PaperCut Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

PaperCut
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring PaperCut skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 393 - 406
Rank change year-on-year - - +101
Contract jobs citing PaperCut 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% - 0.014%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.11% - 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £453 - -
25th Percentile £455 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +241.46%
75th Percentile £462 - £538
90th Percentile £464 - -
UK median daily rate £459 - £165
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Systems Management Skills
UK excluding London

PaperCut falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 2,747 2,290 2,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.79% 13.73% 13.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,876 1,465 1,959
10th Percentile £255 £250 £262
25th Percentile £400 £380 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £517
Median % change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £613
90th Percentile £647 £668 £695
UK median daily rate £511 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.71% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 39 121
10th Percentile £15.87 £13.32 £17.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.15 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £34.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -26.47% -26.38% +100.78%
75th Percentile £66.88 £51.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £82.10 £74.09 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £51.25
% change year-on-year -7.69% -36.59% +102.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

PaperCut job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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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 PaperCut within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 November 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 - 3 £459 - 6
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UK

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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:

Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Autodesk
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft