Computacenter Contract Job Trends

Computacenter
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Computacenter products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computacenter over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Computacenter PLC.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 554 605
Rank change year-on-year +9 +51 +182
Contract jobs citing Computacenter 36 10 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.099% 0.029% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.063% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 2
10th Percentile £499 £148 -
25th Percentile £544 £202 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £474 £102
Median % change year-on-year +19.20% +364.71% -77.33%
75th Percentile £713 £551 -
90th Percentile £791 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £565 £148 -
% change year-on-year +281.76% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 4
10th Percentile £17.23 £15.27 £11.79
25th Percentile £18.22 £15.35 £13.33
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.96 £15.45
Median % change year-on-year +18.23% +3.33% -5.46%
75th Percentile £25.15 £16.80 £17.27
90th Percentile £30.67 £17.02 £18.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.87 £15.96 £13.74
% change year-on-year +18.23% +16.16% -15.90%

All Vendors
UK

Computacenter falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 17,267 15,769 20,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.39% 45.60% 45.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,977 9,400 12,797
10th Percentile £293 £283 £255
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £499 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.20% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 871 477 663
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.50 £14.59
25th Percentile £18.09 £19.00 £19.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%
75th Percentile £44.84 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £27.13 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% -39.04% +97.78%

Computacenter
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Computacenter job vacancy trend in the UK

Computacenter
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computacenter

Computacenter
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computacenter over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computacenter in the UK

Computacenter
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computacenter

Computacenter
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computacenter over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computacenter in the UK

Computacenter
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computacenter within the UK over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -9 36 £565 +10.30% 29
UK excluding London -16 34 £565 +281.76% 25
East of England -11 12 £614 - 10
South West - 10 - - 4
North of England - 8 £565 - 1
North West - 5 - - 1
Work from Home - 5 £565 - 9
Yorkshire - 3 £565 -
South East +2 2 - - 10
London 0 2 £535 +12.87% 7
East Midlands - 2 - - 1
Midlands - 2 - - 5

Computacenter
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:

Business Applications
1 5 (13.89%) SAP HCM
1 5 (13.89%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 5 (13.89%) SuccessFactors
2 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.11%) DMZ
1 4 (11.11%) DNS
1 4 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
1 4 (11.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 4 (11.11%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
General
1 17 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 12 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Electronics
5 3 (8.33%) Finance
5 3 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.33%) Marketing
5 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 6 (16.67%) Consultant
3 5 (13.89%) Senior
3 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) SAP Consultant
4 4 (11.11%) SAP HCM Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) Developer
5 3 (8.33%) SAP Functional Consultant
5 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Installations Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Functional Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Senior SAP Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Senior SAP HCM Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.89%) SOAP
1 5 (13.89%) Web Services
1 5 (13.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Driving Licence
1 5 (13.89%) Replication
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 3 (8.33%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) Ticket Management
2 10 (27.78%) Asset Management
3 8 (22.22%) Time Management
4 7 (19.44%) Customer Service
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (13.89%) Change Management
5 5 (13.89%) Data Modelling
5 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
5 5 (13.89%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (13.89%) Requirements Workshops
5 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (13.89%) Workshop Facilitation
6 4 (11.11%) Load Balancing
7 3 (8.33%) Digital Marketing
7 3 (8.33%) Information Assurance
7 3 (8.33%) Open Source
7 3 (8.33%) Programme Management
7 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 3 (8.33%) System Testing
7 3 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) ABAP
2 3 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 21 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (55.56%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.56%) MOS
4 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 3 (8.33%) GDPR
1 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (8.33%) NIST
1 3 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) VMware NSX
2 3 (8.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (22.22%) SAP
2 5 (13.89%) Dell
2 5 (13.89%) HP
3 4 (11.11%) F5
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) VMware
4 3 (8.33%) ServiceNow