Collaborative Working Contracts in the South East

Collaborative Working
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 63 93 128
Rank change year-on-year +30 +35 +4
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 101 118 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.36% 2.12% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.66% 2.50% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 57
10th Percentile £291 £173 £300
25th Percentile £416 £331 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £479 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.49% -20.25% +16.22%
75th Percentile £588 £563 £678
90th Percentile £633 £574 £1,188
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £27.34 £11.00 £40.10
25th Percentile £38.18 £16.59 £58.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.35 £66.74
Median % change year-on-year +213.35% -72.51% +35.51%
75th Percentile £72.90 £25.05 £74.36
90th Percentile £81.39 £90.20 £79.00
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the South East

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +24 54 £500 +33.33% 141
Berkshire +12 42 £500 +3.41% 85
Hampshire +39 31 £425 -2.86% 82
Buckinghamshire +20 7 £425 -19.05% 39
West Sussex +17 6 £625 +31.53% 24
Oxfordshire 0 5 £500 +81.82% 34
Kent - 5 £220 - 36
East Sussex -3 3 £338 -52.63% 14
Sussex - 2 £500 - 14
Surrey -2 1 £225 -57.14% 53
Home Counties - 1 - -
Collaborative Working
England

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 14 (13.86%) SharePoint
2 10 (9.90%) Confluence
3 6 (5.94%) NetWeaver
3 6 (5.94%) SAP EP
4 1 (0.99%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.99%) CMS
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (11.88%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.94%) SAP CRM
2 5 (4.95%) Infor LN
3 4 (3.96%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (3.96%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (3.96%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.99%) Avolution ABACUS
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.86%) AWS
1 14 (13.86%) Azure
2 12 (11.88%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (6.93%) Power Platform
4 6 (5.94%) AWS Lambda
4 6 (5.94%) GitHub
4 6 (5.94%) Serverless
4 6 (5.94%) SuccessFactors
5 4 (3.96%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.98%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.98%) GCP
7 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.98%) SaaS
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.99%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.99%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.94%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (2.97%) 4G
2 3 (2.97%) 5G
2 3 (2.97%) 5G NR
2 3 (2.97%) LTE
3 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 2 (1.98%) Network Security
4 1 (0.99%) BGP
4 1 (0.99%) LAN
4 1 (0.99%) NGFW
4 1 (0.99%) OSPF
4 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.99%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.99%) VPN
4 1 (0.99%) WAN
4 1 (0.99%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) Power BI
2 3 (2.97%) Power Query
3 2 (1.98%) Big Data
4 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.90%) JIRA
1 10 (9.90%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (64.36%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.74%) Analytical Skills
2 26 (25.74%) Finance
3 22 (21.78%) Manufacturing
4 10 (9.90%) Telecoms
5 8 (7.92%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (7.92%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.95%) Retail
8 4 (3.96%) Agriculture
8 4 (3.96%) Marketing
9 3 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.98%) Banking
10 2 (1.98%) Local Government
10 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.99%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.99%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.99%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 18 (17.82%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Analyst
3 11 (10.89%) Senior
4 10 (9.90%) Architect
4 10 (9.90%) Delphi Developer
5 9 (8.91%) Consultant
6 7 (6.93%) Lead
6 7 (6.93%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.93%) Technical Architect
7 6 (5.94%) AWS Engineer
7 6 (5.94%) SAP Architect
7 6 (5.94%) SAP Technical Architect
7 6 (5.94%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.95%) ERP Consultant
8 5 (4.95%) ERP Implementation Consultant
8 5 (4.95%) Implementation Consultant
8 5 (4.95%) Infor Consultant
9 4 (3.96%) Desktop Engineer
9 4 (3.96%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.96%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.94%) JSON
1 6 (5.94%) SAP Fiori
1 6 (5.94%) SAP PI
1 6 (5.94%) SAPUI5
1 6 (5.94%) Web Services
2 3 (2.97%) .NET
2 3 (2.97%) .NET Core
3 2 (1.98%) Angular 2
3 2 (1.98%) AngularJS
3 2 (1.98%) CSS
3 2 (1.98%) HTML
3 2 (1.98%) HTML5
3 2 (1.98%) Node.js
4 1 (0.99%) ADO
4 1 (0.99%) LDAP
4 1 (0.99%) PySpark
4 1 (0.99%) React
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.87%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (7.92%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.95%) Life Science
4 4 (3.96%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.96%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.97%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.97%) Low-Code
5 3 (2.97%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.97%) Social Media
5 3 (2.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.98%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.98%) Podcast
6 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.99%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 14 (13.86%) Windows
2 1 (0.99%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (51.49%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (16.83%) Migration
3 16 (15.84%) Project Management
4 13 (12.87%) Agile
5 12 (11.88%) CI/CD
5 12 (11.88%) DevOps
5 12 (11.88%) ERP
6 11 (10.89%) Change Management
6 11 (10.89%) Enterprise Architecture
6 11 (10.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (10.89%) Strategic Thinking
7 10 (9.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (9.90%) Data Migration
7 10 (9.90%) Functional Testing
7 10 (9.90%) Root Cause Analysis
8 8 (7.92%) CRM
8 8 (7.92%) Security Architecture
9 7 (6.93%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (6.93%) Service Management
9 7 (6.93%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.86%) C#
1 14 (13.86%) SQL
2 13 (12.87%) Python
3 10 (9.90%) Delphi
3 10 (9.90%) PL/SQL
4 7 (6.93%) Java
5 6 (5.94%) ABAP
6 4 (3.96%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.97%) VBA
8 2 (1.98%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.99%) DataWeave
9 1 (0.99%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (15.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 11 (10.89%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) CISM
4 6 (5.94%) CISSP
5 4 (3.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.97%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.98%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.98%) PMP
8 1 (0.99%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.99%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.99%) CCIE
8 1 (0.99%) CCNP
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.99%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.99%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) QA
2 1 (0.99%) GDPR
2 1 (0.99%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.99%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 1 (0.99%) NCSC
2 1 (0.99%) NIST
2 1 (0.99%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (3.96%) Ansible
2 1 (0.99%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (0.99%) CloudHub
2 1 (0.99%) NSN NetAct
2 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (28.71%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.88%) Oracle
2 12 (11.88%) SAP
3 6 (5.94%) Ariba
4 5 (4.95%) Infor
4 5 (4.95%) Remedy
5 4 (3.96%) BMC
5 4 (3.96%) BT
6 3 (2.97%) Google
7 2 (1.98%) Ericsson
7 2 (1.98%) VMware
8 1 (0.99%) Adobe
8 1 (0.99%) Cisco
8 1 (0.99%) Juniper
8 1 (0.99%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.99%) Nokia
8 1 (0.99%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.99%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.99%) Splunk