Self-Motivation Contracts in England

Self-Motivation
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 173 183
Rank change year-on-year -10 +10 -15
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 353 508 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.44% 1.40% 1.42%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.23% 4.56% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 263 393
10th Percentile £210 £200 £208
25th Percentile £363 £263 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.52% +2.94%
75th Percentile £626 £603 £650
90th Percentile £684 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 112 36
10th Percentile £15.84 £14.05 £18.38
25th Percentile £16.95 £23.08 £20.22
Median hourly rate £26.12 £62.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -58.21% +138.10% -2.78%
75th Percentile £57.15 £68.75 £52.34
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £62.88
UK median hourly rate £26.81 £62.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -57.10% +150.00% -13.79%

All Generic Skills
England

Self-Motivation 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 8,336 11,140 16,241
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.06% 30.62% 33.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,449 7,304 11,283
10th Percentile £300 £268 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £572
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 813 575
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.45 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -17.49%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £84.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +0.83% +40.09% -19.70%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in England

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in England.

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in England

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in England

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in England

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Self-Motivation in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Self-Motivation in England

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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 -8 148 £505 -3.81% 841
South East +58 76 £475 -21.49% 355
East of England +28 43 £525 +64.71% 128
North of England +6 33 £600 +14.29% 371
Midlands -39 32 £458 +79.57% 244
West Midlands -21 22 £441 -2.04% 152
South West +8 20 £225 -51.35% 176
Yorkshire +20 19 £600 +20.00% 125
North West -4 11 £500 -7.41% 209
East Midlands -24 10 £500 +104.08% 88
North East - 3 - - 41
Self-Motivation
UK

Self-Motivation
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 (10.48%) SharePoint
2 13 (3.68%) Confluence
3 7 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.98%) NetWeaver
3 7 (1.98%) SAP EP
4 5 (1.42%) IIS
5 4 (1.13%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.13%) CMS
6 3 (0.85%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (0.57%) Apache
7 2 (0.57%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.28%) nginx
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.28%) Umbraco
Applications
1 49 (13.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (9.63%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.27%) Photoshop
5 4 (1.13%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (1.13%) Maya
6 3 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (0.85%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.85%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.57%) CANalyzer
7 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.28%) Blender
8 1 (0.28%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.28%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.28%) Siemens NX
8 1 (0.28%) Simulink
8 1 (0.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (3.12%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.98%) SAP CRM
3 6 (1.70%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 4 (1.13%) SAP MM
4 4 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.85%) SAP LE
5 3 (0.85%) SAP WM
5 3 (0.85%) Shopify
6 2 (0.57%) Maximo
6 2 (0.57%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.57%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.28%) Actimize
7 1 (0.28%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.28%) Endur
7 1 (0.28%) IBM Planning Analytics
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.28%) Primavera
7 1 (0.28%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 63 (17.85%) Azure
2 30 (8.50%) AWS
3 27 (7.65%) Power Platform
4 16 (4.53%) Entra ID
4 16 (4.53%) GitHub
5 14 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (3.12%) Google Workspace
7 10 (2.83%) GCP
8 9 (2.55%) Azure DevOps
9 7 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (1.42%) dbt
10 5 (1.42%) Figma
10 5 (1.42%) Google Analytics
10 5 (1.42%) SaaS
11 4 (1.13%) Dropbox
11 4 (1.13%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.13%) Snowflake
12 3 (0.85%) OneDrive
12 3 (0.85%) PowerApps
12 3 (0.85%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 35 (9.92%) VPN
2 26 (7.37%) WAN
3 25 (7.08%) LAN
4 19 (5.38%) MPLS
5 18 (5.10%) Ethernet
6 16 (4.53%) ATM
6 16 (4.53%) Frame Relay
6 16 (4.53%) GPRS
6 16 (4.53%) GSM
6 16 (4.53%) LTE
6 16 (4.53%) SAN
6 16 (4.53%) SDH
6 16 (4.53%) UMTS
6 16 (4.53%) Wireshark
7 10 (2.83%) DNS
7 10 (2.83%) Firewall
8 9 (2.55%) TCP/IP
9 8 (2.27%) DHCP
9 8 (2.27%) Network Security
10 7 (1.98%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (6.80%) Power BI
2 12 (3.40%) Big Data
3 8 (2.27%) Tableau
4 7 (1.98%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
5 6 (1.70%) GIS
5 6 (1.70%) Metadata
5 6 (1.70%) Oracle Database
5 6 (1.70%) Qlik Sense
6 4 (1.13%) Power Query
6 4 (1.13%) Spotfire
7 3 (0.85%) QGIS
8 2 (0.57%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.57%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.57%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.57%) Impala
8 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.57%) MySQL
8 2 (0.57%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (5.95%) Git
2 18 (5.10%) JIRA
3 9 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.70%) Postman
5 4 (1.13%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (0.85%) Robot Framework
6 3 (0.85%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.57%) ERwin
7 2 (0.57%) GitLab
7 2 (0.57%) Grunt
7 2 (0.57%) IntelliJ
7 2 (0.57%) JMeter
7 2 (0.57%) WebDriver
7 2 (0.57%) webpack
7 2 (0.57%) Xcode
8 1 (0.28%) Subversion
General
1 237 (67.14%) Social Skills
2 86 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
3 66 (18.70%) Finance
4 37 (10.48%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (10.20%) Telecoms
6 27 (7.65%) Marketing
7 24 (6.80%) Presentation Skills
8 21 (5.95%) Banking
8 21 (5.95%) Influencing Skills
8 21 (5.95%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.40%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.12%) Retail
11 9 (2.55%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.27%) Billing
12 8 (2.27%) Legal
13 7 (1.98%) Games
14 6 (1.70%) Military
15 5 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 5 (1.42%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 36 (10.20%) Senior
2 32 (9.07%) Analyst
3 29 (8.22%) Developer
4 26 (7.37%) Architect
5 25 (7.08%) Lead
6 19 (5.38%) Test Engineer
7 16 (4.53%) Project Manager
8 15 (4.25%) IP Engineer
8 15 (4.25%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.40%) Business Analyst
9 12 (3.40%) Systems Engineer
10 11 (3.12%) 1st Line Support
10 11 (3.12%) Senior Developer
11 10 (2.83%) Consultant
12 9 (2.55%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (2.55%) Technical Architect
13 8 (2.27%) Data Analyst
13 8 (2.27%) Data Engineer
13 8 (2.27%) Network Engineer
13 8 (2.27%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.53%) REST
2 11 (3.12%) SAP PI
3 10 (2.83%) CSS
3 10 (2.83%) RESTful
4 8 (2.27%) .NET
4 8 (2.27%) HTML
5 7 (1.98%) .NET Framework
5 7 (1.98%) SAP Fiori
5 7 (1.98%) SAPUI5
5 7 (1.98%) Spring Boot
6 6 (1.70%) Spring
7 5 (1.42%) LDAP
7 5 (1.42%) React
7 5 (1.42%) Smart Contracts
8 4 (1.13%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.13%) Kafka
8 4 (1.13%) Node.js
8 4 (1.13%) Unreal Engine
8 4 (1.13%) XML
9 3 (0.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 22 (6.23%) iPad
1 22 (6.23%) iPhone
2 18 (5.10%) Management Information System
3 15 (4.25%) Product Ownership
4 13 (3.68%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.55%) Virtual Team
6 8 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (2.27%) Life Science
6 8 (2.27%) Renewable Energy
7 7 (1.98%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.98%) Equities
7 7 (1.98%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.42%) Blockchain
8 5 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.13%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.13%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 4 (1.13%) Learning Management System
9 4 (1.13%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 62 (17.56%) Windows
2 34 (9.63%) Linux
3 17 (4.82%) Windows 10
4 16 (4.53%) Unix
5 15 (4.25%) Windows Server
6 13 (3.68%) Apple iOS
7 5 (1.42%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.57%) Android
10 1 (0.28%) FreeBSD
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (40.23%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (22.10%) Agile
3 61 (17.28%) Time Management
4 58 (16.43%) Project Management
5 47 (13.31%) Customer Service
6 38 (10.76%) Analytics
7 31 (8.78%) Change Management
7 31 (8.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (8.22%) ITIL
9 28 (7.93%) Collaborative Working
9 28 (7.93%) ITSM
10 27 (7.65%) DevOps
11 25 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (6.80%) Roadmaps
12 24 (6.80%) Stakeholder Management
12 24 (6.80%) Test Strategy
13 22 (6.23%) Migration
14 21 (5.95%) User Experience
15 20 (5.67%) Cybersecurity
15 20 (5.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 43 (12.18%) Java
2 38 (10.76%) Python
3 37 (10.48%) SQL
4 19 (5.38%) PowerShell
5 16 (4.53%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.12%) C#
7 7 (1.98%) ABAP
8 5 (1.42%) VBA
9 4 (1.13%) DAML
9 4 (1.13%) MATLAB
9 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.13%) VB
10 3 (0.85%) Bash
10 3 (0.85%) PHP
11 2 (0.57%) Dart
11 2 (0.57%) R
12 1 (0.28%) Bicep
12 1 (0.28%) Solidity
12 1 (0.28%) Swift
Qualifications
1 54 (15.30%) Security Cleared
2 44 (12.46%) Degree
2 44 (12.46%) SC Cleared
3 29 (8.22%) Cisco Certification
4 23 (6.52%) CCNP
5 16 (4.53%) ISEB
5 16 (4.53%) ISTQB
5 16 (4.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 14 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
7 11 (3.12%) CCNA
8 8 (2.27%) CISSP
9 7 (1.98%) CISM
10 6 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.42%) DV Cleared
12 4 (1.13%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (0.85%) CCENT
13 3 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.57%) CCA
14 2 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.40%) QA
2 10 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 10 (2.83%) GDPR
3 7 (1.98%) NIST
4 6 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.70%) PMO
5 4 (1.13%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.13%) GRC
5 4 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.85%) NCSC
7 2 (0.57%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.57%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.57%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.57%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.28%) COREP
8 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.28%) EMIR
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 44 (12.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.55%) Docker
3 3 (0.85%) Hyper-V
3 3 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (5.38%) Ansible
2 16 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 12 (3.40%) Terraform
4 6 (1.70%) Kubernetes
5 5 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (1.13%) FortiGate
6 4 (1.13%) SCCM
7 1 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.28%) Argo
7 1 (0.28%) Grafana
7 1 (0.28%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.28%) QRadar
7 1 (0.28%) SCOM
7 1 (0.28%) WSUS
Vendors
1 96 (27.20%) Microsoft
2 30 (8.50%) SAP
3 24 (6.80%) Cisco
4 22 (6.23%) ServiceNow
5 18 (5.10%) Google
6 17 (4.82%) Juniper
7 16 (4.53%) Databricks
8 13 (3.68%) Oracle
9 11 (3.12%) McAfee
10 10 (2.83%) Adobe
10 10 (2.83%) MobileIron
10 10 (2.83%) Nexthink
10 10 (2.83%) Salesforce
11 9 (2.55%) Ariba
12 6 (1.70%) CyberArk
13 5 (1.42%) Facebook
13 5 (1.42%) Workday
14 4 (1.13%) Instagram
15 3 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 3 (0.85%) Sitecore