Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends

Commercial Awareness
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
17 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 462 479 474
Rank change year-on-year +17 -5 +32
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 222 80 99
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.41% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.27% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 41 32
10th Percentile £450 £319 £401
25th Percentile £494 £492 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £520 £531
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -2.16% -11.46%
75th Percentile £689 £600 £719
90th Percentile £793 £688 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £453
% change year-on-year -3.80% +14.80% -4.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 8
10th Percentile £13.10 - -
25th Percentile £17.89 £27.14 -
Median hourly rate £44.74 £32.50 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.66% +16.07% -53.33%
75th Percentile £75.94 £43.25 £30.19
90th Percentile £80.03 £50.30 £36.82
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.74 £32.50 £28.00
% change year-on-year +37.66% +16.07% -53.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Commercial Awareness 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 46,183 29,816 32,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 90.52% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,080 18,531 20,147
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
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 £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,092 1,799 1,460
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.25 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.42 £17.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.50 £44.68 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.71 £22.63 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.31% -47.37% +5.81%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Commercial Awareness over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the UK over the 6 months to 17 September 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 0 210 £572 +10.05% 1,533
London -15 104 £600 +3.81% 612
UK excluding London -66 95 £500 -3.80% 1,062
Work from Home -3 69 £600 +9.09% 669
North of England -70 26 £507 -3.15% 251
Midlands -41 22 £475 -8.61% 194
South East -55 19 £600 +17.07% 294
South West -35 17 £495 -1.00% 80
Yorkshire -41 16 £475 -4.04% 91
West Midlands -50 16 £475 -8.61% 133
East of England -20 12 £493 -27.04% 113
North West -35 10 £525 - 140
East Midlands - 6 £475 - 61
Scotland - 3 £488 - 67
Wales -13 1 £500 +90.48% 18

Commercial Awareness
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 10 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.60%) Confluence
3 3 (1.35%) Apache
3 3 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.80%) Trello
4 3 (1.35%) CPLEX
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.45%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) Cloudability
1 2 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.90%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.45%) Endur
2 1 (0.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.45%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.45%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.32%) Azure
2 28 (12.61%) AWS
3 15 (6.76%) Power Platform
4 14 (6.31%) GCP
5 13 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Copilot
7 7 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (3.15%) SaaS
8 6 (2.70%) Azure AI
9 5 (2.25%) Copilot Studio
9 5 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.80%) Asana
10 4 (1.80%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.35%) Snowflake
12 2 (0.90%) GitHub
12 2 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.90%) Nutanix
12 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.15%) BGP
1 7 (3.15%) Cisco Nexus
1 7 (3.15%) OSPF
1 7 (3.15%) VLAN
1 7 (3.15%) VXLAN
2 6 (2.70%) NX-OS
3 2 (0.90%) Network Security
4 1 (0.45%) Broadband
4 1 (0.45%) Internet
4 1 (0.45%) IPv4
4 1 (0.45%) IPv6
4 1 (0.45%) RTP
4 1 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.60%) Power BI
2 6 (2.70%) Metadata
3 4 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.90%) Big Data
5 2 (0.90%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.90%) MySQL
5 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
5 2 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.90%) Tableau
6 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.45%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (9.01%) JIRA
2 2 (0.90%) Hudson
3 1 (0.45%) Git
3 1 (0.45%) MLflow
3 1 (0.45%) QADirector
3 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.45%) TestDirector
3 1 (0.45%) Zephyr
General
1 107 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 83 (37.39%) Finance
3 35 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (14.41%) Public Sector
