Client Onboarding Contracts

Client Onboarding (Customer Onboarding)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Client Onboarding skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Client Onboarding 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 444 534 633
Rank change year-on-year +90 +99 +28
Contract jobs citing Client Onboarding 76 48 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 22 64
10th Percentile £398 £448 £313
25th Percentile £425 £481 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £588 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.40% +6.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £638 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -22.26% +4.55% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - £16.13
Median hourly rate £22.00 £12.30 £17.07
Median % change year-on-year +78.86% -27.92% -14.68%
75th Percentile £23.00 - £18.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £12.30 -
% change year-on-year +78.86% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Client Onboarding 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Client Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Client Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Client Onboarding in the UK

Client Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Client Onboarding.

Daily rate trend for Client Onboarding in the UK

Client Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Client Onboarding over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Client Onboarding in the UK

Client Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Client Onboarding.

Hourly rate trend for Client Onboarding in the UK

Client Onboarding
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Client Onboarding within the UK 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
England +91 66 £450 -25.00% 404
Work from Home +69 38 £550 +10.00% 185
London +59 36 £550 -12.00% 249
UK excluding London +67 30 £447 -22.26% 193
South West +50 9 £438 -27.08% 23
South East +44 8 £465 -9.09% 65
Midlands +26 6 £450 -10.00% 35
East Midlands +14 5 £450 -10.00% 17
North West - 3 £575 - 32
North of England - 3 £575 - 52
Scotland +6 2 £425 -25.93% 2
West Midlands +14 1 - - 16
East of England - 1 - - 20
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 - 3

Client Onboarding
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 6 (7.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
4 1 (1.32%) Apache
4 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (5.26%) Fidessa
2 2 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (19.74%) Azure
2 8 (10.53%) AWS
3 5 (6.58%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.95%) Figma
4 3 (3.95%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.95%) Yammer
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.63%) Asana
5 2 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.63%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.32%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.32%) GitHub
6 1 (1.32%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.58%) Firewall
1 5 (6.58%) Wireshark
2 3 (3.95%) FIX Connectivity
3 2 (2.63%) Broadband
3 2 (2.63%) DHCP
3 2 (2.63%) DNS
3 2 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.32%) PuTTY
4 1 (1.32%) SWIFTNet
4 1 (1.32%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.32%) Big Data
2 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.32%) HBase
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Qlik Sense
2 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (15.79%) Git
2 8 (10.53%) JIRA
3 2 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (2.63%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.32%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.32%) Maven
4 1 (1.32%) Postman
4 1 (1.32%) REST Assured
4 1 (1.32%) Selenium
4 1 (1.32%) Toad
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.32%) WebDriver
General
1 29 (38.16%) Finance
2 20 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 14 (18.42%) Banking
4 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 11 (14.47%) Telecoms
5 8 (10.53%) Marketing
6 7 (9.21%) Electronics
6 7 (9.21%) Manufacturing
7 6 (7.89%) Investment Banking
8 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (6.58%) Corporate Banking
8 5 (6.58%) Retail
8 5 (6.58%) Retail Banking
9 4 (5.26%) Back Office
9 4 (5.26%) Billing
10 3 (3.95%) Front Office
10 3 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.63%) Law
11 2 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (25.00%) Developer
2 12 (15.79%) Analyst
3 8 (10.53%) Consultant
4 7 (9.21%) Project Manager
5 6 (7.89%) Designer
5 6 (7.89%) Splunk Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Senior
7 4 (5.26%) Administrator
7 4 (5.26%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.26%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.95%) FIX Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Linux Support
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.95%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Manager
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) FastAPI
1 10 (13.16%) OpenID
2 5 (6.58%) FIX Protocol
3 3 (3.95%) Web Services
4 2 (2.63%) Kafka
4 2 (2.63%) REST
5 1 (1.32%) .NET
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (1.32%) Middleware
5 1 (1.32%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 66 (86.84%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.95%) Eurex
2 3 (3.95%) Social Media
3 2 (2.63%) CMDB
3 2 (2.63%) Credit Risk
3 2 (2.63%) Equities
3 2 (2.63%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.63%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Bitcoin
4 1 (1.32%) Derivative
4 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (1.32%) PMI
4 1 (1.32%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.58%) Linux
2 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 4 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.95%) CentOS
3 3 (3.95%) Unix
4 2 (2.63%) Rocky
5 1 (1.32%) Debian
5 1 (1.32%) Fedora
5 1 (1.32%) Solaris
5 1 (1.32%) SUSE
5 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.32%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (21.05%) DevOps
2 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (14.47%) Agile
4 11 (14.47%) Project Management
5 10 (13.16%) Application Security
5 10 (13.16%) Blue-Green Deployment
5 10 (13.16%) Programme Management
6 9 (11.84%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.84%) Observability
7 7 (9.21%) Digital Marketing
7 7 (9.21%) ITIL
7 7 (9.21%) Roadmaps
7 7 (9.21%) Wealth Management
8 6 (7.89%) Event Correlation
8 6 (7.89%) Predictive Analysis
8 6 (7.89%) User Experience
9 5 (6.58%) Analytics
9 5 (6.58%) Customer Experience
9 5 (6.58%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 18 (23.68%) Python
2 11 (14.47%) C#
3 8 (10.53%) SQL
4 4 (5.26%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.95%) Bash
5 3 (3.95%) Perl
6 2 (2.63%) Java
7 1 (1.32%) Ruby
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
7 1 (1.32%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.32%) Smalltalk
7 1 (1.32%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (19.74%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.89%) Degree
4 4 (5.26%) PMI Certification
5 3 (3.95%) PMP
6 1 (1.32%) APMP
6 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) PMO
2 2 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) EMIR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.32%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (13.16%) MIIS
2 5 (6.58%) Rundeck
3 4 (5.26%) Terraform
4 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.95%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop YARN
5 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (11.84%) Splunk
2 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.53%) SAP
3 5 (6.58%) Oracle
4 4 (5.26%) Bloomberg
4 4 (5.26%) CQG
4 4 (5.26%) ION Trading
4 4 (5.26%) Reuters
4 4 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.95%) Patsystems
5 3 (3.95%) Red Hat
5 3 (3.95%) Trayport
6 2 (2.63%) BT
6 2 (2.63%) Openreach
6 2 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (2.63%) Virgin Media
7 1 (1.32%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.32%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.32%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.32%) Remedy