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

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 133 147
Rank change year-on-year +28 +14 +28
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 702 609 798
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.54% 1.82% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.80% 2.12% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 347 497
10th Percentile £185 £253 £333
25th Percentile £313 £363 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £631 £650
90th Percentile £700 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £525
% change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 77 61
10th Percentile £15.13 £18.01 £22.00
25th Percentile £17.44 £40.00 £30.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +19.62% +126.56%
75th Percentile £49.38 - £57.50
90th Percentile £81.25 - £73.75
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% -1.96% +172.36%

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 25,027 28,787 40,527
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.71% 85.92% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,013 18,800 28,287
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,396 1,684 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £18.90
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +61.35%
75th Percentile £51.10 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.08 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.38%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 +16 304 £504 +0.80% 860
North of England +31 110 £450 -7.69% 294
South East +2 93 £500 +6.27% 225
South West +79 89 £250 -57.08% 142
North West +25 63 £459 -2.34% 181
Midlands +16 61 £455 - 144
West Midlands +30 58 £440 -21.87% 98
Yorkshire +15 44 £447 -26.84% 79
East of England -32 28 £488 +34.48% 105
North East -5 3 £325 -37.95% 36
East Midlands -18 3 £610 +43.53% 42
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 30 (4.27%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 16 (2.28%) Confluence
4 8 (1.14%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Anypoint
5 5 (0.71%) SAS
6 4 (0.57%) IIS
6 4 (0.57%) WebSphere
7 3 (0.43%) Drupal
7 3 (0.43%) NetWeaver
7 3 (0.43%) SAP EP
7 3 (0.43%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.28%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.28%) WildFly
9 1 (0.14%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.14%) IBM Domino
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 50 (7.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 41 (5.84%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 6 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.71%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.43%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.43%) ProjectWise
9 2 (0.28%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.28%) Revit
10 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.14%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.14%) Final Cut Pro
Business Applications
1 19 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.85%) Primavera
4 4 (0.57%) NEC Housing
4 4 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (0.57%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.43%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.43%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle iProcurement
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.14%) Oracle BPM
7 1 (0.14%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.14%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 84 (11.97%) Azure
2 67 (9.54%) AWS
3 50 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (6.70%) Power Platform
5 23 (3.28%) GitHub
6 20 (2.85%) Entra ID
7 19 (2.71%) GCP
7 19 (2.71%) SaaS
8 13 (1.85%) Figma
9 11 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
9 11 (1.57%) OCI
10 10 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
10 10 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.28%) Power Automate
11 9 (1.28%) PowerApps
12 7 (1.00%) Serverless
13 6 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
13 6 (0.85%) OneDrive
13 6 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
14 5 (0.71%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.71%) VPN
2 15 (2.14%) Firewall
3 12 (1.71%) DNS
4 8 (1.14%) Network Security
5 7 (1.00%) BGP
5 7 (1.00%) DHCP
6 6 (0.85%) OSPF
6 6 (0.85%) WAN
6 6 (0.85%) Wireless
7 5 (0.71%) HTTP
7 5 (0.71%) MPLS
7 5 (0.71%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.57%) EIGRP
8 4 (0.57%) IPv4
8 4 (0.57%) NetScaler
8 4 (0.57%) SSL
8 4 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 4 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (0.43%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.98%) Power BI
2 18 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 12 (1.71%) Tableau
4 11 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 8 (1.14%) Oracle Reports
6 7 (1.00%) Metadata
6 7 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (0.71%) Data Lake
7 5 (0.71%) Power Query
8 4 (0.57%) Big Data
8 4 (0.57%) Star Schema
9 3 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (0.43%) KDB
9 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
9 3 (0.43%) Neo4j
9 3 (0.43%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.28%) QlikView
10 2 (0.28%) SAP HANA
10 2 (0.28%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 36 (5.13%) JIRA
2 23 (3.28%) Git
3 20 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.57%) GitLab
5 7 (1.00%) Postman
6 5 (0.71%) Selenium
7 4 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.57%) Vite
7 4 (0.57%) webpack
8 3 (0.43%) Gradle
8 3 (0.43%) JMeter
8 3 (0.43%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.43%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.43%) TestNG
8 3 (0.43%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.28%) Maven
9 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.14%) Gatling
10 1 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 387 (55.13%) Social Skills
2 203 (28.92%) Finance
3 172 (24.50%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.12%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.26%) Banking
6 42 (5.98%) Organisational Skills
7 32 (4.56%) Legal
8 30 (4.27%) Manufacturing
9 28 (3.99%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (3.42%) Retail
