Active Listening Contracts in England

Active Listening
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Active Listening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Listening over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 467 510 600
Rank change year-on-year +43 +90 +145
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 21 21 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.058% 0.095%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.067% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 28
10th Percentile £307 £407 £279
25th Percentile £324 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £534 £588 £578
90th Percentile £653 £605 £752
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £30.50 - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - £9.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £62.50 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +525.00% +2.67%
75th Percentile - - £10.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £37.10 £10.00
% change year-on-year +34.77% +271.00% +2.67%

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 22,114 31,426 43,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.34% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,436 20,611 30,630
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,247 1,533
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.00 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.41 £36.50 £36.54
Median % change year-on-year -22.16% -0.11% +46.16%
75th Percentile £62.24 £60.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in England

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in England.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in England

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in England

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in England.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in England

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Listening in England over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Listening in England

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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 21 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
North of England +21 7 - - 14
London +34 6 £650 +18.18% 72
North West +9 6 - - 7
South East +42 2 £500 -4.76% 13
South West +39 2 £500 -16.67% 9
West Midlands - 2 £315 - 6
Midlands - 2 £315 - 14
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 6
Active Listening
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Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.76%) Acrobat
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (9.52%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (4.76%) dbt
2 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
2 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) PBX
1 1 (4.76%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (4.76%) Data Vault
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (4.76%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Billing
4 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Dutch Language
5 1 (4.76%) Italian Language
5 1 (4.76%) Local Government
5 1 (4.76%) Polish Language
5 1 (4.76%) Portuguese Language
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Change Manager
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Communications Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Finance Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Finance Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) ICT Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Qlik Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Qlik Sense Developer
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) EDI
1 1 (4.76%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Management Information System
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Virtual Team
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) IoT
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Change Management
3 7 (33.33%) Project Management
4 6 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing Engineering
5 5 (23.81%) Product Management
5 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (19.05%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (19.05%) Business Change Management
6 4 (19.05%) Business Transformation
6 4 (19.05%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (19.05%) ERP
7 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
7 3 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 3 (14.29%) Process Improvement
7 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 3 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) IIBA
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) PMO
1 2 (9.52%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GMP
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 2 (9.52%) Oracle
3 2 (9.52%) Salesforce
4 1 (4.76%) Adobe
4 1 (4.76%) Cisco
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow