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 3 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

3 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 369 344 340
Rank change year-on-year -25 -4 +49
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 106 44 59
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.28% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.31% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 26 17
10th Percentile £428 £307 £409
25th Percentile £493 £495 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.82% +3.95% -16.67%
75th Percentile £687 £597 £700
90th Percentile £748 £706 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £520 £513
% change year-on-year +1.01% +1.41% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £27.14 -
Median hourly rate £13.10 £29.27 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.24% +4.54% -
75th Percentile £48.05 £37.33 -
90th Percentile £69.02 £40.88 £31.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £13.10 £29.27 £28.00
% change year-on-year -55.24% +4.54% -

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 22,915 14,313 16,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 84.67% 90.96% 84.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,058 8,806 10,326
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £402 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £735 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 827 913
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.13 £14.59
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.33 £21.37
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% +20.22%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £69.69
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £22.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +95.38% -55.00% +63.72%

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 3 months to 23 June 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 3 months to 23 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the UK

Commercial Awareness
Top 14 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 3 months to 23 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 3 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -30 102 £550 +5.82% 436
UK excluding London -60 52 £525 +1.01% 345
London -18 46 £600 +20.00% 146
Work from Home -13 36 £600 +88.09% 191
North of England -53 15 £525 -11.76% 81
South East -40 12 £631 +20.24% 123
Midlands -31 11 £475 -8.61% 66
Yorkshire -29 10 £450 -17.43% 25
South West -26 9 £495 -1.00% 28
West Midlands -35 9 £475 -8.61% 34
East of England -11 6 £506 -25.00% 38
North West -33 5 £525 - 42
East Midlands - 2 - - 32
Scotland - 1 £450 - 5