11 23 (3.28%) Local Government
12 22 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.99%) Marketing
13 21 (2.99%) Telecoms
14 17 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (1.14%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.14%) Retail Banking
16 7 (1.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 111 (15.81%) Analyst
2 66 (9.40%) Developer
3 52 (7.41%) Architect
4 50 (7.12%) Lead
5 48 (6.84%) Senior
6 35 (4.99%) Business Analyst
7 34 (4.84%) Designer
8 31 (4.42%) Consultant
9 27 (3.85%) Project Manager
10 22 (3.13%) Support Engineer
11 21 (2.99%) Desktop Engineer
12 18 (2.56%) Desktop Support
12 18 (2.56%) IT Support
13 16 (2.28%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 14 (1.99%) Data Analyst
15 13 (1.85%) Support Officer
16 12 (1.71%) Solutions Architect
17 11 (1.57%) IT Engineer
17 11 (1.57%) Junior
17 11 (1.57%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (3.28%) React
2 16 (2.28%) REST
3 15 (2.14%) .NET
4 12 (1.71%) CSS
5 11 (1.57%) HTML
6 10 (1.42%) AngularJS
6 10 (1.42%) Web Services
7 8 (1.14%) RESTful
8 6 (0.85%) .NET Framework
8 6 (0.85%) Next.js
8 6 (0.85%) Node.js
8 6 (0.85%) React Native
9 5 (0.71%) ASP.NET
9 5 (0.71%) HTML5
9 5 (0.71%) Lightning Web Components
9 5 (0.71%) Middleware
9 5 (0.71%) Spring
9 5 (0.71%) Swagger
10 4 (0.57%) Sass
10 4 (0.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 51 (7.26%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.70%) Onboarding
3 28 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
4 23 (3.28%) Product Ownership
5 20 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (1.99%) Algorithms
6 14 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (1.71%) Life Science
8 11 (1.57%) Mobile App
9 10 (1.42%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.28%) Driving Licence
11 8 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.00%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.00%) Educational Technology
12 7 (1.00%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 6 (0.85%) PKI
13 6 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
14 5 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 48 (6.84%) Windows
2 21 (2.99%) Linux
3 10 (1.42%) Android
4 8 (1.14%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.00%) Windows Server
6 6 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.28%) VMS
8 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.14%) Unix
8 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (19.37%) Agile
3 86 (12.25%) Project Management
4 83 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (11.25%) Migration
6 75 (10.68%) Computer Science
7 72 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
8 57 (8.12%) Decision-Making
9 56 (7.98%) Analytics
9 56 (7.98%) Business Intelligence
9 56 (7.98%) DevOps
10 52 (7.41%) ITIL
11 51 (7.26%) Risk Management
12 46 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
13 44 (6.27%) Change Management
14 43 (6.13%) Project Delivery
14 43 (6.13%) Service Delivery
15 42 (5.98%) CI/CD
15 42 (5.98%) Data Analysis
16 41 (5.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 65 (9.26%) SQL
2 52 (7.41%) Python
3 28 (3.99%) Java
4 19 (2.71%) C#
5 18 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.28%) PowerShell
7 13 (1.85%) Bash
8 12 (1.71%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.00%) Scala
11 6 (0.85%) R
11 6 (0.85%) VBA
12 5 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.57%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.57%) Kotlin
14 3 (0.43%) ABAP
14 3 (0.43%) Ruby
14 3 (0.43%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.43%) VB.NET
15 2 (0.28%) PHP
Qualifications
1 131 (18.66%) Security Cleared
2 120 (17.09%) Degree
3 88 (12.54%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (4.27%) DV Cleared
6 20 (2.85%) CISSP
7 17 (2.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 15 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.85%) CISM
10 11 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.42%) Master's Degree
11 10 (1.42%) PMP
12 8 (1.14%) CCNP
13 7 (1.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
13 7 (1.00%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.85%) MCP
14 6 (0.85%) PMI Certification
15 5 (0.71%) CESG Certified Professional
16 4 (0.57%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (4.42%) Accessibility
1 31 (4.42%) QA
2 27 (3.85%) Data Quality
3 25 (3.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (2.56%) GDPR
5 14 (1.99%) SLA
6 11 (1.57%) PMO
7 10 (1.42%) NCSC
8 9 (1.28%) NIST
9 6 (0.85%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.85%) WCAG
10 5 (0.71%) RMADS
11 4 (0.57%) HL7
11 4 (0.57%) IFRS
12 3 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.43%) GRC
12 3 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.28%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.14%) GAAP
System Software
1 43 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 25 (3.56%) Docker
3 6 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
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%) vSphere
6 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 27 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 26 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 24 (3.42%) Terraform
4 14 (1.99%) Ansible
5 11 (1.57%) SCCM
6 6 (0.85%) Grafana
7 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.43%) Istio
8 3 (0.43%) Kibana
8 3 (0.43%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.43%) Puppet
9 2 (0.28%) HP Fortify
9 2 (0.28%) Nessus
9 2 (0.28%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.28%) yum
10 1 (0.14%) Argo
10 1 (0.14%) BladeLogic
10 1 (0.14%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.14%) WSUS
Vendors
1 134 (19.09%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.41%) SAP
3 33 (4.70%) Cisco
4 32 (4.56%) Oracle
5 29 (4.13%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.56%) Citrix
6 18 (2.56%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.28%) Google
7 16 (2.28%) Juniper
8 11 (1.57%) Adobe
8 11 (1.57%) Workday
9 9 (1.28%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.28%) VMware
10 8 (1.14%) Ariba
10 8 (1.14%) BMC
10 8 (1.14%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.14%) Remedy
11 7 (1.00%) Qualys
12 6 (0.85%) Databricks
13 5 (0.71%) Splunk