Collaborative Working Contracts in England

Collaborative Working
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 130 148
Rank change year-on-year +39 +18 +29
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 714 659 810
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.78% 1.77% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.05% 2.07% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 463 356 520
10th Percentile £188 £258 £340
25th Percentile £319 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £494 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.30% -10.18% -
75th Percentile £600 £610 £656
90th Percentile £710 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £493 £525
% change year-on-year -3.65% -6.10% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 90 62
10th Percentile £15.13 £15.81 £22.14
25th Percentile £17.44 £26.80 £30.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +136.84%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £58.44
90th Percentile £81.25 - £74.88
UK median hourly rate £30.53 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -38.95% -1.96% +168.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Collaborative Working 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 23,377 31,762 42,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 85.55% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,054 20,587 29,761
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 2,328 1,554
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in England

Collaborative Working
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 Working within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +40 312 £523 +4.65% 2,615
North of England +38 106 £425 -12.82% 812
South East +30 100 £500 +5.26% 747
South West +75 87 £250 -57.45% 404
North West +36 67 £479 +19.75% 474
Midlands +30 60 £431 +1.47% 421
West Midlands +36 57 £413 -23.26% 262
Yorkshire +8 36 £357 -40.50% 275
East of England -27 22 £400 +14.29% 339
North East +2 3 £263 -58.00% 65
East Midlands -8 3 £488 +18.90% 155
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
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 33 (4.62%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 23 (3.22%) Confluence
4 8 (1.12%) CMS
5 7 (0.98%) NetWeaver
5 7 (0.98%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.70%) IIS
6 5 (0.70%) SAS
7 3 (0.42%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
9 1 (0.14%) Facebook Platform
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.14%) OpenROAD
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle UPK
9 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
Applications
1 51 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 46 (6.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.98%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.84%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.70%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.28%) Revit
8 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.14%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.12%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.98%) Primavera
3 7 (0.98%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.56%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.28%) Maximo
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payroll
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.28%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.14%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.01%) Azure
2 78 (10.92%) AWS
3 53 (7.42%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (6.72%) Power Platform
5 24 (3.36%) GitHub
6 23 (3.22%) Entra ID
7 21 (2.94%) GCP
8 14 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
8 14 (1.96%) SaaS
9 11 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
10 10 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (1.40%) Figma
10 10 (1.40%) OCI
11 9 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 8 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (1.12%) Power Automate
13 7 (0.98%) Serverless
14 6 (0.84%) OneDrive
15 5 (0.70%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.52%) VPN
2 16 (2.24%) DNS
2 16 (2.24%) Firewall
3 12 (1.68%) DHCP
4 7 (0.98%) BGP
4 7 (0.98%) Network Security
5 6 (0.84%) MPLS
5 6 (0.84%) OSPF
5 6 (0.84%) TCP/IP
5 6 (0.84%) WAN
5 6 (0.84%) Wireless
6 5 (0.70%) SD-WAN
7 4 (0.56%) EIGRP
7 4 (0.56%) HTTP
7 4 (0.56%) IPv4
7 4 (0.56%) SSL
7 4 (0.56%) Unified Communications
7 4 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (0.42%) 4G
8 3 (0.42%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.02%) Power BI
2 20 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 11 (1.54%) Tableau
4 10 (1.40%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (0.84%) Big Data
6 6 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (0.84%) Power Query
7 4 (0.56%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.56%) Metadata
7 4 (0.56%) Relational Database
7 4 (0.56%) Star Schema
8 3 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.42%) KDB
8 3 (0.42%) MySQL
8 3 (0.42%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.42%) SAP HANA
8 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (5.88%) JIRA
2 27 (3.78%) Git
3 20 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.40%) GitLab
5 8 (1.12%) Postman
6 7 (0.98%) Gradle
6 7 (0.98%) Selenium
6 7 (0.98%) SonarQube
6 7 (0.98%) Visual Studio
7 6 (0.84%) Maven
8 5 (0.70%) JUnit
9 4 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.56%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (0.56%) IntelliJ
10 3 (0.42%) Browser DevTools
10 3 (0.42%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.42%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.42%) TestNG
10 3 (0.42%) Travis CI
10 3 (0.42%) Vite
General
1 405 (56.72%) Social Skills
2 207 (28.99%) Finance
3 164 (22.97%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.72%) Banking
6 41 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (5.32%) Presentation Skills
8 35 (4.90%) Manufacturing
9 31 (4.34%) Legal
10 24 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.36%) Retail
11 23 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
11 23 (3.22%) Telecoms
12 22 (3.08%) Local Government
