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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 125 155
Rank change year-on-year +43 +30 +9
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 865 790 964
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.00% 1.84% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 2.15% 1.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 430 614
10th Percentile £200 £267 £352
25th Percentile £333 £378 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £599 £611 £638
90th Percentile £700 £745 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -6.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 97 80
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.13 £26.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £24.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -1.96% +155.00%
75th Percentile £40.90 - £68.75
90th Percentile £61.25 £50.70 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.06 £50.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -53.88% +17.65% +136.11%

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 26,222 36,703 50,479
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.02% 85.70% 89.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,758 23,654 34,954
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £408 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,099 2,498 1,668
10th Percentile £14.19 £12.74 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.80 £16.00 £15.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 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 +44 718 £500 - 4,697
UK excluding London +42 451 £442 -6.89% 4,201
London +41 312 £525 +5.00% 1,050
Work from Home +36 254 £475 -5.35% 2,624
North of England +35 99 £425 -15.00% 979
South East +28 96 £500 +6.27% 1,154
South West +79 93 £394 -28.41% 521
Scotland +26 67 £414 -12.84% 195
North West +32 64 £500 +5.82% 479
Midlands +21 62 £425 - 721
West Midlands +41 58 £413 -28.26% 406
Yorkshire +12 30 £293 -52.97% 385
East of England -14 26 £450 +24.14% 550
Wales +6 8 £390 -8.24% 117
North East +1 5 £263 -58.00% 116
East Midlands -8 4 £494 +23.44% 274
Northern Ireland -11 2 £313 - 92

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 46 (5.32%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.82%) Confluence
3 30 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.27%) CMS
5 7 (0.81%) NetWeaver
5 7 (0.81%) SAP EP
6 5 (0.58%) Drupal
7 4 (0.46%) IIS
7 4 (0.46%) SAS
8 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.23%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.23%) WebSphere Application Server
8 2 (0.23%) WordPress
9 1 (0.12%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) Headless CMS
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle UPK
9 1 (0.12%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.12%) Umbraco
Applications
1 59 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (6.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (3.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.69%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.46%) Acrobat
6 4 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.35%) Revit
7 3 (0.35%) Sketch
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.12%) InVision
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
9 1 (0.12%) Windchill
9 1 (0.12%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 13 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.81%) Primavera
3 7 (0.81%) SAP CRM
4 5 (0.58%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 4 (0.46%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.23%) Maximo
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle iProcurement
7 2 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.23%) Shopify
7 2 (0.23%) Teamcenter
8 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
8 1 (0.12%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 124 (14.34%) AWS
2 120 (13.87%) Azure
3 67 (7.75%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (6.24%) Power Platform
5 34 (3.93%) GCP
6 29 (3.35%) GitHub
7 28 (3.24%) Entra ID
8 19 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 17 (1.97%) SaaS
9 17 (1.97%) Serverless
10 14 (1.62%) Figma
11 13 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
12 11 (1.27%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (1.27%) IaaS
12 11 (1.27%) OCI
13 10 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
13 10 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (1.16%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.16%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.43%) VPN
2 16 (1.85%) DNS
2 16 (1.85%) Firewall
3 13 (1.50%) DHCP
4 9 (1.04%) TCP/IP
5 8 (0.92%) MPLS
6 7 (0.81%) BGP
6 7 (0.81%) Network Security
6 7 (0.81%) SSL
7 6 (0.69%) OSPF
8 5 (0.58%) WAN
9 4 (0.46%) EIGRP
9 4 (0.46%) IPsec
9 4 (0.46%) IPv4
9 4 (0.46%) SD-WAN
10 3 (0.35%) Ethernet VPN
10 3 (0.35%) HTTP
10 3 (0.35%) VXLAN
10 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.35%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (5.55%) Power BI
2 22 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 20 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 11 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.27%) Tableau
7 10 (1.16%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.04%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.81%) Metadata
9 7 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.69%) Big Data
10 6 (0.69%) Power Query
10 6 (0.69%) Relational Database
10 6 (0.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.46%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.35%) MySQL
12 3 (0.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 55 (6.36%) JIRA
2 40 (4.62%) Git
3 33 (3.82%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 16 (1.85%) GitLab
5 13 (1.50%) Selenium
6 11 (1.27%) Postman
6 11 (1.27%) Visual Studio
7 10 (1.16%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.04%) Maven
9 8 (0.92%) JUnit
10 7 (0.81%) Gradle
10 7 (0.81%) SonarQube
11 4 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.46%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (0.46%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.46%) JMeter
11 4 (0.46%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.46%) TestNG
12 3 (0.35%) Newman
General
1 489 (56.53%) Social Skills
2 216 (24.97%) Finance
3 189 (21.85%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (12.95%) Public Sector
