Active Listening Contracts

Active Listening
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Active Listening skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Active Listening over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 545 627 825
Rank change year-on-year +82 +198 -197
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 25 63 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.059% 0.11% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.12% 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 22
10th Percentile £436 £313 £445
25th Percentile £463 £441 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -0.95% +16.67%
75th Percentile £581 £570 £564
90th Percentile £604 £704 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile £11.90 - £8.82
25th Percentile £12.20 £9.50 £9.49
Median hourly rate £13.54 £10.00 £9.74
Median % change year-on-year +35.40% +2.67% -47.35%
75th Percentile £38.44 £10.50 £21.40
90th Percentile £52.88 - £30.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.54 £10.00 £9.62
% change year-on-year +35.40% +4.00% -48.03%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Active Listening is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

Active Listening
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Active Listening.

Daily rate trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Active Listening.

Hourly rate trend for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Active Listening in the UK

Active Listening
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Active Listening within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
England +68 20 £525 - 57
UK excluding London +48 14 £475 -5.00% 35
London +75 10 £575 +9.52% 24
Work from Home +103 7 £500 - 27
North of England +32 7 £475 - 11
North West +28 6 £475 +50.79% 10
Scotland +41 4 £475 -
Midlands +32 1 - - 8
Yorkshire +18 1 £475 - 1
South West +13 1 £600 -11.11% 7
South East +12 1 - - 7
East Midlands - 1 - - 2

Active Listening
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
2 3 (12.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Serverless
4 1 (4.00%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.00%) MPLS
1 1 (4.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.00%) Git
1 1 (4.00%) GoCD
1 1 (4.00%) JIRA
1 1 (4.00%) Pa11y
1 1 (4.00%) TestCafe
General
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.00%) Banking
5 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Change Manager
2 5 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (16.00%) Scrum Master
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Test Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) IT Change Manager
4 3 (12.00%) IT Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Help Desk Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Product Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Telecoms Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) React
2 1 (4.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (4.00%) Jest
2 1 (4.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.00%) CMDB
2 2 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.00%) FMCG
3 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Agile
2 11 (44.00%) Project Management
3 9 (36.00%) Change Management
3 9 (36.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (28.00%) Collaborative Working
4 7 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 5 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 5 (20.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
7 4 (16.00%) Conflict Resolution
7 4 (16.00%) Decision-Making
7 4 (16.00%) Digital Strategy
7 4 (16.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure Automation
7 4 (16.00%) Load Testing
7 4 (16.00%) People Management
7 4 (16.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Roadmaps
7 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (8.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kibana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Nessus
Vendors
1 2 (8.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (8.00%) SAP
2 1 (4.00%) NetCracker
2 1 (4.00%) Sparx
2 1 (4.00%) VMware