13 21 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (2.80%) Marketing
15 13 (1.82%) Law
16 10 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
17 9 (1.26%) Investment Banking
18 8 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 97 (13.59%) Analyst
2 80 (11.20%) Developer
3 59 (8.26%) Architect
4 54 (7.56%) Senior
5 46 (6.44%) Lead
6 35 (4.90%) Business Analyst
7 27 (3.78%) Consultant
8 25 (3.50%) Designer
9 21 (2.94%) Project Manager
9 21 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
9 21 (2.94%) Support Engineer
10 20 (2.80%) Desktop Engineer
11 17 (2.38%) Desktop Support
11 17 (2.38%) IT Support
12 15 (2.10%) Desktop Support Engineer
13 14 (1.96%) Senior Developer
14 13 (1.82%) Junior
14 13 (1.82%) Security Engineer
14 13 (1.82%) Support Officer
15 12 (1.68%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (2.80%) .NET
2 18 (2.52%) Web Services
3 17 (2.38%) React
4 14 (1.96%) REST
5 12 (1.68%) AngularJS
5 12 (1.68%) HTML
6 10 (1.40%) CSS
7 9 (1.26%) Spring
8 8 (1.12%) SAP PI
9 7 (0.98%) SAP Fiori
9 7 (0.98%) SAPUI5
10 6 (0.84%) ASP.NET
11 5 (0.70%) .NET Framework
11 5 (0.70%) Node.js
11 5 (0.70%) Vue
12 4 (0.56%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.56%) HTML5
12 4 (0.56%) JPA
12 4 (0.56%) Lightning Web Components
12 4 (0.56%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.28%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.34%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.92%) Data Protection Act
4 26 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.50%) Self-Motivation
6 16 (2.24%) Algorithms
7 11 (1.54%) Data Structures
8 10 (1.40%) Life Science
8 10 (1.40%) Mobile App
9 8 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.12%) Driving Licence
10 7 (0.98%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.98%) Educational Technology
10 7 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.98%) Operational Technology
10 7 (0.98%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.98%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.84%) PKI
11 6 (0.84%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (8.68%) Windows
2 26 (3.64%) Linux
3 16 (2.24%) Windows Server
4 11 (1.54%) Android
5 9 (1.26%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.12%) VMS
7 7 (0.98%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.42%) Unix
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (31.93%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (18.77%) Agile
3 96 (13.45%) Project Management
4 77 (10.78%) Computer Science
4 77 (10.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 75 (10.50%) Migration
6 70 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 63 (8.82%) Decision-Making
8 62 (8.68%) DevOps
9 54 (7.56%) Business Intelligence
9 54 (7.56%) ITIL
10 52 (7.28%) Analytics
11 47 (6.58%) Risk Management
12 46 (6.44%) Change Management
13 45 (6.30%) CI/CD
14 43 (6.02%) Service Delivery
15 42 (5.88%) Data Analysis
16 41 (5.74%) Validation
17 40 (5.60%) Enterprise Architecture
17 40 (5.60%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.66%) SQL
2 56 (7.84%) Python
3 36 (5.04%) Java
4 24 (3.36%) C#
5 19 (2.66%) PowerShell
6 17 (2.38%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.96%) Bash
8 11 (1.54%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.12%) Scala
10 7 (0.98%) ABAP
11 6 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.70%) Delphi
12 5 (0.70%) VBA
13 4 (0.56%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.56%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.42%) C++
14 3 (0.42%) Go
14 3 (0.42%) R
14 3 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 133 (18.63%) Security Cleared
2 117 (16.39%) Degree
3 95 (13.31%) SC Cleared
4 32 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.80%) CISSP
7 17 (2.38%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 17 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (1.68%) CISM
9 11 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.54%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (1.26%) Master's Degree
11 8 (1.12%) CCNP
11 8 (1.12%) MCP
11 8 (1.12%) PMP
12 7 (0.98%) ISTQB
13 5 (0.70%) ACCA
13 5 (0.70%) CCNA
13 5 (0.70%) CIMA
13 5 (0.70%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.34%) QA
2 28 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 24 (3.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.08%) Data Quality
5 16 (2.24%) GDPR
6 10 (1.40%) PMO
6 10 (1.40%) SLA
7 7 (0.98%) HL7
7 7 (0.98%) NCSC
8 6 (0.84%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.84%) WCAG
9 5 (0.70%) NIST
10 4 (0.56%) GRC
10 4 (0.56%) IFRS
11 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
12 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.28%) RMADS
12 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (6.86%) Active Directory
2 22 (3.08%) Docker
3 8 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.28%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) Firmware
6 1 (0.14%) GPFS
6 1 (0.14%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.14%) OpenDJ
6 1 (0.14%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.14%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 31 (4.34%) Kubernetes
2 30 (4.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (3.50%) Terraform
4 17 (2.38%) Ansible
5 14 (1.96%) SCCM
6 7 (0.98%) WSUS
7 6 (0.84%) Grafana
8 5 (0.70%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.42%) Istio
9 3 (0.42%) Kibana
9 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.42%) Puppet
10 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
10 2 (0.28%) Nessus
10 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) yum
11 1 (0.14%) Argo
11 1 (0.14%) BladeLogic
11 1 (0.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 146 (20.45%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.28%) SAP
3 35 (4.90%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.62%) Cisco
4 33 (4.62%) Oracle
5 17 (2.38%) Citrix
5 17 (2.38%) VMware
6 16 (2.24%) Google
7 14 (1.96%) Juniper
8 12 (1.68%) Ariba
9 11 (1.54%) Salesforce
10 9 (1.26%) Workday
11 8 (1.12%) BMC
11 8 (1.12%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.12%) Remedy
11 8 (1.12%) Splunk
12 7 (0.98%) Adobe
12 7 (0.98%) Databricks
12 7 (0.98%) IBM
13 5 (0.70%) Dell