SmartStream Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SmartStream
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 SmartStream products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SmartStream over the 6 months leading up to 3 March 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 SmartStream.

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 425 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing SmartStream 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.010% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.022% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - -
UK median daily rate £553 - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

SmartStream 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 9,145 6,230 9,387
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 43.93% 47.95% 44.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,917 3,893 5,796
10th Percentile £250 £213 £208
25th Percentile £400 £370 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - -
75th Percentile £588 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 779 328 819
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.62 £12.44
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.22 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £27.43 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% +9.70% -23.08%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.06
90th Percentile £74.26 £81.16 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%

SmartStream
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SmartStream job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SmartStream
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SmartStream
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SmartStream
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 SmartStream within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 March 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 - 2 £358 -
SmartStream
UK

SmartStream
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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) IntelliMatch
1 2 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mapping
1 2 (100.00%) Data Matching
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 20022
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 8583
1 2 (100.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Alteryx
1 2 (100.00%) FIS
1 2 (100.00%) Fiserv
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle