Capita Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Capita
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 Capita products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Capita over the 6 months leading up to 4 October 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 Capita plc.

6 months to
4 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 364 415
Rank change year-on-year +1 +51 +92
Contract jobs citing Capita 8 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.051% 0.057% 0.042%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.13% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 8
10th Percentile £420 £433 £323
25th Percentile £450 £444 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +10.77%
75th Percentile - £494 £647
90th Percentile £533 £498 £881
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £25.70 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Capita 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 7,579 7,769 9,985
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.12% 44.37% 46.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,681 4,468 6,426
10th Percentile £221 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £381 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 629 515 522
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.45 £14.53
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.62 £17.73
Median hourly rate £21.39 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% -29.41% +111.13%
75th Percentile £38.94 £63.93 £59.31
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.00 £75.48
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +81.93%

Capita
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Capita job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Capita
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Capita
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Capita in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Capita in the UK excluding London

Capita
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Capita
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 Capita within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 October 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 West -12 4 £500 - 1
North of England -26 4 £500 +11.11% 1
South West +14 1 £450 -
Midlands -17 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
South East - 1 £400 - 3
Capita
UK

Capita
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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (25.00%) Star Schema
General
1 5 (62.50%) Local Government
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Systems Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Data Centre Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SAN Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Application Virtualisation
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
2 2 (25.00%) Data Science
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Due Diligence
2 2 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Dashboard Development
3 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Psychology
3 1 (12.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Civica
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Aareon
2 1 (12.50%) NEC
2 1 (12.50%) Northgate
2 1 (12.50%) Orchard
2 1 (12.50%) PTC