Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Collaborative Working
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Collaborative Working 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 85 68 81
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 +60
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 77 56 56
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 2.46% 2.44% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 2.83% 2.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 37 28
10th Percentile £167 £199 £359
25th Percentile £350 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £537
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -11.55% +22.05%
75th Percentile £543 £588 £694
90th Percentile £608 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £520 £526
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.19% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile - £20.72 -
25th Percentile - £21.80 £50.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £23.60 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.68% -53.73% +191.43%
75th Percentile £16.88 £70.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £20.35 £98.32 £52.85
England median hourly rate £16.00 £24.70 £51.00
% change year-on-year -35.21% -51.58% +110.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Collaborative Working 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,707 1,980 2,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.40% 86.16% 84.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 1,249 1,512
10th Percentile £250 £250 £259
25th Percentile £376 £375 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £481
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +4.06% -2.93%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £594
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 68 96
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.13
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.97
Median hourly rate £20.00 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.59 £51.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the Midlands

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -19 56 £463 -9.76% 54
East Midlands -7 21 £425 -7.36% 49
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.19%) SAS
1 4 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.90%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.90%) Drupal
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (1.30%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.30%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.30%) SAP EP
Applications
1 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) Azure
2 11 (14.29%) AWS
3 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 5 (6.49%) GCP
6 3 (3.90%) Apigee
6 3 (3.90%) Cloud Functions
6 3 (3.90%) IaaS
6 3 (3.90%) PaaS
6 3 (3.90%) SaaS
6 3 (3.90%) Serverless
7 2 (2.60%) ChatGPT
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub
7 2 (2.60%) GitHub Copilot
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.30%) Figma
8 1 (1.30%) Miro
8 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.19%) Network Security
2 2 (2.60%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.30%) Firewall
3 1 (1.30%) VPN
3 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (7.79%) Power BI
3 5 (6.49%) MySQL
4 3 (3.90%) Big Data
4 3 (3.90%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.90%) Hadoop
4 3 (3.90%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 3 (3.90%) SAS Enterprise Guide
4 3 (3.90%) SAS Visual Analytics
5 2 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.30%) EDMS
6 1 (1.30%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (1.30%) GIS
6 1 (1.30%) Metadata
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (11.69%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) GitLab
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
4 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.60%) JUnit
4 2 (2.60%) Maven
4 2 (2.60%) Mockito
4 2 (2.60%) Selenium
5 1 (1.30%) Gatling
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 42 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 15 (19.48%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (6.49%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Legal
5 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.19%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.90%) Banking
7 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.60%) Retail
8 1 (1.30%) Bulgarian Language
8 1 (1.30%) Digital Healthcare
8 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.30%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (15.58%) Developer
2 9 (11.69%) Senior
3 7 (9.09%) Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Architect
5 5 (6.49%) Delivery Manager
5 5 (6.49%) Lead
5 5 (6.49%) Support Specialist
5 5 (6.49%) Technical Specialist
5 5 (6.49%) Technical Support
5 5 (6.49%) Technical Support Specialist
6 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) IT Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Administrator
7 3 (3.90%) Business Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Deployment Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) GCP Developer
7 3 (3.90%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) Node.js
2 4 (5.19%) Spring
3 3 (3.90%) HTML
3 3 (3.90%) Playwright
3 3 (3.90%) React
3 3 (3.90%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.60%) .NET
4 2 (2.60%) Drush
4 2 (2.60%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.60%) GraalVM
4 2 (2.60%) JDBC
4 2 (2.60%) JPA
4 2 (2.60%) JSON
4 2 (2.60%) OAuth
4 2 (2.60%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.60%) OpenID
4 2 (2.60%) RESTful
4 2 (2.60%) SAP PI
4 2 (2.60%) Web Services
5 1 (1.30%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.99%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.90%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.60%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.30%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.39%) Windows
2 5 (6.49%) Linux
3 1 (1.30%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (29.87%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (24.68%) Agile
3 13 (16.88%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (16.88%) DevOps
3 13 (16.88%) Migration
4 11 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 10 (12.99%) ITIL
5 10 (12.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (11.69%) Building Information Modelling
6 9 (11.69%) Scrum
7 8 (10.39%) Change Management
7 8 (10.39%) Project Management
8 7 (9.09%) Containerisation
8 7 (9.09%) CRM
8 7 (9.09%) Data Modelling
8 7 (9.09%) Process Improvement
8 7 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (7.79%) Customer Service
9 6 (7.79%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.58%) SQL
2 9 (11.69%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Java
4 4 (5.19%) PHP
5 3 (3.90%) C#
5 3 (3.90%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.90%) R
6 2 (2.60%) Ruby
6 2 (2.60%) VBA
7 1 (1.30%) ABAP
7 1 (1.30%) C++
7 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.30%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 18 (23.38%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 12 (15.58%) Degree
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (5.19%) MCSE
6 3 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.30%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.49%) ISO 19650
3 3 (3.90%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.90%) QA
3 3 (3.90%) WCAG
4 2 (2.60%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) GDPR
5 1 (1.30%) HL7
5 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (2.60%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (12.99%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Grafana
2 3 (3.90%) Kibana
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) Google
4 4 (5.19%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.90%) Cisco
5 3 (3.90%) SAP
6 2 (2.60%) BMC
6 2 (2.60%) Juniper
6 2 (2.60%) Sage
6 2 (2.60%) Splunk
7 1 (1.30%) Adobe
7 1 (1.30%) AppDynamics
7 1 (1.30%) Ariba
7 1 (1.30%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.30%) ESRI
7 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.30%) Meraki
7 1 (1.30%) NetApp
7 1 (1.30%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow