Onboarding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 188 221
Rank change year-on-year +68 +33 +30
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 269 230 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.11% 1.11% 1.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.34% 3.75% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 158 208
10th Percentile £250 £243 £229
25th Percentile £364 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +5.37%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £650
90th Percentile £638 £689 £721
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 20 2
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.48 £19.03
25th Percentile £14.18 £14.00 £20.19
Median hourly rate £21.70 £17.00 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -25.27% +13.75%
75th Percentile £45.00 £30.06 £25.69
90th Percentile £80.05 £30.38 £27.08
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £20.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year +39.51% -53.98% +120.00%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
South East +83 99 £495 -13.73% 340
North of England +41 71 £500 -4.76% 250
Midlands +31 43 £550 +7.32% 144
North West +29 43 £513 -4.51% 146
West Midlands +22 33 £550 +4.76% 76
South West +25 27 £430 -18.10% 102
Scotland +7 19 £488 -2.50% 83
North East +7 15 £500 +185.71% 32
East of England +25 14 £488 +21.88% 114
Yorkshire +12 13 £350 -33.33% 79
East Midlands +12 10 £450 -3.23% 60
Wales +2 3 - - 36
Northern Ireland -6 3 £625 - 12
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 4 (1.49%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.12%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.12%) CMS
5 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.74%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.74%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.37%) Camunda
6 1 (0.37%) Confluence
6 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.86%) EngageOne
4 3 (1.12%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.37%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.37%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.87%) Azure
2 22 (8.18%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (7.43%) AWS
4 17 (6.32%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.83%) Entra ID
6 9 (3.35%) Snowflake
7 7 (2.60%) OCI
8 6 (2.23%) OpenShift
8 6 (2.23%) Oracle CX
9 5 (1.86%) Google Workspace
9 5 (1.86%) PowerApps
9 5 (1.86%) Serverless
10 4 (1.49%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.49%) GitHub
10 4 (1.49%) SaaS
11 3 (1.12%) Figma
11 3 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
11 3 (1.12%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.86%) Firewall
1 5 (1.86%) LTE
2 4 (1.49%) 3G
2 4 (1.49%) 3GPP
2 4 (1.49%) 4G
2 4 (1.49%) VPN
3 3 (1.12%) 5G
3 3 (1.12%) VSAN
4 2 (0.74%) Broadband
4 2 (0.74%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.74%) DNS
4 2 (0.74%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (0.74%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (0.74%) HTTP
4 2 (0.74%) IPv6
4 2 (0.74%) MVNO
4 2 (0.74%) Network Security
4 2 (0.74%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.74%) SAN
4 2 (0.74%) Spanning Tree
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.20%) Power BI
2 8 (2.97%) Data Lake
3 7 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.86%) Big Data
5 3 (1.12%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.12%) MariaDB
5 3 (1.12%) NoSQL
5 3 (1.12%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.12%) Tableau
6 2 (0.74%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.74%) Data Vault
6 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.74%) Metadata
6 2 (0.74%) MySQL
6 2 (0.74%) NewSQL
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.37%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.37%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.37%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 14 (5.20%) JIRA
2 10 (3.72%) Git
3 7 (2.60%) GitLab
4 6 (2.23%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.49%) Maven
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle Forms
6 3 (1.12%) Selenium
7 2 (0.74%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.74%) GCC
7 2 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.37%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.37%) JMeter
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.37%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.37%) TestRail
8 1 (0.37%) Toad
General
1 70 (26.02%) Social Skills
2 47 (17.47%) Finance
3 44 (16.36%) Public Sector
4 27 (10.04%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (7.43%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.46%) Banking
6 12 (4.46%) Legal
6 12 (4.46%) Marketing
7 10 (3.72%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (2.23%) Billing
10 5 (1.86%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.86%) Retail
11 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.74%) Automotive
13 2 (0.74%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Law
14 1 (0.37%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (8.18%) Analyst
2 21 (7.81%) Architect
2 21 (7.81%) Developer
