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 10 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 73 100
Rank change year-on-year -23 +27 +21
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 33 47 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.49% 2.69% 1.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 2.91% 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 21
10th Percentile £435 £306 £331
25th Percentile £505 £372 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +1.43% -13.40%
75th Percentile £619 £675 £575
90th Percentile £733 £795 £673
Central London median daily rate £550 £545 £525
% change year-on-year +0.92% +3.81% -13.40%

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 1,917 1,613 2,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.82% 92.49% 89.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,037 1,435
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -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 10 April 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 10 April 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:

Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.03%) NetSuite
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Azure
2 6 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (12.12%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.03%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.03%) Apigee
5 1 (3.03%) Azure AKS
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.03%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.03%) Nutanix
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) DNS
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
1 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.03%) VLAN
1 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) MongoDB
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) DB2
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) PowerCenter
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) SAP HANA
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Git
1 3 (9.09%) GitLab
2 2 (6.06%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.06%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) Postman
2 2 (6.06%) Selenium
3 1 (3.03%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.03%) Metasploit
3 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
3 1 (3.03%) Robot Framework
General
1 20 (60.61%) Social Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Finance
3 11 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (15.15%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.06%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.06%) Front Office
6 2 (6.06%) Legal
6 2 (6.06%) Marketing
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Analyst
2 4 (12.12%) Architect
2 4 (12.12%) Lead
2 4 (12.12%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 2 (6.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 2 (6.06%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Developer
4 2 (6.06%) Process Analyst
4 2 (6.06%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.06%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Consultant
5 1 (3.03%) Business Process Engineer
5 1 (3.03%) Data Migration Lead
5 1 (3.03%) Integration Developer
5 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (3.03%) Senior Process Analyst
5 1 (3.03%) Workday Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) Spring
1 2 (6.06%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.03%) Backbone.js
2 1 (3.03%) Bootstrap
2 1 (3.03%) Ember.js
2 1 (3.03%) Hugging Face
2 1 (3.03%) jQuery
2 1 (3.03%) JSON
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) Keras
2 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (3.03%) OAuth
2 1 (3.03%) pytest
2 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
2 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.03%) Regular Expression
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.06%) Cloud Native
2 2 (6.06%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.06%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (6.06%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.06%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 1 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.03%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Linux
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (3.03%) Android
2 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.03%) Kali Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.03%) Solaris
2 1 (3.03%) Unix
2 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (42.42%) Agile
3 9 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (24.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (21.21%) Analytics
5 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 6 (18.18%) Computer Science
6 6 (18.18%) Data Governance
7 5 (15.15%) AI
7 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
7 5 (15.15%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (15.15%) Validation
8 4 (12.12%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (12.12%) ETL
8 4 (12.12%) Process Improvement
8 4 (12.12%) Risk Management
8 4 (12.12%) Scrum
8 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) Java
4 2 (6.06%) Bash
4 2 (6.06%) C#
4 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.06%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (3.03%) Groovy
5 1 (3.03%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (27.27%) Degree
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.06%) APMP
4 2 (6.06%) CASP
4 2 (6.06%) CCNA
4 2 (6.06%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (6.06%) CISM
4 2 (6.06%) CISSP
4 2 (6.06%) CRISC
4 2 (6.06%) GSEC
4 2 (6.06%) PMP
5 1 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (3.03%) CCNP
5 1 (3.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) QA
2 6 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 2 (6.06%) GDPR
3 2 (6.06%) GRC
4 1 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.06%) Terraform
3 1 (3.03%) Ansible
3 1 (3.03%) Grafana
3 1 (3.03%) Istio
3 1 (3.03%) Packer
3 1 (3.03%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) SAP
2 2 (6.06%) Databricks
2 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.06%) VMware
2 2 (6.06%) Workday
3 1 (3.03%) Alteryx
3 1 (3.03%) Ariba
3 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.03%) Informatica
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle
3 1 (3.03%) Qualtrics
3 1 (3.03%) Qualys
3 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.03%) Symantec
3 1 (3.03%) Tanium
3 1 (3.03%) Tenable