Deadline-Driven Contracts in the UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven (Deadline-Oriented)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Deadline-Driven skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Deadline-Driven over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 393 444
Rank change year-on-year +67 +51 +50
Contract jobs citing Deadline-Driven 10 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.078% 0.029% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.034% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 9
10th Percentile £146 £383 £373
25th Percentile - £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -52.94% -10.53% +8.57%
75th Percentile £422 £444 £488
90th Percentile £483 £448 £528
UK median daily rate £215 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -46.25% -15.79% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Deadline-Driven
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Deadline-Driven as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Deadline-Driven in the UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Deadline-Driven in the UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Deadline-Driven in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Deadline-Driven in the UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Deadline-Driven in the UK excluding London

Deadline-Driven
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 Deadline-Driven within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +24 4 £200 - 16
West Midlands +16 4 £200 - 15
South East +45 3 £138 -67.65% 14
North West - 2 £422 - 9
North of England - 2 £422 - 12
Wales - 1 £273 - 1
Deadline-Driven
UK

Deadline-Driven
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:

Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (30.00%) Trello
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (10.00%) Adobe Premiere
2 1 (10.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Asana
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Legal
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Coordinator
1 5 (50.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Creative Strategist
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Service Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (10.00%) Photography
1 1 (10.00%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Project Management
2 4 (40.00%) Resource Allocation
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Budgeting
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Project Governance
3 3 (30.00%) Risk Register
4 2 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Content Marketing
5 1 (10.00%) Content Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 1 (10.00%) ERP
5 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Management
5 1 (10.00%) Storyboarding
5 1 (10.00%) Storytelling
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (30.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Civica
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle