Onboarding Contracts in the South West

Onboarding
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding 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 84 109 121
Rank change year-on-year +25 +12 +20
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 27 48 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.61% 1.50% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 4.55% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 29 39
10th Percentile £250 £260 £399
25th Percentile £313 £410 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% -4.55% -8.33%
75th Percentile £450 £638 £638
90th Percentile £550 £681 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -2.24% -5.06% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
England median hourly rate £19.45 £22.98 £39.50
% change year-on-year -15.36% -41.84% +97.50%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,056 1,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.14% 33.01% 28.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 647 702
10th Percentile £263 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -0.91% +10.11%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £656
90th Percentile £676 £694 £725
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 166 138
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.65 -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.34
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the South West

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the South West

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the South West

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol +20 15 £447 +55.48% 30
Wiltshire +27 6 £459 -10.71% 11
Gloucestershire +16 4 £400 - 17
Cornwall +5 1 £220 -78.00% 2
Somerset +1 1 £325 -35.00% 17
Onboarding
England

Onboarding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (29.63%) Azure
2 6 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.41%) Amazon ELB
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (3.70%) GitHub
4 1 (3.70%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Git
2 1 (3.70%) JIRA
General
1 9 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 2 (7.41%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.70%) Electronics
5 1 (3.70%) Italian Language
5 1 (3.70%) Marketing
5 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Developer
2 3 (11.11%) Administrator
2 3 (11.11%) Architect
2 3 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (7.41%) Analyst
3 2 (7.41%) AWS Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Cloud Architect
3 2 (7.41%) Coordinator
3 2 (7.41%) Project Coordinator
3 2 (7.41%) Project Officer
3 2 (7.41%) Security Officer
3 2 (7.41%) Workstream Lead
4 1 (3.70%) C# Developer
4 1 (3.70%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (3.70%) Service Desk Engineer
4 1 (3.70%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.93%) FastAPI
1 7 (25.93%) OpenID
2 2 (7.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.70%) LDAP
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Security Posture
2 1 (3.70%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 3 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.70%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Application Security
2 9 (33.33%) Client Onboarding
3 8 (29.63%) DevOps
3 8 (29.63%) Migration
4 7 (25.93%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 6 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (22.22%) Project Management
6 3 (11.11%) Change Management
6 3 (11.11%) Cloud Security
6 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 3 (11.11%) Line Management
6 3 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Threat Analysis
6 3 (11.11%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
6 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 2 (7.41%) Architectural Design
7 2 (7.41%) Auto-Scaling
7 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (7.41%) High Availability
7 2 (7.41%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.93%) C#
1 7 (25.93%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (70.37%) Security Cleared
2 15 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) APMG
4 1 (3.70%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) PMO
2 2 (7.41%) Def Stans
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (3.70%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 7 (25.93%) MIIS
2 3 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
2 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (11.11%) SCCM
2 3 (11.11%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) McAfee
2 3 (11.11%) Symantec
3 2 (7.41%) Oracle
4 1 (3.70%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow