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 27 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
27 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 465 444 465
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 +66
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 164 78 115
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.30% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 33 57
10th Percentile £393 £311 £335
25th Percentile £463 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -16.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £688
90th Percentile £725 £685 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £520 £625
% change year-on-year +2.93% -16.84% +22.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 2
10th Percentile - - £26.86
25th Percentile - £27.14 £27.05
Median hourly rate £13.10 £30.89 £27.37
Median % change year-on-year -57.58% +12.86% -
75th Percentile £54.05 £43.44 £27.68
90th Percentile £78.62 £60.88 £27.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.10 £30.89 £27.37
% change year-on-year -57.58% +12.86% -

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 41,181 26,010 36,599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.50% 91.03% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,765 16,696 23,578
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.14% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,066 2,486
10th Percentile £14.68 £14.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.73 £17.92 £16.00
Median hourly rate £41.94 £27.45 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -23.80% -2.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.69 £25.15 £37.75
% change year-on-year +69.72% -33.38% +7.86%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 -36 153 £550 +4.76% 460
UK excluding London -78 90 £535 +2.93% 317
London -27 61 £550 -4.18% 168
Work from Home -5 59 £575 +35.29% 225
South East -35 27 £661 +88.93% 95
Midlands -60 22 £475 -8.61% 45
North of England -61 19 £595 - 102
West Midlands -55 18 £475 -8.61% 28
South West -34 15 £495 -10.00% 26
Yorkshire -45 12 £595 +9.17% 32
East of England -25 7 £575 -14.81% 30
North West -37 7 £500 - 52
East Midlands - 4 - - 17
Scotland -3 3 £475 -9.52% 8
Wales -18 1 £413 +14.58% 7

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 5 (3.05%) Confluence
1 5 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.83%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.22%) Apache
4 1 (0.61%) IIS
Applications
1 17 (10.37%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.61%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 27 (16.46%) AWS
1 27 (16.46%) Azure
2 8 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.66%) Power Platform
5 5 (3.05%) GCP
6 4 (2.44%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (1.83%) GitHub
7 3 (1.83%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (1.83%) SaaS
8 2 (1.22%) Azure AI
8 2 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.22%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.22%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.22%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 2 (1.22%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.61%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 12 (7.32%) Firewall
2 9 (5.49%) Wireless
3 7 (4.27%) BGP
3 7 (4.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 7 (4.27%) OSPF
3 7 (4.27%) VLAN
3 7 (4.27%) VXLAN
4 6 (3.66%) NX-OS
5 3 (1.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.61%) ADSL
6 1 (0.61%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.61%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.61%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.61%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.44%) Power BI
2 3 (1.83%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.22%) Tableau
4 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.61%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.61%) GIS
4 1 (0.61%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.61%) Metadata
4 1 (0.61%) MySQL
4 1 (0.61%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.61%) QlikView
4 1 (0.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (6.71%) JIRA
2 9 (5.49%) Burp Suite
2 9 (5.49%) Metasploit
3 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.22%) Appium
4 2 (1.22%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.22%) GitLab
4 2 (1.22%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.22%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.61%) Hudson
5 1 (0.61%) MLflow
General
1 76 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 70 (42.68%) Finance
3 25 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 17 (10.37%) Retail
5 16 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (9.15%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (6.71%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (6.10%) Legal
9 9 (5.49%) Banking
9 9 (5.49%) Marketing
10 3 (1.83%) Spanish Language
11 2 (1.22%) Back Office
11 2 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.22%) Law
11 2 (1.22%) Local Government
11 2 (1.22%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.22%) Military
11 2 (1.22%) Social Science
11 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (18.90%) Project Manager
2 21 (12.80%) Senior
3 19 (11.59%) Analyst
4 16 (9.76%) Architect
5 15 (9.15%) Lead
5 15 (9.15%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.93%) Business Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Penetration Tester
7 9 (5.49%) Senior Project Manager
7 9 (5.49%) Tester
8 7 (4.27%) Delivery Manager
8 7 (4.27%) Product Manager
9 6 (3.66%) Coordinator
10 5 (3.05%) Data Engineer
10 5 (3.05%) Programme Manager
10 5 (3.05%) SAP Manager
10 5 (3.05%) SAP Project Manager
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.05%) Senior Business Analyst
10 5 (3.05%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.10%) VML
2 4 (2.44%) Spring
3 3 (1.83%) .NET
3 3 (1.83%) Node.js
4 2 (1.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (1.22%) OAuth
4 2 (1.22%) PySpark
4 2 (1.22%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.22%) REST
4 2 (1.22%) SAML
4 2 (1.22%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.22%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.22%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.61%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.61%) EDI
5 1 (0.61%) Great Expectations
5 1 (0.61%) JSON
5 1 (0.61%) Kafka
5 1 (0.61%) LDAP
5 1 (0.61%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.37%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 8 (4.88%) Onboarding
3 8 (4.88%) Security Posture
4 3 (1.83%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.83%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.22%) AI Agents
5 2 (1.22%) e-Learning
5 2 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) IoT
5 2 (1.22%) Learning Management System
5 2 (1.22%) PMI
5 2 (1.22%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.61%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 11 (6.71%) Windows
2 3 (1.83%) Linux
3 2 (1.22%) VMS
4 1 (0.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (35.98%) Stakeholder Management
2 55 (33.54%) Agile
3 42 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (17.68%) Continuous Improvement
4 29 (17.68%) Scrum
5 28 (17.07%) Project Management
6 27 (16.46%) Project Delivery
7 25 (15.24%) DevOps
8 24 (14.63%) Roadmaps
9 21 (12.80%) Risk Management
10 18 (10.98%) Business Case
10 18 (10.98%) Time Management
11 17 (10.37%) Business Development
11 17 (10.37%) Migration
11 17 (10.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (9.76%) PRINCE2
12 16 (9.76%) Workshop Facilitation
13 15 (9.15%) Change Management
13 15 (9.15%) Cybersecurity
13 15 (9.15%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.88%) Python
2 6 (3.66%) Java
3 4 (2.44%) SQL
4 3 (1.83%) C#
5 1 (0.61%) Bash
5 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.61%) Go
5 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.61%) R
5 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (22.56%) Security Cleared
2 33 (20.12%) SC Cleared
3 20 (12.20%) Degree
4 11 (6.71%) PMP
5 9 (5.49%) CHECK Team Member
5 9 (5.49%) CREST Certified
5 9 (5.49%) Cyber Scheme
6 8 (4.88%) Postgraduate
7 7 (4.27%) APMP
7 7 (4.27%) CSPO
8 6 (3.66%) PMI Certification
9 4 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 3 (1.83%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.22%) CISSP
11 2 (1.22%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.22%) ISEB
12 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
12 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (14.02%) QA
2 14 (8.54%) PMO
3 9 (5.49%) GDPR
3 9 (5.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 9 (5.49%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.83%) NCSC
5 2 (1.22%) COBIT
5 2 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (1.22%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
6 1 (0.61%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (1.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.61%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.61%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (5.49%) Nmap
2 5 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.05%) Terraform
3 2 (1.22%) Rancher
3 2 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.61%) Ansible
4 1 (0.61%) Argo
4 1 (0.61%) Podman
4 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.61%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (10.37%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.49%) Cisco
3 8 (4.88%) F5
4 7 (4.27%) Salesforce
4 7 (4.27%) SAP
5 3 (1.83%) Fortinet
5 3 (1.83%) Google
5 3 (1.83%) NVIDIA
5 3 (1.83%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.83%) VMware
6 2 (1.22%) Denodo
6 2 (1.22%) Foundry
6 2 (1.22%) Genesys
6 2 (1.22%) Oracle
6 2 (1.22%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.22%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.61%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.61%) Dell
7 1 (0.61%) Juniper
7 1 (0.61%) Progress
523 Commercial Awareness jobs Nationwide