JDA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

JDA
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 JDA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited JDA over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 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 JDA Software Group.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 383 - 408
Rank change year-on-year - - +75
Contract jobs citing JDA 4 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.022% - 0.020%
As % of the Vendors category 0.047% - 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £473 - £514
25th Percentile £506 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.07%
75th Percentile £600 - £575
90th Percentile £645 - £586
UK median daily rate £550 £800 £800
% change year-on-year -31.25% - +50.94%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

JDA 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 8,492 6,839 9,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.80% 46.04% 47.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,501 4,089 5,846
10th Percentile £220 £213 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% - +0.91%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 670 366 519
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.40 £17.88
Median hourly rate £21.97 £25.86 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -42.79% +100.93%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.44 £62.50
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.55
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

JDA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

JDA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

JDA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

JDA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing JDA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for JDA in the UK excluding London

JDA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

JDA
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 JDA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
South East - 4 £550 -
JDA
UK

JDA
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 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Logistics
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) HP