SOTI Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SOTI
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 SOTI products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOTI over the 6 months leading up to 13 August 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 SOTI, Inc.

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 351 364
Rank change year-on-year -111 +13 +58
Contract jobs citing SOTI 1 7 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.046% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.009% 0.096% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 2
10th Percentile - £479 -
25th Percentile £281 £489 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £560 £350
Median % change year-on-year -44.20% +60.00% +75.00%
75th Percentile £344 - £375
90th Percentile - £560 -
UK median daily rate £313 £555 £350
% change year-on-year -43.69% +58.57% +75.00%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

SOTI 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 11,031 7,302 7,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.35% 47.81% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,727 4,469 4,817
10th Percentile £285 £224 £216
25th Percentile £403 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £590 £580 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 596 726
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.20 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £16.84 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £21.29 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.36% -23.96% -18.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.39 £61.60
90th Percentile £83.54 £68.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.95%

SOTI
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SOTI job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SOTI
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SOTI
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SOTI
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 SOTI within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 August 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
Yorkshire - 1 £313 - 1
North of England - 1 £313 - 1
SOTI
UK

SOTI
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) IT Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Logistics
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Ticket Management
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) MobiControl
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Xerox