Collaborative Working Contracts

Collaborative Working
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 168 164
Rank change year-on-year +48 -4 +24
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 823 922 1,592
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 1.54% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.71% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 444 584 1,043
10th Percentile £271 £338 £363
25th Percentile £381 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +11.05%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £628
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 67 33
10th Percentile £15.13 £33.30 £13.05
25th Percentile £24.88 £40.90 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +171.74% +4.12%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £47.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £84.25 £69.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +168.42% -15.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 18 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 27 April 2024. 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 +62 700 £500 -9.09% 988
UK excluding London +65 433 £481 -3.80% 682
London +47 318 £500 -9.09% 346
Work from Home +36 253 £500 - 442
South East +43 118 £479 -20.25% 195
East of England +53 80 £425 -19.05% 77
North of England +12 70 £500 -5.66% 165
Scotland +34 58 £475 +8.57% 46
Midlands +26 57 £425 -5.56% 98
North West +12 41 £475 -13.64% 87
South West +15 39 £563 +2.27% 96
West Midlands +29 33 £538 +15.34% 59
Yorkshire +11 26 £611 +16.38% 65
East Midlands +22 21 £400 +6.67% 40
Wales +10 6 £425 -12.37% 16
North East +12 3 £625 +56.25% 16
Northern Ireland +10 3 - - 12
Isle of Man - 3 - -

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 31 (3.77%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.40%) Confluence
3 15 (1.82%) CMS
4 11 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.61%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.61%) Luigi
6 4 (0.49%) Appian
7 3 (0.36%) Apache
8 2 (0.24%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.24%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 51 (6.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (3.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.97%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.97%) Sketch
7 7 (0.85%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe Captivate
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.36%) InVision
9 3 (0.36%) MicroStation
9 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.24%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.24%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.24%) Windchill
11 1 (0.12%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (2.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.22%) SAP HCM
2 10 (1.22%) SAP HR
3 8 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.36%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 91 (11.06%) Azure
2 89 (10.81%) AWS
3 38 (4.62%) Power Platform
4 36 (4.37%) GCP
5 25 (3.04%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.19%) Serverless
8 16 (1.94%) GitHub
9 14 (1.70%) OpenShift
9 14 (1.70%) SuccessFactors
10 13 (1.58%) Figma
11 12 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.34%) PaaS
12 11 (1.34%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.22%) Yammer
14 9 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.09%) PowerApps
14 9 (1.09%) SaaS
15 8 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (0.85%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.65%) Firewall
2 21 (2.55%) VPN
3 15 (1.82%) DNS
4 13 (1.58%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.22%) HTTP
6 9 (1.09%) Network Security
7 7 (0.85%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.85%) VSAN
7 7 (0.85%) WAN
7 7 (0.85%) Wireless
8 6 (0.73%) Internet
8 6 (0.73%) LAN
9 4 (0.49%) SSH
10 3 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.36%) Intranet
10 3 (0.36%) SSL
11 2 (0.24%) Broadband
11 2 (0.24%) DHCP
11 2 (0.24%) FTP
11 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.65%) Power BI
2 21 (2.55%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.34%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.22%) Metadata
7 9 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (1.09%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.73%) GIS
8 6 (0.73%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.73%) Tableau
9 5 (0.61%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (0.61%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.49%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.36%) QGIS
11 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 58 (7.05%) JIRA
2 39 (4.74%) Git
3 16 (1.94%) GitLab
3 16 (1.94%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.58%) Selenium
5 9 (1.09%) JMeter
6 8 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.85%) Mercurial
7 7 (0.85%) Travis CI
8 6 (0.73%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.73%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.61%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.49%) Postman
10 4 (0.49%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.36%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.36%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.24%) Axure RP
12 2 (0.24%) Mocha
12 2 (0.24%) NUnit
12 2 (0.24%) Oracle Forms
General
1 353 (42.89%) Social Skills
2 135 (16.40%) Analytical Skills
3 127 (15.43%) Finance
4 123 (14.95%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.68%) Aerospace
6 53 (6.44%) Marketing
7 43 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (4.25%) Telecoms
9 28 (3.40%) Legal
9 28 (3.40%) Manufacturing
10 26 (3.16%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.04%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (2.67%) Banking
14 19 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.94%) Multimedia
16 15 (1.82%) Law
17 13 (1.58%) Electronics
17 13 (1.58%) Local Government
18 11 (1.34%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 86 (10.45%) Analyst
