Educational Technology Contracts in England

Educational Technology (Edtech)
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Educational Technology in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Educational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 527 652
Rank change year-on-year +66 +125 +94
Contract jobs citing Educational Technology 25 14 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.038% 0.042%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.30% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 14
10th Percentile £295 £313 £332
25th Percentile £406 £355 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £525
90th Percentile £693 £595 £620
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £456
% change year-on-year -5.26% +4.11% -13.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.61
Median hourly rate - - £17.25
75th Percentile - - £17.89
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - +7.81%

All Generic Skills
England

Educational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,332 11,451 16,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.13% 30.82% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,444 7,498 11,765
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 827 587
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.01 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +34.13% -16.72%
75th Percentile £64.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.20
UK median hourly rate £32.28 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.58% +33.42% -18.24%

Educational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Educational Technology as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Educational Technology in England

Educational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Educational Technology in England.

Daily rate trend for Educational Technology in England

Educational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Educational Technology in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Educational Technology in England

Educational Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Educational Technology in England.

Hourly rate trend for Educational Technology in England

Educational Technology
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 Educational Technology within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +52 17 £450 -10.00% 82
Midlands +21 4 £513 +2.55% 7
West Midlands +15 2 £463 -7.45% 5
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 2
South West - 2 £160 - 8
North East - 1 £750 -
North of England - 1 £750 - 17
Educational Technology
UK

Educational Technology
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 2 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.00%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (24.00%) Camtasia
2 2 (8.00%) Chatbot
3 1 (4.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) AWS
2 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 2 (8.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (8.00%) dbt
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub
2 2 (8.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (8.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (4.00%) Figma
3 1 (4.00%) Miro
3 1 (4.00%) SaaS
3 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (8.00%) Metabase
2 2 (8.00%) Power BI
2 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (8.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.00%) Selenium
General
1 15 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Multimedia
3 2 (8.00%) Finance
3 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (20.00%) e-Learning Developer
3 3 (12.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Business Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Change Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Designer
4 2 (8.00%) Digital Transformation
4 2 (8.00%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 2 (8.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Python Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Senior
4 2 (8.00%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Snowflake Developer
4 2 (8.00%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (8.00%) UX Designer
5 1 (4.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) React
2 3 (12.00%) Kafka
3 2 (8.00%) Node.js
3 2 (8.00%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) Django
4 1 (4.00%) Playwright
4 1 (4.00%) React Native
4 1 (4.00%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) e-Learning
2 2 (8.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.00%) Learning Management System
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 6 (24.00%) Instructional Design
2 6 (24.00%) LLM
3 5 (20.00%) Agile
3 5 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 5 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.00%) Analytics
4 4 (16.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 4 (16.00%) Microservices
4 4 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (12.00%) Design Patterns
5 3 (12.00%) DevOps
5 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven
5 3 (12.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (12.00%) Storyboarding
5 3 (12.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 6 (24.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.00%) Kotlin
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (4.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.00%) Adobe