New Style of IT (NsoIT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for NsoIT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NsoIT over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 695 836
Rank change year-on-year +134 +141 -144
Contract jobs citing NsoIT 21 23 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.048% 0.039% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.043% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 21 12
10th Percentile £473 - £418
25th Percentile £501 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £656 £638 £544
90th Percentile £738 £675 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £528 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.09% +10.00% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £69.05

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

NsoIT 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 37,597 53,655 80,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,227 37,238 56,437
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% +7.69%
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% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,746 1,926
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.27
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.98 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.31
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.34 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +3.72% +80.00% -8.00%

NsoIT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NsoIT over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NsoIT within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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 +109 21 £528 -4.09% 1
UK excluding London +55 18 £528 -4.09% 1
South West +5 18 £528 -4.09% 1
Work from Home +132 4 £553 -5.96%
London - 3 - -

NsoIT
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 11 (52.38%) Confluence
2 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (9.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
1 3 (14.29%) Azure
1 3 (14.29%) GCP
1 3 (14.29%) OpenShift
2 2 (9.52%) GitHub
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) VSAN
2 3 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (9.52%) DHCP
3 2 (9.52%) DNS
3 2 (9.52%) Skype
3 2 (9.52%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) MySQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) JIRA
2 6 (28.57%) Bitbucket
3 4 (19.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (9.52%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (4.76%) Git
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Public Sector
3 9 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (19.05%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (28.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Author
4 3 (14.29%) Information Governance Officer
4 3 (14.29%) Information Officer
4 3 (14.29%) Technical Author
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Deployment Specialist
6 1 (4.76%) Incident Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Office Automation Architect
6 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Problem Manager
6 1 (4.76%) SOC Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (28.57%) Flash
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
3 3 (14.29%) ModSecurity
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Core
4 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Clustering
2 3 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 3 (14.29%) PKI
2 3 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 3 (14.29%) Security Posture
3 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 7
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 12 (57.14%) Service Management
3 9 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 8 (38.10%) Critical Thinking
4 8 (38.10%) System Testing
5 7 (33.33%) Computer Science
5 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (28.57%) High Availability
6 6 (28.57%) Network Virtualisation
6 6 (28.57%) Power Management
6 6 (28.57%) Use Case
6 6 (28.57%) Validation
7 5 (23.81%) ArchiMate
7 5 (23.81%) CI/CD
7 5 (23.81%) ITIL
8 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) Information Governance
9 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
9 3 (14.29%) Records Management
9 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 5 (23.81%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (95.24%) SC Cleared
3 9 (42.86%) Degree
4 7 (33.33%) CCNA
4 7 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (33.33%) Master's Degree
5 6 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (19.05%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (19.05%) DV Cleared
7 3 (14.29%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (4.76%) CCNP
8 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (4.76%) MCSE
8 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (52.38%) VMware NSX
3 7 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (14.29%) Docker
5 2 (9.52%) Active Directory
5 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 6 (28.57%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Kubernetes
3 3 (14.29%) OPNET
3 3 (14.29%) PowerCLI
4 2 (9.52%) Puppet
4 2 (9.52%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) WSUS
5 1 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
5 1 (4.76%) SCCM
5 1 (4.76%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) Atlassian
2 12 (57.14%) VMware
3 8 (38.10%) Cisco
4 3 (14.29%) Google
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (9.52%) Dell
5 2 (9.52%) HP
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Veeam
6 1 (4.76%) Fujitsu
6 1 (4.76%) Remedy
6 1 (4.76%) Splunk