Feasibility Study Contract Job Trends in England

Feasibility Studies
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Feasibility Study skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 476 447 515
Rank change year-on-year -29 +68 +148
Contract jobs citing Feasibility Study 57 57 48
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.18% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.22% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 38
10th Percentile £350 £361 £313
25th Percentile £385 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £525 £613
Median % change year-on-year -11.43% -14.29% +10.11%
75th Percentile £523 £619 £700
90th Percentile £606 £706 £750
UK median daily rate £465 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -11.43% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £70.25 - -
25th Percentile £70.63 - £36.25
Median hourly rate £75.00 - £37.50
75th Percentile £83.00 - £38.75
90th Percentile £84.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - £41.25
% change year-on-year - - -46.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Feasibility Study 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 27,932 25,643 33,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.81% 88.51% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,758 15,859 22,544
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £544
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,818 849 1,407
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.68
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.75 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%
75th Percentile £54.56 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.90 £74.89 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.33
% change year-on-year -22.62% -24.99% +23.80%

Feasibility Study
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Feasibility Study relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Feasibility Study job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feasibility Study.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feasibility Study

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feasibility Study in England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Feasibility Study in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feasibility Study.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Feasibility Study

Feasibility Study
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 Feasibility Study within the England region over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -15 27 £492 -6.29% 3
North of England -42 12 £390 +11.43% 5
North West -22 8 £390 +11.43% 4
South East -22 7 £430 -4.44% 7
Midlands -39 5 £358 -52.27% 5
Yorkshire -38 4 £526 - 1
East Midlands - 4 £354 - 4
South West -12 3 £454 -
East of England - 2 - - 1
West Midlands -35 1 £625 -16.67% 1
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UK

Feasibility Study
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.75%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.51%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.75%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.75%) Simulink
4 1 (1.75%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 4 (7.02%) AWS
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.75%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.75%) Figma
5 1 (1.75%) IaaS
5 1 (1.75%) PaaS
5 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.28%) Firewall
2 3 (5.26%) DHCP
2 3 (5.26%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.75%) LAN
3 1 (1.75%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) MongoDB
1 7 (12.28%) PostgreSQL
1 7 (12.28%) Redis
1 7 (12.28%) Relational Database
1 7 (12.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.51%) Power BI
3 1 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.75%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) webpack
2 4 (7.02%) JIRA
3 3 (5.26%) Jaeger
4 1 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.75%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 26 (45.61%) Finance
2 25 (43.86%) Social Skills
3 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (14.04%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
5 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.02%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.51%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.51%) Electronics
7 2 (3.51%) Local Government
7 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.75%) Billing
8 1 (1.75%) Digital Health
8 1 (1.75%) French Language
8 1 (1.75%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.75%) Legal
8 1 (1.75%) Marketing
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Business Analyst
2 22 (38.60%) Analyst
3 11 (19.30%) Senior
4 10 (17.54%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.02%) Banking Analyst
5 4 (7.02%) Banking Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Digital Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Digital Business Analyst
6 3 (5.26%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (3.51%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) IT Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Lead
7 2 (3.51%) Project Leader
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.51%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.28%) Bootstrap
1 7 (12.28%) CSS
1 7 (12.28%) HTML
1 7 (12.28%) HTML5
1 7 (12.28%) jQuery
1 7 (12.28%) Memcached
1 7 (12.28%) React
2 5 (8.77%) Kafka
3 3 (5.26%) Middleware
3 3 (5.26%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (5.26%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.51%) OAuth
4 2 (3.51%) SAML
5 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
1 9 (15.79%) Reinsurance
2 4 (7.02%) Product Ownership
3 3 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.26%) PKI
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.51%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (3.51%) NHS
4 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.51%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (3.51%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.75%) AI Agents
5 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.75%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) Business Case
2 20 (35.09%) Agile
3 15 (26.32%) Business Analysis
3 15 (26.32%) Business Strategy
3 15 (26.32%) Change Management
3 15 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.81%) Traceability Matrix
5 11 (19.30%) Decision-Making
5 11 (19.30%) Project Management
6 10 (17.54%) Roadmaps
6 10 (17.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
7 9 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (15.79%) User Experience
8 8 (14.04%) SDLC
9 7 (12.28%) Financial Analysis
9 7 (12.28%) Front End Development
9 7 (12.28%) GAP Analysis
9 7 (12.28%) Microservices
9 7 (12.28%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.26%) Bash
1 3 (5.26%) Java
1 3 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 3 (5.26%) Python
1 3 (5.26%) Rust
1 3 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (1.75%) Ada
2 1 (1.75%) C
2 1 (1.75%) Fortran
2 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 10 (17.54%) Degree
2 6 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 3 (5.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 3 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.51%) BC Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.51%) CBAP
4 2 (3.51%) CSPO
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) CCDE
5 1 (1.75%) CCDP
5 1 (1.75%) CCIE
5 1 (1.75%) CCNP
5 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) QA
2 7 (12.28%) Accessibility
3 4 (7.02%) GDPR
4 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (3.51%) ISO 20022
5 2 (3.51%) ISO 9001
5 2 (3.51%) NCSC
5 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.75%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.75%) PSD2
6 1 (1.75%) SEPA
6 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (10.53%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) Grafana
2 3 (5.26%) Kiali
2 3 (5.26%) Prometheus
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.28%) Oracle
3 3 (5.26%) Guidewire
3 3 (5.26%) Splunk
3 3 (5.26%) VMware
4 2 (3.51%) IBM
4 2 (3.51%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.75%) Cadence
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) MathWorks
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow