Onboarding Contracts in the South East

Onboarding
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 141 139
Rank change year-on-year +80 -2 +14
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 95 59 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.18% 1.03% 1.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.74% 3.64% 4.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 40 61
10th Percentile £220 £350 £280
25th Percentile £393 £533 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £615 £800 £721
England median daily rate £550 £525 £563
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.67% +0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £14.60 £13.25 -
25th Percentile £15.74 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £17.62 £18.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.03% - -
75th Percentile £19.51 £28.06 -
90th Percentile £20.64 £30.75 -
England median hourly rate £29.50 £24.48 £31.00
% change year-on-year +20.53% -21.05% +55.00%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 975 1,623 1,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.63% 28.25% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 964 1,304
10th Percentile £200 £208 £205
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £719
England median daily rate £526 £550 £565
% change year-on-year -4.38% -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 169 94
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.79 £17.85
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.35 £20.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £51.00 £53.44
Median % change year-on-year -19.61% -4.56% +148.53%
75th Percentile £61.12 £61.30 £67.50
90th Percentile £85.50 £75.16 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.90 £36.27 £22.49
% change year-on-year -6.55% +61.32% -15.15%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the South East

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the South East

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the South East over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the South East

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the South East

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the South East region over the 6 months to 11 June 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 +66 64 £550 - 337
Berkshire +70 62 £550 -3.08% 262
Hampshire +33 14 £650 -7.14% 44
West Sussex +13 8 £463 -33.93% 10
Kent +5 8 £220 -45.00% 17
Surrey +15 2 £188 -72.43% 49
Middlesex +11 2 - - 2
Buckinghamshire +9 1 £425 - 43
Oxfordshire -3 1 - - 33
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
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 10 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.11%) CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.11%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (2.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.11%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) Azure
2 12 (12.63%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.21%) Entra ID
3 4 (4.21%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.16%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.16%) AWS
4 3 (3.16%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (3.16%) SaaS
4 3 (3.16%) Serverless
5 2 (2.11%) Asana
5 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (2.11%) GitHub
5 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.11%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.11%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.05%) Collibra
6 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.05%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.05%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) BGP
1 2 (2.11%) Broadband
1 2 (2.11%) DNS
1 2 (2.11%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (2.11%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (2.11%) IPv6
1 2 (2.11%) OSPF
1 2 (2.11%) SAN
1 2 (2.11%) Spanning Tree
1 2 (2.11%) TACACS
1 2 (2.11%) VSAN
2 1 (1.05%) Internet
2 1 (1.05%) PuTTY
2 1 (1.05%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (1.05%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.42%) Data Lake
2 3 (3.16%) Big Data
2 3 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.16%) DynamoDB
3 2 (2.11%) Metadata
3 2 (2.11%) NewSQL
3 2 (2.11%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.11%) Power BI
3 2 (2.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.05%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.05%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) JIRA
2 2 (2.11%) GitLab
3 1 (1.05%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.05%) Maven
3 1 (1.05%) Toad
General
1 25 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.79%) Telecoms
3 9 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.42%) Finance
5 7 (7.37%) Legal
5 7 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.32%) Billing
7 5 (5.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.11%) Law
9 2 (2.11%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 9 (9.47%) Analyst
3 7 (7.37%) Architect
3 7 (7.37%) Project Manager
4 6 (6.32%) SIEM Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Business Analyst
5 5 (5.26%) Commercial Manager
5 5 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
5 5 (5.26%) Developer
5 5 (5.26%) Senior
6 3 (3.16%) Administrator
6 3 (3.16%) Commercial Project Manager
6 3 (3.16%) Consultant
6 3 (3.16%) IT Support
6 3 (3.16%) Trainer
6 3 (3.16%) Transformation Analyst
7 2 (2.11%) Designer
7 2 (2.11%) Desktop Manager
7 2 (2.11%) Platform Architect
7 2 (2.11%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) JSON
1 6 (6.32%) REST
2 2 (2.11%) Apache Axis
2 2 (2.11%) HTML
2 2 (2.11%) YAML
3 1 (1.05%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.05%) LDAP
3 1 (1.05%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.32%) CSOC
1 6 (6.32%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.16%) e-Learning
3 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
3 2 (2.11%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.11%) Replication
4 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.05%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.05%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.05%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Windows
2 13 (13.68%) Windows 10
2 13 (13.68%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.05%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.05%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (11.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 9 (9.47%) Analytics
3 9 (9.47%) ITIL
4 8 (8.42%) Agile
4 8 (8.42%) Client Onboarding
4 8 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (8.42%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (7.37%) Migration
5 7 (7.37%) Security Operations
5 7 (7.37%) SIEM
5 7 (7.37%) Vulnerability Management
6 6 (6.32%) CI/CD
6 6 (6.32%) Incident Response
6 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (6.32%) Process Improvement
6 6 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (5.26%) Customer Service
7 5 (5.26%) Project Management
7 5 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.68%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.47%) SQL
3 6 (6.32%) Python
4 4 (4.21%) Java
5 2 (2.11%) C#
5 2 (2.11%) Ruby
5 2 (2.11%) Scala
6 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (24.21%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.79%) DV Cleared
3 7 (7.37%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.32%) GIAC
5 3 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (3.16%) Degree
6 2 (2.11%) A+ Certification
6 2 (2.11%) CISSP
6 2 (2.11%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.11%) MCP
6 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.05%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.11%) SLA
4 1 (1.05%) NIST
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.63%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.11%) Ceph
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.16%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.11%) Argo
3 1 (1.05%) SCCM
3 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (22.11%) Microsoft
1 21 (22.11%) Virgin Media
2 14 (14.74%) VMware
3 13 (13.68%) Dell
4 11 (11.58%) Wyse
5 7 (7.37%) Cisco
6 6 (6.32%) ServiceNow
7 4 (4.21%) CyberArk
7 4 (4.21%) Databricks
7 4 (4.21%) Juniper
7 4 (4.21%) Salesforce
8 3 (3.16%) BT
8 3 (3.16%) Openreach
8 3 (3.16%) Splunk
9 2 (2.11%) Ariba
9 2 (2.11%) Citrix
9 2 (2.11%) Concur
9 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.11%) SAP
9 2 (2.11%) Sitecore