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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 83 84
Rank change year-on-year +22 +1 +75
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 57 45 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.26% 2.17% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.35% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 22 43
10th Percentile £311 £425 £361
25th Percentile £418 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £581 £538
Median % change year-on-year -9.63% +8.14% -10.42%
75th Percentile £642 £713 £684
90th Percentile £758 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £500 £565 £538
% change year-on-year -11.50% +5.12% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.50 £22.00 -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% - -
75th Percentile £17.50 £24.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £17.00 £24.40 -
% change year-on-year -30.31% - -

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 1,649 1,913 2,773
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.17% 92.10% 90.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,220 1,918
10th Percentile £325 £384 £363
25th Percentile £418 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £712
90th Percentile £763 £788 £815
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 15
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £15.43
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -1.82% -36.05%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £62.45
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -10.71% +30.84% -37.06%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working 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 15 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.75%) Anypoint
Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) HFM
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) Azure
2 5 (8.77%) AWS
2 5 (8.77%) Power Platform
3 4 (7.02%) SaaS
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.75%) Collibra
6 1 (1.75%) Figma
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) GitHub
6 1 (1.75%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.75%) Kong
6 1 (1.75%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.51%) Network Security
2 1 (1.75%) BGP
2 1 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (1.75%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (1.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.75%) IGMP
2 1 (1.75%) Multicast
2 1 (1.75%) OSPF
2 1 (1.75%) SSL
2 1 (1.75%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Star Schema
2 5 (8.77%) Power BI
3 3 (5.26%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (3.51%) Tableau
5 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Looker
5 1 (1.75%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (5.26%) Git
1 3 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) git-flow
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 29 (50.88%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (47.37%) Finance
4 10 (17.54%) Public Sector
5 7 (12.28%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
7 3 (5.26%) Banking
7 3 (5.26%) Legal
7 3 (5.26%) Marketing
8 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Front Office
9 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Military
9 1 (1.75%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (1.75%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 15 (26.32%) Business Analyst
3 8 (14.04%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Senior
5 5 (8.77%) Financial Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Lead
6 4 (7.02%) Designer
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Finance Business Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Developer
7 3 (5.26%) Service Designer
8 2 (3.51%) Consultant
8 2 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Pricing Analyst
8 2 (3.51%) Procurement Manager
8 2 (3.51%) Security Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.75%) Principal Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) Akka
1 1 (1.75%) IBM Integration Bus
1 1 (1.75%) Node.js
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.75%) React
1 1 (1.75%) REST
1 1 (1.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.75%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.75%) CSOC
4 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.75%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.75%) Motion Graphics
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.75%) Linux
1 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) Agile
1 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (24.56%) Data Analysis
3 11 (19.30%) Analytics
3 11 (19.30%) Scrum
4 10 (17.54%) User Stories
5 9 (15.79%) Data Modelling
5 9 (15.79%) Decision-Making
6 8 (14.04%) DevOps
6 8 (14.04%) Impact Assessments
6 8 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (12.28%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (12.28%) Backlog Management
7 7 (12.28%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (12.28%) Change Management
7 7 (12.28%) Epics
8 6 (10.53%) Backlog Refinement
8 6 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (10.53%) Product Backlog
8 6 (10.53%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.04%) SQL
2 7 (12.28%) Python
3 3 (5.26%) C#
3 3 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.51%) Java
5 1 (1.75%) C
5 1 (1.75%) C++
5 1 (1.75%) Scala
5 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.75%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (22.81%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) CCAB
3 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.75%) ACCA
4 1 (1.75%) CCIE
4 1 (1.75%) CCNP
4 1 (1.75%) CIMA
4 1 (1.75%) CISA
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.75%) CISSP
4 1 (1.75%) CREST Certified
4 1 (1.75%) GIAC
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 1 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.75%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.77%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.51%) SLA
4 1 (1.75%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.75%) GAAP
4 1 (1.75%) IFRS
4 1 (1.75%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.75%) NEBOSH
4 1 (1.75%) PMO
4 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Ansible
2 1 (1.75%) Argo
2 1 (1.75%) Istio
2 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (7.02%) Databricks
2 3 (5.26%) Dataiku
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco
3 2 (3.51%) FIS
3 2 (3.51%) Hyperion
3 2 (3.51%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) Splunk
3 2 (3.51%) Tagetik
4 1 (1.75%) Arista
4 1 (1.75%) F5
4 1 (1.75%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (1.75%) MuleSoft
4 1 (1.75%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.75%) Qualys
4 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) SolarWinds
4 1 (1.75%) Tenable
4 1 (1.75%) UiPath