GoldenSource Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

GoldenSource
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 GoldenSource products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited GoldenSource over the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, 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 the GoldenSource Corporation.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing GoldenSource 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.050% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 - -
75th Percentile £515 - -
90th Percentile £519 - -
UK median daily rate £510 £675 £750
% change year-on-year -24.44% -10.00% +22.45%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

GoldenSource 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 7,724 7,599 9,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.14% 44.65% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,809 4,371 6,385
10th Percentile £220 £220 £208
25th Percentile £363 £382 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £583 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 630 461 529
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.10 £15.62 £17.75
Median hourly rate £21.30 £30.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% -29.41% +100.76%
75th Percentile £35.00 £63.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.30
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

GoldenSource
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

GoldenSource job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

GoldenSource
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

GoldenSource
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 GoldenSource within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Yorkshire - 8 £501 -
North of England - 8 £501 -
GoldenSource
UK

GoldenSource
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 8 (100.00%) CSS
1 8 (100.00%) HTML
1 8 (100.00%) jQuery
2 6 (75.00%) Compass CSS Framework
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (37.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) MVC
2 7 (87.50%) Business Analysis
2 7 (87.50%) Code Quality
2 7 (87.50%) Front End Development
2 7 (87.50%) Full-Stack Development
2 7 (87.50%) OOP
2 7 (87.50%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Use Case
3 6 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 6 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (75.00%) OO
4 5 (62.50%) WFM
5 4 (50.00%) Matrix Management
6 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (12.50%) Change Management
7 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
7 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 1 (12.50%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft