Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Collaborative Working
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 14 24
Rank change year-on-year +3 +10 +5
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 3 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 4.23% 2.00% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.17% 2.86% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £143 - -
25th Percentile £148 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £156 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -67.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £165 £488 -
90th Percentile £170 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -9.76% -6.73% +22.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 58 70 126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 81.69% 70.00% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 32 96
10th Percentile £140 £292 £325
25th Percentile £200 £356 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £413 £495
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% -16.67% +4.21%
75th Percentile £442 £488 £575
90th Percentile £575 £549 £656
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 5
10th Percentile - £16.60 -
25th Percentile £29.00 £16.94 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.12 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.90% -16.87% +2.63%
75th Percentile £40.25 £23.93 -
90th Percentile £56.90 £39.13 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.35% +29.94%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Stafford - 1 - -
Uttoxeter - 1 £173 -
Collaborative Working
West Midlands

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Build Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Driving Licence
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft