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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 167 160
Rank change year-on-year +49 -7 +23
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 831 918 1,636
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 1.53% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 1.70% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 575 1,079
10th Percentile £274 £350 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% +12.23%
75th Percentile £612 £638 £630
90th Percentile £745 £739 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £486 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +3.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 69 33
10th Percentile £15.13 £24.67 £13.05
25th Percentile £24.88 £36.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +151.98% +4.12%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £47.75
90th Percentile £51.50 £84.00 £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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +60 705 £500 -9.09% 1,111
UK excluding London +57 435 £486 -5.58% 701
London +52 321 £500 -9.09% 447
Work from Home +40 252 £500 -1.23% 545
South East +33 118 £482 -19.67% 201
East of England +46 80 £425 -19.05% 76
North of England +22 71 £500 -5.21% 175
Scotland +31 58 £490 +3.59% 47
Midlands +46 57 £425 -8.80% 107
North West +19 41 £475 -13.64% 101
South West +13 40 £575 +4.55% 86
West Midlands +36 33 £538 +7.50% 64
Yorkshire +17 27 £611 +16.38% 58
East Midlands +17 21 £400 +6.67% 44
Wales +8 6 £425 -12.37% 14
North East +9 3 £625 +56.25% 18
Northern Ireland +8 3 - - 12
Isle of Man - 3 - - 1

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 30 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.37%) Confluence
3 15 (1.81%) CMS
4 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.60%) ArcGIS
5 5 (0.60%) Luigi
6 4 (0.48%) 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 (6.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 10 (1.20%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.08%) Sketch
6 8 (0.96%) Photoshop
7 7 (0.84%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.60%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.48%) Adobe Captivate
9 4 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.36%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.36%) InVision
10 3 (0.36%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.36%) MS Visio
11 2 (0.24%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.24%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.24%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.24%) Windchill
12 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (2.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.20%) SAP HCM
2 10 (1.20%) SAP HR
3 8 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.48%) 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 ERP
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.12%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 90 (10.83%) Azure
2 89 (10.71%) AWS
3 38 (4.57%) Power Platform
4 36 (4.33%) GCP
5 22 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (2.17%) Serverless
8 16 (1.93%) GitHub
9 14 (1.68%) Figma
9 14 (1.68%) OpenShift
9 14 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
10 12 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
11 11 (1.32%) PaaS
11 11 (1.32%) Power Automate
12 9 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.08%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.08%) SaaS
13 8 (0.96%) Yammer
14 7 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (0.84%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.49%) Firewall
2 21 (2.53%) VPN
3 16 (1.93%) DNS
4 12 (1.44%) TCP/IP
5 11 (1.32%) HTTP
6 10 (1.20%) Network Security
7 7 (0.84%) SD-WAN
7 7 (0.84%) VSAN
7 7 (0.84%) WAN
8 6 (0.72%) Internet
8 6 (0.72%) LAN
8 6 (0.72%) Wireless
9 4 (0.48%) SSH
10 3 (0.36%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.36%) DHCP
10 3 (0.36%) Intranet
10 3 (0.36%) SSL
11 2 (0.24%) FTP
11 2 (0.24%) Remote Desktop
12 1 (0.12%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (3.61%) Power BI
2 22 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (1.93%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
5 11 (1.32%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.20%) Metadata
7 9 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
7 9 (1.08%) SQL Server
8 6 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.72%) GIS
8 6 (0.72%) NoSQL
8 6 (0.72%) Tableau
9 5 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (0.60%) Data Lake
9 5 (0.60%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.48%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.36%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 59 (7.10%) JIRA
2 39 (4.69%) Git
3 16 (1.93%) GitLab
3 16 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.56%) Selenium
5 9 (1.08%) JMeter
6 8 (0.96%) Rational DOORS
7 7 (0.84%) Mercurial
7 7 (0.84%) Travis CI
8 6 (0.72%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.72%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.60%) Liquibase
10 4 (0.48%) Postman
10 4 (0.48%) 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%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.24%) TestRail
General
1 357 (42.96%) Social Skills
2 135 (16.25%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (15.52%) Finance
4 123 (14.80%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.62%) Aerospace
6 53 (6.38%) Marketing
7 41 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
8 35 (4.21%) Telecoms
9 31 (3.73%) Legal
10 28 (3.37%) Manufacturing
11 26 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 23 (2.77%) Banking
12 23 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
13 19 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.93%) Law
14 16 (1.93%) Multimedia
15 13 (1.56%) Electronics
15 13 (1.56%) Local Government