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 6 (3.24%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.70%) Confluence
3 4 (2.16%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.08%) Apache
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (3.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.54%) CPLEX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.54%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.22%) AWS
1 30 (16.22%) Azure
2 11 (5.95%) Power Platform
3 9 (4.86%) GCP
3 9 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.78%) Microsoft Copilot
5 6 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.70%) Azure AI
6 5 (2.70%) SaaS
7 4 (2.16%) Copilot Studio
7 4 (2.16%) PowerApps
8 3 (1.62%) GitHub
8 3 (1.62%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 2 (1.08%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.08%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
10 1 (0.54%) Amazon SageMaker
10 1 (0.54%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.54%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.78%) BGP
1 7 (3.78%) Cisco Nexus
1 7 (3.78%) OSPF
1 7 (3.78%) VLAN
1 7 (3.78%) VXLAN
2 6 (3.24%) Firewall
2 6 (3.24%) NX-OS
2 6 (3.24%) Wireless
3 3 (1.62%) WAN
4 1 (0.54%) ADSL
4 1 (0.54%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.54%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.24%) Power BI
2 3 (1.62%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.62%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.62%) Tableau
3 2 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (0.54%) Big Data
4 1 (0.54%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.54%) GIS
4 1 (0.54%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.54%) MySQL
4 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.54%) QlikView
4 1 (0.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (6.49%) JIRA
2 6 (3.24%) Burp Suite
2 6 (3.24%) Metasploit
3 4 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.08%) Appium
4 2 (1.08%) IBM UrbanCode
4 2 (1.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.54%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.54%) GitLab
5 1 (0.54%) Hudson
5 1 (0.54%) MLflow
5 1 (0.54%) QADirector
5 1 (0.54%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.54%) Zephyr
General
1 80 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 76 (41.08%) Finance
3 31 (16.76%) Public Sector
4 20 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (9.73%) Retail
6 17 (9.19%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (7.03%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (5.95%) Legal
8 11 (5.95%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (4.86%) Banking
10 7 (3.78%) Marketing
11 6 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.70%) Law
12 5 (2.70%) Social Science
13 4 (2.16%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.16%) Military
14 3 (1.62%) Back Office
14 3 (1.62%) Local Government
14 3 (1.62%) Spanish Language
15 2 (1.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (17.30%) Project Manager
2 27 (14.59%) Senior
3 19 (10.27%) Analyst
3 19 (10.27%) Architect
4 17 (9.19%) Lead
4 17 (9.19%) Senior Manager
5 12 (6.49%) Business Analyst
6 9 (4.86%) Delivery Manager
6 9 (4.86%) Senior Project Manager
7 6 (3.24%) Coordinator
7 6 (3.24%) IT Manager
7 6 (3.24%) Penetration Tester
7 6 (3.24%) Tester
8 5 (2.70%) Data Engineer
8 5 (2.70%) Product Manager
8 5 (2.70%) Programme Director
8 5 (2.70%) Programme Manager
8 5 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
8 5 (2.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.32%) VML
2 4 (2.16%) .NET
3 3 (1.62%) Node.js
3 3 (1.62%) PySpark
3 3 (1.62%) Spring
4 2 (1.08%) EDI
4 2 (1.08%) Kafka
4 2 (1.08%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.08%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.08%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.54%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.54%) ADO
5 1 (0.54%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.54%) JSON
5 1 (0.54%) LDAP
5 1 (0.54%) OAuth
5 1 (0.54%) React
5 1 (0.54%) SAML
5 1 (0.54%) Spark Streaming
5 1 (0.54%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.65%) Product Ownership
2 11 (5.95%) Data Centre
3 9 (4.86%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.70%) Security Posture
5 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.16%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.62%) IoT
6 3 (1.62%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
6 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.08%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.08%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.08%) PMI
7 2 (1.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.54%) Data Fabric
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.32%) Windows
2 4 (2.16%) Linux
3 2 (1.08%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 63 (34.05%) Agile
3 44 (23.78%) Problem-Solving
4 32 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
5 29 (15.68%) Project Management
6 28 (15.14%) Project Delivery
6 28 (15.14%) Scrum
7 26 (14.05%) Roadmaps
8 25 (13.51%) DevOps
9 24 (12.97%) Risk Management
9 24 (12.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 22 (11.89%) AI
11 21 (11.35%) Business Case
12 20 (10.81%) Enterprise Architecture
13 19 (10.27%) Change Management
13 19 (10.27%) PRINCE2
13 19 (10.27%) Workshop Facilitation
14 18 (9.73%) Budget Management
14 18 (9.73%) Migration
15 16 (8.65%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.95%) Python
2 7 (3.78%) SQL
3 5 (2.70%) Java
4 4 (2.16%) C#
5 2 (1.08%) Bash
5 2 (1.08%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.08%) R
6 1 (0.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.54%) Go
6 1 (0.54%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.54%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (24.32%) Security Cleared
2 37 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 20 (10.81%) Degree
4 10 (5.41%) PMP
5 7 (3.78%) APMP
6 6 (3.24%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (3.24%) CHECK Team Member
6 6 (3.24%) CREST Certified
6 6 (3.24%) Cyber Scheme
6 6 (3.24%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.70%) CSPO
7 5 (2.70%) Postgraduate
8 3 (1.62%) CISSP
8 3 (1.62%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.62%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (1.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (1.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.08%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.08%) ISEB
9 2 (1.08%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (10.27%) QA
2 14 (7.57%) PMO
3 6 (3.24%) GDPR
3 6 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.24%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 4 (2.16%) Data Quality
6 3 (1.62%) COBIT
6 3 (1.62%) NCSC
6 3 (1.62%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
7 1 (0.54%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (1.62%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.54%) Sendmail
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (3.24%) Nmap
1 6 (3.24%) Terraform
2 5 (2.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.08%) Rancher
4 1 (0.54%) Ansible
4 1 (0.54%) Argo
4 1 (0.54%) Podman
4 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.54%) Puppet
4 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 24 (12.97%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.86%) Cisco
3 8 (4.32%) F5
4 7 (3.78%) Salesforce
5 6 (3.24%) SAP
6 5 (2.70%) Foundry
7 4 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.62%) NVIDIA
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle
8 3 (1.62%) VMware
9 2 (1.08%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) Denodo
9 2 (1.08%) Genesys
9 2 (1.08%) Google
10 1 (0.54%) Netskope
10 1 (0.54%) OpenAI
10 1 (0.54%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.54%) Verint
10 1 (0.54%) Xero
10 1 (0.54%) Zscaler