Trade-off Analysis Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Trade-off Analysis
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Trade-off Analysis skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 398 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Trade-off Analysis 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £675 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
75th Percentile £725 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £700 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.25 - -
Median hourly rate £72.50 - -
75th Percentile £73.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £72.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Trade-off 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 15,406 13,854 18,223
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 87.98% 84.27% 88.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,355 7,914 11,882
10th Percentile £220 £245 £250
25th Percentile £368 £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 1,759 875 1,283
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.99 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.00 £33.54 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.43% -24.63% +50.85%
75th Percentile £43.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.30 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%

Trade-off Analysis
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Trade-off Analysis job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Trade-off Analysis
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trade-off Analysis.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trade-off Analysis

Trade-off Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trade-off Analysis.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Trade-off Analysis

Trade-off 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 Trade-off Analysis within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 November 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 - 1 £700 - 2
South West - 1 - -
Trade-off Analysis
UK

Trade-off 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Simulink
1 1 (50.00%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (50.00%) Rational Team Concert
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) ArchiMate
1 1 (50.00%) Business Development
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
1 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
1 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (50.00%) MODAF
1 1 (50.00%) Physics
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Service Design
1 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Ada
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Fortran
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) MathWorks
1 1 (50.00%) VMware