Collaborative Working Contracts in the North of England

Collaborative Working
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working 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 66 118 129
Rank change year-on-year +52 +11 0
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 107 68 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.25% 1.43% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 1.66% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 41 66
10th Percentile £235 £325 £413
25th Percentile £371 £413 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.70% -5.21% +0.48%
75th Percentile £550 £622 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £663
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £16.52 - -
25th Percentile - £13.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.75 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +4.12% -53.79% +150.00%
75th Percentile - £24.88 £38.75
90th Percentile - £26.75 -
England median hourly rate £21.50 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -57.00% -1.96% +163.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the North of England

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the North of England

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the North of England

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the North of England

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +46 70 £500 +5.26% 205
Yorkshire +9 27 £425 -30.44% 96
North East +7 10 £425 -32.00% 26
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (11.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.87%) SAS
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.87%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (0.93%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (14.02%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.93%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.93%) Revit
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.87%) Primavera
2 2 (1.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.93%) Maximo
3 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.93%) Shopify
3 1 (0.93%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 29 (27.10%) Azure
2 16 (14.95%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (14.02%) AWS
4 11 (10.28%) Entra ID
5 8 (7.48%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (7.48%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.54%) GCP
7 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 3 (2.80%) Anthropic Claude
8 3 (2.80%) Azure AI
8 3 (2.80%) Google Gemini
8 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.87%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.87%) IBM Cloud
9 2 (1.87%) npm
9 2 (1.87%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.87%) OpenShift
9 2 (1.87%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.87%) Serverless
10 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.41%) DHCP
1 9 (8.41%) DNS
2 4 (3.74%) VPN
3 3 (2.80%) BGP
3 3 (2.80%) EIGRP
3 3 (2.80%) IPv4
3 3 (2.80%) MPLS
3 3 (2.80%) OSPF
3 3 (2.80%) SD-WAN
3 3 (2.80%) WAN
4 2 (1.87%) Calico
5 1 (0.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.48%) Power BI
2 3 (2.80%) MySQL
2 3 (2.80%) Neo4j
2 3 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.93%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.93%) Looker
3 1 (0.93%) Power Query
3 1 (0.93%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (4.67%) Git
1 5 (4.67%) JIRA
2 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
2 4 (3.74%) GitLab
2 4 (3.74%) Jenkins
2 4 (3.74%) Postman
2 4 (3.74%) Selenium
2 4 (3.74%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.87%) Maven
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 47 (43.93%) Social Skills
2 26 (24.30%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (16.82%) Finance
4 14 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 8 (7.48%) Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Military
6 7 (6.54%) Legal
7 6 (5.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (4.67%) Law
8 5 (4.67%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (4.67%) Retail
9 4 (3.74%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.93%) Aviation
11 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.93%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (14.02%) Analyst
2 12 (11.21%) Developer
3 10 (9.35%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 9 (8.41%) Senior
5 6 (5.61%) Support Engineer
6 5 (4.67%) IT Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) IT Support
6 5 (4.67%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (4.67%) Support Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Architect
7 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.74%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Desktop Support
7 4 (3.74%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (3.74%) Integration Developer
7 4 (3.74%) QA Tester
7 4 (3.74%) Tester
8 3 (2.80%) Consultant
8 3 (2.80%) Service Analyst
8 3 (2.80%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) React
2 3 (2.80%) .NET
2 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.80%) Kafka
2 3 (2.80%) Laravel
2 3 (2.80%) PyTorch
2 3 (2.80%) React Native
2 3 (2.80%) TensorFlow
2 3 (2.80%) Vue
2 3 (2.80%) WPF
3 1 (0.93%) AWS CDK
3 1 (0.93%) HTML
3 1 (0.93%) Middleware
3 1 (0.93%) Node.js
3 1 (0.93%) OLE
3 1 (0.93%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.93%) SAPUI5
3 1 (0.93%) Spring
3 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.61%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.74%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.80%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.87%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.87%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.87%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.93%) Clustering
6 1 (0.93%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) IoT
6 1 (0.93%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 18 (16.82%) Windows
2 8 (7.48%) Linux
2 8 (7.48%) VMS
2 8 (7.48%) Windows Server
3 6 (5.61%) Android
3 6 (5.61%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.87%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.93%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (38.32%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (19.63%) Agile
3 19 (17.76%) ITIL
4 18 (16.82%) DevOps
5 17 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
7 11 (10.28%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (10.28%) ITSM
7 11 (10.28%) Project Management
7 11 (10.28%) Risk Management
8 10 (9.35%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (8.41%) Decision-Making
10 8 (7.48%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (7.48%) CI/CD
10 8 (7.48%) Migration
11 7 (6.54%) Change Management
11 7 (6.54%) Service Delivery
11 7 (6.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 6 (5.61%) Analytics
12 6 (5.61%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.35%) SQL
2 9 (8.41%) Python
3 3 (2.80%) PHP
4 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (1.87%) Java
4 2 (1.87%) Scala
4 2 (1.87%) Shell Script
4 2 (1.87%) VB
5 1 (0.93%) ABAP
5 1 (0.93%) R
5 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (16.82%) Degree
2 14 (13.08%) Security Cleared
3 12 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.67%) MCP
6 4 (3.74%) A+ Certification
6 4 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (2.80%) CCNP
7 3 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) CCNA
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.93%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.67%) HL7
1 5 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (3.74%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.74%) PMO
2 4 (3.74%) QA
3 2 (1.87%) GDPR
3 2 (1.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (16.82%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.67%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (13.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (7.48%) WSUS
3 5 (4.67%) Kubernetes
4 4 (3.74%) Terraform
5 3 (2.80%) SCCM
6 2 (1.87%) Ansible
6 2 (1.87%) Istio
6 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.87%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.93%) Grafana
Vendors
1 31 (28.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.41%) VMware
3 5 (4.67%) Google
3 5 (4.67%) SAP
3 5 (4.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.74%) Cisco
4 4 (3.74%) Citrix
5 3 (2.80%) BMC
5 3 (2.80%) Huawei
5 3 (2.80%) IBM
5 3 (2.80%) Remedy
6 2 (1.87%) Tanium
7 1 (0.93%) Apple
7 1 (0.93%) Ariba
7 1 (0.93%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.93%) Salesforce