Self-Motivation Contracts in Central London

Self-Motivation
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 118
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 23 20 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.12% 0.86% 1.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.04% 2.73% 4.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 34
10th Percentile £289 £310 £290
25th Percentile £415 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £595 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.46% +3.48% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £647 £683
90th Percentile £684 £810 £789
London median daily rate £500 £500 £568
% change year-on-year - -11.89% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £56.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £62.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £15.84 £50.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -68.32% +20.48% +90.80%

All Generic Skills
Central London

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 756 733 1,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 36.77% 31.68% 34.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 490 815
10th Percentile £356 £350 £286
25th Percentile £452 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £579 £600
Median % change year-on-year +3.67% -3.54% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £710 £738
90th Percentile £800 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 9
10th Percentile £17.62 £19.60 £24.32
25th Percentile £22.00 £22.90 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.79 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -26.31% -28.57%
75th Percentile £36.00 £27.00 £53.00
90th Percentile £84.11 £53.20 £71.75
London median hourly rate £27.50 £30.12 £34.81
% change year-on-year -8.70% -13.47% +3.69%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in Central London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in Central London

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in Central London over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in Central London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in Central London

Self-Motivation
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 August 2025. 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
City of London -7 21 £563 -5.46% 45
West End of London - 1 £215 -
City of Westminster - 1 £650 -
Self-Motivation
London

Self-Motivation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (8.70%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 6 (26.09%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Power Platform
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
3 3 (13.04%) Power Automate
3 3 (13.04%) PowerApps
4 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.70%) PaaS
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (4.35%) Entra ID
5 1 (4.35%) Google Docs
5 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) Multicast
2 1 (4.35%) SAN
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
2 1 (4.35%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (4.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (26.09%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Power Query
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (4.35%) Data Lake
3 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Qlik Sense
3 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Spotfire
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) SonarQube
2 1 (4.35%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.35%) MSI
General
1 16 (69.57%) Social Skills
2 12 (52.17%) Finance
3 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (21.74%) Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Billing
5 2 (8.70%) Investment Banking
5 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (8.70%) Retail Banking
6 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (4.35%) Legal
6 1 (4.35%) Local Government
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (13.04%) Analyst
1 3 (13.04%) Developer
1 3 (13.04%) Senior
2 2 (8.70%) Java Developer
2 2 (8.70%) Lead
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (4.35%) Blockchain Developer
3 1 (4.35%) Cloud Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Cybersecurity Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
3 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Power BI Specialist
3 1 (4.35%) Product Designer
3 1 (4.35%) Senior Transformation Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Transformation Manager
3 1 (4.35%) Transformation Project Manager
3 1 (4.35%) UI/UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) .NET
1 3 (13.04%) Smart Contracts
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Blockchain
1 3 (13.04%) Equities
2 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) CCTV
3 1 (4.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.35%) iPad
3 1 (4.35%) iPhone
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (4.35%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (26.09%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Agile
3 4 (17.39%) ITIL
3 4 (17.39%) Project Management
3 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
4 3 (13.04%) Customer Experience
4 3 (13.04%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.04%) Process Improvement
4 3 (13.04%) SDLC
4 3 (13.04%) Service Management
4 3 (13.04%) Software Engineering
4 3 (13.04%) TDD
5 2 (8.70%) Business Case
5 2 (8.70%) Decision-Making
5 2 (8.70%) High Availability
5 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
5 2 (8.70%) Storytelling
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Python
2 5 (21.74%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) DAML
3 3 (13.04%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) Korn
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.35%) R
5 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
1 2 (8.70%) CCNA
1 2 (8.70%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) A+ Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.35%) PMP
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) Ansible
2 1 (4.35%) ITRS Geneos
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) SCCM
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) DocuSign
2 2 (8.70%) Google
3 1 (4.35%) Apple
3 1 (4.35%) Automation Anywhere
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco
3 1 (4.35%) Civica
3 1 (4.35%) Databricks
3 1 (4.35%) Marketo
3 1 (4.35%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Sun
3 1 (4.35%) Symantec
3 1 (4.35%) Tagetik