Orchard Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Orchard
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring knowledge or experience of Orchard products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Orchard over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Orchard Information Systems Ltd.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Orchard 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.14% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £265 - -
25th Percentile £288 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £375 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £331 £522 -
% change year-on-year -36.54% - -

All Vendors
East of England

Orchard falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 889 493 724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 41.93% 52.50% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 453 258 373
10th Percentile £192 £225 £201
25th Percentile £375 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £688 £713
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 222 92 196
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.62 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.33 £21.98 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% +22.11% -14.33%
75th Percentile £24.53 £68.75 £55.31
90th Percentile £65.00 £85.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -41.75%

Orchard
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Orchard job vacancy trend in the East of England

Orchard
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Orchard
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

Orchard
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 Orchard within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 £350 -
Essex - 1 £250 - 2
Orchard
England

Orchard
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 (66.67%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) SaaS
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Local Government
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Systems Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Asset Management Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Civica
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) SAP