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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 75 80
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +78
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 56 51 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.27% 2.40% 2.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 2.61% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 28 47
10th Percentile £298 £393 £364
25th Percentile £423 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £586 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.32% +3.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £656 £713 £713
90th Percentile £780 £775 £900
Central London median daily rate £525 £575 £565
% change year-on-year -8.65% +1.77% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £16.87 - -
25th Percentile £17.42 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 - -
75th Percentile £19.77 - -
90th Percentile £20.23 - -
Central London median hourly rate £18.68 £25.79 -
% change year-on-year -27.58% - -

All Process and 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 1,621 1,951 2,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.52% 91.98% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 1,209 1,788
10th Percentile £328 £363 £371
25th Percentile £422 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £773 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £591
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.75% +2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 17 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £16.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £23.13 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £42.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -36.39% +36.00% -27.73%
75th Percentile £35.88 £112.00 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -21.43% +27.27% -36.05%

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 17 October 2025.

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
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 1 (1.79%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) HFM
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.71%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.93%) Azure
3 4 (7.14%) SaaS
4 3 (5.36%) AWS
4 3 (5.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.57%) GCP
5 2 (3.57%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.79%) Figma
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) Kong
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Firewall
1 2 (3.57%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) BGP
2 1 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.79%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.79%) IGMP
2 1 (1.79%) Multicast
2 1 (1.79%) OSPF
2 1 (1.79%) SSL
2 1 (1.79%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.50%) Star Schema
2 6 (10.71%) Power BI
3 3 (5.36%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.36%) Tableau
4 2 (3.57%) BigQuery
4 2 (3.57%) Looker
5 1 (1.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (3.57%) Git
1 2 (3.57%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Burp Suite
2 1 (1.79%) git-flow
2 1 (1.79%) GitLab
2 1 (1.79%) Metasploit
2 1 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 35 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 29 (51.79%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (50.00%) Finance
4 10 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
5 9 (16.07%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 5 (8.93%) Banking
8 4 (7.14%) Financial Institution
9 3 (5.36%) Legal
9 3 (5.36%) Marketing
10 2 (3.57%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.57%) Front Office
11 1 (1.79%) Back Office
11 1 (1.79%) Billing
11 1 (1.79%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.79%) Multimedia
11 1 (1.79%) Retail
11 1 (1.79%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (41.07%) Analyst
2 15 (26.79%) Business Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Developer
3 7 (12.50%) Senior
4 6 (10.71%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Finance Business Analyst
5 4 (7.14%) Lead
6 3 (5.36%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Designer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Architect
7 2 (3.57%) Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Procurement Manager
7 2 (3.57%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.57%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) Middleware
1 1 (1.79%) Node.js
1 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.79%) React
1 1 (1.79%) Regular Expression
1 1 (1.79%) REST
1 1 (1.79%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.57%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.79%) CSOC
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.79%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.79%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.79%) PKI
4 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
2 2 (3.57%) Windows
3 1 (1.79%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Solaris
3 1 (1.79%) Unix
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.07%) Agile
2 19 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (26.79%) Data Analysis
4 12 (21.43%) Analytics
4 12 (21.43%) Scrum
5 11 (19.64%) User Stories
6 10 (17.86%) Data Modelling
7 9 (16.07%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
8 8 (14.29%) Backlog Management
8 8 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 8 (14.29%) Epics
8 8 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
8 8 (14.29%) Project Governance
9 7 (12.50%) Backlog Refinement
9 7 (12.50%) Data Reconciliation
9 7 (12.50%) DevOps
9 7 (12.50%) Product Backlog
9 7 (12.50%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.07%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) C#
4 3 (5.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (3.57%) Java
6 1 (1.79%) Bash
6 1 (1.79%) C
6 1 (1.79%) C++
6 1 (1.79%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.57%) CCAB
3 2 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.79%) ACCA
4 1 (1.79%) CCIE
4 1 (1.79%) CCNP
4 1 (1.79%) CIMA
4 1 (1.79%) CISA
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.79%) CISSP
4 1 (1.79%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.79%) GIAC
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) SLA
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) Basel III
4 1 (1.79%) CRD IV
4 1 (1.79%) GAAP
4 1 (1.79%) IFRS
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.79%) NEBOSH
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
4 1 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.57%) Terraform
2 1 (1.79%) Ansible
2 1 (1.79%) Argo
2 1 (1.79%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.79%) Istio
2 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) Databricks
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.36%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.36%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Cisco
4 2 (3.57%) FIS
4 2 (3.57%) Google
4 2 (3.57%) Hyperion
4 2 (3.57%) Qualys
4 2 (3.57%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) Tagetik
4 2 (3.57%) Tenable
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Aruba
5 1 (1.79%) F5
5 1 (1.79%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.79%) SunGard