Onboarding Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Onboarding
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in Leeds. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 60
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 25 5 12
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 3.40% 0.83% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.65% 3.47% 5.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 1
10th Percentile £414 £287 -
25th Percentile £500 £328 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +53.57% -30.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £625 £372 £525
90th Percentile £633 £411 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £350 £500
% change year-on-year +50.00% -30.00% -6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.25 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £14.25 - -

All Generic Skills
Leeds

Onboarding 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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 259 144 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 35.24% 23.80% 25.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 96 149
10th Percentile £355 £261 £311
25th Percentile £440 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £650 £600
90th Percentile £619 £750 £625
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £495 £488
% change year-on-year +1.01% +1.54% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 5
10th Percentile - £16.53 -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £14.25 £41.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -65.24% +98.02% -3.13%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £21.31
90th Percentile £15.50 £80.49 £21.70
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.25 £40.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -61.88% +110.53% -4.28%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in Leeds

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in Leeds

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Onboarding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (28.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
2 3 (12.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (12.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (12.00%) Serverless
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (8.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) PaaS
4 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) Network Security
1 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
1 3 (12.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.00%) GitLab
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Mocha
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Legal
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (16.00%) Developer
1 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Officer
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Calypso Developer
2 2 (8.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Head of Digital
2 2 (8.00%) Lead
2 2 (8.00%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (8.00%) Support Manager
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (4.00%) Scrum Master
3 1 (4.00%) Senior Programme Manager
3 1 (4.00%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (4.00%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.00%) Spring
2 1 (4.00%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.00%) Jest
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
2 1 (4.00%) REST
2 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) CMDB
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
3 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) NHS
3 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) CI/CD
2 8 (32.00%) Migration
2 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) ITIL
5 4 (16.00%) Client Onboarding
5 4 (16.00%) DevOps
5 4 (16.00%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (16.00%) Security Hardening
5 4 (16.00%) Time Management
5 4 (16.00%) User Experience
5 4 (16.00%) Workflow
6 3 (12.00%) ITSM
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Release Management
6 3 (12.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (8.00%) Change Management
7 2 (8.00%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Java
1 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (4.00%) CCSA
1 1 (4.00%) Degree
1 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) vRealize
1 4 (16.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
2 2 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (4.00%) Grafana
3 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (16.00%) VMware
3 3 (12.00%) Databricks
4 2 (8.00%) Calypso
4 2 (8.00%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.00%) SAP
5 1 (4.00%) Ariba
5 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.00%) Concur
5 1 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto