Value Proposition Contracts

Value Proposition
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Value Proposition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Value Proposition over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 435 535 634
Rank change year-on-year +100 +99 -87
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 163 185 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 121 160
10th Percentile £316 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +6.02% +9.21%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £620
90th Percentile £875 £800 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £433 £475
% change year-on-year +27.17% -8.95% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 11
10th Percentile £68.50 £44.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £85.00 £52.38 £44.19
Median hourly rate £87.80 £67.50 £68.17
Median % change year-on-year +30.07% -0.98% +172.66%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £77.32
90th Percentile £87.92 £74.75 £80.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.80 - £73.36

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Value Proposition 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
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% +8.25%
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% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Value Proposition 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 +101 121 £525 -9.68% 232
UK excluding London +77 86 £550 +27.17% 110
London +68 68 £525 -9.68% 123
Work from Home +104 39 £450 -5.26% 95
Scotland +26 23 £450 +6.82% 8
South East +31 20 £450 -23.40% 28
South West +33 17 £550 -12.00% 12
Wales +29 15 £600 +9.09% 3
North of England +28 13 £550 -10.20% 33
North West +16 11 £550 -2.22% 13
North East +22 3 - - 9
Yorkshire +17 3 £560 -13.85% 12
West Midlands +23 1 £575 -11.54% 15
Midlands +14 1 £575 +6.98% 19
East of England +13 1 - - 7

