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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 121 175
Rank change year-on-year +40 +54 -1
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 749 701 748
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.08% 1.88% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 2.18% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 461 370 476
10th Percentile £219 £250 £339
25th Percentile £375 £375 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £634 £611 £650
90th Percentile £713 £745 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 93 44
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.13 £19.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £26.73 £35.94
Median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.00% -1.96% +163.57%
75th Percentile £49.38 - £69.99
90th Percentile £67.00 - £84.63
UK median hourly rate £26.08 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.84% -9.09% +173.73%

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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 May 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 May 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 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 +30 338 £525 +5.00% 838
North of England +52 107 £472 -5.70% 325
South East +30 101 £500 +4.49% 355
South West +80 86 £500 -11.11% 167
North West +46 70 £500 +5.26% 205
Midlands +26 65 £455 +7.06% 205
West Midlands +38 59 £450 -14.29% 124
Yorkshire +9 27 £425 -30.44% 96
East of England -17 24 £450 +5.88% 138
North East +7 10 £425 -32.00% 26
East Midlands -5 6 £488 +21.88% 70
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 37 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 30 (4.01%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.87%) Confluence
4 7 (0.93%) CMS
4 7 (0.93%) NetWeaver
4 7 (0.93%) SAP EP
5 5 (0.67%) nginx
5 5 (0.67%) SAS
6 3 (0.40%) Drupal
7 2 (0.27%) Apache
7 2 (0.27%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.27%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.13%) Facebook Platform
8 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
8 1 (0.13%) IIS
8 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.13%) OpenROAD
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 63 (8.41%) Microsoft Office
2 44 (5.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (3.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.07%) Adobe XD
4 8 (1.07%) Sketch
5 7 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.53%) Camtasia
7 4 (0.53%) InVision
8 3 (0.40%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.27%) Revit
10 1 (0.13%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 12 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.93%) Primavera
3 7 (0.93%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.67%) Infor LN
4 5 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.53%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.40%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.27%) Maximo
7 2 (0.27%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.27%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.27%) Shopify
7 2 (0.27%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.13%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.13%) Avolution ABACUS
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.13%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 123 (16.42%) Azure
2 98 (13.08%) AWS
3 55 (7.34%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.28%) Power Platform
5 31 (4.14%) Entra ID
6 30 (4.01%) GCP
7 22 (2.94%) GitHub
8 19 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (2.14%) Figma
10 14 (1.87%) SaaS
10 14 (1.87%) Serverless
11 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (1.34%) Cloud Computing
13 9 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
13 9 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
14 8 (1.07%) OneDrive
15 6 (0.80%) Amazon S3
15 6 (0.80%) OCI
15 6 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 16 (2.14%) DNS
1 16 (2.14%) VPN
2 15 (2.00%) Firewall
2 15 (2.00%) Radio Access Network
3 14 (1.87%) 4G
3 14 (1.87%) 5G
4 13 (1.74%) DHCP
5 12 (1.60%) 5G NR
5 12 (1.60%) LTE
6 10 (1.34%) BGP
6 10 (1.34%) Network Security
7 9 (1.20%) OSPF
7 9 (1.20%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.07%) MPLS
9 6 (0.80%) WAN
10 4 (0.53%) EIGRP
10 4 (0.53%) IPv4
10 4 (0.53%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.53%) SSL
11 3 (0.40%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (5.74%) Power BI
2 18 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (2.40%) SQL Server
3 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 8 (1.07%) Tableau
4 7 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
4 7 (0.93%) NoSQL
4 7 (0.93%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (0.93%) Power Query
5 6 (0.80%) Big Data
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (0.67%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 5 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (0.53%) Data Lake
7 4 (0.53%) Metadata
7 4 (0.53%) MySQL
8 3 (0.40%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.40%) Neo4j
8 3 (0.40%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 44 (5.87%) JIRA
2 24 (3.20%) Git
3 19 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.74%) GitLab
5 12 (1.60%) Postman
6 11 (1.47%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.20%) Selenium
8 8 (1.07%) Maven
9 7 (0.93%) JUnit
10 5 (0.67%) Gradle
10 5 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.53%) Axure RP
11 4 (0.53%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.53%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.53%) JMeter
11 4 (0.53%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.40%) Travis CI
General
1 407 (54.34%) Social Skills
2 197 (26.30%) Finance
3 174 (23.23%) Analytical Skills
4 86 (11.48%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.48%) Organisational Skills
6 45 (6.01%) Manufacturing
7 44 (5.87%) Banking
8 38 (5.07%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (4.54%) Telecoms
10 30 (4.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 30 (4.01%) Retail
11 26 (3.47%) Marketing
12 21 (2.80%) Legal