5 68 (7.86%) Organisational Skills
6 66 (7.63%) Banking
7 44 (5.09%) Manufacturing
8 39 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 38 (4.39%) Legal
10 32 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 28 (3.24%) Retail
12 27 (3.12%) Influencing Skills
13 24 (2.77%) Investment Banking
14 21 (2.43%) Marketing
14 21 (2.43%) Telecoms
15 17 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.62%) Local Government
16 14 (1.62%) Military
17 13 (1.50%) Law
18 12 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 119 (13.76%) Developer
2 103 (11.91%) Analyst
3 72 (8.32%) Architect
4 69 (7.98%) Senior
5 52 (6.01%) Lead
6 37 (4.28%) Business Analyst
7 31 (3.58%) Designer
8 30 (3.47%) Consultant
8 30 (3.47%) Project Manager
9 27 (3.12%) Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.20%) Service Manager
11 18 (2.08%) Desktop Engineer
11 18 (2.08%) Scala Developer
11 18 (2.08%) Support Engineer
11 18 (2.08%) Technical Architect
12 16 (1.85%) IT Support
13 15 (1.73%) Java Developer
14 14 (1.62%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 14 (1.62%) Security Engineer
14 14 (1.62%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (4.16%) HTML
2 28 (3.24%) Web Services
3 24 (2.77%) CSS
3 24 (2.77%) Node.js
3 24 (2.77%) React
4 22 (2.54%) Spring
5 20 (2.31%) .NET
6 19 (2.20%) AngularJS
6 19 (2.20%) REST
7 17 (1.97%) Spring Boot
8 12 (1.39%) JSON
9 10 (1.16%) OAuth
10 8 (0.92%) HTML5
10 8 (0.92%) Kafka
10 8 (0.92%) OAuth2
10 8 (0.92%) SAP PI
11 7 (0.81%) RESTful
11 7 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
11 7 (0.81%) SAPUI5
12 6 (0.69%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.75%) Management Information System
2 37 (4.28%) Product Ownership
3 33 (3.82%) Algorithms
4 29 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.12%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.89%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.39%) Life Science
7 12 (1.39%) Virtual Team
8 11 (1.27%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 9 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 9 (1.04%) CMDB
10 9 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 9 (1.04%) Driving Licence
11 8 (0.92%) Cloud Native
11 8 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
11 8 (0.92%) Security Posture
11 8 (0.92%) Social Media
12 7 (0.81%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 72 (8.32%) Windows
2 29 (3.35%) Linux
3 18 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.16%) Unix
5 8 (0.92%) Android
5 8 (0.92%) VMS
5 8 (0.92%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.69%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.23%) zOS
10 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 281 (32.49%) Problem-Solving
2 196 (22.66%) Agile
3 140 (16.18%) Project Management
4 92 (10.64%) DevOps
5 91 (10.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 82 (9.48%) Computer Science
7 81 (9.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 79 (9.13%) Decision-Making
9 78 (9.02%) ITIL
10 76 (8.79%) Migration
11 70 (8.09%) CI/CD
12 65 (7.51%) Scrum
13 62 (7.17%) Analytics
14 59 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
15 55 (6.36%) Change Management
16 54 (6.24%) Project Delivery
17 51 (5.90%) Software Engineering
18 50 (5.78%) Data Analysis
19 48 (5.55%) Risk Management
20 46 (5.32%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 96 (11.10%) SQL
2 76 (8.79%) Python
3 50 (5.78%) Java
3 50 (5.78%) JavaScript
4 29 (3.35%) C#
5 25 (2.89%) Scala
6 20 (2.31%) PowerShell
7 17 (1.97%) PL/SQL
7 17 (1.97%) TypeScript
8 14 (1.62%) Bash
9 9 (1.04%) Delphi
10 8 (0.92%) ABAP
11 7 (0.81%) Erlang
11 7 (0.81%) Perl
11 7 (0.81%) Prolog
12 6 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.46%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.46%) VBA
14 3 (0.35%) C++
14 3 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 158 (18.27%) Security Cleared
2 134 (15.49%) Degree
3 129 (14.91%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 24 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
6 22 (2.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (2.43%) CISSP
8 19 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 16 (1.85%) Master's Degree
10 15 (1.73%) DV Cleared
11 14 (1.62%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
12 13 (1.50%) PMP
13 12 (1.39%) CISM
14 11 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (0.92%) Azure Certification
15 8 (0.92%) PMI Certification
16 7 (0.81%) CCNP
16 7 (0.81%) MCP
16 7 (0.81%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (5.32%) QA
2 40 (4.62%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (2.77%) Data Quality
5 17 (1.97%) GDPR
6 16 (1.85%) SLA
7 10 (1.16%) PMO
8 8 (0.92%) NIST
9 7 (0.81%) HL7
9 7 (0.81%) WCAG
10 6 (0.69%) PCI DSS
11 5 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
11 5 (0.58%) GRC
12 4 (0.46%) Government Security Classifications
12 4 (0.46%) NCSC
13 3 (0.35%) Disclosure Scotland
13 3 (0.35%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
14 2 (0.23%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 53 (6.13%) Active Directory
2 38 (4.39%) Docker
3 17 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.58%) vSphere
5 3 (0.35%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (0.35%) RACF
5 3 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.12%) Firmware
7 1 (0.12%) OpenAM
7 1 (0.12%) OpenDJ
7 1 (0.12%) OpenIDM
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 39 (4.51%) Kubernetes
2 35 (4.05%) Ansible
3 31 (3.58%) Terraform
4 29 (3.35%) Microsoft Intune
5 15 (1.73%) SCCM
6 9 (1.04%) WSUS
7 8 (0.92%) Grafana
8 7 (0.81%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.58%) Packer
9 5 (0.58%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.35%) Kibana
10 3 (0.35%) Oracle RMAN
10 3 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.35%) Puppet
11 2 (0.23%) Dell DRAC
11 2 (0.23%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.23%) Istio
11 2 (0.23%) Nessus
12 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 186 (21.50%) Microsoft
2 61 (7.05%) SAP
3 49 (5.66%) ServiceNow
4 47 (5.43%) Oracle
5 29 (3.35%) VMware
6 27 (3.12%) Google
7 22 (2.54%) Cisco
8 17 (1.97%) Citrix
8 17 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.50%) Ariba
10 12 (1.39%) Workday
11 11 (1.27%) Remedy
12 10 (1.16%) Adobe
13 9 (1.04%) IBM
14 8 (0.92%) BMC
14 8 (0.92%) Dell
14 8 (0.92%) Splunk
15 7 (0.81%) Databricks
16 6 (0.69%) Red Hat
17 5 (0.58%) Juniper
5,173 Collaborative Working jobs Nationwide