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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 63 57
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 +35
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 47 32 39
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.95% 2.42% 2.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.48% 2.69% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 17
10th Percentile - £269 £178
25th Percentile £325 £375 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £350
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +39.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £525
90th Percentile £557 £622 £543
England median daily rate £500 £500 £495
% change year-on-year - +1.01% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 6 15
10th Percentile £15.75 £12.36 -
25th Percentile £17.86 £13.15 -
Median hourly rate £31.93 £16.65 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.80% -66.71% +134.08%
75th Percentile £58.25 £26.94 -
90th Percentile £77.40 £33.08 -
England median hourly rate £22.81 £20.66 £50.00
% change year-on-year +10.41% -58.68% +17.65%

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 1,894 1,190 1,230
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.59% 90.15% 81.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 521 455
10th Percentile £190 £200 £208
25th Percentile £363 £393 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +13.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £558
90th Percentile £694 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 498 320 336
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.14 £16.05 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £22.57 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +110.48% -43.58% +101.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 -17 18 £525 - 39
Cambridgeshire +1 10 £420 +40.00% 67
Suffolk -10 10 £350 - 13
Norfolk -7 3 - - 16
Bedfordshire -10 3 - - 15
Essex -14 3 - - 27
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 (6.38%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Integrated Workplace Management System
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.38%) Azure
1 3 (6.38%) SaaS
2 2 (4.26%) AWS
2 2 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (4.26%) GCP
2 2 (4.26%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.13%) AtomSphere
3 1 (2.13%) Boomi
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.13%) BGP
2 1 (2.13%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (2.13%) InfiniBand
2 1 (2.13%) LAN
2 1 (2.13%) OSPF
2 1 (2.13%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (2.13%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) VLAN
2 1 (2.13%) Wireless
2 1 (2.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.77%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.51%) MySQL
2 4 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (8.51%) Relational Database
2 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.26%) Power BI
4 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.13%) JIRA
1 1 (2.13%) LabVIEW
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.64%) Electronics
3 5 (10.64%) Local Government
3 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.51%) Finance
4 4 (8.51%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (8.51%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.26%) Law
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Military
6 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Billing
7 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Games
7 1 (2.13%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Data Architect
3 5 (10.64%) Senior
4 3 (6.38%) Administrator
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 3 (6.38%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Business Change Analyst
5 2 (4.26%) Customer Service Advisor
5 2 (4.26%) Data Administrator
5 2 (4.26%) Digital Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) IT Technician
5 2 (4.26%) Product Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.26%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) RESTful
2 4 (8.51%) Hibernate
2 4 (8.51%) SQLAlchemy
3 2 (4.26%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) JSON
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth
4 1 (2.13%) OAuth2
4 1 (2.13%) REST
4 1 (2.13%) SOAP
4 1 (2.13%) Web Services
4 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.51%) Life Science
1 4 (8.51%) Management Information System
1 4 (8.51%) Social Media
2 1 (2.13%) Acoustics
2 1 (2.13%) Algorithms
2 1 (2.13%) CUDA
2 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.13%) FMCG
2 1 (2.13%) FPGA
2 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.13%) PCIe
2 1 (2.13%) TM Forum
2 1 (2.13%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.13%) Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.13%) Windows 10
2 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
2 7 (14.89%) Data Protection
2 7 (14.89%) Software Engineering
3 6 (12.77%) Migration
3 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (10.64%) Data Modelling
4 5 (10.64%) Information Security
4 5 (10.64%) Project Delivery
4 5 (10.64%) Project Management
5 4 (8.51%) Biotechnology
5 4 (8.51%) Configuration Management
5 4 (8.51%) Data Integration
5 4 (8.51%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (8.51%) DevOps
5 4 (8.51%) ETL
5 4 (8.51%) Informatics
5 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
5 4 (8.51%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) Python
2 4 (8.51%) Java
3 3 (6.38%) SQL
4 2 (4.26%) Bash
4 2 (4.26%) C
4 2 (4.26%) C++
4 2 (4.26%) MATLAB
4 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.13%) Clojure
5 1 (2.13%) SystemVerilog
5 1 (2.13%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.64%) Degree
2 5 (10.64%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.26%) DBS Check
3 2 (4.26%) HND
3 2 (4.26%) ISACA
3 2 (4.26%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.13%) CCNA
4 1 (2.13%) CCNP
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.13%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.13%) HNC
4 1 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.13%) Postgraduate
4 1 (2.13%) RHCE
4 1 (2.13%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.77%) GDPR
2 2 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.26%) NCSC
2 2 (4.26%) NIST
2 2 (4.26%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) DO-254
3 1 (2.13%) GRC
3 1 (2.13%) PMO
3 1 (2.13%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Docker
2 4 (8.51%) Firmware
3 1 (2.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Civica
3 3 (6.38%) Orchard
4 2 (4.26%) Capita
4 2 (4.26%) Progress
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Actel
5 1 (2.13%) Altera
5 1 (2.13%) Aruba
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Dell
5 1 (2.13%) EMC
5 1 (2.13%) Google
5 1 (2.13%) Intel
5 1 (2.13%) Microsemi
5 1 (2.13%) Planon
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.13%) Snow
5 1 (2.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Xilinx