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 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 63 77
Rank change year-on-year -21 +14 +60
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 41 58 59
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.22% 2.84% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.46% 3.08% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 31 37
10th Percentile £312 £308 £356
25th Percentile £466 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% +2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £688 £713 £680
90th Percentile £899 £800 £914
Central London median daily rate £560 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -0.22% +2.05% -8.33%
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 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 1,669 1,883 2,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.36% 92.17% 89.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,173 1,150 1,597
10th Percentile £340 £363 £363
25th Percentile £420 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -0.86%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £756 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 15 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.80 £17.00
25th Percentile £24.52 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -38.95%
75th Percentile £42.12 £102.25 £44.56
90th Percentile £50.63 £127.30 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.29% +27.27% -34.13%

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 27 December 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 (2.44%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.44%) HFM
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.32%) AWS
1 3 (7.32%) Azure
1 3 (7.32%) GCP
1 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
2 2 (4.88%) Amazon S3
2 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
2 2 (4.88%) SaaS
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (2.44%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.44%) Apigee
3 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.44%) Figma
3 1 (2.44%) GitHub
3 1 (2.44%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.44%) Miro
3 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
3 1 (2.44%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.32%) Power BI
1 3 (7.32%) Star Schema
1 3 (7.32%) Tableau
2 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
2 2 (4.88%) Looker
3 1 (2.44%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.44%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Metasploit
General
1 23 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (43.90%) Finance
3 16 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (14.63%) Public Sector
5 5 (12.20%) Banking
6 4 (9.76%) Front Office
6 4 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (7.32%) Financial Institution
7 3 (7.32%) Marketing
8 2 (4.88%) Legal
9 1 (2.44%) Back Office
9 1 (2.44%) Billing
9 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.44%) Multimedia
9 1 (2.44%) Retail
9 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (31.71%) Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Business Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Architect
5 3 (7.32%) Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Designer
5 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 3 (7.32%) Senior
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Analytics Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (4.88%) Digital Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Digital Analytics Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Digital Analytics Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Service Designer
6 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) Middleware
1 1 (2.44%) Node.js
1 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.44%) React
1 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (7.32%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Credit Risk
3 2 (4.88%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.88%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.44%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.32%) Linux
1 3 (7.32%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.44%) Solaris
2 1 (2.44%) Unix
2 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Agile
2 13 (31.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.95%) Scrum
4 8 (19.51%) Analytics
4 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.20%) DevOps
6 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
6 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (9.76%) Asset Management
7 4 (9.76%) Backlog Management
7 4 (9.76%) Data Analysis
7 4 (9.76%) Epics
7 4 (9.76%) Project Governance
7 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
7 4 (9.76%) SDLC
7 4 (9.76%) User Stories
7 4 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) C#
2 4 (9.76%) Java
2 4 (9.76%) Python
2 4 (9.76%) SQL
3 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.44%) Bash
4 1 (2.44%) C
4 1 (2.44%) C++
4 1 (2.44%) R
4 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (21.95%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) APMP
4 1 (2.44%) CCNA
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.07%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.44%) Basel III
4 1 (2.44%) CRD IV
4 1 (2.44%) ISO 14001
4 1 (2.44%) NEBOSH
4 1 (2.44%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.32%) Terraform
2 1 (2.44%) Ansible
2 1 (2.44%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.44%) Grafana
2 1 (2.44%) Istio
2 1 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.44%) Packer
2 1 (2.44%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (9.76%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.76%) SAP
2 3 (7.32%) Databricks
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Tenable
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
4 1 (2.44%) Adobe
4 1 (2.44%) Aruba
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.44%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.44%) Qualys
4 1 (2.44%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Symantec
4 1 (2.44%) Tagetik
4 1 (2.44%) Tanium
4 1 (2.44%) Workday