Garbage Collection Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Garbage Collection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Garbage Collection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 91 -
Rank change year-on-year -22 - -
Contract jobs citing Garbage Collection 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.089% 0.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.28% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £406 - -
25th Percentile £409 £550 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.89% - -
75th Percentile £418 £650 -
90th Percentile £419 - -
England median daily rate £585 £750 £813
% change year-on-year -22.05% -7.69% +24.90%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Garbage Collection 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 1,761 1,089 1,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.34% 88.18% 84.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 874 524 616
10th Percentile £190 £208 £203
25th Percentile £396 £364 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% -13.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £557
90th Percentile £688 £650 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 242 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.99 £14.41
25th Percentile £16.99 £17.66 £15.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -6.25% +89.48%
75th Percentile £68.75 £66.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.63 £82.46 £70.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

Garbage Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Garbage Collection job vacancy trend in the East of England

Garbage Collection
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Garbage Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection
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 Garbage Collection within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 July 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
Suffolk - 2 £415 - 2
Garbage Collection
England

Garbage Collection
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (100.00%) Hazelcast
1 2 (100.00%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 2 (100.00%) SIEM
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Bash
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Check_MK
2 1 (50.00%) Podman
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware