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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 60 81
Rank change year-on-year -31 +21 +4
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 47 58 43
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.06% 3.23% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 3.43% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 41 21
10th Percentile £284 £270 £425
25th Percentile £421 £405 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £598
Median % change year-on-year - -16.32% +11.16%
75th Percentile £594 £638 £713
90th Percentile £732 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £499 £500 £581
% change year-on-year -0.25% -13.98% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.09% -
75th Percentile - £17.50 £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £17.00 £24.40
% change year-on-year - -30.31% -

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 2,024 1,690 1,926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.62% 94.15% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,390 1,115 1,235
10th Percentile £368 £325 £386
25th Percentile £456 £422 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -14.80%
75th Percentile £32.05 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £29.07 £33.00
% change year-on-year -14.00% -11.91% +20.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (8.51%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.13%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (25.53%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Power Platform
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (10.64%) AWS
4 5 (10.64%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.51%) GCP
5 4 (8.51%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.38%) GitHub
6 3 (6.38%) OneDrive
6 3 (6.38%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Functions
7 2 (4.26%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (4.26%) Copilot Studio
7 2 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
7 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (4.26%) NetDocuments
7 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.51%) DNS
1 4 (8.51%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.51%) VPN
2 3 (6.38%) DHCP
3 2 (4.26%) BGP
3 2 (4.26%) Firewall
3 2 (4.26%) Network Security
3 2 (4.26%) VLAN
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (2.13%) EIGRP
4 1 (2.13%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (2.13%) LAN
4 1 (2.13%) NX-OS
4 1 (2.13%) OSPF
4 1 (2.13%) TACACS
4 1 (2.13%) VXLAN
4 1 (2.13%) WAN
4 1 (2.13%) Wireless
4 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Power BI
2 1 (2.13%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.13%) Metadata
2 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) JIRA
2 3 (6.38%) GitLab
3 2 (4.26%) JMeter
3 2 (4.26%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.13%) eggPlant
4 1 (2.13%) Gatling
4 1 (2.13%) Git
4 1 (2.13%) NeoLoad
4 1 (2.13%) Postman
4 1 (2.13%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (42.55%) Finance
3 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (23.40%) Public Sector
4 9 (19.15%) Banking
5 5 (10.64%) Front Office
5 5 (10.64%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (8.51%) Military
7 2 (4.26%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.26%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 2 (4.26%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Back Office
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Local Government
8 1 (2.13%) Marketing
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Analyst
1 7 (14.89%) Lead
1 7 (14.89%) Senior
2 4 (8.51%) IT Support
3 3 (6.38%) Applications Support
3 3 (6.38%) Architect
3 3 (6.38%) Developer
3 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (6.38%) Support Engineer
3 3 (6.38%) Technical Leader
4 2 (4.26%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Applications Support Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Consultant
4 2 (4.26%) Data Analyst
4 2 (4.26%) IT Support Analyst
4 2 (4.26%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (4.26%) Products Support Specialist
4 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
4 2 (4.26%) Support Analyst
4 2 (4.26%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.26%) Kafka
1 2 (4.26%) REST
1 2 (4.26%) Spring
1 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.13%) .NET
2 1 (2.13%) JSON
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.13%) SOAP
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
2 1 (2.13%) Web Services
2 1 (2.13%) XML
2 1 (2.13%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.38%) Data Centre
1 3 (6.38%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.13%) AI Agents
3 1 (2.13%) AS400
3 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.13%) Exotic Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.13%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.13%) Hybrid Derivative
3 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.13%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.13%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.64%) Windows
2 4 (8.51%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.13%) Android
3 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.13%) Linux
3 1 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (38.30%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (36.17%) Continuous Improvement
3 14 (29.79%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (21.28%) DevOps
6 9 (19.15%) Migration
6 9 (19.15%) Validation
7 7 (14.89%) Analytics
8 6 (12.77%) CI/CD
8 6 (12.77%) Data Governance
8 6 (12.77%) High Availability
8 6 (12.77%) Process Improvement
9 5 (10.64%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (10.64%) Data Protection
9 5 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (10.64%) Workflow
10 4 (8.51%) AI
10 4 (8.51%) Change Management
10 4 (8.51%) Service Delivery
10 4 (8.51%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (17.02%) Python
1 8 (17.02%) SQL
2 2 (4.26%) Bash
2 2 (4.26%) Java
2 2 (4.26%) Korn
3 1 (2.13%) Bicep
3 1 (2.13%) COBOL
3 1 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.13%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.13%) RPG
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) Degree
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.26%) CCNP
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.26%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.13%) CCNA
5 1 (2.13%) CWNA
5 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (17.02%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.64%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.26%) GDPR
3 2 (4.26%) PMO
4 1 (2.13%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (2.13%) PERC
4 1 (2.13%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.51%) Docker
3 1 (2.13%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) SCCM
2 3 (6.38%) Ansible
2 3 (6.38%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.13%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.13%) Grafana
3 1 (2.13%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 15 (31.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.51%) Bloomberg
3 4 (8.51%) Refinitiv
4 3 (6.38%) Google
5 2 (4.26%) Cisco
5 2 (4.26%) IBM
5 2 (4.26%) Oracle
5 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.26%) SAP
6 1 (2.13%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.13%) AppDynamics
6 1 (2.13%) Apple
6 1 (2.13%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.13%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (2.13%) Murex
6 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
6 1 (2.13%) Qualtrics
6 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
6 1 (2.13%) VMware