TM Forum Contracts in the UK excluding London

TM Forum
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term TM Forum in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TM Forum over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 398 -
Rank change year-on-year +69 - -
Contract jobs citing TM Forum 7 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.055% 0.005% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.17% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £330 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £350 - £475
% change year-on-year - - +15.85%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

TM Forum falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,241 6,126 7,826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.22% 29.49% 32.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,608 3,665 5,276
10th Percentile £210 £210 £213
25th Percentile £363 £378 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.80% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £598 £618
90th Percentile £665 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 723 439
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.00 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.08 £28.25 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.02% +28.41% +9.64%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

TM Forum
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TM Forum as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TM Forum in the UK excluding London

TM Forum
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TM Forum in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TM Forum in the UK excluding London

TM Forum
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 TM Forum within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +52 7 £350 - 4
TM Forum
UK

TM Forum
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Camunda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 7 (100.00%) Billing
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Designer
1 5 (71.43%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) BSS Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) JSON
1 5 (71.43%) REST
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Frameworx
2 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CRM
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Business Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Customer Experience
2 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
2 5 (71.43%) Microservices
2 5 (71.43%) Service Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (71.43%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (71.43%) UML
3 3 (42.86%) Data Mapping
3 3 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) API Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (28.57%) eTOM
4 2 (28.57%) Order Management
4 2 (28.57%) Workflow
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Salesforce
1 5 (71.43%) ServiceNow