3 16 (5.95%) Consultant
3 16 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 16 (5.95%) Lead
4 15 (5.58%) Data Engineer
5 13 (4.83%) Project Manager
6 10 (3.72%) Administrator
6 10 (3.72%) Business Analyst
6 10 (3.72%) Senior
7 7 (2.60%) Designer
7 7 (2.60%) Tester
8 6 (2.23%) Coordinator
8 6 (2.23%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (2.23%) SIEM Engineer
9 5 (1.86%) Commercial Manager
9 5 (1.86%) Support Engineer
9 5 (1.86%) Test Leader
9 5 (1.86%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.72%) REST
2 9 (3.35%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (2.60%) FastAPI
3 7 (2.60%) OpenID
4 6 (2.23%) JSON
4 6 (2.23%) Middleware
5 5 (1.86%) LDAP
6 3 (1.12%) Apache NiFi
6 3 (1.12%) Kafka
6 3 (1.12%) Node.js
6 3 (1.12%) PySpark
6 3 (1.12%) SAML
6 3 (1.12%) Web Services
7 2 (0.74%) ADO
7 2 (0.74%) Apache Axis
7 2 (0.74%) Playwright
7 2 (0.74%) React
7 2 (0.74%) SailPoint
7 2 (0.74%) Spring Boot
7 2 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (3.35%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.60%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (2.23%) CSOC
5 5 (1.86%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (1.86%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.86%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.49%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.49%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.49%) Social Media
7 3 (1.12%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.12%) e-Learning
7 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.12%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.12%) Replication
7 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.74%) Blog
8 2 (0.74%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.99%) Windows
2 19 (7.06%) Windows 10
2 19 (7.06%) Windows Server
3 5 (1.86%) Linux
3 5 (1.86%) MVS
4 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (13.38%) Agile
3 28 (10.41%) Analytics
4 27 (10.04%) Client Onboarding
4 27 (10.04%) DevOps
5 24 (8.92%) Migration
6 22 (8.18%) Project Management
7 20 (7.43%) Roadmaps
8 19 (7.06%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (6.69%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.69%) Test Automation
10 17 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (5.95%) Change Management
11 16 (5.95%) Customer Service
11 16 (5.95%) Decision-Making
11 16 (5.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 16 (5.95%) User Experience
12 15 (5.58%) Vulnerability Management
13 14 (5.20%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 29 (10.78%) Java
1 29 (10.78%) Python
2 28 (10.41%) SQL
3 22 (8.18%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.35%) C#
5 7 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.23%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.12%) Bash
8 2 (0.74%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.74%) Ruby
8 2 (0.74%) Rust
8 2 (0.74%) Scala
8 2 (0.74%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.37%) R
9 1 (0.37%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 66 (24.54%) Security Cleared
2 46 (17.10%) SC Cleared
3 16 (5.95%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (4.46%) Degree
4 12 (4.46%) DV Cleared
5 6 (2.23%) GIAC
6 5 (1.86%) APMG
7 3 (1.12%) CCNA
7 3 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.12%) CISSP
8 2 (0.74%) A+ Certification
8 2 (0.74%) CCNP
8 2 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.74%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.74%) MCP
8 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.74%) PhD
8 2 (0.74%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 11 (4.09%) PMO
3 9 (3.35%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.35%) QA
4 6 (2.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.86%) SLA
6 4 (1.49%) GDPR
6 4 (1.49%) NIST
7 2 (0.74%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.74%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 39 (14.50%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.72%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (1.86%) Docker
4 4 (1.49%) BitLocker
5 3 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.74%) Ceph
6 2 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
2 11 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (2.60%) Ansible
3 7 (2.60%) MIIS
3 7 (2.60%) Terraform
4 4 (1.49%) SCCM
5 3 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.12%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (1.12%) Packer
5 3 (1.12%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
6 2 (0.74%) Argo
6 2 (0.74%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.37%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 41 (15.24%) Virgin Media
2 36 (13.38%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.43%) ServiceNow
4 16 (5.95%) VMware
5 14 (5.20%) CyberArk
6 13 (4.83%) Oracle
7 12 (4.46%) Dell
8 9 (3.35%) Splunk
8 9 (3.35%) Wyse
9 8 (2.97%) SAP
10 7 (2.60%) Databricks
11 5 (1.86%) Google
11 5 (1.86%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.86%) Zscaler
12 4 (1.49%) CheckPoint
12 4 (1.49%) Cisco
12 4 (1.49%) Citrix
13 3 (1.12%) Fortinet
13 3 (1.12%) McAfee
13 3 (1.12%) Symantec