Collaborative Culture Contracts

Culture of Collaboration
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Collaborative Culture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Culture 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 376 420 615
Rank change year-on-year +44 +195 +93
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Culture 147 163 103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.50% 0.37% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.43% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 119 80
10th Percentile £363 £411 £409
25th Percentile £440 £466 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £775 £840 £668
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £513
% change year-on-year +9.52% +2.34% +2.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £11.00 -
25th Percentile £23.50 £11.22 -
Median hourly rate £24.00 £11.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +102.19% - -
75th Percentile £24.50 £12.00 -
90th Percentile - £46.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £11.87 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Culture 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%

Collaborative Culture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Collaborative Culture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Culture.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Culture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Culture in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Culture.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Culture in the UK

Collaborative Culture
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Culture 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 +35 125 £550 -4.35% 2,808
London +27 84 £550 -8.33% 1,345
Work from Home +28 81 £519 -9.74% 1,428
UK excluding London +47 42 £575 +9.52% 1,757
South East +44 12 £575 +9.52% 508
North of England +13 12 £588 +6.82% 410
East of England +34 8 £519 -1.14% 222
Yorkshire +7 5 £600 +9.09% 141
South West +40 4 £750 +100.00% 217
North West +9 4 £322 -35.60% 227
North East - 3 £575 - 42
Midlands +20 2 £588 +30.56% 296
West Midlands +12 2 £588 +30.56% 155
Scotland +9 2 £404 -16.27% 97
Northern Ireland - 2 £350 - 21

