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 5 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 51 41
Rank change year-on-year -42 -10 +44
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 27 25 81
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.20% 2.66% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 2.98% 4.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 20
10th Percentile £313 £219 £178
25th Percentile £325 £303 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £388
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +3.23% -31.11%
75th Percentile £565 £488 £525
90th Percentile £670 £510 £550
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -7.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 60
10th Percentile - £52.50 £40.00
25th Percentile £14.82 £56.25 -
Median hourly rate £17.69 £62.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -71.70% +25.00% +68.01%
75th Percentile £50.00 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 -
England median hourly rate £22.81 £23.77 £50.00
% change year-on-year -4.04% -52.46% -1.96%

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 1,732 840 1,637
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.25% 89.27% 85.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 436 694
10th Percentile £200 £225 £205
25th Percentile £369 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £455
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +9.89% -4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 440 175 608
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.45 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.66 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.36% - +81.82%
75th Percentile £65.22 £71.25 £62.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -2.97%

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 5 May 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 5 May 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 5 May 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 -23 8 £620 +37.78% 5
Norfolk - 6 £330 - 1
Bedfordshire -13 5 £548 - 4
Cambridgeshire +3 4 £319 - 11
Suffolk -2 3 £350 - 8
Essex -12 1 - - 6
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 3 (11.11%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Google Workspace
2 5 (18.52%) GCP
3 4 (14.81%) Azure
4 3 (11.11%) Azure AKS
4 3 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (11.11%) SaaS
5 2 (7.41%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (7.41%) OCI
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (3.70%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (3.70%) AWS
6 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.70%) ChatGPT
6 1 (3.70%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) VoIP
2 1 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (3.70%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.70%) JIRA
1 1 (3.70%) Rational Rhapsody
General
1 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Local Government
3 3 (11.11%) Military
4 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (44.44%) Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Lead
3 5 (18.52%) Service Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 3 (11.11%) Technical Leader
5 2 (7.41%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Change Analyst
5 2 (7.41%) Oracle Financials Support
5 2 (7.41%) Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Support Officer
5 2 (7.41%) Systems Support
6 1 (3.70%) Architect
6 1 (3.70%) Consultant
6 1 (3.70%) Developer
6 1 (3.70%) Python Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) Spring
1 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.70%) .NET
3 1 (3.70%) ISPF
3 1 (3.70%) Kafka
3 1 (3.70%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.70%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Smartphone
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.70%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.70%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.70%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.70%) Virtual Reality
3 1 (3.70%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 6 (22.22%) Android
2 6 (22.22%) Apple iOS
2 6 (22.22%) Mac OS
3 2 (7.41%) Linux
4 1 (3.70%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) ITIL
3 6 (22.22%) Customer Service
3 6 (22.22%) DevOps
4 5 (18.52%) Computer Science
4 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (18.52%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (14.81%) AI
5 4 (14.81%) CI/CD
5 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (14.81%) Project Delivery
6 3 (11.11%) ERP
6 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 3 (11.11%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 3 (11.11%) ITSM
6 3 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (11.11%) Migration
6 3 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 3 (11.11%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Java
2 3 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (7.41%) SQL
4 1 (3.70%) C++
4 1 (3.70%) CLIST
4 1 (3.70%) JCL
4 1 (3.70%) REXX
4 1 (3.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (37.04%) Security Cleared
2 9 (33.33%) Degree
3 7 (25.93%) SC Cleared
4 5 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (18.52%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.70%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 1 (3.70%) Firmware
2 1 (3.70%) RACF
2 1 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.70%) zSecure
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Google
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) Civica
3 3 (11.11%) Orchard
4 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 2 (7.41%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Cadence
5 1 (3.70%) EMC
5 1 (3.70%) IBM
5 1 (3.70%) OpenAI
5 1 (3.70%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.70%) VMware