Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Collaborative Working
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 56 49
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 +9
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 5 12 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.63% 1.51% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 1.82% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 7
10th Percentile £503 £400 £369
25th Percentile £508 £402 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £455 £500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £613 £513 £531
90th Percentile £665 £525 £623
England median daily rate £500 £498 £550
% change year-on-year +0.50% -9.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate - £117.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - +129.41% +191.43%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - £55.55
England median hourly rate £17.44 £50.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -65.12% +5.26% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 675 658 737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.55% 82.87% 86.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 410 533
10th Percentile £223 £263 £213
25th Percentile £341 £360 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -8.16% +5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £600
90th Percentile £626 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 34 48
10th Percentile £15.25 £12.75 £12.70
25th Percentile £17.87 £15.03 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £17.66 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% -35.78% +48.65%
75th Percentile £25.15 £41.61 £53.75
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.90
% change year-on-year -41.51% -2.05% +51.38%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the East Midlands

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the East Midlands

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 September 2025. 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
Derbyshire +1 2 £600 +21.21% 10
Leicestershire -6 2 - - 11
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £520 - 21
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Batch
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) ChatGPT
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
1 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Big Data
1 2 (40.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (40.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (40.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Migration
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Microservices
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) R
3 1 (20.00%) Bash
3 1 (20.00%) Bicep
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) PHP
3 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco
1 1 (20.00%) Meraki
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto