CAP Theorem Contracts

CAP Theorem
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CAP Theorem skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CAP Theorem over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 - 840
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CAP Theorem 1 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £523
25th Percentile £513 - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £575
75th Percentile £538 - £613
90th Percentile - - £628
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £575

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CAP Theorem 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

CAP Theorem
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CAP Theorem in the UK

CAP Theorem
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CAP Theorem in the UK

CAP Theorem
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CAP Theorem within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
London - 1 £525 -
England - 1 £525 -

CAP Theorem
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Gradle
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Mockito
1 1 (100.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Static Code Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Go
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform