Swim Lanes Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Swim Lane Diagrams
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 357 418
Rank change year-on-year -10 +61 +93
Contract jobs citing Swim Lanes 4 7 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.040% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.048% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 2
10th Percentile £463 £348 £481
25th Percentile £463 £408 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £625 £538
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +16.28% +19.44%
75th Percentile £496 £638 £591
90th Percentile £498 - £604
UK median daily rate £450 £563 £595
% change year-on-year -20.00% -5.46% +32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Swim Lanes falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,926 14,507 18,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.16% 83.44% 88.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,371 8,186 12,475
10th Percentile £225 £240 £258
25th Percentile £367 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £669 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,519 1,079 1,301
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £18.15 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.32 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.49% - +73.47%
75th Percentile £40.36 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.10 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.08 £42.75
% change year-on-year -38.77% -3.91% +45.83%

Swim Lanes
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Swim Lanes job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Swim Lanes
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Swim Lanes
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Swim Lanes
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 Swim Lanes within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 October 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
West Midlands -14 1 £475 -24.00%
Yorkshire -17 1 £483 +82.08% 1
Midlands -19 1 £475 -24.00%
North of England -20 1 £483 +82.08% 1
East of England - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 2
Wales - 1 - -
Swim Lanes
UK

Swim Lanes
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Category Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Contracts Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Payments Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Payments Business Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Process Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (25.00%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Data Privacy
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GRC
1 1 (25.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow