Kronos Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Kronos
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 Kronos products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kronos over the 6 months leading up to 27 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 Kronos, Inc.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 403 346 397
Rank change year-on-year -57 +51 +90
Contract jobs citing Kronos 1 6 8
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.005% 0.041% 0.041%
As % of the Vendors category 0.012% 0.089% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £337
25th Percentile £525 £538 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +3.37% -11.00%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £669
90th Percentile - - £703
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -13.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £14.13 -
UK median hourly rate - £14.13 -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Kronos 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 8,548 6,779 9,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 46.42% 46.01% 46.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,558 4,061 5,786
10th Percentile £220 £213 £208
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 661 359 535
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.22 £14.08
25th Percentile £17.49 £16.92 £17.72
Median hourly rate £21.50 £25.60 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -16.02% -43.38% +100.93%
75th Percentile £44.50 £59.94 £62.23
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £74.12
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.55%

Kronos
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Kronos job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kronos
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Kronos
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Kronos
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 Kronos within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Scotland - 1 £550 -
Kronos
UK

Kronos
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Payroll
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Workday