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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 102 141
Rank change year-on-year +39 +39 -7
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 469 419 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.63% 2.06% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.00% 2.45% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 192 272
10th Percentile £190 £243 £313
25th Percentile £286 £363 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £590 £603
90th Percentile £638 £663 £678
UK median daily rate £494 £498 £525
% change year-on-year -0.75% -5.24% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 92 42
10th Percentile £17.44 £15.13 £26.25
25th Percentile £18.24 £26.93 £30.00
Median hourly rate £23.18 £50.00 £46.75
Median % change year-on-year -53.65% +6.95% +175.00%
75th Percentile £46.85 - £54.13
90th Percentile £61.88 £51.73 £74.87
UK median hourly rate £26.12 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -47.76% -1.96% +156.93%

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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 +51 105 £438 -12.50% 372
South East +26 102 £500 +4.49% 442
South West +78 96 £438 -20.45% 186
North West +46 68 £500 +5.82% 213
Midlands +27 64 £450 +5.88% 193
Scotland +19 64 £414 -12.84% 85
West Midlands +33 59 £438 -20.45% 124
Yorkshire +12 27 £293 -52.97% 121
East of England -19 27 £450 +20.00% 141
Wales +6 10 £390 -8.24% 31
North East +2 10 £425 -32.00% 40
East Midlands -3 5 £488 +21.88% 63
Northern Ireland -6 3 £313 - 48
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 40 (8.53%) SharePoint
2 30 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (4.05%) Confluence
4 7 (1.49%) NetWeaver
4 7 (1.49%) SAP EP
5 4 (0.85%) CMS
6 3 (0.64%) SAS
7 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.43%) WebSphere Application Server
8 1 (0.21%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.21%) Apache
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.21%) GeoServer
8 1 (0.21%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.21%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.21%) Umbraco
8 1 (0.21%) WebLogic
Applications
1 46 (9.81%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (6.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (2.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.21%) Revit
Business Applications
1 10 (2.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.49%) SAP CRM
4 6 (1.28%) Primavera
5 5 (1.07%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.85%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 2 (0.43%) Infor LN
7 2 (0.43%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.21%) Avolution ABACUS
8 1 (0.21%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.21%) Maximo
8 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.21%) Shopify
8 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 68 (14.50%) Azure
2 58 (12.37%) AWS
3 56 (11.94%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (5.12%) Power Platform
5 19 (4.05%) Entra ID
6 15 (3.20%) GCP
7 13 (2.77%) GitHub
8 11 (2.35%) Amazon S3
8 11 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
8 11 (2.35%) Serverless
9 10 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.92%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.71%) Amazon EC2
11 8 (1.71%) Yammer
12 7 (1.49%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.28%) IaaS
14 5 (1.07%) Amazon SQS
14 5 (1.07%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.62%) VPN
2 12 (2.56%) DNS
3 9 (1.92%) DHCP
4 6 (1.28%) BGP
4 6 (1.28%) Firewall
4 6 (1.28%) MPLS
4 6 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (1.07%) OSPF
5 5 (1.07%) WAN
6 4 (0.85%) 4G
6 4 (0.85%) 5G
6 4 (0.85%) EIGRP
6 4 (0.85%) IPv4
6 4 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.64%) 5G NR
7 3 (0.64%) LTE
7 3 (0.64%) Network Security
7 3 (0.64%) SSL
7 3 (0.64%) TCP/IP
7 3 (0.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.69%) Power BI
2 8 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
4 6 (1.28%) Oracle Database
5 5 (1.07%) SQL Server
6 4 (0.85%) DynamoDB
6 4 (0.85%) Power Query
6 4 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 3 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.64%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.64%) Metadata
7 3 (0.64%) Neo4j
7 3 (0.64%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.43%) Big Data
8 2 (0.43%) Metadata Repository
8 2 (0.43%) MySQL
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Athena
9 1 (0.21%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.21%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 28 (5.97%) JIRA
2 19 (4.05%) Jenkins
3 17 (3.62%) Git
4 11 (2.35%) Selenium
4 11 (2.35%) Visual Studio
5 10 (2.13%) GitLab
6 8 (1.71%) Postman
7 6 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 4 (0.85%) SoapUI
9 3 (0.64%) JMeter
9 3 (0.64%) JUnit
9 3 (0.64%) Mockito
9 3 (0.64%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.64%) TestNG
9 3 (0.64%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.43%) Maven
10 2 (0.43%) Newman
11 1 (0.21%) Pa11y
11 1 (0.21%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.21%) TestRail
General
1 261 (55.65%) Social Skills
2 106 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
3 92 (19.62%) Finance
4 66 (14.07%) Public Sector
5 52 (11.09%) Organisational Skills
6 32 (6.82%) Manufacturing
7 20 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 19 (4.05%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.62%) Banking
9 17 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
10 15 (3.20%) Retail
11 13 (2.77%) Legal
12 12 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.35%) Marketing
14 10 (2.13%) Military
15 9 (1.92%) Law
16 7 (1.49%) Local Government
17 6 (1.28%) Aviation
18 5 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
