CAP Theorem Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

CAP Theorem
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring CAP Theorem skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 468 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CAP Theorem 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.004% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - -
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £325 - £525

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

CAP Theorem 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 22,293 13,611 15,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.78% 89.28% 83.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,125 8,216 9,257
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £406 £365 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £575 £600
90th Percentile £680 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,367 1,309 1,608
10th Percentile £14.22 £13.89 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.00 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £23.50 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +87.06% -43.03% +3.13%
75th Percentile £68.55 £47.12 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

CAP Theorem
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CAP Theorem job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CAP Theorem
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CAP Theorem
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 CAP Theorem within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 August 2026. 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
Scotland - 1 £325 - 1
CAP Theorem
UK

CAP Theorem
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Camunda
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (100.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Concurrent Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Due Diligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) Solace