Contract Negotiation Contracts in London

Contract Negotiation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Contract Negotiation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contract Negotiation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 321 351 448
Rank change year-on-year +30 +97 +84
Contract jobs citing Contract Negotiation 32 40 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.22% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 37
10th Percentile £401 £350 £406
25th Percentile £495 £365 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £590
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -27.97% +0.43%
75th Percentile £630 £669 £650
90th Percentile £685 £835 £753
England median daily rate £563 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.75 - -
Median hourly rate £53.50 - -
75th Percentile £55.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £43.00 £100.00 -
% change year-on-year -57.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Contract Negotiation 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Contract Negotiation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Contract Negotiation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Contract Negotiation in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contract Negotiation in London.

Daily rate trend for Contract Negotiation in London

Contract Negotiation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contract Negotiation in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contract Negotiation in London

Contract Negotiation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contract Negotiation in London.

Hourly rate trend for Contract Negotiation in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contract Negotiation within the London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +6 8 £360 -53.55% 26
East London - 4 £563 - 5
Contract Negotiation
England

Contract Negotiation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (3.13%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.13%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Azure
1 4 (12.50%) GCP
2 3 (9.38%) AWS
2 3 (9.38%) SaaS
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (3.13%) IaaS
3 1 (3.13%) PaaS
3 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
3 1 (3.13%) Snowflake
3 1 (3.13%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
1 1 (3.13%) PBX
1 1 (3.13%) PSTN
1 1 (3.13%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) BigQuery
1 1 (3.13%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (3.13%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
General
1 18 (56.25%) Finance
2 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 11 (34.38%) Legal
4 10 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (31.25%) Banking
5 3 (9.38%) French Language
5 3 (9.38%) Italian Language
5 3 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Spanish Language
6 1 (3.13%) Back Office
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Law
6 1 (3.13%) Retail Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Business Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Analyst
3 5 (15.63%) Data Business Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Credit Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) IT Manager
5 3 (9.38%) Market Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Market Data Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Relationships Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Account Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Database Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Database Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) IT Procurement Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Market Data Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Procurement Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Infrastructure Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) Laravel
1 1 (3.13%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (3.13%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
2 1 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Public Cloud
2 1 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.00%) Cost Reduction
1 8 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (21.88%) Contract Management
2 7 (21.88%) Data Analysis
3 6 (18.75%) Cost Transparency
3 6 (18.75%) Decision-Making
3 6 (18.75%) Project Management
4 5 (15.63%) Business Development
4 5 (15.63%) Due Diligence
4 5 (15.63%) Requirements Gathering
5 4 (12.50%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 3 (9.38%) Commercial Awareness
6 3 (9.38%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 3 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (9.38%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.25%) Data Security
7 2 (6.25%) ITSM
Qualifications
1 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
1 1 (3.13%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.38%) GDPR
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.13%) ISO 22301
3 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (3.13%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (3.13%) Kubeflow
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Google
1 2 (6.25%) SAP
2 1 (3.13%) Bloomberg
2 1 (3.13%) Cisco
2 1 (3.13%) Databricks
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft