CA Contracts in the UK excluding London

CA
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 CA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited CA over the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024, 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 CA Technologies.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 393 451
Rank change year-on-year +71 +58 -53
Contract jobs citing CA 79 37 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.16% 0.17%
As % of the Vendors category 0.88% 0.36% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 30
10th Percentile £363 £318 £400
25th Percentile £410 £363 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £425 £468
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -9.19% +0.38%
75th Percentile £541 £525 £580
90th Percentile £675 £542 £700
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £565
% change year-on-year - -20.35% +18.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £65.50
% change year-on-year -4.76% +12.21% -0.76%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

CA 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 8,987 10,207 12,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.14% 44.98% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,356 6,960 8,400
10th Percentile £211 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,004 428 636
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.41 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.95 £59.41 £41.53
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.08 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.56 £42.50 £21.64
% change year-on-year -46.92% +96.40% +5.56%

CA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for CA in the UK excluding London

CA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for CA in the UK excluding London

CA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CA in the UK excluding London

CA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for CA in the UK excluding London

CA
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 CA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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
Midlands +40 32 £489 +62.92% 3
West Midlands +41 28 £674 - 2
North of England +33 20 £475 - 10
South West +15 16 £439 +25.49% 8
Yorkshire +25 14 £474 -0.32% 3
South East +10 9 £675 +58.82% 4
North West +20 6 £805 +130.00% 3
East Midlands +7 4 £488 +62.50% 1
Wales - 3 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 1
Scotland +44 2 £500 -4.76% 4
CA
UK

CA
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 7 (8.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (7.59%) IIS
3 3 (3.80%) SAS
4 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.27%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.25%) Azure
1 16 (20.25%) Entra ID
2 10 (12.66%) Dynamics 365
2 10 (12.66%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.86%) Azure Logic Apps
3 7 (8.86%) GitHub
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.53%) PaaS
5 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.53%) SaaS
6 1 (1.27%) AWS
6 1 (1.27%) AWS KMS
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 25 (31.65%) Firewall
2 5 (6.33%) Kerberos
3 4 (5.06%) DNS
4 3 (3.80%) BIG-IP
4 3 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (3.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.66%) Power BI
2 6 (7.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.27%) Adabas
Development Applications
1 7 (8.86%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.06%) CA Gen
3 2 (2.53%) ChangeMan
4 1 (1.27%) MSI
General
1 14 (17.72%) Finance
2 11 (13.92%) Public Sector
3 7 (8.86%) Social Skills
4 4 (5.06%) Banking
4 4 (5.06%) Electronics
4 4 (5.06%) Local Government
4 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
4 4 (5.06%) Marketing
4 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (3.80%) Law
6 1 (1.27%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (21.52%) 1st Line Engineer
2 10 (12.66%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (10.13%) Consultant
4 7 (8.86%) IAM Consultant
4 7 (8.86%) Storage Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Applications Engineer
6 5 (6.33%) Architect
6 5 (6.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Programmer
7 3 (3.80%) Systems Programmer
7 3 (3.80%) z/OS Systems Programmer
8 2 (2.53%) Analyst
8 2 (2.53%) Lead
8 2 (2.53%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Power Apps Engineer
8 2 (2.53%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) ISPF
1 7 (8.86%) YAML
2 5 (6.33%) LDAP
3 2 (2.53%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 27 (34.18%) PKI
2 17 (21.52%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (13.92%) Mainframe
4 7 (8.86%) Data Centre
5 5 (6.33%) Replication
6 3 (3.80%) Onboarding
7 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.27%) CMDB
8 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.27%) Distributed Applications
8 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) zOS
2 9 (11.39%) Windows
3 8 (10.13%) Linux
3 8 (10.13%) VMS
4 3 (3.80%) MVS
5 2 (2.53%) Unix
5 2 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.52%) Impact Assessments
2 14 (17.72%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (16.46%) Agile
3 13 (16.46%) Migration
4 12 (15.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (10.13%) Containerisation
5 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
5 8 (10.13%) Storage Management
6 7 (8.86%) Identity Access Management
6 7 (8.86%) Project Management
7 6 (7.59%) Knowledge Transfer
7 6 (7.59%) Mentoring
7 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (7.59%) Validation
8 5 (6.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (5.06%) Digital Marketing
9 4 (5.06%) ITIL
9 4 (5.06%) Programme Management
10 3 (3.80%) Computer Science
10 3 (3.80%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (18.99%) JCL
2 10 (12.66%) REXX
3 8 (10.13%) SQL
4 7 (8.86%) Python
5 3 (3.80%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.27%) Assembly Language
6 1 (1.27%) CLIST
6 1 (1.27%) Java
6 1 (1.27%) Natural
Qualifications
1 22 (27.85%) Security Cleared
2 18 (22.78%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
3 5 (6.33%) OSCP
4 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.53%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 17 (21.52%) Active Directory
2 11 (13.92%) Time Sharing Option
3 8 (10.13%) NFS
3 8 (10.13%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (5.06%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 2 (2.53%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (17.72%) Single Sign-On
2 8 (10.13%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 7 (8.86%) Ansible
4 4 (5.06%) Control-M
5 2 (2.53%) CA Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) IBM
3 8 (10.13%) Broadcom
3 8 (10.13%) Brocade
3 8 (10.13%) Dell
4 6 (7.59%) SAP
5 5 (6.33%) ServiceNow
6 4 (5.06%) CyberArk
6 4 (5.06%) Splunk
7 3 (3.80%) F5
8 2 (2.53%) Ariba
8 2 (2.53%) BMC
8 2 (2.53%) VMware