Arqiva Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Arqiva
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Arqiva products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Arqiva over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Arqiva.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 391 351 399
Rank change year-on-year -40 +48 -
Contract jobs citing Arqiva 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% 0.015% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £550 -
UK median daily rate - £550 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Arqiva falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,544 6,842 9,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.74% 46.06% 47.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,534 4,094 5,760
10th Percentile £220 £215 £208
25th Percentile £375 £380 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 668 364 516
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.21
25th Percentile £17.59 £16.17 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £25.86 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -14.93% -43.63% +103.91%
75th Percentile £43.84 £61.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

Arqiva
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Arqiva relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Arqiva job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Arqiva
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Arqiva.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Arqiva

Arqiva
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Arqiva.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Arqiva

Arqiva
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 Arqiva within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East -11 1 - -
Arqiva
UK

Arqiva
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) People Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Predictive Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) R
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA