Collaborative Engineering Contracts

Collaborative Engineering
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Collaborative Engineering skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Engineering 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 518 580 716
Rank change year-on-year +62 +136 +131
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 2 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.005% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £446
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.93%
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 - £446
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £48.56 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £48.56 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Engineering 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 Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Engineering in the UK

Collaborative Engineering
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Engineering 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 +57 2 £625 - 167
UK excluding London +62 1 £625 - 162
North of England +18 1 £625 - 32
North West +16 1 £625 - 14
London - 1 - - 22
Work from Home - 1 - - 165

Collaborative Engineering
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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Skype
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Application Security
1 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) DataOps
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Wyse