RIMES Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

RIMES
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 RIMES products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RIMES over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, 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 the RIMES Technologies Corporation.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 428 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RIMES 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.010% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

RIMES 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 9,685 6,211 8,880
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.88% 48.73% 42.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,230 3,969 5,384
10th Percentile £273 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 417 913
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.84 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.44 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year +11.62% +12.72% -45.74%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £59.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.78%

RIMES
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

RIMES job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

RIMES
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

RIMES
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 RIMES within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2026. 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 - -
RIMES
UK

RIMES
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle