Conga Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Conga
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 Conga products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Conga over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, 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 Conga.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 460 365 383
Rank change year-on-year -95 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Conga 7 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.065% 0.014% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £479 - -
25th Percentile £484 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £534 - £575
90th Percentile £536 - -
UK median daily rate £500 £400 £556
% change year-on-year +25.00% -28.09% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Conga 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 10,751 7,240 8,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.05% 47.99% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,606 4,426 4,966
10th Percentile £283 £222 £213
25th Percentile £404 £363 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.99% -4.75% -
75th Percentile £590 £581 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 925 585 777
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £16.92 £15.10
Median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £25.30
Median % change year-on-year +52.32% -11.80% -27.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £43.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%

Conga
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Conga job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Conga
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Conga
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 Conga within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 July 2026. 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
South West - 6 £513 -
South East -66 1 - -
Conga
UK

Conga
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:

Business Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 7 (100.00%) Postman
1 7 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) Playwright
1 7 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) API Testing
1 7 (100.00%) BDD
1 7 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 7 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 7 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 7 (100.00%) TDD
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 7 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 6 (85.71%) Coaching
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Deployment
2 6 (85.71%) Continuous Integration
2 6 (85.71%) Mentoring
2 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
3 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (71.43%) Defect Tracking
3 5 (71.43%) DevOps
3 5 (71.43%) Test Scripting
4 4 (57.14%) Functional Testing
4 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 6 (85.71%) Apex Code
2 6 (85.71%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) GoCardless
1 7 (100.00%) Salesforce