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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 51 50
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +16
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 17 11 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.92% 1.52% 1.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 1.79% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 5
10th Percentile £325 £422 £488
25th Percentile £400 £438 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £675
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -31.48% +107.69%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £713
90th Percentile £517 £525 £735
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £19.45 - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - £50.50
Median hourly rate £20.38 £117.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -82.59% +129.41% +191.43%
75th Percentile £20.88 - £51.50
90th Percentile £21.10 - £54.20
England median hourly rate £17.00 £26.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -35.85% -37.65% +117.95%

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 764 613 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.23% 84.55% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 372 488
10th Percentile £205 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £523 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 53
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.66
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.33% +33.69%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.93% -15.73% +27.14%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend 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 16 November 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 16 November 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
Leicestershire -2 8 £421 -15.75% 7
Derbyshire +5 4 £350 -24.32% 9
Nottinghamshire -2 2 £515 +19.42% 10
Lincolnshire - 2 - - 3
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 4 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) AWS
4 2 (11.76%) ChatGPT
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 2 (11.76%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (11.76%) IaaS
4 2 (11.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
1 1 (5.88%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 3 (17.65%) Big Data
2 3 (17.65%) Data Mining
2 3 (17.65%) Hadoop
3 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.76%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (5.88%) EDMS
4 1 (5.88%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.88%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
1 5 (29.41%) Senior
2 3 (17.65%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 2 (11.76%) .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) C# Developer
3 2 (11.76%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cloud Native
1 3 (17.65%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) DevOps
2 5 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
3 4 (23.53%) Migration
4 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 3 (17.65%) Change Management
4 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 3 (17.65%) Exploratory Data Analysis
4 3 (17.65%) Logistics
4 3 (17.65%) Software Architecture
4 3 (17.65%) Visualisation
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Analysis
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) Python
3 3 (17.65%) C#
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
3 3 (17.65%) R
4 2 (11.76%) PHP
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) MCSE
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) Accessibility
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) Dynatrace
3 2 (11.76%) Sage
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) Meraki
4 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.88%) SAP