Critical Success Factor Contracts in the UK excluding London

Critical Success Factors
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Critical Success Factor skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Critical Success Factor over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 399 434
Rank change year-on-year +70 +35 +47
Contract jobs citing Critical Success Factor 5 4 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.019% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.023% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile £433 £289 £413
25th Percentile £444 £303 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £500
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -30.00% +2.93%
75th Percentile £488 £650 £588
90th Percentile - £815 £619
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £510
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.51 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.51 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Critical Success Factor 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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Critical Success Factor
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Critical Success Factor as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK excluding London

Critical Success Factor
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Critical Success Factor in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK excluding London

Critical Success Factor
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Critical Success Factor in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Critical Success Factor in the UK excluding London

Critical Success Factor
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 Critical Success Factor within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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 +19 3 £475 -47.22%
North West - 3 £475 -
South East +39 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Critical Success Factor
UK

Critical Success Factor
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:

General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Change Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Break Fix Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) ITSM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Transformation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Map
3 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Culture Change
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Network Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Register
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Ticket Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Dell Certification
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) BMC
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft