Active Listening Contracts in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Active Listening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Listening over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 377 422
Rank change year-on-year +50 +45 +65
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 13 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.069% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.082% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 18
10th Percentile - £459 £399
25th Percentile £308 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile - £525 £550
90th Percentile £515 £555 £651
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £47.38 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £49.06 £24.40 £9.50
Median hourly rate £50.00 £37.10 £10.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.77% +271.00% +4.00%
75th Percentile - £49.80 £10.50
90th Percentile - £57.42 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £37.10 £10.00
% change year-on-year +34.77% +271.00% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Active Listening 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,721 17,088 20,696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.59% 84.28% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,221 14,248
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,065 1,263
10th Percentile £14.08 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.49 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.69
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the UK excluding London

Active Listening
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
North of England +15 7 - - 9
North West +15 6 - - 5
South East +43 2 £500 -4.76% 12
South West +43 2 £500 -16.67% 9
West Midlands - 2 £315 - 6
Midlands - 2 £315 - 11
Yorkshire +17 1 - - 4
Active Listening
UK

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle ERP
1 2 (15.38%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (7.69%) Big Data
2 1 (7.69%) Data Mining
2 1 (7.69%) Data Vault
2 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Billing
4 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Business Change Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Business Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Change Manager
3 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Project Manager
4 1 (7.69%) SAP Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Virtual Team
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Change Management
2 6 (46.15%) Root Cause Analysis
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Manufacturing Engineering
3 5 (38.46%) Product Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Change Management
4 4 (30.77%) Business Transformation
4 4 (30.77%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (30.77%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (23.08%) ERP
6 2 (15.38%) Business Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) CRM
6 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Process Management
6 2 (15.38%) Project Planning
6 2 (15.38%) Risk Management
6 2 (15.38%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) IIBA
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PMO
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) SAP
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Salesforce