5 22 (9.91%) Influencing Skills
6 19 (8.56%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (8.56%) Retail
7 16 (7.21%) Legal
8 14 (6.31%) Marketing
9 12 (5.41%) Banking
10 10 (4.50%) Telecoms
11 9 (4.05%) Law
12 8 (3.60%) Military
12 8 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.70%) Manufacturing
13 6 (2.70%) Social Science
14 5 (2.25%) Billing
15 4 (1.80%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (18.47%) Senior
2 36 (16.22%) Project Manager
3 24 (10.81%) Senior Manager
4 22 (9.91%) Architect
5 17 (7.66%) Lead
6 12 (5.41%) Analyst
6 12 (5.41%) Consultant
7 11 (4.95%) Product Manager
7 11 (4.95%) Senior Project Manager
8 8 (3.60%) Product Owner
9 7 (3.15%) Data Manager
9 7 (3.15%) Programme Director
10 6 (2.70%) Business Analyst
10 6 (2.70%) Commercial Officer
10 6 (2.70%) Coordinator
10 6 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (2.70%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (2.70%) Technical Manager
11 5 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
11 5 (2.25%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.80%) PySpark
1 4 (1.80%) VML
2 3 (1.35%) Kafka
2 3 (1.35%) Terraform
3 2 (0.90%) .NET
3 2 (0.90%) PyTorch
3 2 (0.90%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.45%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.45%) ADO
4 1 (0.45%) EDI
4 1 (0.45%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.45%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.45%) LangChain
4 1 (0.45%) LDAP
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.45%) React
4 1 (0.45%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.45%) Spark Streaming
4 1 (0.45%) WebAuthn
4 1 (0.45%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 22 (9.91%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.21%) Data Centre
3 11 (4.95%) Onboarding
4 8 (3.60%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.25%) AI Agents
5 5 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.80%) CMDB
6 4 (1.80%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.35%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.90%) Distributed Computing
8 2 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.35%) Windows
2 1 (0.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (56.76%) Stakeholder Management
2 80 (36.04%) Agile
3 55 (24.77%) Problem-Solving
4 48 (21.62%) Roadmaps
5 46 (20.72%) Continuous Improvement
6 42 (18.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 40 (18.02%) Decision-Making
8 39 (17.57%) Project Management
9 37 (16.67%) AI
10 34 (15.32%) Project Delivery
11 30 (13.51%) Analytics
12 29 (13.06%) Risk Management
13 27 (12.16%) Change Management
14 26 (11.71%) Strategic Thinking
15 25 (11.26%) PRINCE2
16 24 (10.81%) Budget Management
16 24 (10.81%) Business Case
16 24 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
17 22 (9.91%) Business Strategy
17 22 (9.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.31%) Python
2 12 (5.41%) SQL
3 2 (0.90%) Bash
3 2 (0.90%) C#
3 2 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (0.90%) Java
3 2 (0.90%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.90%) R
4 1 (0.45%) Go
4 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.45%) Scala
4 1 (0.45%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (27.48%) Security Cleared
2 41 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 16 (7.21%) Degree
4 8 (3.60%) DV Cleared
4 8 (3.60%) PMP
5 6 (2.70%) CSPO
5 6 (2.70%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.25%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.80%) APMP
7 4 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.80%) CISSP
7 4 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 4 (1.80%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 4 (1.80%) TOGAF Certification
8 3 (1.35%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.35%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.35%) PhD
9 2 (0.90%) ISEB
9 2 (0.90%) MRICS
9 2 (0.90%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.05%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.60%) PMO
2 8 (3.60%) QA
3 6 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 5 (2.25%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
5 4 (1.80%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.90%) COBIT
6 2 (0.90%) GRC
6 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
6 2 (0.90%) SLA
7 1 (0.45%) Basel III
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS
7 1 (0.45%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.45%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 47 (21.17%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.05%) Cisco
2 9 (4.05%) Salesforce
2 9 (4.05%) ServiceNow
3 7 (3.15%) F5
4 6 (2.70%) Databricks
4 6 (2.70%) Foundry
4 6 (2.70%) Google
4 6 (2.70%) Oracle
4 6 (2.70%) SAP
5 5 (2.25%) IBM
6 3 (1.35%) VMware
7 2 (0.90%) Citrix
7 2 (0.90%) Cognos
7 2 (0.90%) Dell
7 2 (0.90%) Genesys
7 2 (0.90%) JD Edwards
7 2 (0.90%) NEC
7 2 (0.90%) Snow
7 2 (0.90%) Veritas
1,795 Commercial Awareness jobs Nationwide