2 78 (9.48%) Architect
3 61 (7.41%) Developer
4 60 (7.29%) Senior
5 55 (6.68%) Configuration Manager
6 52 (6.32%) Lead
7 45 (5.47%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.98%) Consultant
9 33 (4.01%) Designer
10 30 (3.65%) Data Engineer
11 28 (3.40%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (2.67%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.55%) Contracts Manager
13 21 (2.55%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.07%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (2.07%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.82%) Data Analyst
15 15 (1.82%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (1.58%) Administrator
17 12 (1.46%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.55%) HTML
2 18 (2.19%) CSS
2 18 (2.19%) React
3 15 (1.82%) .NET
3 15 (1.82%) Node.js
4 14 (1.70%) Spring
5 13 (1.58%) AngularJS
5 13 (1.58%) JSON
6 12 (1.46%) Pandas
6 12 (1.46%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.34%) XML
8 10 (1.22%) REST
9 9 (1.09%) Kafka
10 8 (0.97%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.97%) GraphQL
10 8 (0.97%) NumPy
10 8 (0.97%) RESTful
11 7 (0.85%) ADO
11 7 (0.85%) SciPy
11 7 (0.85%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.50%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.89%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (2.31%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.07%) Onboarding
5 11 (1.34%) Fibre Optics
5 11 (1.34%) Social Media
6 10 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (1.09%) Data Centre
7 9 (1.09%) e-Learning
7 9 (1.09%) Security Posture
8 8 (0.97%) Data Structures
8 8 (0.97%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.73%) FMCG
10 6 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.61%) iPad
11 5 (0.61%) iPhone
11 5 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.10%) Windows
2 20 (2.43%) Linux
3 16 (1.94%) Unix
4 11 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.09%) Windows Server
6 7 (0.85%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.61%) Android
8 3 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (23.45%) Agile
3 137 (16.65%) Project Management
4 80 (9.72%) DevOps
5 79 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
6 73 (8.87%) CI/CD
6 73 (8.87%) Configuration Management
7 65 (7.90%) Change Management
7 65 (7.90%) Coaching
8 64 (7.78%) Decision-Making
9 58 (7.05%) Computer Science
10 55 (6.68%) PLM
11 54 (6.56%) Roadmaps
12 53 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (6.44%) User Experience
13 50 (6.08%) Risk Management
14 47 (5.71%) ITIL
15 45 (5.47%) Business Intelligence
15 45 (5.47%) Data Analysis
16 44 (5.35%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (7.78%) SQL
2 60 (7.29%) Python
3 35 (4.25%) JavaScript
4 27 (3.28%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.67%) Java
6 21 (2.55%) C#
7 14 (1.70%) Bash
8 6 (0.73%) C++
8 6 (0.73%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.73%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.49%) Bicep
9 4 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 4 (0.49%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.36%) PHP
10 3 (0.36%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.24%) ABAP
11 2 (0.24%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.24%) Ruby
12 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (14.58%) Degree
2 116 (14.09%) Security Cleared
3 100 (12.15%) SC Cleared
4 41 (4.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.65%) Master's Degree
6 18 (2.19%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.09%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.09%) CISSP
9 6 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.73%) CISM
9 6 (0.73%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.73%) ISEB
10 5 (0.61%) CCNP
11 4 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (0.36%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (0.36%) NVQ Level 4
12 3 (0.36%) PMP
12 3 (0.36%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.86%) QA
2 28 (3.40%) PMO
3 27 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.55%) GDPR
5 20 (2.43%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.70%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.34%) SLA
8 5 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.61%) NCSC
9 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.36%) WCAG
11 2 (0.24%) GAMP
11 2 (0.24%) GMP
11 2 (0.24%) GxP
11 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.24%) NIST
12 1 (0.12%) JSP 440
System Software
1 35 (4.25%) Docker
2 24 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 15 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.97%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.85%) vCloud
6 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.49%) NFS
7 3 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
9 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 50 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.67%) Terraform
3 16 (1.94%) Ansible
4 14 (1.70%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.58%) Istio
5 13 (1.58%) Kibana
6 12 (1.46%) Grafana
7 11 (1.34%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.34%) Puppet
8 8 (0.97%) SCCM
9 7 (0.85%) Docker Swarm
9 7 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.85%) Rancher
9 7 (0.85%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.73%) Argo
10 6 (0.73%) CA Service Virtualization
10 6 (0.73%) logstash
11 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.12%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 114 (13.85%) Microsoft
2 44 (5.35%) SAP
3 35 (4.25%) Oracle
4 25 (3.04%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.31%) Google
6 18 (2.19%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.07%) VMware
8 14 (1.70%) Adobe
9 12 (1.46%) BT
10 8 (0.97%) CA
10 8 (0.97%) Splunk
11 7 (0.85%) Apple
12 6 (0.73%) Cisco
12 6 (0.73%) Micro Focus
13 5 (0.61%) Dell
13 5 (0.61%) ESRI
14 4 (0.49%) Atlassian
14 4 (0.49%) F5
14 4 (0.49%) IBM
14 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto