Scorecard Contract Job Trends in London

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England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Scorecard skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 341 384
Rank change year-on-year -16 +43 +149
Contract jobs citing Scorecard 12 28 21
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.084% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 16
10th Percentile £403 £450 £400
25th Percentile £448 £481 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £588 £535
Median % change year-on-year -8.94% +9.81% -14.81%
75th Percentile £628 £869 £580
90th Percentile £671 £988 £669
England median daily rate £611 £525 £548
% change year-on-year +16.38% -4.11% -6.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Scorecard 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 13,063 13,572 16,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.44% 90.07% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,607 8,737 12,135
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.65% -4.24%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £760 £800 £794
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 164 237
10th Percentile £18.06 £18.03 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.00 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% +5.88% -12.54%
75th Percentile £50.88 £54.06 £60.00
90th Percentile £67.20 £80.75 £74.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Scorecard job vacancy trend in London

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Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scorecard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scorecard

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scorecard in London over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Scorecard in London

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Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scorecard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Scorecard

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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 Scorecard within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London -2 2 £605 +34.44%
West London - 1 £400 -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) Datadog
2 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) PMO Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Procurement Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Risk Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Procurement Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (41.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (33.33%) Balanced Scorecard
3 4 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Business Transformation
4 3 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Project Management
4 3 (25.00%) Release Management
4 3 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Business Case
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 4 (33.33%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) CISA
2 1 (8.33%) CISSP
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (25.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (25.00%) PMO
1 3 (25.00%) QA
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Grafana
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) NEC
2 1 (8.33%) New Relic
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk