Collaborative Culture Contracts in England

Culture of Collaboration
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Collaborative Culture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Culture over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 341 397 569
Rank change year-on-year +56 +172 +92
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Culture 126 145 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.40% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.46% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 109 49
10th Percentile £328 £413 £400
25th Percentile £421 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.35%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £650
90th Percentile £760 £875 £780
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £11.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £11.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Collaborative Culture 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 21,900 31,359 43,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.28% 86.26% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,297 20,563 30,348
10th Percentile £305 £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 £767
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 2,244 1,528
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.47 £16.00 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%
75th Percentile £61.69 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Collaborative Culture
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Collaborative Culture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Culture in England

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Culture in England.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Culture in England

Collaborative Culture
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Culture in England over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Culture in England

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Culture in England.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Culture in England

Collaborative Culture
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 Collaborative Culture within the England region over the 6 months to 22 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
London +27 80 £543 -9.58% 1,243
North of England +14 15 £575 +4.55% 1,130
South East +48 12 £525 - 1,435
Yorkshire +9 8 £600 +9.09% 465
East of England +29 7 £519 -1.14% 679
South West +32 5 £750 +57.89% 622
West Midlands +12 4 £575 +27.78% 484
Midlands +9 4 £575 +27.78% 916
North West +5 4 £322 -38.67% 520
North East - 3 £575 - 145
Collaborative Culture
UK

Collaborative Culture
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 (2.38%) Confluence
1 3 (2.38%) nginx
2 2 (1.59%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Apache
3 1 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.38%) Adobe XD
2 3 (2.38%) Sketch
3 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.49%) AWS
2 15 (11.90%) Azure
3 7 (5.56%) SaaS
4 6 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.97%) GCP
6 3 (2.38%) Figma
6 3 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.79%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (0.79%) AWS CodePipeline
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.79%) GitHub
8 1 (0.79%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.79%) OCI
8 1 (0.79%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (4.76%) Power BI
2 6 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.17%) Data Lake
3 4 (3.17%) MS Access
3 4 (3.17%) Tableau
4 3 (2.38%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.38%) Big Data
4 3 (2.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (2.38%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.38%) MySQL
4 3 (2.38%) NoSQL
4 3 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.59%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.59%) Looker
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Database
5 2 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.35%) QARun
1 8 (6.35%) WinRunner
2 6 (4.76%) Git
3 5 (3.97%) Jenkins
3 5 (3.97%) JIRA
4 4 (3.17%) GitLab
4 4 (3.17%) SonarQube
5 3 (2.38%) Artifactory
5 3 (2.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.59%) Postman
6 2 (1.59%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.79%) Maven
7 1 (0.79%) MLflow
General
1 65 (51.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (46.03%) Finance
3 27 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (21.43%) Banking
4 9 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (6.35%) Retail Banking
6 6 (4.76%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.97%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (3.97%) Legal
8 4 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.17%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (2.38%) Front Office
9 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
9 3 (2.38%) Retail
10 2 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.59%) Marketing
10 2 (1.59%) Military
11 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (16.67%) Analyst
2 18 (14.29%) Lead
3 15 (11.90%) Senior
4 13 (10.32%) Developer
5 10 (7.94%) Architect
6 8 (6.35%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.35%) Test Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) UAT Analyst
6 8 (6.35%) UAT Test Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Consultant
7 4 (3.17%) Incident Manager
7 4 (3.17%) IT Support
7 4 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.17%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Senior UAT Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Systems Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Test Leader
7 4 (3.17%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.97%) Middleware
1 5 (3.97%) Web Services
2 4 (3.17%) Kafka
2 4 (3.17%) Node.js
2 4 (3.17%) React
3 3 (2.38%) CSS
3 3 (2.38%) gRPC
3 3 (2.38%) HTML
3 3 (2.38%) RESTful
4 2 (1.59%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.59%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.59%) Playwright
4 2 (1.59%) REST
4 2 (1.59%) SAP PI
4 2 (1.59%) SOAP
4 2 (1.59%) Spring
4 2 (1.59%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.79%) JAX-RS
5 1 (0.79%) OpenGL ES
5 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
1 7 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
3 5 (3.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (3.97%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.17%) Market Risk
4 4 (3.17%) Molecular Biology
4 4 (3.17%) Operational Technology
5 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
6 2 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.59%) Derivative
6 2 (1.59%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.59%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.59%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (1.59%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (14.29%) Windows
2 7 (5.56%) Unix
3 5 (3.97%) Linux
4 2 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Android
5 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 41 (32.54%) Agile
3 30 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (22.22%) Risk Management
5 25 (19.84%) Project Management
6 24 (19.05%) DevOps
7 21 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
8 20 (15.87%) Decision-Making
9 19 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (13.49%) Waterfall
11 16 (12.70%) Test Automation
12 14 (11.11%) Fintech
13 13 (10.32%) Microservices
13 13 (10.32%) Software Testing
13 13 (10.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (9.52%) Logistics
14 12 (9.52%) Regulatory Compliance
15 11 (8.73%) Data Protection
15 11 (8.73%) Mentoring
15 11 (8.73%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (16.67%) SQL
2 10 (7.94%) Python
3 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
5 5 (3.97%) Java
6 4 (3.17%) C#
6 4 (3.17%) Go
6 4 (3.17%) VB
7 2 (1.59%) C++
7 2 (1.59%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.59%) Scala
7 2 (1.59%) T-SQL
7 2 (1.59%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.79%) Bash
8 1 (0.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 23 (18.25%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 18 (14.29%) Degree
4 8 (6.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.76%) PMP
6 5 (3.97%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 2 (1.59%) MBA
9 2 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.79%) APMP
10 1 (0.79%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.79%) CISM
10 1 (0.79%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (18.25%) QA
2 8 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.35%) GDPR
3 6 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.17%) PMO
5 2 (1.59%) Basel II
5 2 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.59%) PSD2
5 2 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.79%) EMIR
6 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.79%) MiFID
6 1 (0.79%) NIST
6 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.79%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (6.35%) Docker
2 7 (5.56%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.97%) Terraform
3 2 (1.59%) Ansible
3 2 (1.59%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.79%) Consul
4 1 (0.79%) Grafana
4 1 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.76%) ServiceNow
3 4 (3.17%) Citrix
3 4 (3.17%) Oracle
4 3 (2.38%) Adobe
4 3 (2.38%) SAP
5 2 (1.59%) Commvault
5 2 (1.59%) Google
5 2 (1.59%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.59%) Veritas
5 2 (1.59%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) Aderant
6 1 (0.79%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (0.79%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco
6 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
6 1 (0.79%) Databricks
6 1 (0.79%) IFS
6 1 (0.79%) Pega
6 1 (0.79%) Salesforce