Collaborative Working Contracts in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 94 99
Rank change year-on-year +31 +5 +22
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 77 54 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.87% 1.88% 2.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.36% 2.07% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 41
10th Percentile £173 £274 £285
25th Percentile £263 £325 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.30% +6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £493 £658 £650
90th Percentile £526 £680 £675
South East median daily rate £471 £600 £513
% change year-on-year -21.58% +17.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £24.42
South East median hourly rate £19.18 £64.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -70.04% +341.38% -39.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the Thames Valley

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 17 June 2024. 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
Berkshire +15 64 £482 -1.13% 36
Oxfordshire +6 8 £225 -65.38% 30
Buckinghamshire +19 5 £463 -22.92% 13
Collaborative Working
South East

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (3.90%) Appian
1 3 (3.90%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (10.39%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.38%) OpenShift
2 8 (10.39%) AWS
2 8 (10.39%) Azure
3 7 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.30%) GitHub
4 1 (1.30%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.09%) VSAN
2 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (15.58%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.30%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.30%) JMeter
2 1 (1.30%) JUnit
2 1 (1.30%) Mockito
General
1 39 (50.65%) Social Skills
2 24 (31.17%) Telecoms
3 13 (16.88%) Legal
4 12 (15.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (7.79%) Law
5 6 (7.79%) Mandarin Language
5 6 (7.79%) Marketing
5 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.49%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Finance
7 2 (2.60%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Korean Language
Job Titles
1 14 (18.18%) Analyst
2 11 (14.29%) Senior
2 11 (14.29%) Site Engineer
2 11 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 10 (12.99%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (9.09%) VMware Expert
5 5 (6.49%) Business Requirements Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Requirements Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Senior Requirements Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Cabling Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Lead
6 4 (5.19%) Senior Business Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) Telecoms Specialist
7 3 (3.90%) Project Leader
8 2 (2.60%) Budget Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Compliance Specialist
8 2 (2.60%) Project Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) Kafka
2 1 (1.30%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (1.30%) Apache Camel
2 1 (1.30%) Hibernate
2 1 (1.30%) HTML
2 1 (1.30%) jQuery
2 1 (1.30%) REST
2 1 (1.30%) Spring
2 1 (1.30%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.30%) Web Services
2 1 (1.30%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 18 (23.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (7.79%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.19%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (33.77%) DevOps
2 21 (27.27%) Time Management
3 19 (24.68%) Project Management
4 18 (23.38%) Containerisation
5 15 (19.48%) CI/CD
6 14 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 14 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (18.18%) Technical Leadership
6 14 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
7 13 (16.88%) Change Management
8 12 (15.58%) Agile
8 12 (15.58%) Microservices
8 12 (15.58%) Risk Management
9 11 (14.29%) GitOps
9 11 (14.29%) ITSM
9 11 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 11 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 11 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.30%) Java
1 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.30%) Python
1 1 (1.30%) Shell Script
1 1 (1.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) ISEB
3 3 (3.90%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) GDPR
2 6 (7.79%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (10.39%) Docker
2 7 (9.09%) vCloud
2 7 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (9.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 26 (33.77%) Kubernetes
2 18 (23.38%) Istio
3 12 (15.58%) Kibana
4 11 (14.29%) Argo
4 11 (14.29%) Grafana
4 11 (14.29%) Prometheus
5 7 (9.09%) Rancher
5 7 (9.09%) Terraform
5 7 (9.09%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (12.99%) BT
2 7 (9.09%) Google
2 7 (9.09%) VMware
3 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.90%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.30%) IBM
6 1 (1.30%) Oracle
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk