ICL Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ICL
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 ICL products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ICL over the 6 months leading up to 14 November 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 International Computers Ltd.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 392 364 -
Rank change year-on-year -28 - -
Contract jobs citing ICL 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.012% 0.006% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.024% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £550 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

ICL 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 8,287 7,513 9,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 47.68% 44.91% 47.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,317 4,354 6,257
10th Percentile £220 £223 £210
25th Percentile £368 £392 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 662 437 521
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.39 £15.98 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £28.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -20.30% -36.00% +98.86%
75th Percentile £39.31 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £71.50 £70.00 £74.37
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.90
% change year-on-year -17.90% -30.64% +75.60%

ICL
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ICL job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ICL
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ICL
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ICL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ICL

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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 ICL within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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 - 1 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 £550 -
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UK

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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:

Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) VME
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Structured Programming
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Fujitsu