Collaborative Working Contracts

Collaborative Working
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 122 165
Rank change year-on-year +44 +43 -2
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 895 826 926
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.06% 1.89% 1.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% 2.20% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 446 587
10th Percentile £220 £270 £346
25th Percentile £363 £381 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £608 £638
90th Percentile £700 £745 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £461 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -3.96% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 99 67
10th Percentile £17.44 £15.13 £33.30
25th Percentile £19.63 £24.88 £40.90
Median hourly rate £27.56 £50.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.88% -9.09% +173.73%
75th Percentile £49.06 - £72.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.50 £84.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.18 £50.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year -53.65% -1.96% +161.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Working 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +44 746 £500 - 1,601
UK excluding London +36 449 £461 -3.96% 971
London +42 342 £525 +5.00% 706
Work from Home +43 259 £500 - 802
North of England +53 104 £465 -6.95% 281
South East +27 98 £500 +4.49% 206
South West +79 85 £500 -11.11% 144
North West +38 68 £500 +5.26% 179
Midlands +28 65 £455 +7.06% 168
Scotland +11 60 £414 -12.84% 57
West Midlands +39 59 £450 -14.29% 107
Yorkshire +15 26 £413 -32.49% 82
East of England -12 24 £450 +5.88% 86
Wales +9 10 £390 -8.24% 19
North East +7 10 £425 -32.00% 21
East Midlands -5 6 £488 +21.88% 58
Northern Ireland -7 4 £313 - 20

Collaborative Working
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 50 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.69%) Confluence
3 30 (3.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.12%) CMS
5 7 (0.78%) NetWeaver
5 7 (0.78%) SAP EP
6 6 (0.67%) Apache
6 6 (0.67%) SAS
7 5 (0.56%) nginx
8 4 (0.45%) Drupal
9 3 (0.34%) Apache Airflow
10 2 (0.22%) IIS
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere Application Server
11 1 (0.11%) Facebook Platform
11 1 (0.11%) GeoServer
11 1 (0.11%) OpenROAD
11 1 (0.11%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.11%) Skype for Business
11 1 (0.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 64 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (6.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (4.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.12%) Sketch
5 9 (1.01%) Adobe XD
5 9 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
6 7 (0.78%) MS Visio
7 5 (0.56%) InVision
8 4 (0.45%) Camtasia
9 3 (0.34%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 3 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.22%) Revit
11 1 (0.11%) Final Cut Pro
11 1 (0.11%) Windchill
11 1 (0.11%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.78%) Primavera
3 7 (0.78%) SAP CRM
4 6 (0.67%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.56%) Infor LN
5 5 (0.56%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 3 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.34%) SAP Retail
7 2 (0.22%) Maximo
7 2 (0.22%) SAP CAR
7 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.22%) SAP MM
7 2 (0.22%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.22%) Shopify
7 2 (0.22%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.11%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.11%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 132 (14.75%) Azure
2 126 (14.08%) AWS
3 67 (7.49%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 35 (3.91%) GCP
6 33 (3.69%) Entra ID
7 25 (2.79%) GitHub
8 21 (2.35%) Figma
9 20 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (1.90%) Serverless
11 16 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (1.79%) SaaS
12 13 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.45%) Yammer
13 12 (1.34%) IaaS
13 12 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
14 11 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.12%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.01%) VPN
2 17 (1.90%) DNS
3 16 (1.79%) Firewall
4 15 (1.68%) Radio Access Network
5 14 (1.56%) 4G
5 14 (1.56%) 5G
5 14 (1.56%) DHCP
6 12 (1.34%) 5G NR
6 12 (1.34%) LTE
7 11 (1.23%) Network Security
8 10 (1.12%) BGP
8 10 (1.12%) TCP/IP
9 9 (1.01%) OSPF
10 8 (0.89%) MPLS
11 6 (0.67%) WAN
12 5 (0.56%) SSL
13 4 (0.45%) EIGRP
13 4 (0.45%) IPsec
13 4 (0.45%) IPv4
13 4 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.03%) Power BI
2 26 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (2.23%) SQL Server
4 15 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
5 14 (1.56%) NoSQL
6 13 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
7 10 (1.12%) MongoDB
7 10 (1.12%) Oracle Database
8 9 (1.01%) Tableau
9 8 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
9 8 (0.89%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.78%) Power Query
11 6 (0.67%) Metadata
11 6 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.56%) Big Data
12 5 (0.56%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (0.45%) DynamoDB
13 4 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 51 (5.70%) JIRA
2 32 (3.58%) Git
3 26 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.79%) GitLab
5 15 (1.68%) Cucumber
6 12 (1.34%) Postman
6 12 (1.34%) Selenium
7 11 (1.23%) Visual Studio
8 9 (1.01%) Maven
9 8 (0.89%) JUnit
10 6 (0.67%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.56%) Gradle
12 4 (0.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 4 (0.45%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.45%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.45%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.45%) JMeter
12 4 (0.45%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.45%) TestNG
General
1 491 (54.86%) Social Skills
2 210 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
3 208 (23.24%) Finance
4 117 (13.07%) Public Sector
5 72 (8.04%) Organisational Skills
6 62 (6.93%) Banking
7 48 (5.36%) Manufacturing
8 40 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
9 34 (3.80%) Telecoms
10 32 (3.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 30 (3.35%) Retail
12 29 (3.24%) Legal
13 27 (3.02%) Marketing
14 24 (2.68%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (2.68%) Investment Banking
15 18 (2.01%) Military
16 15 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
16 15 (1.68%) Local Government
17 13 (1.45%) Law
18 12 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 114 (12.74%) Developer
2 107 (11.96%) Analyst
3 70 (7.82%) Architect
4 67 (7.49%) Senior
5 55 (6.15%) Lead
6 46 (5.14%) Consultant
7 33 (3.69%) Business Analyst
8 32 (3.58%) Designer
9 30 (3.35%) Project Manager
9 30 (3.35%) Solutions Architect
10 20 (2.23%) Service Manager
11 18 (2.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
12 17 (1.90%) Cloud Engineer
12 17 (1.90%) IT Support
12 17 (1.90%) Scala Developer
12 17 (1.90%) Technical Architect
13 16 (1.79%) Change Analyst
13 16 (1.79%) Desktop Engineer
13 16 (1.79%) Senior Developer
14 15 (1.68%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.02%) HTML
2 29 (3.24%) React
3 27 (3.02%) CSS
4 25 (2.79%) Web Services
5 24 (2.68%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.57%) Spring
7 19 (2.12%) Node.js
7 19 (2.12%) REST
8 18 (2.01%) .NET
8 18 (2.01%) Spring Boot
9 13 (1.45%) Kafka
10 12 (1.34%) JSON
11 9 (1.01%) OAuth
11 9 (1.01%) SAP PI
12 8 (0.89%) HTML5
12 8 (0.89%) SAP Fiori
12 8 (0.89%) SAPUI5
13 7 (0.78%) OAuth2
13 7 (0.78%) SOAP
14 6 (0.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 63 (7.04%) Management Information System
2 31 (3.46%) Algorithms
3 30 (3.35%) Product Ownership
3 30 (3.35%) Self-Motivation
4 25 (2.79%) Cloud Native
5 24 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
7 14 (1.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 12 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
8 12 (1.34%) Life Science
9 11 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
10 10 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 10 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 10 (1.12%) Operational Technology
11 9 (1.01%) CMDB
11 9 (1.01%) Public Cloud
11 9 (1.01%) Social Media
11 9 (1.01%) Virtual Team
12 8 (0.89%) Data Centre
12 8 (0.89%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 80 (8.94%) Windows
