IDERA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

IDERA
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 IDERA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IDERA over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, 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 IDERA, Inc.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 335 401
Rank change year-on-year -80 +66 +67
Contract jobs citing IDERA 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.030% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.011% 0.063% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +4.55% +15.79%
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

IDERA 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 8,840 6,306 9,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.13% 47.33% 44.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,737 3,822 5,806
10th Percentile £227 £213 £208
25th Percentile £394 £365 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £582 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 738 300 755
10th Percentile £14.40 £15.62 £12.72
25th Percentile £17.30 £19.88 £14.62
Median hourly rate £22.29 £27.13 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.82% +4.33% -11.26%
75th Percentile £57.25 £63.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%

IDERA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

IDERA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

IDERA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

IDERA
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 IDERA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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 West -30 1 £650 +13.04% 1
North of England -62 1 £650 +13.04% 1
IDERA
UK

IDERA
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Collibra
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Semaphore
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) RStudio
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) RDF
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality