MoSCoW Contracts in the UK excluding London

MoSCoW Method
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring MoSCoW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MoSCoW over the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 380 445
Rank change year-on-year +40 +65 +42
Contract jobs citing MoSCoW 3 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.034% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.041% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 11
10th Percentile £480 - £225
25th Percentile £506 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £375 £405
90th Percentile - - £406
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £381
% change year-on-year +13.89% +18.03% -19.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

MoSCoW falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,601 17,153 20,838
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.50% 84.38% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,223 10,226 14,391
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 837 2,053 1,276
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.31 £10.93
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £25.43 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.08% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

MoSCoW
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MoSCoW as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MoSCoW in the UK excluding London

MoSCoW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MoSCoW in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MoSCoW in the UK excluding London

MoSCoW
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 MoSCoW within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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 - 2 £550 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £550 - 1
Scotland - 1 £475 -
MoSCoW
UK

MoSCoW
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Business Process Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) SIEM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST