Onboarding Contracts in the Midlands

Onboarding
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 102 132
Rank change year-on-year +37 +30 +24
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 56 35 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.80% 1.30% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.90% 4.30% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 28 16
10th Percentile £373 £165 £425
25th Percentile £421 £389 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £483 £583
Median % change year-on-year +13.99% -17.17% +10.95%
75th Percentile £619 £538 £678
90th Percentile £705 £568 £713
England median daily rate £538 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +2.38% -6.67% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £26.00
Median hourly rate £12.92 - £27.00
75th Percentile - - £28.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £24.50 £23.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.48% -33.00% +75.00%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 629 814 1,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.48% 30.29% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 527 717
10th Percentile £200 £213 £262
25th Percentile £375 £356 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -1.52% +4.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £743 £700
England median daily rate £538 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.76% +3.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 60 45
10th Percentile - £10.42 £17.11
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.68 £19.00
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.58% -30.91% +61.76%
75th Percentile £30.87 £28.88 £52.50
90th Percentile £45.80 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.11 £22.49
% change year-on-year -3.24% +51.68% -15.15%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the Midlands

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Onboarding in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the Midlands

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the Midlands

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Onboarding in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the Midlands

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 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
West Midlands +26 42 £550 +10.00% 112
East Midlands +17 14 £538 +15.59% 91
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (3.57%) Apache
1 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) CMS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Siemens NX
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.57%) Fusion 360
4 1 (1.79%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Teamcenter
2 3 (5.36%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) AWS
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) Snowflake
3 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
4 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.14%) SuccessFactors
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Data Factory
5 3 (5.36%) Collibra
5 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (3.57%) SaaS
7 1 (1.79%) Apigee
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.79%) Datadog
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.79%) OCI
7 1 (1.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.71%) Oracle Database
2 5 (8.93%) Power BI
3 3 (5.36%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (5.36%) Delta Lake
3 3 (5.36%) GIS
4 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Oracle Forms
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) GitLab
2 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.21%) Finance
3 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
7 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Games
9 1 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (16.07%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Consultant
2 8 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.71%) Architect
4 4 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Data Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Lead
5 3 (5.36%) Migration Specialist
5 3 (5.36%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Applications Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Linux Consultant
6 2 (3.57%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Senior PMO
6 2 (3.57%) Senior PMO Analyst
6 2 (3.57%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.14%) LDAP
2 3 (5.36%) Kafka
3 2 (3.57%) Apache Axis
3 2 (3.57%) Apache NiFi
3 2 (3.57%) PySpark
4 1 (1.79%) AWS CDK
4 1 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.79%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.36%) IoT
2 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.36%) SCADA
2 3 (5.36%) Security Posture
3 2 (3.57%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.29%) Windows
2 5 (8.93%) Linux
3 2 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (12.50%) Migration
4 6 (10.71%) Analytics
4 6 (10.71%) Data Integration
4 6 (10.71%) ITSM
4 6 (10.71%) Validation
4 6 (10.71%) Workflow
5 5 (8.93%) Agile
5 5 (8.93%) Asset Management
5 5 (8.93%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (8.93%) Change Control
5 5 (8.93%) Client Onboarding
5 5 (8.93%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (8.93%) Data Mapping
5 5 (8.93%) ITIL
5 5 (8.93%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (8.93%) Translating Business Requirements
5 5 (8.93%) User Stories
6 4 (7.14%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) SQL
2 12 (21.43%) Python
3 5 (8.93%) Java
4 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 3 (5.36%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.57%) C#
6 2 (3.57%) Ruby
7 1 (1.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.79%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 16 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 8 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 8 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) Degree
4 2 (3.57%) CISSP
4 2 (3.57%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.79%) APMG
5 1 (1.79%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.79%) DBS Check
5 1 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.14%) GDPR
2 3 (5.36%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.36%) SLA
3 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.57%) NIST
3 2 (3.57%) PMO
3 2 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.57%) Docker
3 1 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.93%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.29%) Oracle
2 7 (12.50%) Databricks
3 6 (10.71%) CyberArk
3 6 (10.71%) Microsoft
3 6 (10.71%) SAP
4 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 4 (7.14%) Siemens
4 4 (7.14%) Virgin Media
5 3 (5.36%) Informatica
5 3 (5.36%) Splunk
6 2 (3.57%) Autodesk
6 2 (3.57%) Cisco
6 2 (3.57%) Juniper
7 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.79%) KANA
7 1 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.79%) VMware
7 1 (1.79%) Workday