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 6 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 58 64
Rank change year-on-year -17 +6 +18
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 33 25 46
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.77% 2.37% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 2.72% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 12
10th Percentile £293 £224 £260
25th Percentile £364 £339 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £611 £525 £528
90th Percentile £688 £538 £594
England median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 33
10th Percentile - - £40.00
25th Percentile £14.82 - £41.81
Median hourly rate £16.26 £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -78.33% +50.00% +148.63%
75th Percentile £20.81 - -
90th Percentile £26.42 - £63.00
England median hourly rate £14.82 £26.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -44.08% -47.00% +42.86%

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 1,488 919 1,668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.61% 87.03% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 658 471 827
10th Percentile £198 £247 £250
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.17% -4.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 449 153 514
10th Percentile £14.02 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.45 £19.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +8.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.60 £35.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -15.43% +2.94% -4.23%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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
Bedfordshire -8 8 £548 - 5
Hertfordshire -27 8 £643 +42.78% 8
Norfolk - 8 £330 - 3
Cambridgeshire +3 7 £388 -3.13% 6
Suffolk +6 1 - - 4
Essex -6 1 - - 8
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (6.06%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (3.03%) SAP HCM
2 1 (3.03%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) Google Workspace
2 5 (15.15%) GCP
3 4 (12.12%) Azure
4 3 (9.09%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.06%) OCI
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.03%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.03%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (3.03%) AWS
6 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.03%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.03%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.03%) Google Gemini
6 1 (3.03%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) VoIP
2 1 (3.03%) Internet
2 1 (3.03%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.09%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
1 1 (3.03%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Finance
3 8 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
5 4 (12.12%) Legal
6 3 (9.09%) Military
7 2 (6.06%) Digital Health
7 2 (6.06%) Electronics
7 2 (6.06%) Health Technology
7 2 (6.06%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 2 (6.06%) Marketing
7 2 (6.06%) Retail
7 2 (6.06%) Telecoms
8 1 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (3.03%) Financial Institution
8 1 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (21.21%) Lead
3 6 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
4 5 (15.15%) Service Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Developer
5 3 (9.09%) Technical Leader
6 2 (6.06%) Business Change Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Change Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Oracle Financials Support
6 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.06%) Support Officer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Developer
6 2 (6.06%) Systems Support
7 1 (3.03%) Field Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) IT Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) PMO Lead
7 1 (3.03%) Python Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.03%) Transition Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) Spring
1 3 (9.09%) Spring Boot
2 2 (6.06%) CSS
2 2 (6.06%) HTML
2 2 (6.06%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) ISPF
3 1 (3.03%) Kafka
3 1 (3.03%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.03%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Smartphone
2 3 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (6.06%) NHS
4 1 (3.03%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.03%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
4 1 (3.03%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.03%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Reality
4 1 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Android
2 6 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 6 (18.18%) Mac OS
3 3 (9.09%) Linux
4 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (27.27%) ITIL
3 7 (21.21%) Customer Service
4 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 5 (15.15%) Computer Science
6 4 (12.12%) AI
6 4 (12.12%) CI/CD
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
7 3 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
7 3 (9.09%) ERP
7 3 (9.09%) Event-Driven
7 3 (9.09%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 3 (9.09%) ITSM
7 3 (9.09%) Microservices
7 3 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 3 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
7 3 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 3 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 3 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Java
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.06%) SQL
3 2 (6.06%) VB
4 1 (3.03%) C++
4 1 (3.03%) CLIST
4 1 (3.03%) JCL
4 1 (3.03%) REXX
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (30.30%) Security Cleared
2 8 (24.24%) Degree
3 7 (21.21%) SC Cleared
4 5 (15.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (15.15%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.03%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.03%) PMO
2 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
1 2 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.03%) RACF
2 1 (3.03%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Ansible
2 1 (3.03%) SCCM
2 1 (3.03%) WSUS
2 1 (3.03%) zSecure
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Google
2 5 (15.15%) SAP
3 3 (9.09%) IBM
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 2 (6.06%) Cognos
4 2 (6.06%) Oracle
4 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 2 (6.06%) VMware
5 1 (3.03%) Citrix
5 1 (3.03%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.03%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.03%) Progress
5 1 (3.03%) Qualys
5 1 (3.03%) Rapid7
5 1 (3.03%) Tenable