Competitor Analysis Contracts in the UK excluding London

Competitor Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Competitor Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Competitor Analysis over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 383 422
Rank change year-on-year +16 +39 +99
Contract jobs citing Competitor Analysis 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.013% 0.011% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.013% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £429 - £468
25th Percentile £434 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - +25.00%
75th Percentile £484 - £600
90th Percentile £486 - -
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +22.22% -14.29% +2.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Competitor Analysis 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 13,621 15,286 19,628
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.24% 83.12% 88.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,216 9,168 13,145
10th Percentile £241 £250 £263
25th Percentile £368 £385 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,310 1,587 1,201
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £17.70
Median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%
75th Percentile £45.60 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%

Competitor Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Competitor Analysis in the UK excluding London

Competitor Analysis
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Competitor Analysis in the UK excluding London

Competitor Analysis
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Competitor Analysis in the UK excluding London

Competitor Analysis
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 Competitor Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 August 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 -15 1 £450 - 12
North East - 1 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 - 1
Competitor Analysis
UK

Competitor Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Designer
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Middleware
1 2 (100.00%) OpenAPI
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Design Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Fintech
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Degree