18 5 (1.07%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 59 (12.58%) Analyst
2 44 (9.38%) Developer
3 34 (7.25%) Lead
3 34 (7.25%) Senior
4 33 (7.04%) Architect
5 19 (4.05%) Service Manager
6 18 (3.84%) Project Manager
7 17 (3.62%) Business Analyst
7 17 (3.62%) Consultant
7 17 (3.62%) Desktop Engineer
8 16 (3.41%) Support Engineer
9 15 (3.20%) IT Support
10 13 (2.77%) Desktop Support
10 13 (2.77%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 12 (2.56%) Change Analyst
11 12 (2.56%) Technical Architect
12 10 (2.13%) Delphi Developer
12 10 (2.13%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 10 (2.13%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.92%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.56%) HTML
2 11 (2.35%) Node.js
3 10 (2.13%) Web Services
4 9 (1.92%) React
4 9 (1.92%) Spring
5 8 (1.71%) SAP Fiori
5 8 (1.71%) SAP PI
5 8 (1.71%) SAPUI5
5 8 (1.71%) Spring Boot
6 7 (1.49%) .NET
6 7 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.49%) CSS
7 6 (1.28%) JSON
8 5 (1.07%) HTML5
8 5 (1.07%) REST
9 4 (0.85%) Angular 2
10 3 (0.64%) .NET Core
10 3 (0.64%) Jest
10 3 (0.64%) PyTorch
10 3 (0.64%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.84%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (2.77%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.35%) Product Ownership
5 9 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 9 (1.92%) Operational Technology
6 7 (1.49%) Virtual Team
7 6 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.28%) Public Cloud
8 5 (1.07%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.07%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.07%) Educational Technology
8 5 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.07%) Life Science
8 5 (1.07%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.85%) PKI
9 4 (0.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 55 (11.73%) Windows
2 20 (4.26%) Linux
3 13 (2.77%) Windows Server
4 8 (1.71%) VMS
5 7 (1.49%) Unix
6 6 (1.28%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.07%) Android
7 5 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.43%) zOS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
2 86 (18.34%) Agile
3 78 (16.63%) Project Management
4 62 (13.22%) ITIL
5 60 (12.79%) Computer Science
6 47 (10.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 46 (9.81%) DevOps
8 43 (9.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (9.17%) Migration
9 41 (8.74%) CI/CD
10 37 (7.89%) Change Management
11 31 (6.61%) Decision-Making
12 30 (6.40%) ITSM
12 30 (6.40%) Scrum
13 29 (6.18%) Enterprise Architecture
14 28 (5.97%) Service Delivery
15 27 (5.76%) Business Intelligence
16 26 (5.54%) Data Analysis
17 25 (5.33%) Analytics
17 25 (5.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (10.02%) SQL
2 45 (9.59%) Python
3 21 (4.48%) Java
4 15 (3.20%) C#
4 15 (3.20%) JavaScript
5 14 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 10 (2.13%) Delphi
6 10 (2.13%) TypeScript
7 8 (1.71%) ABAP
7 8 (1.71%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.28%) Erlang
8 6 (1.28%) Perl
8 6 (1.28%) Prolog
9 4 (0.85%) Bash
9 4 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 3 (0.64%) Scala
10 3 (0.64%) VBA
11 2 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.43%) PHP
11 2 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 99 (21.11%) Security Cleared
2 82 (17.48%) SC Cleared
3 79 (16.84%) Degree
4 26 (5.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (4.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 13 (2.77%) DV Cleared
8 12 (2.56%) CISSP
8 12 (2.56%) ITIL Certification
9 8 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.71%) CISM
9 8 (1.71%) Master's Degree
10 7 (1.49%) AWS Certification
10 7 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (1.49%) MCSE
11 6 (1.28%) CCNP
11 6 (1.28%) PMP
12 5 (1.07%) ISTQB
12 5 (1.07%) MCP
12 5 (1.07%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.54%) QA
2 15 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 14 (2.99%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.13%) SLA
5 7 (1.49%) Data Quality
6 6 (1.28%) GDPR
7 5 (1.07%) HL7
8 4 (0.85%) Government Security Classifications
8 4 (0.85%) PMO
9 3 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 2 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.43%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.43%) WCAG
11 1 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
11 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.21%) GRC
11 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.21%) NCSC
11 1 (0.21%) NIST
System Software
1 41 (8.74%) Active Directory
2 24 (5.12%) Docker
3 12 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.64%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.21%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 23 (4.90%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (3.20%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.35%) Ansible
4 9 (1.92%) SCCM
5 8 (1.71%) Terraform
5 8 (1.71%) WSUS
6 4 (0.85%) Grafana
6 4 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.64%) Kibana
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.43%) Istio
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco UCCX
9 1 (0.21%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.21%) NSN NetAct
9 1 (0.21%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.21%) SCOM
9 1 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 112 (23.88%) Microsoft
2 31 (6.61%) SAP
3 21 (4.48%) VMware
4 20 (4.26%) Oracle
5 18 (3.84%) ServiceNow
6 14 (2.99%) Cisco
6 14 (2.99%) Google
7 13 (2.77%) Citrix
8 12 (2.56%) Remedy
9 11 (2.35%) Ariba
10 8 (1.71%) BMC
11 7 (1.49%) Databricks
12 6 (1.28%) IBM
12 6 (1.28%) Juniper
12 6 (1.28%) Red Hat
12 6 (1.28%) Workday
13 4 (0.85%) BT
13 4 (0.85%) Huawei
14 3 (0.64%) Ericsson
14 3 (0.64%) HP