Active Listening Contract Job Trends in England

Active Listening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Active Listening skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 455 527
Rank change year-on-year -52 +72 +165
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 30 41 34
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.095% 0.14% 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.16% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 21 25
10th Percentile £263 £375 £344
25th Percentile £303 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -37.86% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £429 £550 £588
90th Percentile £575 £588 £613
UK median daily rate £335 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -34.90% +3.00% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 0
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.86 -
25th Percentile £15.25 - -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 -
75th Percentile £18.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -77.33% +428.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Active Listening 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 27,948 25,588 32,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.76% 88.59% 88.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,756 15,817 22,467
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £414 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,828 844 1,393
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.80
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.61%
75th Percentile £53.81 £64.79 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £74.66 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Active Listening job vacancy trend in England

Active Listening
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Listening.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening in England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in England

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Listening.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Active Listening

Active Listening
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the 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
London +1 11 £310 -41.51% 2
Midlands -34 8 £256 -61.58% 3
East of England - 8 - -
West Midlands -24 6 - - 3
East Midlands -22 2 £256 -
North West -25 2 £499 +10.83% 4
North of England -62 2 £499 -3.16% 4
Active Listening
UK

Active Listening
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (6.67%) Azure
3 1 (3.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (3.33%) AWS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure AKS
3 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (3.33%) Datadog
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub
3 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (3.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (3.33%) OCI
3 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.33%) Pulumi
3 1 (3.33%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.33%) Metadata
1 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.33%) git-flow
2 1 (3.33%) GitLab
2 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Manufacturing
2 8 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Retail
3 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
3 4 (13.33%) Spanish Language
4 2 (6.67%) Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Lithuanian Language
5 1 (3.33%) Local Government
5 1 (3.33%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Service Analyst
2 8 (26.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 2 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (3.33%) Digital Service Designer
4 1 (3.33%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 1 (3.33%) Help Desk Support
4 1 (3.33%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Lead
4 1 (3.33%) Lead Service Designer
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle Project Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Project Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) Senior Service Designer
4 1 (3.33%) Service Design Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Service Designer
4 1 (3.33%) Service Manager
4 1 (3.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) FIDO
1 1 (3.33%) Kafka
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth
1 1 (3.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.33%) OpenID
1 1 (3.33%) Pandas
1 1 (3.33%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (3.33%) SAML
1 1 (3.33%) Spring
1 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (16.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (26.67%) Customer Experience
3 8 (26.67%) Customer Service
3 8 (26.67%) Project Management
4 7 (23.33%) Business Continuity
4 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (20.00%) Coaching
5 6 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
5 6 (20.00%) Decision-Making
5 6 (20.00%) ITIL
5 6 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
5 6 (20.00%) Service Management
5 6 (20.00%) Time Management
6 5 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 5 (16.67%) Project Planning
6 5 (16.67%) Release Management
6 5 (16.67%) Scrum
7 4 (13.33%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (3.33%) Go
2 1 (3.33%) Java
2 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (20.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.33%) NIST
1 1 (3.33%) NIST 800
1 1 (3.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Argo
1 1 (3.33%) Grafana
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.33%) Opsgenie
1 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Salesforce
2 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) AppDynamics
3 1 (3.33%) Black Duck
3 1 (3.33%) Google
3 1 (3.33%) Intel
3 1 (3.33%) Oracle
3 1 (3.33%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.33%) Qualys
3 1 (3.33%) Splunk
3 1 (3.33%) Veracode