Value Proposition
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 17 (10.43%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.68%) Confluence
3 3 (1.84%) Apache
4 2 (1.23%) CMS
4 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.23%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (6.75%) Acrobat
2 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.23%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.23%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Endur
1 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.11%) Azure
2 14 (8.59%) Azure Stack
3 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Purview
4 9 (5.52%) AWS
4 9 (5.52%) SaaS
5 4 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.84%) GCP
6 3 (1.84%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.84%) PaaS
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.23%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.23%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.23%) GitHub
7 2 (1.23%) IaaS
7 2 (1.23%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.23%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.23%) Serverless
7 2 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.98%) PBX
1 13 (7.98%) VoIP
2 6 (3.68%) WAN
3 5 (3.07%) LAN
3 5 (3.07%) Wireless
4 4 (2.45%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.84%) BGP
5 3 (1.84%) DHCP
5 3 (1.84%) DNS
5 3 (1.84%) Intranet
5 3 (1.84%) SAN
5 3 (1.84%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.23%) Firewall
6 2 (1.23%) VPN
7 1 (0.61%) DMZ
7 1 (0.61%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.61%) HTTP
7 1 (0.61%) Internet
7 1 (0.61%) MPLS
7 1 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (7.98%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.23%) Power BI
3 2 (1.23%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.23%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.61%) Metadata
4 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.52%) JIRA
2 8 (4.91%) Git
3 5 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.45%) IntelliJ
4 4 (2.45%) Postman
5 3 (1.84%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.84%) JUnit
6 2 (1.23%) GitLab
6 2 (1.23%) Selenium
7 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.61%) HP UFT
7 1 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.61%) Maven
7 1 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 59 (36.20%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.63%) Marketing
3 22 (13.50%) Finance
4 20 (12.27%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (12.27%) Telecoms
5 19 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (11.04%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.75%) Local Government
8 9 (5.52%) German Language
9 7 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.68%) Banking
10 6 (3.68%) Legal
10 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.84%) Advertising
12 2 (1.23%) French Language
12 2 (1.23%) Retail
13 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.61%) Publishing
13 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (23.31%) Architect
2 26 (15.95%) Senior
3 21 (12.88%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (11.04%) Analyst
5 14 (8.59%) Business Analyst
5 14 (8.59%) Data Architect
5 14 (8.59%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.98%) Consultant
7 12 (7.36%) Project Manager
8 11 (6.75%) Bid Manager
9 9 (5.52%) Developer
9 9 (5.52%) Senior Bid Manager
10 8 (4.91%) Junior
10 8 (4.91%) Junior Project Manager
10 8 (4.91%) Network Engineer
11 5 (3.07%) Java Developer
11 5 (3.07%) Marketing Manager
12 4 (2.45%) Delivery Manager
12 4 (2.45%) Senior Analyst
12 4 (2.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.66%) REST
2 16 (9.82%) XML
3 15 (9.20%) JSON
4 5 (3.07%) Spring
4 5 (3.07%) Spring Boot
5 4 (2.45%) Kafka
5 4 (2.45%) RESTful
6 3 (1.84%) Apache Camel
6 3 (1.84%) HTML
6 3 (1.84%) J2EE
6 3 (1.84%) React
7 2 (1.23%) Flash
7 2 (1.23%) Middleware
7 2 (1.23%) Playwright
7 2 (1.23%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.23%) SOAP
7 2 (1.23%) Web Services
8 1 (0.61%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.61%) OAuth
8 1 (0.61%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 71 (43.56%) Data Protection Act
2 16 (9.82%) Product Ownership
3 13 (7.98%) Data Structures
3 13 (7.98%) Reference Data
4 6 (3.68%) Augmented Reality
4 6 (3.68%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (3.68%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.68%) Virtual Reality
5 5 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.45%) Industry 4.0
6 4 (2.45%) IoT
6 4 (2.45%) Operational Technology
6 4 (2.45%) Robotics
7 3 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.84%) SCADA
7 3 (1.84%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.84%) Social Media
8 2 (1.23%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.61%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.45%) Windows
2 3 (1.84%) Linux
3 2 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (51.53%) Data Protection
2 47 (28.83%) Agile
3 37 (22.70%) Project Management
4 27 (16.56%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.95%) Analytics
6 25 (15.34%) Presales
7 23 (14.11%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (11.66%) Change Management
9 18 (11.04%) Business Analysis
9 18 (11.04%) Cybersecurity
10 17 (10.43%) Roadmaps
10 17 (10.43%) Scrum
11 16 (9.82%) Microservices
12 15 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (9.20%) Data Modelling
13 14 (8.59%) Data Governance
14 13 (7.98%) Data Management
14 13 (7.98%) Data Mapping
14 13 (7.98%) Event-Driven
14 13 (7.98%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.13%) Java
2 8 (4.91%) SQL
3 6 (3.68%) Python
4 5 (3.07%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.23%) Bash
5 2 (1.23%) C#
5 2 (1.23%) Perl
5 2 (1.23%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.61%) PHP
6 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.61%) Rust
6 1 (0.61%) Scala
6 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (25.77%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.18%) SC Cleared
3 26 (15.95%) Degree
4 13 (7.98%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.75%) PMI Certification
5 11 (6.75%) PMP
6 4 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.45%) MBA
7 3 (1.84%) CCIE
7 3 (1.84%) CCNP
7 3 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.23%) IIBA
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.98%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.07%) NIST
3 3 (1.84%) NCSC
3 3 (1.84%) SLA
4 2 (1.23%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.23%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.52%) Docker
2 5 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.45%) vSphere
4 3 (1.84%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (4.91%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.29%) Terraform
3 6 (3.68%) Ansible
4 3 (1.84%) Kibana
4 3 (1.84%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (13.50%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.36%) Adobe
3 11 (6.75%) Cisco
4 7 (4.29%) Oracle
5 6 (3.68%) Cadence
6 5 (3.07%) IBM
6 5 (3.07%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.07%) VMware
7 4 (2.45%) Marketo
8 3 (1.84%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.84%) Dell
8 3 (1.84%) F5
8 3 (1.84%) Google
8 3 (1.84%) Juniper
8 3 (1.84%) SAP
9 2 (1.23%) Aruba
9 2 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.23%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.23%) Riverbed
10 1 (0.61%) Workday