Collaborative Working Contracts in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 99 143
Rank change year-on-year +35 +44 -9
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 459 432 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.59% 2.08% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 2.46% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 199 268
10th Percentile £200 £250 £354
25th Percentile £306 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £480 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% -4.24% +0.25%
75th Percentile £575 £590 £610
90th Percentile £644 £665 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 92 32
10th Percentile £17.44 £15.13 £17.72
25th Percentile £18.88 £26.93 £35.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £50.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.65% -1.96% +161.54%
75th Percentile £48.95 - £65.25
90th Percentile £68.00 £51.50 £82.88
UK median hourly rate £26.12 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% -9.09% +173.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Collaborative Working 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
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 Working within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +54 106 £472 -5.70% 346
South East +33 102 £500 +4.49% 379
South West +77 86 £500 -11.11% 192
North West +42 69 £500 +5.26% 217
Midlands +25 66 £460 +8.24% 215
Scotland +17 62 £403 -15.16% 80
West Midlands +40 60 £455 -13.33% 126
Yorkshire +8 27 £425 -30.44% 101
East of England -15 24 £450 +5.88% 151
Wales +8 10 £390 -8.24% 38
North East +5 10 £425 -32.00% 30
East Midlands 0 6 £488 +21.88% 77
Northern Ireland -7 4 £313 - 31
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
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 42 (9.15%) SharePoint
2 26 (5.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 18 (3.92%) Confluence
4 7 (1.53%) NetWeaver
4 7 (1.53%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.87%) CMS
6 3 (0.65%) SAS
7 2 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.22%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.22%) Apache
8 1 (0.22%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.22%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.22%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (9.59%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (6.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (3.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.22%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.53%) SAP CRM
4 6 (1.31%) Primavera
5 5 (1.09%) Infor LN
5 5 (1.09%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.87%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.22%) Avolution ABACUS
8 1 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.22%) Hyperion Planning
8 1 (0.22%) Maximo
8 1 (0.22%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.22%) Shopify
8 1 (0.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (14.81%) Azure
2 53 (11.55%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (11.33%) AWS
4 23 (5.01%) Power Platform
5 21 (4.58%) Entra ID
6 14 (3.05%) GCP
7 12 (2.61%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.40%) GitHub
9 10 (2.18%) Serverless
10 9 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.96%) OneDrive
10 9 (1.96%) Yammer
11 8 (1.74%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (1.31%) AWS CloudFormation
14 5 (1.09%) IaaS
14 5 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
15 4 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 4 (0.87%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.61%) DNS
1 12 (2.61%) VPN
2 10 (2.18%) DHCP
3 6 (1.31%) BGP
3 6 (1.31%) MPLS
3 6 (1.31%) Radio Access Network
4 5 (1.09%) OSPF
4 5 (1.09%) WAN
5 4 (0.87%) 4G
5 4 (0.87%) 5G
5 4 (0.87%) EIGRP
5 4 (0.87%) Firewall
5 4 (0.87%) IPv4
5 4 (0.87%) Network Security
5 4 (0.87%) SD-WAN
6 3 (0.65%) 5G NR
6 3 (0.65%) LTE
6 3 (0.65%) Unified Communications
7 2 (0.44%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.58%) Power BI
2 6 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.31%) Oracle Database
3 5 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (1.09%) SQL Server
4 4 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (0.87%) Power Query
5 3 (0.65%) DynamoDB
5 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (0.65%) Metadata
5 3 (0.65%) MySQL
5 3 (0.65%) Neo4j
5 3 (0.65%) RDBMS
5 3 (0.65%) Relational Database
6 2 (0.44%) Big Data
6 2 (0.44%) Metadata Repository
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.22%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.22%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.22%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 26 (5.66%) JIRA
2 18 (3.92%) Jenkins
3 15 (3.27%) Git
4 11 (2.40%) GitLab
4 11 (2.40%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.18%) Selenium
6 8 (1.74%) Postman
7 4 (0.87%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.87%) SoapUI
8 3 (0.65%) JMeter
8 3 (0.65%) JUnit
8 3 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.65%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.65%) TestNG
8 3 (0.65%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.44%) Maven
10 1 (0.22%) NUnit
10 1 (0.22%) Pa11y
10 1 (0.22%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 252 (54.90%) Social Skills
2 112 (24.40%) Analytical Skills
3 93 (20.26%) Finance
4 63 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 51 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
6 34 (7.41%) Manufacturing
7 20 (4.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.14%) Telecoms
9 18 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (3.49%) Banking
10 16 (3.49%) Retail
11 13 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.83%) Legal
12 11 (2.40%) Marketing
13 10 (2.18%) Military
14 9 (1.96%) Law
15 8 (1.74%) Local Government
16 6 (1.31%) Aviation
17 5 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
17 5 (1.09%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 62 (13.51%) Analyst
