Blackboard Contract Job Trends

Blackboard
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Blackboard products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blackboard over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Blackboard, Inc.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 572 627
Rank change year-on-year +8 +55 -
Contract jobs citing Blackboard 1 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.006% 0.006% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £175
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £175

All Vendors
UK

Blackboard falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,854 16,774 21,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.62% 44.81% 44.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,774 9,874 14,016
10th Percentile £278 £290 £263
25th Percentile £404 £413 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 818 565 684
10th Percentile £14.99 £15.00 £15.21
25th Percentile £17.81 £16.85 £19.63
Median hourly rate £24.00 £33.00 £43.88
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -24.79% +82.83%
75th Percentile £37.13 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £76.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.29 £30.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.03% -29.41% +100.76%

Blackboard
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Blackboard relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Blackboard job vacancy trend in the UK

Blackboard
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blackboard.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blackboard

Blackboard
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blackboard.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Blackboard

Blackboard
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blackboard within the UK over the 6 months to 18 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
England +12 1 £575 - 12

Blackboard
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Product Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (100.00%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) B2B
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Product Operations
1 1 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG