6 8 (6.67%) VMS
7 3 (2.50%) MVS
7 3 (2.50%) Unix
7 3 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.83%) Android
8 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (19.17%) Agile
2 22 (18.33%) Project Management
2 22 (18.33%) Storage Management
3 21 (17.50%) Problem Management
4 20 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 18 (15.00%) Migration
6 17 (14.17%) Impact Assessments
7 16 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (10.83%) Cost Management
9 13 (10.83%) Mentoring
9 13 (10.83%) Software Testing
10 11 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
11 9 (7.50%) Mobile Device Management
12 8 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (6.67%) Containerisation
12 8 (6.67%) Risk Management
13 7 (5.83%) Data Security
13 7 (5.83%) DDoS Mitigation
13 7 (5.83%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 30 (25.00%) JCL
2 24 (20.00%) REXX
3 23 (19.17%) Python
4 11 (9.17%) SQL
5 7 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 5 (4.17%) Assembly Language
6 5 (4.17%) CLIST
7 2 (1.67%) Java
7 2 (1.67%) Natural
Qualifications
1 12 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (9.17%) Degree
2 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) CISA
5 2 (1.67%) CISM
5 2 (1.67%) CISSP
5 2 (1.67%) MCSE
6 1 (0.83%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.83%) GDPR
1 7 (5.83%) PCI DSS
2 3 (2.50%) SLA
3 2 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.67%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.83%) QA
System Software
1 30 (25.00%) Time Sharing Option
2 27 (22.50%) Active Directory
3 22 (18.33%) NFS
4 8 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (18.33%) Ansible
2 21 (17.50%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 17 (14.17%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (9.17%) CA Service Virtualization
5 9 (7.50%) SCCM
6 5 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (4.17%) OMEGAMON
7 3 (2.50%) CA Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.67%) Backup Exec
8 2 (1.67%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (26.67%) IBM
2 22 (18.33%) Broadcom
2 22 (18.33%) Brocade
2 22 (18.33%) Dell
2 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (10.83%) VMware
4 11 (9.17%) Micro Focus
5 9 (7.50%) SAP
6 7 (5.83%) Qualys
7 5 (4.17%) Ariba
8 4 (3.33%) F5
9 2 (1.67%) Cisco
9 2 (1.67%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.67%) Novell
9 2 (1.67%) Okta
9 2 (1.67%) OpenText
9 2 (1.67%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.83%) CyberArk
10 1 (0.83%) Oracle
10 1 (0.83%) ServiceNow