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 13 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 94 71 94
Rank change year-on-year -23 +23 +16
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 35 57 34
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.44% 3.04% 1.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 3.24% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 38 22
10th Percentile £428 £361 £414
25th Percentile £463 £433 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £549
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -6.24% -10.41%
75th Percentile £575 £633 £638
90th Percentile £661 £700 £724
Central London median daily rate £523 £502 £538
% change year-on-year +4.08% -6.60% -12.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate - £17.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - -26.09% -34.29%
75th Percentile - £17.50 £24.00
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £17.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year - -26.09% -34.29%

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 2,100 1,759 1,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.21% 93.86% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,419 1,135 1,349
10th Percentile £368 £350 £363
25th Percentile £453 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £686 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 18
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.49
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £21.00 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.26% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.13 £56.75 £48.15
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £82.88
Central London median hourly rate £24.47 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -24.72% +16.86% -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 13 July 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
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the City of London region over the 6 months to 13 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £550 -
Collaborative Working
Central London

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 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 6 (17.14%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.86%) Google Docs
6 1 (2.86%) Google Drive
6 1 (2.86%) Google Sheets
6 1 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (2.86%) Serverless
6 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) Firewall
1 2 (5.71%) VLAN
2 1 (2.86%) BGP
2 1 (2.86%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) EIGRP
2 1 (2.86%) LAN
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) OSPF
2 1 (2.86%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) WAN
2 1 (2.86%) Wireless
2 1 (2.86%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.86%) Big Data
3 1 (2.86%) Db2
3 1 (2.86%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.86%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.86%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Git
3 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 2 (5.71%) JIRA
3 2 (5.71%) Postman
3 2 (5.71%) Selenium
4 1 (2.86%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.86%) Robot Framework
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 12 (34.29%) Finance
3 11 (31.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.57%) Legal
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Military
8 1 (2.86%) Back Office
8 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.86%) Front Office
8 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Law
8 1 (2.86%) Local Government
8 1 (2.86%) Marketing
8 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Lead
3 4 (11.43%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Business Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Technical Leader
5 2 (5.71%) Applications Support
5 2 (5.71%) Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Data Business Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Security Specialist
5 2 (5.71%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Artificial Intelligence Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Products Support Specialist
6 1 (2.86%) Validation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) REST
1 2 (5.71%) Spring
1 2 (5.71%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
2 1 (2.86%) CSS
2 1 (2.86%) HTML
2 1 (2.86%) jQuery
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) Keras
2 1 (2.86%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.86%) OAuth
2 1 (2.86%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.86%) RESTful
2 1 (2.86%) SAML
2 1 (2.86%) SOAP
2 1 (2.86%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.86%) Web Services
2 1 (2.86%) XML
2 1 (2.86%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
1 2 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.86%) AI Agents
2 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.86%) AS400
2 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.86%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.86%) Derivative
2 1 (2.86%) Exotic Derivative
2 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Derivative
2 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Android
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
2 1 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 8 (22.86%) Process Improvement
3 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (22.86%) Validation
4 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.14%) AI
5 6 (17.14%) Computer Science
5 6 (17.14%) Data Governance
5 6 (17.14%) DevOps
5 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 5 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
7 4 (11.43%) Analytics
7 4 (11.43%) Change Management
7 4 (11.43%) Migration
7 4 (11.43%) Workflow
8 3 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (22.86%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) Bash
3 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) Bicep
4 1 (2.86%) COBOL
4 1 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.86%) Groovy
4 1 (2.86%) Java
4 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.86%) RPG
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
1 7 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 7 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) CASP
3 2 (5.71%) CCNP
3 2 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (5.71%) CISM
3 2 (5.71%) CISSP
3 2 (5.71%) CRISC
3 2 (5.71%) GSEC
3 2 (5.71%) PMP
4 1 (2.86%) APMP
4 1 (2.86%) CCNA
4 1 (2.86%) CWNA
4 1 (2.86%) DBS Check
4 1 (2.86%) PhD
4 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) QA
3 3 (8.57%) GDPR
4 2 (5.71%) GRC
4 2 (5.71%) SLA
5 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.86%) PMO
5 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Data Guard
3 1 (2.86%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.57%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.71%) Google
3 2 (5.71%) SAP
4 1 (2.86%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.86%) Ariba
4 1 (2.86%) Cisco
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Informatica
4 1 (2.86%) Murex
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle
4 1 (2.86%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.86%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.86%) Workday