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 30 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 67 77
Rank change year-on-year -18 +10 +59
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 39 52 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.08% 2.76% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 3.01% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 28 37
10th Percentile £350 £307 £349
25th Percentile £475 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile £688 £676 £675
90th Percentile £899 £800 £914
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -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 & 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 1,671 1,728 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.12% 91.87% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,049 1,555
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £429 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +1.05% -4.37%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £563
% change year-on-year -5.65% +2.22% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 9 13
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.45 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £32.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +18.18% -21.43%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £46.75
90th Percentile £49.83 £112.00 £69.05
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 30 January 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 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.56%) HFM
1 1 (2.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.26%) Azure
2 3 (7.69%) GCP
2 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.13%) Amazon S3
3 2 (5.13%) AWS
3 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.13%) Google Analytics
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (2.56%) Apigee
4 1 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub
4 1 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.56%) Nutanix
4 1 (2.56%) SaaS
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.56%) Network Security
2 1 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
1 3 (7.69%) Star Schema
1 3 (7.69%) Tableau
2 2 (5.13%) BigQuery
2 2 (5.13%) Looker
3 1 (2.56%) DynamoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Burp Suite
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) Metasploit
3 1 (2.56%) Postman
3 1 (2.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.56%) Selenium
General
1 23 (58.97%) Social Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (35.90%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Banking
5 4 (10.26%) Front Office
5 4 (10.26%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.69%) Financial Institution
6 3 (7.69%) Legal
6 3 (7.69%) Marketing
7 1 (2.56%) Billing
7 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.56%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.56%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.56%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Analyst
2 5 (12.82%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.26%) Developer
3 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 3 (7.69%) Consultant
4 3 (7.69%) Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Low Latency Java Developer
4 3 (7.69%) Senior
4 3 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Data Scientist
5 2 (5.13%) Designer
5 2 (5.13%) Digital Analytics Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Digital Analytics Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (5.13%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.13%) Security Specialist
5 2 (5.13%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) RESTful
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.56%) Middleware
2 1 (2.56%) Node.js
2 1 (2.56%) OAuth
2 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) Regular Expression
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) SAML
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.56%) Web Services
2 1 (2.56%) XML
2 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.13%) e-Learning
3 2 (5.13%) Marketing Technology
3 2 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.13%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.56%) Credit Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.56%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.56%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.56%) Market Risk
4 1 (2.56%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (2.56%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (2.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
1 3 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Kali Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.56%) Solaris
2 1 (2.56%) Unix
2 1 (2.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (46.15%) Agile
2 14 (35.90%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Continuous Improvement
4 7 (17.95%) Scrum
4 7 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (15.38%) Analytics
5 6 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 5 (12.82%) Acceptance Criteria
6 5 (12.82%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (12.82%) CI/CD
6 5 (12.82%) DevOps
6 5 (12.82%) SDLC
6 5 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (12.82%) User Stories
7 4 (10.26%) Backlog Management
7 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
7 4 (10.26%) Epics
7 4 (10.26%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (10.26%) Project Governance
7 4 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) C#
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) Groovy
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) R
5 1 (2.56%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (23.08%) Degree
2 7 (17.95%) SC Cleared
2 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.13%) APMP
4 2 (5.13%) CASP
4 2 (5.13%) CISM
4 2 (5.13%) CISSP
4 2 (5.13%) CRISC
4 2 (5.13%) GSEC
4 2 (5.13%) PMP
5 1 (2.56%) CCNA
5 1 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) GRC
3 1 (2.56%) Basel III
3 1 (2.56%) CRD IV
3 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 14001
3 1 (2.56%) NEBOSH
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.69%) Terraform
2 1 (2.56%) Ansible
2 1 (2.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.56%) Grafana
2 1 (2.56%) Istio
2 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Packer
2 1 (2.56%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (7.69%) Databricks
1 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.69%) SAP
2 2 (5.13%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
2 2 (5.13%) Tenable
2 2 (5.13%) VMware
2 2 (5.13%) Workday
3 1 (2.56%) Aruba
3 1 (2.56%) Atlassian
3 1 (2.56%) Cisco
3 1 (2.56%) Hyperion
3 1 (2.56%) Qualys
3 1 (2.56%) Symantec
3 1 (2.56%) Tagetik
3 1 (2.56%) Tanium