Catalyst Contracts

Catalyst
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Catalyst skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Catalyst over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Catalyst 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.047% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Catalyst falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,560 11,098 23,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.30% 22.26% 26.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,563 7,950 16,765
10th Percentile £350 £375 £406
25th Percentile £425 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 181 208
10th Percentile £25.60 £35.63 £19.22
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.18 £45.94
Median hourly rate £61.60 £60.00 £62.58
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -4.13% +27.72%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.89 £78.00 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £58.81 £63.60
% change year-on-year +10.53% -7.53% +29.80%

Catalyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Catalyst in the UK

Catalyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Catalyst in the UK

Catalyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Catalyst in the UK

Catalyst
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Catalyst within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 - 4 £450 - 1
England - 4 £450 - 1
Work from Home - 4 £450 -

Catalyst
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (100.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Perl Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Perl