Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Collaborative Working
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 69 33
Rank change year-on-year -10 -36 +63
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 33 28 77
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.51% 2.22% 4.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.52% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 20
10th Percentile - £283 £178
25th Percentile £325 £425 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £488 £363
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +34.48% -30.79%
75th Percentile £508 £588 £497
90th Percentile £556 £618 £539
England median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 54
10th Percentile £16.33 £19.60 £40.54
25th Percentile £19.58 £25.75 -
Median hourly rate £31.93 £36.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% -28.00% +100.00%
75th Percentile £39.15 £43.00 -
90th Percentile £72.50 £47.20 -
England median hourly rate £22.81 £30.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -23.97% -40.00% +19.62%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,717 1,113 1,343
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.73% 88.19% 83.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 841 519 523
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £385 £364 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £594 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £650 £649
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 392 265 499
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.50 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +90.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £81.80 £70.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the East of England

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the East of England

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the East of England

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 August 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
Hertfordshire -9 13 £525 - 19
Cambridgeshire +9 7 £400 - 18
Suffolk -2 7 £350 - 3
Bedfordshire -3 4 £548 - 10
Essex -18 2 - - 24
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (12.12%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.12%) Azure
1 4 (12.12%) SaaS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
2 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (6.06%) AWS
3 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
4 1 (3.03%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.03%) GCP
4 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.06%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (12.12%) MySQL
2 4 (12.12%) Relational Database
2 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
General
1 19 (57.58%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Local Government
4 4 (12.12%) Electronics
4 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (6.06%) Finance
5 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.03%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.03%) Billing
6 1 (3.03%) Legal
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (18.18%) Analyst
1 6 (18.18%) Developer
2 5 (15.15%) Architect
2 5 (15.15%) Data Architect
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Senior Systems Analyst
3 4 (12.12%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (9.09%) Lead
4 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
5 2 (6.06%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Change Analyst
5 2 (6.06%) Designer
5 2 (6.06%) IT Technician
5 2 (6.06%) Lecturer
5 2 (6.06%) Service Manager
5 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Configuration Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) RESTful
2 4 (12.12%) Hibernate
2 4 (12.12%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (9.09%) Spring
3 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.03%) Kafka
4 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.12%) Life Science
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) Social Media
4 1 (3.03%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 7 (21.21%) Software Engineering
3 7 (21.21%) Translating Business Requirements
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
4 6 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 6 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
5 5 (15.15%) Data Protection
5 5 (15.15%) Knowledge Transfer
5 5 (15.15%) Migration
6 4 (12.12%) Biotechnology
6 4 (12.12%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.12%) Data Integration
6 4 (12.12%) ETL
6 4 (12.12%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (12.12%) Informatics
6 4 (12.12%) Mentoring
6 4 (12.12%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) Java
2 7 (21.21%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C
3 2 (6.06%) C++
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (12.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.06%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.06%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (18.18%) Docker
2 2 (6.06%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.12%) Civica
2 4 (12.12%) Orchard
3 2 (6.06%) Cadence
3 2 (6.06%) EMC
3 2 (6.06%) Progress
4 1 (3.03%) SAP