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 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 60 79
Rank change year-on-year -28 +19 +58
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 38 54 49
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.01% 2.90% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.17% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 36
10th Percentile £333 £307 £346
25th Percentile £469 £382 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.92% -0.91% -13.73%
75th Percentile £653 £672 £676
90th Percentile £899 £800 £928
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.18 - -
Median hourly rate £20.36 - -
75th Percentile £20.53 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.36 £25.79 -
% change year-on-year -21.07% - -

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 1,679 1,706 2,137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.98% 91.67% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,021 1,526
10th Percentile £351 £363 £350
25th Percentile £426 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +1.05% -4.77%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £780 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -6.09% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 8 14
10th Percentile £20.02 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £28.00 £40.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.86% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £42.65 £64.56 £45.06
90th Percentile £49.36 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -14.43%

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 6 February 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
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 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.63%) HFM
1 1 (2.63%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.63%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.16%) Azure
2 4 (10.53%) GCP
3 3 (7.89%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.26%) AWS
4 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.26%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.63%) Apigee
5 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.63%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.63%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.89%) Power BI
1 3 (7.89%) Star Schema
1 3 (7.89%) Tableau
2 2 (5.26%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.26%) Looker
3 1 (2.63%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.63%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.63%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) GitLab
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Metasploit
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
2 1 (2.63%) REST Assured
2 1 (2.63%) Selenium
General
1 23 (60.53%) Social Skills
2 16 (42.11%) Finance
3 15 (39.47%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (18.42%) Public Sector
5 6 (15.79%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (15.79%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (13.16%) Banking
7 4 (10.53%) Front Office
7 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (7.89%) Financial Institution
8 3 (7.89%) Legal
9 2 (5.26%) Marketing
10 1 (2.63%) Billing
10 1 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
10 1 (2.63%) Multimedia
10 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 4 (10.53%) Developer
2 4 (10.53%) Lead
3 3 (7.89%) Business Analyst
3 3 (7.89%) Consultant
3 3 (7.89%) Java Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Low Latency Java Developer
3 3 (7.89%) Senior
3 3 (7.89%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Analytics Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Data Scientist
4 2 (5.26%) Designer
4 2 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Digital Analytics Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Digital Analytics Consultant
4 2 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Financial Analyst
4 2 (5.26%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) JSON
1 1 (2.63%) Kafka
1 1 (2.63%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.63%) Middleware
1 1 (2.63%) OAuth
1 1 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.63%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.63%) REST
1 1 (2.63%) RESTful
1 1 (2.63%) SAML
1 1 (2.63%) SOAP
1 1 (2.63%) Web Services
1 1 (2.63%) XML
1 1 (2.63%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.26%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.26%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.63%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.63%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.63%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.63%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.63%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.89%) Linux
1 3 (7.89%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Solaris
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Agile
2 15 (39.47%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (21.05%) Scrum
5 7 (18.42%) Analytics
5 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.79%) Risk Management
6 6 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (13.16%) Computer Science
7 5 (13.16%) Data Modelling
7 5 (13.16%) SDLC
8 4 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (10.53%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.53%) Information Security
8 4 (10.53%) Project Governance
8 4 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (10.53%) User Stories
8 4 (10.53%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.42%) SQL
2 5 (13.16%) C#
3 4 (10.53%) Java
3 4 (10.53%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Groovy
5 1 (2.63%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.63%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (28.95%) Degree
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) Security Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.26%) APMP
4 2 (5.26%) CASP
4 2 (5.26%) CISM
4 2 (5.26%) CISSP
4 2 (5.26%) CRISC
4 2 (5.26%) GSEC
4 2 (5.26%) PMP
5 1 (2.63%) CCNA
5 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 3 (7.89%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.26%) GRC
4 1 (2.63%) Basel III
4 1 (2.63%) CRD IV
4 1 (2.63%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.63%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.63%) NEBOSH
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.26%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.63%) Grafana
2 1 (2.63%) Istio
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) Packer
2 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Databricks
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.89%) SAP
3 2 (5.26%) Google
3 2 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (5.26%) Tenable
3 2 (5.26%) VMware
3 2 (5.26%) Workday
4 1 (2.63%) Aruba
4 1 (2.63%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.63%) Cisco
4 1 (2.63%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.63%) Informatica
4 1 (2.63%) Qualys
4 1 (2.63%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.63%) Symantec
4 1 (2.63%) Tagetik
4 1 (2.63%) Tanium