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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 50 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 12 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.41% 1.65% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 1.96% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 5
10th Percentile £369 £423 £488
25th Percentile £422 £438 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £479 £675
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% -29.07% +107.69%
75th Percentile £511 £519 £713
90th Percentile £520 £528 £735
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £50.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £117.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.84% +129.41% +191.43%
75th Percentile - - £51.50
90th Percentile - - £54.20
England median hourly rate £18.82 £26.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -28.97% -34.57% +107.69%

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 736 613 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.38% 84.20% 84.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 374 507
10th Percentile £210 £266 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £445 £481
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -7.48% +1.26%
75th Percentile £524 £547 £591
90th Percentile £638 £619 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 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% +32.61%
75th Percentile £25.15 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile - £51.50 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.51% -12.36% +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 2 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 2 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 6 £450 -10.00% 5
Derbyshire 0 2 £425 -11.23% 9
Nottinghamshire -4 2 £515 +19.42% 9
Lincolnshire - 1 - - 4
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 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) ChatGPT
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (8.33%) EDMS
4 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (25.00%) Banking
4 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (8.33%) Digital Healthcare
5 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior C# .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Assurance Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Service Assurance Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Service Management Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Migration
1 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (25.00%) Agile
2 3 (25.00%) Change Management
2 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (25.00%) DevOps
2 3 (25.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
2 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 2 (16.67%) AI
3 2 (16.67%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Logistics
3 2 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analysis
4 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (25.00%) PL/SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) R
3 2 (16.67%) C#
3 2 (16.67%) PHP
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) MCSE
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Sage
3 1 (8.33%) SAP