13 20 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (2.40%) Military
15 15 (2.00%) Local Government
16 13 (1.74%) Law
17 12 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
17 12 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
18 10 (1.34%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 85 (11.35%) Developer
2 82 (10.95%) Analyst
3 65 (8.68%) Architect
4 60 (8.01%) Senior
5 49 (6.54%) Lead
6 35 (4.67%) Consultant
7 30 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (3.34%) Business Analyst
9 23 (3.07%) Designer
9 23 (3.07%) Project Manager
10 18 (2.40%) IT Support
10 18 (2.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 16 (2.14%) Desktop Engineer
12 15 (2.00%) Security Engineer
12 15 (2.00%) Service Manager
12 15 (2.00%) Support Engineer
13 14 (1.87%) IT Analyst
13 14 (1.87%) Senior Developer
13 14 (1.87%) Technical Architect
14 13 (1.74%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.87%) HTML
2 24 (3.20%) Web Services
3 21 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 19 (2.54%) CSS
5 18 (2.40%) .NET
6 17 (2.27%) React
7 14 (1.87%) REST
8 12 (1.60%) Node.js
8 12 (1.60%) Spring
9 9 (1.20%) JSON
9 9 (1.20%) SAP PI
10 8 (1.07%) SAP Fiori
10 8 (1.07%) SAPUI5
11 7 (0.93%) Spring Boot
12 6 (0.80%) HTML5
12 6 (0.80%) OAuth
13 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
13 5 (0.67%) React Native
13 5 (0.67%) TensorFlow
13 5 (0.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 54 (7.21%) Management Information System
2 30 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
3 25 (3.34%) Product Ownership
4 23 (3.07%) Onboarding
5 19 (2.54%) Cloud Native
5 19 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 12 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (1.34%) Life Science
8 10 (1.34%) Mobile App
8 10 (1.34%) Operational Technology
9 9 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.20%) Social Media
10 8 (1.07%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (0.93%) CMDB
11 7 (0.93%) Driving Licence
11 7 (0.93%) Public Cloud
11 7 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 72 (9.61%) Windows
2 21 (2.80%) Linux
3 19 (2.54%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.20%) VMS
5 8 (1.07%) Android
5 8 (1.07%) Apple iOS
6 5 (0.67%) Mac OS
6 5 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.27%) Unix
8 2 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 280 (37.38%) Problem-Solving
2 150 (20.03%) Agile
3 118 (15.75%) Project Management
4 86 (11.48%) DevOps
5 81 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 76 (10.15%) Computer Science
6 76 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 72 (9.61%) Decision-Making
8 71 (9.48%) Migration
9 69 (9.21%) ITIL
10 67 (8.95%) CI/CD
11 58 (7.74%) Analytics
12 49 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
12 49 (6.54%) Change Management
13 48 (6.41%) Risk Management
14 46 (6.14%) User Experience
15 43 (5.74%) Enterprise Architecture
16 42 (5.61%) ITSM
17 41 (5.47%) Project Delivery
18 40 (5.34%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 80 (10.68%) Python
2 66 (8.81%) SQL
3 32 (4.27%) JavaScript
4 30 (4.01%) Java
5 25 (3.34%) C#
6 16 (2.14%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.60%) Bash
8 11 (1.47%) PL/SQL
8 11 (1.47%) Scala
9 10 (1.34%) Delphi
9 10 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 8 (1.07%) ABAP
11 6 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.67%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.53%) C++
14 3 (0.40%) Go
14 3 (0.40%) PHP
14 3 (0.40%) Ruby
14 3 (0.40%) VB
14 3 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 143 (19.09%) Security Cleared
2 120 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 111 (14.82%) Degree
4 38 (5.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (2.54%) CISSP
7 14 (1.87%) ITIL Certification
8 13 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 11 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 10 (1.34%) CCNP
10 10 (1.34%) CISM
10 10 (1.34%) DV Cleared
10 10 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 9 (1.20%) Azure Certification
12 7 (0.93%) AWS Certification
13 6 (0.80%) CEH
13 6 (0.80%) MCP
13 6 (0.80%) MCSE
14 5 (0.67%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (5.21%) QA
2 33 (4.41%) Accessibility
3 23 (3.07%) Data Quality
4 20 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (1.74%) GDPR
6 12 (1.60%) SLA
7 8 (1.07%) GRC
7 8 (1.07%) PMO
8 7 (0.93%) HL7
9 6 (0.80%) NIST
10 5 (0.67%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.53%) NCSC
12 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 3 (0.40%) WCAG
13 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.27%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.13%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 52 (6.94%) Active Directory
2 34 (4.54%) Docker
3 11 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.53%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.53%) vSphere
5 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.27%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.27%) RACF
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) Firmware
7 1 (0.13%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.13%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.13%) OpenIDM
Systems Management
1 33 (4.41%) Ansible
1 33 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (3.60%) Terraform
3 18 (2.40%) SCCM
4 10 (1.34%) WSUS
5 6 (0.80%) NSN NetAct
5 6 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
6 5 (0.67%) Grafana
6 5 (0.67%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.53%) Packer
7 4 (0.53%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (0.40%) Kibana
8 3 (0.40%) Puppet
9 2 (0.27%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.27%) Istio
10 1 (0.13%) Consul
10 1 (0.13%) Nagios
10 1 (0.13%) Nessus
Vendors
1 168 (22.43%) Microsoft
2 54 (7.21%) SAP
3 38 (5.07%) ServiceNow
4 30 (4.01%) Oracle
5 28 (3.74%) Google
6 23 (3.07%) VMware
7 17 (2.27%) Adobe
7 17 (2.27%) Cisco
8 14 (1.87%) Remedy
9 13 (1.74%) Ariba
10 12 (1.60%) Citrix
10 12 (1.60%) Workday
11 9 (1.20%) Ericsson
11 9 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 8 (1.07%) BMC
12 8 (1.07%) Databricks
12 8 (1.07%) IBM
13 7 (0.93%) Nokia
13 7 (0.93%) Red Hat
14 6 (0.80%) Dell