SWOT Analysis Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

SWOT Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring SWOT Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 384 350 406
Rank change year-on-year -34 +56 +65
Contract jobs citing SWOT Analysis 3 8 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.054% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.019% 0.062% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 5
10th Percentile - £415 £308
25th Percentile £425 £519 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £625 £400
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +56.25% -5.88%
75th Percentile £475 £638 £500
90th Percentile - £653 £568
UK median daily rate £450 £625 £450
% change year-on-year -28.00% +38.89% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

SWOT Analysis 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 15,587 12,948 17,276
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.91% 87.17% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,513 7,612 11,167
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,768 749 1,201
10th Percentile £14.37 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £31.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.21% +39.26%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.38 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.86% +25.25%

SWOT Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

SWOT Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

SWOT Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SWOT Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

SWOT Analysis
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 SWOT Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -16 2 £450 -
Scotland - 1 - -
SWOT Analysis
UK

SWOT Analysis
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Statistics
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java