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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 65 82
Rank change year-on-year -20 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 41 55 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.10% 3.00% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.27% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 31 35
10th Percentile £451 £308 £343
25th Percentile £510 £376 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.73%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £678
90th Percentile £899 £800 £943
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -12.00%
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 - -

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 1,738 1,682 2,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.95% 91.61% 89.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,202 1,026 1,511
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -4.17%
75th Percentile £669 £683 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -4.35% +2.22% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 8 14
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.34 £28.94 £19.18
Median hourly rate £34.25 £40.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.43% +24.62% -7.14%
75th Percentile £46.29 £64.56 £45.52
90th Percentile £55.54 £112.00 £66.70
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -20.54%

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 20 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 (7.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
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
1 1 (2.44%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) GCP
2 5 (12.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (9.76%) AWS
4 2 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.44%) Apigee
5 1 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub
5 1 (2.44%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (2.44%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (2.44%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (2.44%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) Power BI
2 3 (7.32%) Star Schema
2 3 (7.32%) Tableau
3 2 (4.88%) BigQuery
3 2 (4.88%) Looker
3 2 (4.88%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.44%) Big Data
4 1 (2.44%) DB2
4 1 (2.44%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.44%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.44%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.44%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
1 3 (7.32%) GitLab
2 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.88%) JIRA
2 2 (4.88%) Postman
2 2 (4.88%) Selenium
3 1 (2.44%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.44%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 23 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 18 (43.90%) Finance
3 16 (39.02%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (17.07%) Public Sector
5 6 (14.63%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (14.63%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (12.20%) Banking
7 4 (9.76%) Financial Institution
7 4 (9.76%) Front Office
7 4 (9.76%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.88%) Legal
8 2 (4.88%) Marketing
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
Job Titles
1 12 (29.27%) Analyst
2 5 (12.20%) Business Analyst
3 4 (9.76%) Developer
3 4 (9.76%) Lead
4 3 (7.32%) Architect
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Data Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Data Scientist
4 3 (7.32%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (7.32%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (4.88%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Designer
5 2 (4.88%) Digital Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Finance Business Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (4.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) ADO
1 1 (2.44%) CSS
1 1 (2.44%) HTML
1 1 (2.44%) jQuery
1 1 (2.44%) JSON
1 1 (2.44%) Kafka
1 1 (2.44%) Middleware
1 1 (2.44%) OAuth
1 1 (2.44%) pytest
1 1 (2.44%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (2.44%) React
1 1 (2.44%) Regular Expression
1 1 (2.44%) REST
1 1 (2.44%) RESTful
1 1 (2.44%) SAML
1 1 (2.44%) SOAP
1 1 (2.44%) TensorFlow
1 1 (2.44%) Web Services
1 1 (2.44%) XML
1 1 (2.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.88%) e-Learning
3 2 (4.88%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Credit Risk
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%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.44%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.44%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.76%) Linux
1 4 (9.76%) Windows
2 1 (2.44%) Android
2 1 (2.44%) Apple iOS
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 17 (41.46%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (21.95%) Scrum
4 8 (19.51%) Analytics
4 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 8 (19.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.07%) Data Modelling
6 6 (14.63%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (14.63%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.20%) AI
7 5 (12.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (12.20%) Data Governance
7 5 (12.20%) Process Improvement
7 5 (12.20%) Risk Management
8 4 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
8 4 (9.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 4 (9.76%) Data Science
8 4 (9.76%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (9.76%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 9 (21.95%) SQL
2 6 (14.63%) Python
3 4 (9.76%) C#
3 4 (9.76%) Java
4 2 (4.88%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.44%) Bash
5 1 (2.44%) Groovy
5 1 (2.44%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (29.27%) Degree
2 7 (17.07%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.07%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.88%) APMP
4 2 (4.88%) CASP
4 2 (4.88%) CISM
4 2 (4.88%) CISSP
4 2 (4.88%) CRISC
4 2 (4.88%) GSEC
4 2 (4.88%) PMP
5 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.44%) CCNA
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (21.95%) QA
2 5 (12.20%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.88%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.88%) GDPR
3 2 (4.88%) GRC
4 1 (2.44%) Basel III
4 1 (2.44%) CRD IV
4 1 (2.44%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.44%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) 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%) Databricks
1 4 (9.76%) SAP
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.88%) Google
3 2 (4.88%) Oracle
3 2 (4.88%) Tenable
3 2 (4.88%) VMware
3 2 (4.88%) Workday
4 1 (2.44%) Ariba
4 1 (2.44%) Aruba
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.44%) Cisco
4 1 (2.44%) Hyperion
4 1 (2.44%) Informatica
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