Collaborative Culture Contracts in the UK excluding London

Culture of Collaboration
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Collaborative Culture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Culture over the 6 months leading up to 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 340 390
Rank change year-on-year +57 +50 +68
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Culture 47 55 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.37% 0.27% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.32% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 42 33
10th Percentile £366 £425 £463
25th Percentile £453 £445 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £575 £638
90th Percentile £753 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -3.51% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Median hourly rate - £11.87 -
UK median hourly rate - £11.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Collaborative Culture 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 11,596 17,041 20,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.69% 84.15% 89.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,235 10,189 14,096
10th Percentile £231 £250 £259
25th Percentile £375 £380 £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 £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,063 1,256
10th Percentile £14.16 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.34 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.73
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.81% +0.76% +40.19%

Collaborative Culture
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Culture
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Culture in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Culture in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Culture
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 Collaborative Culture within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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 +14 15 £575 +4.55% 1,132
South East +48 12 £525 - 1,435
Yorkshire +9 8 £600 +9.09% 466
East of England +29 7 £519 -1.14% 679
South West +32 5 £750 +57.89% 622
West Midlands +12 4 £575 +27.78% 484
Midlands +9 4 £575 +27.78% 916
North West +5 4 £322 -38.67% 521
North East - 3 £575 - 145
Scotland +6 2 £404 -16.27% 257
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 70
Collaborative Culture
UK

Collaborative Culture
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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (14.89%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.26%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.13%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.51%) AWS
1 4 (8.51%) Azure
2 2 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
1 3 (6.38%) MySQL
1 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) GitLab
3 3 (6.38%) Artifactory
3 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 3 (6.38%) SonarQube
3 3 (6.38%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
4 2 (4.26%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.13%) Maven
General
1 21 (44.68%) Social Skills
2 13 (27.66%) Finance
3 11 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.64%) Banking
4 5 (10.64%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (8.51%) Portuguese Language
5 4 (8.51%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Legal
7 2 (4.26%) Military
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Analyst
3 5 (10.64%) Developer
3 5 (10.64%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.51%) IT Support
4 4 (8.51%) Support Officer
4 4 (8.51%) Systems Analyst
5 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) IT Project Manager
6 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) SAP Architect
6 2 (4.26%) SAP Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Senior
6 2 (4.26%) Software Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Systems Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.26%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Node.js
2 3 (6.38%) RESTful
3 2 (4.26%) Playwright
3 2 (4.26%) SAP PI
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
3 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.13%) .NET
4 1 (2.13%) Apache CXF
4 1 (2.13%) DirectX
4 1 (2.13%) Dropwizard
4 1 (2.13%) JAX-RS
4 1 (2.13%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.13%) OpenGL
4 1 (2.13%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (2.13%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.13%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.64%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (8.51%) Molecular Biology
3 4 (8.51%) Operational Technology
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Security Posture
4 2 (4.26%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (4.26%) Security Operations Centre
4 2 (4.26%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) EPoS
5 1 (2.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.13%) PMI
5 1 (2.13%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Linux
3 2 (4.26%) Unix
4 1 (2.13%) Android
4 1 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (31.91%) Agile
3 14 (29.79%) Project Management
4 12 (25.53%) Risk Management
5 11 (23.40%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (19.15%) Collaborative Working
7 8 (17.02%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (14.89%) Project Delivery
9 6 (12.77%) Test Automation
10 5 (10.64%) Change Management
10 5 (10.64%) CI/CD
10 5 (10.64%) Computer Science
10 5 (10.64%) Customer Service
10 5 (10.64%) Data Protection
10 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
10 5 (10.64%) Microservices
10 5 (10.64%) Process Improvement
10 5 (10.64%) Supplier Management
11 4 (8.51%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.77%) SQL
2 4 (8.51%) Java
3 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.13%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.13%) C++
5 1 (2.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (19.15%) Degree
2 8 (17.02%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.38%) PMI Certification
5 3 (6.38%) PMP
6 2 (4.26%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.26%) MBA
6 2 (4.26%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.13%) APMP
7 1 (2.13%) CISM
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (14.89%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) PMO
2 2 (4.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.13%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (6.38%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Ansible
1 1 (2.13%) Consul
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.13%) Prometheus
1 1 (2.13%) SCCM
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.26%) Commvault
3 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) SAP
3 2 (4.26%) Veritas
4 1 (2.13%) Cisco
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Spotify