Collaborative Culture
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 7 (4.76%) Confluence
2 4 (2.72%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.72%) nginx
3 3 (2.04%) Apache
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.68%) IIS
5 1 (0.68%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.68%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.72%) Adobe XD
2 4 (2.72%) Sketch
3 3 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.04%) Trello
4 2 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.36%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.68%) Oracle SCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.65%) Azure
2 19 (12.93%) AWS
3 9 (6.12%) GCP
4 8 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 7 (4.76%) SaaS
6 4 (2.72%) Figma
7 3 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.36%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (1.36%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (1.36%) GitHub
8 2 (1.36%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.36%) PaaS
9 1 (0.68%) AWS CodePipeline
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.68%) Serverless
9 1 (0.68%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.68%) 5G
1 1 (0.68%) DNS
1 1 (0.68%) Firewall
1 1 (0.68%) HTTP
1 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
1 1 (0.68%) Skype
1 1 (0.68%) SMTP
1 1 (0.68%) SNMP
1 1 (0.68%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.48%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (6.80%) SQL Server
3 8 (5.44%) Power BI
4 6 (4.08%) Tableau
5 4 (2.72%) Data Lake
5 4 (2.72%) MS Access
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (2.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (2.04%) Big Data
6 3 (2.04%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.04%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.36%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.36%) Looker
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 2 (1.36%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.68%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.68%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (6.12%) JIRA
2 8 (5.44%) QARun
2 8 (5.44%) WinRunner
3 4 (2.72%) Git
4 3 (2.04%) GitLab
4 3 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.36%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.36%) MLflow
5 2 (1.36%) Postman
5 2 (1.36%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.68%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.68%) Subversion
6 1 (0.68%) Visual Studio
General
1 81 (55.10%) Social Skills
2 65 (44.22%) Finance
3 34 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (19.05%) Banking
5 12 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (5.44%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (4.76%) Retail Banking
8 6 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 5 (3.40%) Legal
10 4 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.72%) Financial Institution
10 4 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.72%) Marketing
10 4 (2.72%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (2.04%) Front Office
11 3 (2.04%) Investment Banking
11 3 (2.04%) Retail
12 2 (1.36%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.36%) Military
12 2 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (14.29%) Analyst
2 19 (12.93%) Lead
2 19 (12.93%) Senior
3 14 (9.52%) Developer
4 9 (6.12%) Architect
5 8 (5.44%) Project Manager
5 8 (5.44%) Test Analyst
5 8 (5.44%) UAT Analyst
5 8 (5.44%) UAT Test Analyst
6 6 (4.08%) Consultant
6 6 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (3.40%) Senior Developer
7 5 (3.40%) Test Leader
7 5 (3.40%) UI Developer
8 4 (2.72%) Business Analyst
8 4 (2.72%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 4 (2.72%) IT Support
8 4 (2.72%) Senior UAT Analyst
8 4 (2.72%) Support Officer
8 4 (2.72%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.40%) Kafka
1 5 (3.40%) Middleware
1 5 (3.40%) React
1 5 (3.40%) Web Services
2 4 (2.72%) CSS
2 4 (2.72%) HTML
2 4 (2.72%) REST
2 4 (2.72%) SOAP
3 3 (2.04%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (1.36%) .NET
4 2 (1.36%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.36%) Bootstrap
4 2 (1.36%) gRPC
4 2 (1.36%) Playwright
4 2 (1.36%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.36%) SAP PI
4 2 (1.36%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.36%) Spring
4 2 (1.36%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.36%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.44%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 6 (4.08%) Data Centre
3 6 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 6 (4.08%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.72%) Market Risk
5 4 (2.72%) Molecular Biology
5 4 (2.72%) Operational Technology
5 4 (2.72%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.72%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.36%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.36%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.36%) Derivative
7 2 (1.36%) Digital Wallet
7 2 (1.36%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.36%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 17 (11.56%) Windows
2 7 (4.76%) Unix
3 6 (4.08%) Linux
4 2 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.68%) Android
5 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (43.54%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (36.05%) Agile
3 39 (26.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (23.81%) Project Management
5 32 (21.77%) DevOps
6 31 (21.09%) Continuous Improvement
7 29 (19.73%) Risk Management
8 24 (16.33%) Decision-Making
9 23 (15.65%) Collaborative Working
10 18 (12.24%) Test Automation
10 18 (12.24%) Waterfall
11 16 (10.88%) Software Testing
12 15 (10.20%) Data Protection
12 15 (10.20%) Fintech
12 15 (10.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 14 (9.52%) Mentoring
13 14 (9.52%) Strategic Thinking
13 14 (9.52%) Visualisation
14 13 (8.84%) CI/CD
14 13 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 24 (16.33%) SQL
2 15 (10.20%) Python
3 6 (4.08%) PowerShell
4 5 (3.40%) JavaScript
4 5 (3.40%) VB
5 4 (2.72%) Bash
5 4 (2.72%) C#
5 4 (2.72%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.04%) Go
6 3 (2.04%) Java
7 2 (1.36%) C++
7 2 (1.36%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.36%) Ruby
7 2 (1.36%) Scala
7 2 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.68%) Perl
8 1 (0.68%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 22 (14.97%) Degree
2 18 (12.24%) Security Cleared
3 15 (10.20%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (5.44%) PMP
5 7 (4.76%) PMI Certification
6 6 (4.08%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.36%) MBA
8 2 (1.36%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.68%) APMP
9 1 (0.68%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.68%) CISM
9 1 (0.68%) CISSP
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.68%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (14.29%) QA
2 14 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 11 (7.48%) Data Quality
4 9 (6.12%) GDPR
5 5 (3.40%) PMO
6 3 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.36%) Basel II
7 2 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (1.36%) PSD2
8 1 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.68%) EMIR
8 1 (0.68%) GxP
8 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.68%) MiFID
8 1 (0.68%) NIST
8 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.68%) SEPA
System Software
1 11 (7.48%) Docker
2 7 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.68%) Firmware
4 1 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.68%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.12%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.76%) Terraform
3 5 (3.40%) Ansible
4 4 (2.72%) Prometheus
5 3 (2.04%) Grafana
5 3 (2.04%) Kubeflow
6 2 (1.36%) Puppet
7 1 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.68%) Consul
7 1 (0.68%) Forefront Identity Manager
7 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.68%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
7 1 (0.68%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 7 (4.76%) Oracle
3 6 (4.08%) SAP
4 5 (3.40%) Citrix
4 5 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.72%) Adobe
6 3 (2.04%) Google
6 3 (2.04%) VMware
7 2 (1.36%) Commvault
7 2 (1.36%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.36%) Veritas
8 1 (0.68%) Ariba
8 1 (0.68%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.68%) Cisco
8 1 (0.68%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.68%) IFS
8 1 (0.68%) Murex
8 1 (0.68%) Pega
8 1 (0.68%) Splunk