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

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 388 425
Rank change year-on-year +60 +37 +59
Contract jobs citing Deadline-Driven 11 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.030% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.035% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 11
10th Percentile £146 £383 -
25th Percentile £200 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -35.88% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £422 £444 £500
90th Percentile £497 £448 £510
UK median daily rate £273 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -31.88% -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 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £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 £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

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 21 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 21 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 - 4 £422 - 16
South East +41 3 £138 -67.65% 17
Midlands +17 3 £200 - 12
West Midlands +11 3 £200 - 10
North East - 2 £440 - 1
North West - 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 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (18.18%) Trello
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe Premiere
3 1 (9.09%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Asana
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
2 1 (9.09%) OCI
2 1 (9.09%) Smartsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Legal
4 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Marketing
4 3 (27.27%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Coordinator
1 4 (36.36%) Project Coordinator
2 2 (18.18%) Business Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Business Operations Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Operations Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Creative Strategist
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Service Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Operations Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Service Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Photography
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Project Management
2 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (36.36%) Time Management
3 3 (27.27%) Budgeting
3 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Project Governance
3 3 (27.27%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Register
4 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Commercialisation
4 2 (18.18%) ERP
4 2 (18.18%) Product Management
4 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
5 1 (9.09%) Agile
5 1 (9.09%) Change Management
5 1 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) PMI Certification
2 2 (18.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Civica
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle