Onboarding Contract Job Trends 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 20 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 67 84
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +48
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 33 17 19
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.06% 1.50% 1.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.35% 4.47% 3.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 13
10th Percentile £159 £260 £175
25th Percentile £425 £320 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +8.33% +80.00%
75th Percentile £638 £541 £550
90th Percentile £685 £599 -
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
75th Percentile - - £21.38
90th Percentile - - £22.80
England median hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -12.00% -36.71%

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 520 380 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 32.40% 33.45% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 179 307
10th Percentile £190 £250 £200
25th Percentile £335 £337 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £572
90th Percentile £700 £700 £685
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 47 86
10th Percentile £12.97 £26.60 £20.25
25th Percentile £16.21 £35.00 £42.25
Median hourly rate £43.75 £66.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.71% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £67.63 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £95.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £37.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -21.62% -15.60% +25.25%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the East of England

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the East of England

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Onboarding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Onboarding

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 20 December 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
Cambridgeshire +8 14 £550 +103.70% 14
Hertfordshire -17 14 £425 -20.93% 33
Bedfordshire -10 3 £625 +92.31% 3
Suffolk +3 2 £550 +83.33% 9
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (6.06%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (3.03%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 9 (27.27%) AWS
2 6 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 5 (15.15%) Slack
4 4 (12.12%) GCP
5 3 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (9.09%) Power Platform
6 2 (6.06%) Azure Functions
6 2 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (6.06%) Serverless
7 1 (3.03%) Azure API Management
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.03%) GitHub
7 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
7 1 (3.03%) OCI
7 1 (3.03%) OneDrive
7 1 (3.03%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
2 1 (3.03%) BGP
2 1 (3.03%) DNS
2 1 (3.03%) OSPF
2 1 (3.03%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.03%) VLAN
2 1 (3.03%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (18.18%) GitLab
2 1 (3.03%) JIRA
2 1 (3.03%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.09%) Finance
2 3 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (6.06%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.06%) Retail
4 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (3.03%) Police
4 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (21.21%) Consultant
2 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (9.09%) IAM Project Manager
2 3 (9.09%) Identity Management Manager
2 3 (9.09%) Network Engineer
2 3 (9.09%) Project Manager
2 3 (9.09%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) Analyst
3 2 (6.06%) Architect
3 2 (6.06%) Lead
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 2 (6.06%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.03%) Business Change Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Change Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (3.03%) Procurement Consultant
4 1 (3.03%) Senior Manager
4 1 (3.03%) Service Analyst
4 1 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.09%) REST
2 2 (6.06%) SOAP
3 1 (3.03%) .NET
3 1 (3.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.03%) Blazor
3 1 (3.03%) Entity Framework
3 1 (3.03%) JSON
3 1 (3.03%) Middleware
3 1 (3.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.03%) React
3 1 (3.03%) RESTful
3 1 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (3.03%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Cyber Threat
1 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (6.06%) e-Learning
2 2 (6.06%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (33.33%) Migration
2 9 (27.27%) RBAC
3 7 (21.21%) DevOps
3 7 (21.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 6 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (18.18%) Dashboard Development
4 6 (18.18%) Observability
4 6 (18.18%) Platform Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Agile
5 5 (15.15%) Project Management
5 5 (15.15%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (15.15%) Task Automation
6 4 (12.12%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.09%) Cyber Intelligence
7 3 (9.09%) Data Enrichment
7 3 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (9.09%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (6.06%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Security Cleared
2 6 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.12%) Degree
4 1 (3.03%) APMG
4 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.03%) CCNP
4 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) Def Stans
1 1 (3.03%) GDPR
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) JSP 440
1 1 (3.03%) NIST
1 1 (3.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (15.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) Kubernetes
1 6 (18.18%) Prometheus
1 6 (18.18%) Terraform
2 4 (12.12%) Grafana
3 3 (9.09%) PingFederate
3 3 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (3.03%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.18%) Dynatrace
3 4 (12.12%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Palo Alto
4 3 (9.09%) Splunk
5 2 (6.06%) Oracle
5 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.06%) Virgin Media
6 1 (3.03%) Cisco
6 1 (3.03%) CyberArk
6 1 (3.03%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.03%) SAP