2 43 (9.37%) Developer
3 33 (7.19%) Senior
4 30 (6.54%) Lead
5 29 (6.32%) Architect
6 21 (4.58%) Project Manager
7 20 (4.36%) Consultant
8 19 (4.14%) Service Manager
9 17 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.27%) IT Support
11 13 (2.83%) Change Analyst
11 13 (2.83%) Desktop Engineer
12 12 (2.61%) IT Manager
12 12 (2.61%) Support Engineer
12 12 (2.61%) Technical Architect
13 11 (2.40%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
14 10 (2.18%) Delphi Developer
14 10 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
15 9 (1.96%) Desktop Support
15 9 (1.96%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.18%) HTML
1 10 (2.18%) React
1 10 (2.18%) Web Services
2 9 (1.96%) Node.js
2 9 (1.96%) Spring
3 8 (1.74%) .NET
3 8 (1.74%) AngularJS
3 8 (1.74%) SAP Fiori
3 8 (1.74%) SAP PI
3 8 (1.74%) SAPUI5
3 8 (1.74%) Spring Boot
4 7 (1.53%) CSS
5 6 (1.31%) JSON
6 5 (1.09%) HTML5
6 5 (1.09%) REST
7 4 (0.87%) Angular 2
7 4 (0.87%) WPF
8 3 (0.65%) jQuery
8 3 (0.65%) Kafka
8 3 (0.65%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 19 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.96%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.96%) Operational Technology
6 8 (1.74%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.31%) Algorithms
8 6 (1.31%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.31%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.31%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.09%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.09%) Driving Licence
9 5 (1.09%) Life Science
9 5 (1.09%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (0.87%) Molecular Biology
10 4 (0.87%) Social Media
10 4 (0.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.42%) Windows
2 16 (3.49%) Linux
3 13 (2.83%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.74%) VMS
5 6 (1.31%) Android
5 6 (1.31%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.09%) Unix
7 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.44%) zOS
10 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (33.55%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (18.52%) Project Management
3 82 (17.86%) Agile
4 56 (12.20%) Computer Science
4 56 (12.20%) ITIL
5 47 (10.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (9.37%) Migration
7 42 (9.15%) DevOps
8 41 (8.93%) CI/CD
9 40 (8.71%) Change Management
10 39 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 31 (6.75%) Decision-Making
12 28 (6.10%) Enterprise Architecture
13 27 (5.88%) ITSM
13 27 (5.88%) Service Management
14 26 (5.66%) Data Analysis
14 26 (5.66%) Scrum
15 25 (5.45%) Business Intelligence
16 24 (5.23%) Project Delivery
16 24 (5.23%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 44 (9.59%) Python
2 41 (8.93%) SQL
3 20 (4.36%) Java
4 15 (3.27%) C#
5 13 (2.83%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.61%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.18%) Delphi
8 8 (1.74%) ABAP
8 8 (1.74%) TypeScript
9 7 (1.53%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.09%) Erlang
10 5 (1.09%) Perl
10 5 (1.09%) Prolog
11 4 (0.87%) Bash
12 3 (0.65%) PHP
12 3 (0.65%) Scala
12 3 (0.65%) Shell Script
12 3 (0.65%) VB
12 3 (0.65%) VBA
13 2 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 93 (20.26%) Security Cleared
2 82 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 72 (15.69%) Degree
4 25 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (2.83%) CISSP
7 12 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.96%) CISM
8 9 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 9 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 8 (1.74%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.53%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (1.53%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (1.31%) CCNP
11 6 (1.31%) MCSE
11 6 (1.31%) PMP
12 5 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.09%) MCP
12 5 (1.09%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.66%) QA
2 14 (3.05%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.96%) SLA
5 5 (1.09%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.09%) GDPR
5 5 (1.09%) HL7
5 5 (1.09%) PMO
6 4 (0.87%) Government Security Classifications
7 3 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 2 (0.44%) WCAG
9 1 (0.22%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.22%) GRC
9 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 1 (0.22%) NCSC
9 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
System Software
1 39 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 21 (4.58%) Docker
3 10 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.65%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.44%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.44%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.22%) Firmware
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 20 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (3.05%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.40%) Ansible
3 11 (2.40%) SCCM
4 9 (1.96%) WSUS
5 6 (1.31%) Terraform
6 4 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.65%) Grafana
7 3 (0.65%) Kibana
7 3 (0.65%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.44%) Istio
8 2 (0.44%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.22%) CASB
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.22%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.22%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.22%) NSN NetAct
9 1 (0.22%) SCOM
9 1 (0.22%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 109 (23.75%) Microsoft
2 30 (6.54%) SAP
3 21 (4.58%) Oracle
4 20 (4.36%) VMware
5 14 (3.05%) Google
5 14 (3.05%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.61%) Cisco
6 12 (2.61%) Remedy
7 11 (2.40%) Ariba
8 9 (1.96%) Citrix
9 8 (1.74%) BMC
10 7 (1.53%) Databricks
11 6 (1.31%) IBM
11 6 (1.31%) Red Hat
11 6 (1.31%) Workday
12 5 (1.09%) Infor
13 4 (0.87%) BT
13 4 (0.87%) Huawei
13 4 (0.87%) Juniper
14 3 (0.65%) Ericsson