2 27 (3.02%) Linux
3 22 (2.46%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.01%) VMS
5 8 (0.89%) Android
5 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.78%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.67%) Unix
8 5 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.22%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (36.09%) Problem-Solving
2 208 (23.24%) Agile
3 147 (16.42%) Project Management
4 100 (11.17%) DevOps
5 96 (10.73%) Stakeholder Management
6 88 (9.83%) Computer Science
7 84 (9.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 81 (9.05%) Migration
9 80 (8.94%) Decision-Making
10 78 (8.72%) CI/CD
11 77 (8.60%) ITIL
12 66 (7.37%) Analytics
12 66 (7.37%) Change Management
13 58 (6.48%) Scrum
14 57 (6.37%) User Experience
15 54 (6.03%) Business Intelligence
16 53 (5.92%) Software Engineering
17 50 (5.59%) Project Delivery
18 49 (5.47%) Risk Management
19 47 (5.25%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 100 (11.17%) Python
2 89 (9.94%) SQL
3 48 (5.36%) JavaScript
4 47 (5.25%) Java
5 26 (2.91%) C#
6 25 (2.79%) Scala
7 19 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 14 (1.56%) PL/SQL
9 13 (1.45%) Bash
9 13 (1.45%) TypeScript
10 10 (1.12%) Delphi
11 9 (1.01%) ABAP
12 6 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.56%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.45%) C++
14 4 (0.45%) Erlang
14 4 (0.45%) Perl
14 4 (0.45%) Prolog
15 3 (0.34%) Go
15 3 (0.34%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 165 (18.44%) Security Cleared
2 142 (15.87%) SC Cleared
3 140 (15.64%) Degree
4 48 (5.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 21 (2.35%) CISSP
7 19 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 18 (2.01%) AWS Certification
8 18 (2.01%) Master's Degree
9 15 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
11 12 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 11 (1.23%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.23%) CISM
13 10 (1.12%) CCNP
13 10 (1.12%) DV Cleared
13 10 (1.12%) PMP
14 8 (0.89%) PMI Certification
15 7 (0.78%) CEH
16 6 (0.67%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.36%) QA
2 41 (4.58%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 22 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 15 (1.68%) GDPR
6 13 (1.45%) SLA
7 8 (0.89%) GRC
7 8 (0.89%) NIST
7 8 (0.89%) PMO
8 7 (0.78%) HL7
9 6 (0.67%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.67%) WCAG
10 5 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.45%) Government Security Classifications
11 4 (0.45%) NCSC
12 3 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
12 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27005
13 2 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 56 (6.26%) Active Directory
2 37 (4.13%) Docker
3 19 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.78%) vSphere
5 6 (0.67%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.34%) Oracle RAC
6 3 (0.34%) RACF
6 3 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.22%) Firmware
7 2 (0.22%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.11%) OpenDJ
8 1 (0.11%) OpenIDM
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (5.81%) Ansible
2 40 (4.47%) Kubernetes
3 36 (4.02%) Terraform
4 27 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (2.35%) SCCM
6 12 (1.34%) WSUS
7 8 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.78%) Grafana
9 6 (0.67%) NSN NetAct
9 6 (0.67%) Packer
10 5 (0.56%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.45%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
12 3 (0.34%) Kibana
12 3 (0.34%) Oracle RMAN
12 3 (0.34%) Puppet
13 2 (0.22%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.22%) Istio
13 2 (0.22%) vRealize
14 1 (0.11%) Consul
Vendors
1 198 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 68 (7.60%) SAP
3 50 (5.59%) Oracle
4 48 (5.36%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.69%) Google
5 33 (3.69%) VMware
6 19 (2.12%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.01%) Adobe
7 18 (2.01%) Cisco
8 14 (1.56%) Citrix
8 14 (1.56%) Remedy
8 14 (1.56%) Workday
9 13 (1.45%) Ariba
10 12 (1.34%) IBM
11 10 (1.12%) Databricks
12 9 (1.01%) Ericsson
13 8 (0.89%) BMC
13 8 (0.89%) Dell
13 8 (0.89%) Red Hat
13 8 (0.89%) Splunk