Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends

Collaborative Working
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 125 126
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 1,169 754 702
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.15% 2.28% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.55% 2.52% 2.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 640 453 407
10th Percentile £262 £235 £265
25th Percentile £398 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.62%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £629
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £467 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -1.68% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 51 32
10th Percentile £13.28 £12.50 £18.33
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.35 £28.85
Median hourly rate £20.33 £20.66 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.62% -58.68% +17.65%
75th Percentile £33.50 £34.44 £51.75
90th Percentile £63.68 £81.25 £92.33
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.48 £17.29 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.67% -65.42% +22.25%

All Process & 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 45,930 29,887 32,659
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.45% 90.55% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,618 18,553 19,727
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £425 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £635 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,299 1,876 1,335
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.31 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.12 £17.30 £20.12
Median hourly rate £38.25 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.09% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.22 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.60 £65.00 £74.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.72 £22.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.52% -48.10% +1.18%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend in the UK

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 18 Contract Job 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 5 October 2026. 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 -1 1,015 £500 - 2,469
UK excluding London -11 665 £467 -1.68% 1,693
London -12 395 £525 - 1,029
Work from Home +3 337 £500 -1.96% 1,107
North of England +3 190 £423 -6.11% 415
South East -27 156 £525 -4.55% 402
Midlands +11 140 £450 -10.00% 234
West Midlands +9 123 £450 -10.00% 155
North West -6 84 £420 -6.67% 207
South West -16 79 £473 +89.00% 176
Yorkshire -3 77 £458 +1.67% 151
Scotland -4 52 £500 +8.11% 174
East of England -10 46 £410 -15.90% 164
North East -12 30 £400 -3.03% 59
East Midlands -2 17 £500 -1.96% 79
Northern Ireland +9 8 - - 77
Wales -10 7 £475 - 72
Channel Islands - 2 £525 - 1

Collaborative Working
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 44 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 42 (3.59%) Confluence
3 21 (1.80%) CMS
4 20 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.68%) WordPress
6 6 (0.51%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.43%) Apache
7 5 (0.43%) LiveCycle
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.26%) IIS
8 3 (0.26%) nginx
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) Apache Superset
9 2 (0.17%) Drupal
9 2 (0.17%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.17%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.17%) SAP EP
10 1 (0.086%) WebLogic Portal
10 1 (0.086%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (4.88%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (2.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 7 (0.60%) Navisworks
6 7 (0.60%) Revit
6 7 (0.60%) Sketch
7 6 (0.51%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.51%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) Adobe After Effects
8 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe XD
9 3 (0.26%) Trello
10 1 (0.086%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.086%) Civil 3D
10 1 (0.086%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.086%) Simulink
10 1 (0.086%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 15 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 6 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 5 (0.43%) Primavera
4 5 (0.43%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.34%) Infor M3
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
5 4 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP EHS
6 3 (0.26%) Cerner Millennium
6 3 (0.26%) Maximo
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.26%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 184 (15.74%) Azure
2 126 (10.78%) AWS
3 85 (7.27%) Power Platform
4 65 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
5 63 (5.39%) GitHub
6 57 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 48 (4.11%) GCP
8 39 (3.34%) Entra ID
9 38 (3.25%) Serverless
10 29 (2.48%) Amazon S3
11 27 (2.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (2.22%) Figma
13 23 (1.97%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.97%) GitHub Actions
13 23 (1.97%) SaaS
14 22 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
15 20 (1.71%) PowerApps
16 17 (1.45%) Power Automate
17 15 (1.28%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (2.82%) Network Security
2 32 (2.74%) Firewall
3 30 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (1.88%) DNS
4 22 (1.88%) WAN
5 19 (1.63%) LAN
6 15 (1.28%) BGP
6 15 (1.28%) VPN
7 14 (1.20%) DHCP
8 13 (1.11%) VoIP
9 12 (1.03%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.86%) Wireless
11 9 (0.77%) Ethernet VPN
11 9 (0.77%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.60%) NX-OS
12 7 (0.60%) OSPF
12 7 (0.60%) SD-WAN
12 7 (0.60%) TACACS
12 7 (0.60%) VLAN
13 6 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.96%) Power BI
2 23 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.71%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (1.45%) Metadata
5 16 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (1.11%) MongoDB
6 13 (1.11%) Relational Database
7 11 (0.94%) Data Lake
8 10 (0.86%) Geospatial Data
9 8 (0.68%) Big Data
10 7 (0.60%) Neo4j
10 7 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 7 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.60%) Tableau
11 6 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (0.43%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 74 (6.33%) Git
1 74 (6.33%) JIRA
2 37 (3.17%) GitLab
3 36 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.20%) Cucumber
5 13 (1.11%) Postman
5 13 (1.11%) Selenium
6 10 (0.86%) REST Assured
7 9 (0.77%) MSI
8 8 (0.68%) JUnit
8 8 (0.68%) Sonatype Nexus
9 7 (0.60%) JMeter
9 7 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.51%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.51%) Gatling
10 6 (0.51%) Gradle
10 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.26%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 590 (50.47%) Social Skills
2 257 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
3 255 (21.81%) Finance
4 243 (20.79%) Public Sector
5 89 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
6 71 (6.07%) Banking
7 52 (4.45%) Documentation Skills
8 51 (4.36%) Legal
8 51 (4.36%) Manufacturing
9 48 (4.11%) Influencing Skills
10 43 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 41 (3.51%) Local Government
12 37 (3.17%) Marketing
13 28 (2.40%) Law
13 28 (2.40%) Military
14 25 (2.14%) Aerospace
15 22 (1.88%) Electronics
16 19 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
17 18 (1.54%) Retail
17 18 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 138 (11.80%) Analyst
2 110 (9.41%) Developer
3 100 (8.55%) Lead
4 95 (8.13%) Senior
5 59 (5.05%) Architect
6 57 (4.88%) Business Analyst
7 55 (4.70%) Designer
8 48 (4.11%) Consultant
9 34 (2.91%) Administrator
10 29 (2.48%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.31%) Data Engineer
11 27 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (1.88%) Data Analyst
13 21 (1.80%) Project Manager
14 20 (1.71%) Coordinator
14 20 (1.71%) Software Engineer
15 19 (1.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (1.54%) Network Engineer
16 18 (1.54%) Service Designer
16 18 (1.54%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (6.07%) Terraform
2 63 (5.39%) REST
3 36 (3.08%) Kafka
4 35 (2.99%) .NET
4 35 (2.99%) RESTful
5 32 (2.74%) Spring
6 31 (2.65%) React
7 25 (2.14%) HTML
7 25 (2.14%) Spring Boot
8 22 (1.88%) Node.js
9 21 (1.80%) CSS
9 21 (1.80%) Playwright
10 19 (1.63%) JSON
11 15 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
12 14 (1.20%) XML
13 13 (1.11%) SOAP
14 11 (0.94%) .NET Core
14 11 (0.94%) .NET Framework
14 11 (0.94%) CSS3
14 11 (0.94%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 68 (5.82%) Onboarding
2 62 (5.30%) Cloud Native
3 55 (4.70%) Management Information System
4 50 (4.28%) Product Ownership
5 46 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
6 35 (2.99%) Legacy Systems
7 31 (2.65%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
9 26 (2.22%) Social Media
10 25 (2.14%) Data Structures
10 25 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.71%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.63%) CMDB
13 16 (1.37%) Life Science
13 16 (1.37%) NHS
13 16 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 15 (1.28%) Mobile App
15 11 (0.94%) Greenfield Project
15 11 (0.94%) PKI
16 10 (0.86%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 95 (8.13%) Windows
2 29 (2.48%) Linux
3 26 (2.22%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.28%) Android
6 14 (1.20%) Mac OS
7 10 (0.86%) Unix
8 8 (0.68%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.26%) Debian
11 2 (0.17%) AIX
12 1 (0.086%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.086%) Solaris
12 1 (0.086%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.086%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 355 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (29.60%) Agile
3 302 (25.83%) Continuous Improvement
4 227 (19.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 168 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 161 (13.77%) DevOps
7 156 (13.34%) Decision-Making
8 155 (13.26%) CI/CD
9 139 (11.89%) AI
10 116 (9.92%) Test Automation
11 106 (9.07%) Validation
12 97 (8.30%) Analytics
12 97 (8.30%) Migration
13 92 (7.87%) Project Delivery
14 91 (7.78%) Workshop Facilitation
15 82 (7.01%) ITIL
16 79 (6.76%) Roadmaps
17 77 (6.59%) Customer Service
17 77 (6.59%) Service Design
18 76 (6.50%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 119 (10.18%) Python
2 118 (10.09%) SQL
3 84 (7.19%) Java
4 54 (4.62%) JavaScript
5 46 (3.93%) TypeScript
6 38 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 36 (3.08%) C#
8 19 (1.63%) Bash
9 17 (1.45%) Bicep
10 15 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 11 (0.94%) Kotlin
12 9 (0.77%) C++
13 8 (0.68%) R
14 7 (0.60%) C
15 6 (0.51%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.51%) Scala
16 5 (0.43%) ABAP
16 5 (0.43%) ProC
16 5 (0.43%) Ruby
17 4 (0.34%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 327 (27.97%) Security Cleared
2 250 (21.39%) SC Cleared
3 119 (10.18%) Degree
4 48 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 41 (3.51%) DV Cleared
6 26 (2.22%) DBS Check
7 21 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
8 18 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
9 14 (1.20%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.20%) ISTQB
10 13 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.68%) BC Cleared
11 8 (0.68%) CIPD
11 8 (0.68%) HND
12 7 (0.60%) CCNP
12 7 (0.60%) CISSP
13 6 (0.51%) ACCA
13 6 (0.51%) CCNA
13 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 6 (0.51%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.53%) Data Quality
2 87 (7.44%) QA
3 74 (6.33%) Accessibility
4 45 (3.85%) GDPR
5 29 (2.48%) PMO
6 22 (1.88%) NIST
7 17 (1.45%) NCSC
8 16 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 15 (1.28%) SLA
9 15 (1.28%) WCAG
10 13 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 9 (0.77%) GRC
11 9 (0.77%) NIST 800
12 6 (0.51%) ISO 9001
13 5 (0.43%) Def Stans
13 5 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 5 (0.43%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.34%) GxP
14 4 (0.34%) IFRS
System Software
1 66 (5.65%) Docker
2 48 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 38 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.54%) VMware NSX
5 15 (1.28%) IAG
6 8 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.43%) Firmware
8 5 (0.43%) vSphere
9 4 (0.34%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 4 (0.34%) FreeRADIUS
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.086%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.086%) Dovecot
12 1 (0.086%) Postfix
12 1 (0.086%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.086%) Squid
Systems Management
1 79 (6.76%) Kubernetes
2 45 (3.85%) Ansible
3 15 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 12 (1.03%) Grafana
5 11 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (0.60%) SCCM
7 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.43%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.34%) Control-M
9 4 (0.34%) Kustomize
9 4 (0.34%) SysTrack
9 4 (0.34%) WSUS
10 3 (0.26%) Data Guard
10 3 (0.26%) Istio
10 3 (0.26%) Nessus
10 3 (0.26%) Packer
10 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.26%) VxRail
10 3 (0.26%) WMI
Vendors
1 225 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 62 (5.30%) Oracle
3 59 (5.05%) ServiceNow
4 53 (4.53%) SAP
5 46 (3.93%) VMware
6 33 (2.82%) Google
7 32 (2.74%) Cisco
8 23 (1.97%) Adobe
8 23 (1.97%) Databricks
9 21 (1.80%) Salesforce
10 20 (1.71%) Dynatrace
11 15 (1.28%) Workday
12 14 (1.20%) Nexthink
13 12 (1.03%) Citrix
13 12 (1.03%) Red Hat
14 10 (0.86%) Remedy
15 9 (0.77%) Zscaler
16 8 (0.68%) Fortinet
17 7 (0.60%) Apple
17 7 (0.60%) IBM