Swim Lanes Contracts

Swim Lane Diagrams
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Swim Lanes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swim Lanes over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 681 823
Rank change year-on-year +112 +142 -129
Contract jobs citing Swim Lanes 15 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.026% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.029% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 19
10th Percentile £300 £410 £350
25th Percentile £309 £458 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £600 £425
Median % change year-on-year -27.08% +41.18% -14.96%
75th Percentile £500 - £615
90th Percentile £511 £615 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £313 £415 £363
% change year-on-year -24.70% +14.48% -23.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Swim Lanes 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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
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 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £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 £49.52
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% -5.27%

Swim Lanes
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Swim Lanes in the UK

Swim Lanes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Swim Lanes in the UK

Swim Lanes
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Swim Lanes over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Swim Lanes in the UK

Swim Lanes
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Swim Lanes in the UK

Swim Lanes
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 Swim Lanes within the UK over the 6 months to 19 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
England +108 13 £381 -36.46% 4
Work from Home +120 10 £438 +6.71%
UK excluding London +57 9 £313 -24.70% 3
South East +25 5 £313 -23.31% 3
South West +15 4 - -

Swim Lanes
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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (20.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 10 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (13.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
1 8 (53.33%) Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Author
2 4 (26.67%) Digital Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Digital Business Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Technical Author
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
1 2 (13.33%) JSON
1 2 (13.33%) XML
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Tizen
1 1 (6.67%) tvOS
1 1 (6.67%) webOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Business Analysis
3 6 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (40.00%) User Stories
4 4 (26.67%) Coaching
4 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (26.67%) SDLC
4 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (26.67%) Translating Business Requirements
4 4 (26.67%) User Experience
5 3 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 2 (13.33%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) GDPR
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
1 2 (13.33%) PSD2
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) Adobe
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Samsung