Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Collaborative Working
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 80 90
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 +31
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 31 42 32
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.35% 2.42% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 2.59% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 22
10th Percentile £439 £266 £258
25th Percentile £491 £382 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.02% -4.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £609 £620 £575
90th Percentile £679 £801 £669
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £22.00
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £23.00
% change year-on-year - - -34.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,946 1,619 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.05% 93.26% 90.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 1,021 1,389
10th Percentile £363 £350 £356
25th Percentile £450 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 11
10th Percentile £17.99 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.78 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.70% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £49.78 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.65% +4.53% -20.54%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the City of London

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the City of London

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the City of London region over the 6 months to 8 May 2026. 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 Bridge - 1 £550 -
Collaborative Working
Central London

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.23%) Aladdin
2 1 (3.23%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.23%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (29.03%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) GCP
3 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.45%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (3.23%) Apigee
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub
6 1 (3.23%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (3.23%) Nutanix
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (3.23%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) VLAN
2 1 (3.23%) BGP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) EIGRP
2 1 (3.23%) LAN
2 1 (3.23%) Network Security
2 1 (3.23%) OSPF
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) VPN
2 1 (3.23%) WAN
2 1 (3.23%) Wireless
2 1 (3.23%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) DB2
3 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.23%) PowerCenter
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
1 3 (9.68%) GitLab
2 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.45%) Postman
2 2 (6.45%) Selenium
3 1 (3.23%) JIRA
3 1 (3.23%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.23%) Robot Framework
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Finance
3 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Banking
5 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Legal
6 2 (6.45%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.23%) Front Office
7 1 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (16.13%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Lead
3 3 (9.68%) Architect
3 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.68%) Data Scientist
3 3 (9.68%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (6.45%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Process Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.45%) Security Specialist
4 2 (6.45%) Senior
4 2 (6.45%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.23%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) GCP Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Cloud Engineer
5 1 (3.23%) Manual Tester
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Technical Leader
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) Spring
1 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.23%) ADO
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) Backbone.js
2 1 (3.23%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.23%) Ember.js
2 1 (3.23%) HTML
2 1 (3.23%) jQuery
2 1 (3.23%) JSON
2 1 (3.23%) Kafka
2 1 (3.23%) Keras
2 1 (3.23%) OAuth
2 1 (3.23%) pytest
2 1 (3.23%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.23%) React
2 1 (3.23%) REST
2 1 (3.23%) RESTful
2 1 (3.23%) SAML
2 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
1 2 (6.45%) Marketing Technology
1 2 (6.45%) Product Ownership
1 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
2 1 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 1 (3.23%) e-Learning
2 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.23%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (32.26%) Agile
3 7 (22.58%) AI
3 7 (22.58%) Analytics
3 7 (22.58%) CI/CD
3 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
4 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (19.35%) Validation
5 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (16.13%) Data Governance
5 5 (16.13%) Data Modelling
5 5 (16.13%) DevOps
5 5 (16.13%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (16.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (12.90%) Data Science
6 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Process Improvement
6 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
6 4 (12.90%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (22.58%) Python
1 7 (22.58%) SQL
2 2 (6.45%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) Bicep
3 1 (3.23%) C#
3 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (3.23%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (25.81%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.45%) APMP
4 2 (6.45%) CASP
4 2 (6.45%) CCNA
4 2 (6.45%) CCNP
4 2 (6.45%) CISM
4 2 (6.45%) CISSP
4 2 (6.45%) CRISC
4 2 (6.45%) GSEC
4 2 (6.45%) PMP
5 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.23%) CWNA
5 1 (3.23%) DBS Check
5 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (19.35%) Data Quality
1 6 (19.35%) QA
2 2 (6.45%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) GRC
3 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.23%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (3.23%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Istio
3 1 (3.23%) Packer
3 1 (3.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.68%) Microsoft
1 3 (9.68%) Salesforce
1 3 (9.68%) SAP
2 2 (6.45%) Workday
3 1 (3.23%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.23%) Ariba
3 1 (3.23%) Cisco
3 1 (3.23%) Databricks
3 1 (3.23%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (3.23%) Google
3 1 (3.23%) Informatica
3 1 (3.23%) Oracle
3 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
3 1 (3.23%) Qualtrics
3 1 (3.23%) VMware