Onboarding Contracts in the East of England

Onboarding
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 93 113
Rank change year-on-year +25 +20 +14
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 14 19 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.49% 1.00% 0.48%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.37% 3.71% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 7
10th Percentile £242 £175 £219
25th Percentile £320 £213 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.88% -23.81% -6.67%
75th Percentile £544 £558 £584
90th Percentile £728 £582 £666
England median daily rate £513 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -2.24% -5.06% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - £14.90 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £17.00 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile £17.00 £23.75 -
90th Percentile - £38.75 -
England median hourly rate £19.45 £22.98 £39.50
% change year-on-year -15.36% -41.84% +97.50%

All Generic Skills
East of England

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 416 512 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 44.35% 26.82% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 253 450
10th Percentile £225 £178 £185
25th Percentile £398 £295 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.83% +3.33% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 127 52
10th Percentile £16.95 £13.24 £20.54
25th Percentile £26.30 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £66.00 £55.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -12.70% +121.75%
75th Percentile £83.25 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £70.00 £79.38
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the East of England

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Onboarding in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the East of England

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the East of England

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Onboarding in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the East of England

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +27 5 £607 -30.66% 30
Cambridgeshire +10 4 £375 +6.78% 36
Suffolk -6 2 £300 -42.86% 5
Bedfordshire -5 1 £313 +13.64% 9
Essex - 1 - - 20
Norfolk - 1 - - 12
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) GitHub
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) SaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Slack
1 1 (7.14%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) 5G
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) GSM
1 1 (7.14%) LTE
1 1 (7.14%) Network Security
1 1 (7.14%) VSAN
1 1 (7.14%) WCDMA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
1 1 (7.14%) Tableau
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Retail
3 2 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Retail Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Consultant
1 2 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (7.14%) Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Coordinator
2 1 (7.14%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Fraud Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) IAM Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Report Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Senior
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Microsoft Specialist
2 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (7.14%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Conceptual Models
1 3 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Matching
1 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
1 3 (21.43%) Logical Data Model
1 3 (21.43%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Line Management
2 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (7.14%) Email Management
3 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (7.14%) Information Assurance
3 1 (7.14%) Master Data Management
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (7.14%) Time Management
3 1 (7.14%) Visualisation
3 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) Python
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) APMG
3 1 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (7.14%) CISM
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
2 1 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) PowerCLI
1 1 (7.14%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
1 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
1 1 (7.14%) VxRail
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Cognizant
2 1 (7.14%) Dell
2 1 (7.14%) Okta
2 1 (7.14%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Workday
2 1 (7.14%) Zscaler