16 11 (1.32%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 88 (10.59%) Analyst
2 79 (9.51%) Architect
3 64 (7.70%) Developer
4 59 (7.10%) Senior
5 55 (6.62%) Configuration Manager
6 53 (6.38%) Lead
7 46 (5.54%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.93%) Consultant
9 34 (4.09%) Designer
10 31 (3.73%) Data Engineer
11 29 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
12 24 (2.89%) Business Analyst
13 21 (2.53%) Contracts Manager
13 21 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
14 17 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
14 17 (2.05%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.81%) Data Analyst
15 15 (1.81%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (1.56%) Administrator
16 13 (1.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.65%) HTML
2 19 (2.29%) CSS
2 19 (2.29%) React
3 15 (1.81%) .NET
3 15 (1.81%) Node.js
4 14 (1.68%) AngularJS
4 14 (1.68%) Spring
5 13 (1.56%) JSON
6 12 (1.44%) Pandas
6 12 (1.44%) Spring Boot
7 11 (1.32%) REST
7 11 (1.32%) XML
8 10 (1.20%) Kafka
9 9 (1.08%) RESTful
10 8 (0.96%) ADO
10 8 (0.96%) Elastic Stack
10 8 (0.96%) GraphQL
10 8 (0.96%) NumPy
10 8 (0.96%) Web Services
11 7 (0.84%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 38 (4.57%) Product Ownership
2 32 (3.85%) Management Information System
3 19 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
3 19 (2.29%) Cloud Native
4 18 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 11 (1.32%) Fibre Optics
5 11 (1.32%) Social Media
6 10 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 9 (1.08%) e-Learning
8 8 (0.96%) Data Centre
8 8 (0.96%) Data Structures
8 8 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 7 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
10 6 (0.72%) FMCG
10 6 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (0.60%) Digital Media
11 5 (0.60%) iPad
11 5 (0.60%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.17%) Windows
2 22 (2.65%) Linux
3 16 (1.93%) Unix
4 10 (1.20%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.20%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.84%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.60%) Android
7 2 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 205 (24.67%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (23.71%) Agile
3 133 (16.00%) Project Management
4 81 (9.75%) DevOps
4 81 (9.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 73 (8.78%) CI/CD
5 73 (8.78%) Configuration Management
6 66 (7.94%) Change Management
7 65 (7.82%) Coaching
7 65 (7.82%) Decision-Making
8 60 (7.22%) Computer Science
9 56 (6.74%) User Experience
10 55 (6.62%) PLM
11 53 (6.38%) Roadmaps
12 52 (6.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 50 (6.02%) Risk Management
14 49 (5.90%) ITIL
15 47 (5.66%) Scrum
16 46 (5.54%) Data Analysis
17 45 (5.42%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 66 (7.94%) SQL
2 64 (7.70%) Python
3 36 (4.33%) JavaScript
4 26 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.77%) Java
6 22 (2.65%) C#
7 14 (1.68%) Bash
8 6 (0.72%) C++
8 6 (0.72%) Shell Script
8 6 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.48%) Bicep
9 4 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 3 (0.36%) PHP
10 3 (0.36%) PL/SQL
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%) Scala
12 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 124 (14.92%) Degree
2 119 (14.32%) Security Cleared
3 102 (12.27%) SC Cleared
4 42 (5.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 30 (3.61%) Master's Degree
6 20 (2.41%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.08%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (1.08%) CISSP
9 6 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.72%) CISM
9 6 (0.72%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.72%) ISEB
10 5 (0.60%) CCNP
11 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (0.48%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.48%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 3 (0.36%) NVQ Level 4
12 3 (0.36%) SAP Certification
12 3 (0.36%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.81%) QA
2 29 (3.49%) Accessibility
3 28 (3.37%) PMO
4 21 (2.53%) GDPR
5 20 (2.41%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 11 (1.32%) SLA
8 5 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.60%) NCSC
9 4 (0.48%) Disclosure Scotland
10 3 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.36%) NIST
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%) P3O
System Software
1 35 (4.21%) Docker
2 24 (2.89%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.96%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.84%) vCloud
6 4 (0.48%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.48%) 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 Workstation
Systems Management
1 50 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.65%) Terraform
3 16 (1.93%) Ansible
4 14 (1.68%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.56%) Istio
5 13 (1.56%) Kibana
6 12 (1.44%) Grafana
7 11 (1.32%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.32%) Puppet
8 7 (0.84%) Docker Swarm
8 7 (0.84%) Rancher
8 7 (0.84%) SCCM
8 7 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.72%) Argo
9 6 (0.72%) CA Service Virtualization
9 6 (0.72%) logstash
9 6 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (0.24%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.12%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 114 (13.72%) Microsoft
2 45 (5.42%) SAP
3 36 (4.33%) Oracle
4 25 (3.01%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.29%) Google
6 18 (2.17%) Salesforce
7 15 (1.81%) Adobe
7 15 (1.81%) VMware
8 12 (1.44%) BT
9 8 (0.96%) CA
9 8 (0.96%) Splunk
10 6 (0.72%) Apple
10 6 (0.72%) Cisco
10 6 (0.72%) Micro Focus
11 5 (0.60%) Databricks
11 5 (0.60%) Dell
11 5 (0.60%) ESRI
12 4 (0.48%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.48%) Freshdesk
12 4 (0.48%) Palo Alto