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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 75 81
Rank change year-on-year +7 +6 +73
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 55 53 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.07% 2.52% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 2.75% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 43
10th Percentile £298 £395 £367
25th Percentile £423 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £580
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% -0.86% -7.20%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £713
90th Percentile £885 £780 £855
Central London median daily rate £540 £560 £580
% change year-on-year -3.57% -3.45% -3.33%
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 1,674 1,928 2,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.31% 91.63% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,175 1,176 1,705
10th Percentile £330 £375 £363
25th Percentile £418 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £576 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.56% +0.22% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £759 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 16 14
10th Percentile £17.02 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.48
Median hourly rate £28.25 £50.00 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.50% +52.67% -36.41%
75th Percentile £43.33 £112.00 £52.88
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £72.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.75 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -20.71% +27.27% -45.54%

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 21 November 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 (1.82%) Anypoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) HFM
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.82%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.73%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.91%) Azure
3 3 (5.45%) AWS
3 3 (5.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 3 (5.45%) GCP
3 3 (5.45%) SaaS
4 2 (3.64%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.64%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.82%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.82%) Apigee
5 1 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.82%) Figma
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.82%) Kong
5 1 (1.82%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.64%) Firewall
1 2 (3.64%) Network Security
2 1 (1.82%) BGP
2 1 (1.82%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.82%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.82%) IGMP
2 1 (1.82%) Multicast
2 1 (1.82%) OSPF
2 1 (1.82%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.73%) Power BI
2 5 (9.09%) Star Schema
3 4 (7.27%) Tableau
4 3 (5.45%) Data Lake
4 3 (5.45%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.64%) BigQuery
5 2 (3.64%) Looker
6 1 (1.82%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.82%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.82%) Burp Suite
3 1 (1.82%) git-flow
3 1 (1.82%) Metasploit
3 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 29 (52.73%) Finance
3 25 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.55%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (12.73%) Banking
5 7 (12.73%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.27%) Financial Institution
8 3 (5.45%) Front Office
8 3 (5.45%) Legal
8 3 (5.45%) Marketing
9 2 (3.64%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Back Office
10 1 (1.82%) Billing
10 1 (1.82%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Multimedia
10 1 (1.82%) Retail
10 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Analyst
2 12 (21.82%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.55%) Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Senior
5 5 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
5 5 (9.09%) Lead
6 3 (5.45%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Designer
6 3 (5.45%) Finance Business Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.64%) Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Digital Analytics Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Digital Analytics Consultant
7 2 (3.64%) Pricing Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Senior Digital Analyst
7 2 (3.64%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) Kafka
1 1 (1.82%) Middleware
1 1 (1.82%) Node.js
1 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.82%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.82%) React
1 1 (1.82%) Regular Expression
1 1 (1.82%) REST
1 1 (1.82%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.45%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.45%) Reinsurance
3 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.64%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.82%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.82%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.82%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.82%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.64%) Windows
3 1 (1.82%) Kali Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Solaris
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.00%) Agile
2 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (23.64%) Analytics
4 12 (21.82%) Scrum
5 11 (20.00%) Data Analysis
6 8 (14.55%) Data Modelling
6 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (14.55%) User Stories
7 7 (12.73%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.73%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (10.91%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (10.91%) Backlog Management
8 6 (10.91%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 6 (10.91%) Epics
8 6 (10.91%) Impact Assessments
8 6 (10.91%) Project Governance
8 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (10.91%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) SQL
2 9 (16.36%) Python
3 6 (10.91%) C#
4 4 (7.27%) Java
5 3 (5.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.82%) Bash
6 1 (1.82%) C
6 1 (1.82%) C++
6 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.82%) R
6 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (3.64%) CCAB
2 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
2 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.82%) ACCA
3 1 (1.82%) CCIE
3 1 (1.82%) CCNP
3 1 (1.82%) CIMA
3 1 (1.82%) CISA
3 1 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.82%) CISSP
3 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) SLA
4 1 (1.82%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.82%) Basel III
4 1 (1.82%) CRD IV
4 1 (1.82%) GAAP
4 1 (1.82%) IFRS
4 1 (1.82%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.82%) NEBOSH
4 1 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) Istio
2 2 (3.64%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Ansible
3 1 (1.82%) Argo
3 1 (1.82%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.82%) Grafana
3 1 (1.82%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (10.91%) Databricks
2 5 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 3 (5.45%) Dataiku
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle
3 3 (5.45%) SAP
4 2 (3.64%) Cisco
4 2 (3.64%) Google
4 2 (3.64%) Hyperion
4 2 (3.64%) Qualys
4 2 (3.64%) Tagetik
4 2 (3.64%) Tenable
5 1 (1.82%) Aruba
5 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.82%) F5
5 1 (1.82%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.82%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.82%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.82%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.82%) Splunk