Conflict Resolution Contracts

Conflict Resolution
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Conflict Resolution skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Conflict Resolution over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 447 522
Rank change year-on-year +28 +75 -38
Contract jobs citing Conflict Resolution 101 135 197
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 83 131
10th Percentile £358 £327 £381
25th Percentile £404 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £586 £603 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
10th Percentile - £23.94 -
25th Percentile - £41.10 £77.50
Median hourly rate £8.00 £44.00 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -81.82% -45.00% +357.67%
75th Percentile - £102.52 £82.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £101.68 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Conflict Resolution 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Conflict Resolution
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Conflict Resolution as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Conflict Resolution in the UK

Conflict Resolution
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Conflict Resolution.

Daily rate trend for Conflict Resolution in the UK

Conflict Resolution
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Conflict Resolution over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Conflict Resolution in the UK

Conflict Resolution
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Conflict Resolution.

Hourly rate trend for Conflict Resolution in the UK

Conflict Resolution
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Conflict Resolution within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +24 86 £489 -6.90% 189
UK excluding London +41 56 £450 -10.00% 62
London +30 39 £525 - 138
Work from Home +27 32 £483 -8.10% 74
North of England +29 17 £401 +23.46% 11
Scotland +21 12 £450 -10.00% 4
Midlands +20 10 £511 -9.16% 9
North West +21 9 £393 +20.92% 4
South East +21 9 £520 +18.86% 24
East Midlands +15 7 £403 -19.50% 4
Yorkshire +14 7 £425 -19.00% 4
South West +36 5 £575 - 4
West Midlands +7 3 £625 +4.17% 5
East of England +28 2 £900 +80.00% 8
Wales 0 1 £550 +168.29% 2
North East 0 1 - - 3

Conflict Resolution
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 11 (10.89%) Confluence
2 5 (4.95%) JBoss
2 5 (4.95%) Tomcat
2 5 (4.95%) WebLogic
2 5 (4.95%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.99%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.99%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (3.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (3.96%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.98%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) SAP BPC
1 2 (1.98%) SAP GRC
1 2 (1.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.99%) Actimize
2 1 (0.99%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.99%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.99%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.89%) AWS
2 7 (6.93%) Azure
3 6 (5.94%) IaaS
4 4 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.97%) Boomi
5 3 (2.97%) Miro
5 3 (2.97%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.98%) Asana
6 2 (1.98%) GCP
6 2 (1.98%) Lucidchart
6 2 (1.98%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.99%) Apigee
7 1 (0.99%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.99%) SaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.96%) DHCP
1 4 (3.96%) DNS
2 2 (1.98%) 3G
2 2 (1.98%) 3GPP
2 2 (1.98%) 4G
2 2 (1.98%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (1.98%) HTTP
2 2 (1.98%) LAN
2 2 (1.98%) LTE
2 2 (1.98%) MVNO
2 2 (1.98%) VPN
2 2 (1.98%) WAN
3 1 (0.99%) Network Security
3 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.99%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.99%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.95%) DB2
2 2 (1.98%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.98%) Power BI
2 2 (1.98%) SAP BW
2 2 (1.98%) SAP HANA
2 2 (1.98%) Tableau
3 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.99%) MS Access
3 1 (0.99%) MySQL
3 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (27.72%) JIRA
2 6 (5.94%) Git
3 5 (4.95%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.99%) GitLab
4 1 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.99%) Postman
4 1 (0.99%) Subversion
General
1 45 (44.55%) Finance
2 43 (42.57%) Social Skills
3 25 (24.75%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (13.86%) Banking
5 11 (10.89%) Telecoms
6 9 (8.91%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.91%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.92%) Legal
8 6 (5.94%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.95%) Marketing
10 4 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.97%) Financial Institution
11 3 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.97%) Retail
12 2 (1.98%) Retail Banking
13 1 (0.99%) Automotive
13 1 (0.99%) Electronics
13 1 (0.99%) German Language
13 1 (0.99%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.99%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (21.78%) Scrum Master
2 17 (16.83%) Project Manager
3 13 (12.87%) Analyst
4 10 (9.90%) Lead
5 9 (8.91%) Business Analyst
6 8 (7.92%) Architect
6 8 (7.92%) Senior
7 5 (4.95%) Consultant
7 5 (4.95%) IT Manager
7 5 (4.95%) Programme Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Agile Scrum Master
8 3 (2.97%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (2.97%) Security Consultant
8 3 (2.97%) Senior Manager
9 2 (1.98%) Agile Delivery Lead
9 2 (1.98%) IT Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (1.98%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
9 2 (1.98%) Report Manager
9 2 (1.98%) SAP Consultant
9 2 (1.98%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (10.89%) REST
2 10 (9.90%) SOAP
3 5 (4.95%) Kafka
3 5 (4.95%) RAML
3 5 (4.95%) Web Services
3 5 (4.95%) WSDL
4 3 (2.97%) EJB
4 3 (2.97%) J2EE
4 3 (2.97%) JSP
4 3 (2.97%) Servlets
4 3 (2.97%) Spring
4 3 (2.97%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.98%) ADO
5 2 (1.98%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.98%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.99%) HTML
6 1 (0.99%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (0.99%) OpenAPI
6 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 22 (21.78%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.95%) Private Cloud
2 5 (4.95%) Virtual Team
3 3 (2.97%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.98%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.98%) NHS
5 1 (0.99%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.99%) CMDB
5 1 (0.99%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.99%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.99%) FMCG
5 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.99%) Life Science
5 1 (0.99%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.99%) PMI
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.98%) Windows
3 1 (0.99%) CentOS
3 1 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.99%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.99%) Unix
3 1 (0.99%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (50.50%) Agile
2 37 (36.63%) Continuous Improvement
2 37 (36.63%) Scrum
3 32 (31.68%) Project Management
4 31 (30.69%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (22.77%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (18.81%) Roadmaps
7 18 (17.82%) Kanban
8 17 (16.83%) Risk Management
9 16 (15.84%) Decision-Making
10 15 (14.85%) Service Delivery
11 14 (13.86%) Backlog Management
11 14 (13.86%) Workshop Facilitation
12 13 (12.87%) Business Analysis
12 13 (12.87%) DevOps
12 13 (12.87%) Servant Leadership
13 12 (11.88%) Change Management
13 12 (11.88%) Coaching
14 11 (10.89%) Budget Management
14 11 (10.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.92%) Java
1 8 (7.92%) SQL
2 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.99%) Apex Code
4 1 (0.99%) Bash
4 1 (0.99%) Python
4 1 (0.99%) SOQL
4 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
4 1 (0.99%) VB
4 1 (0.99%) VB.NET
4 1 (0.99%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (16.83%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 9 (8.91%) Degree
4 6 (5.94%) PMI Certification
4 6 (5.94%) PMP
5 3 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.98%) CISM
6 2 (1.98%) CISSP
6 2 (1.98%) ISACA
7 1 (0.99%) ACCA
7 1 (0.99%) CFA
7 1 (0.99%) CIMA
7 1 (0.99%) CISA
7 1 (0.99%) GIAC
7 1 (0.99%) ICAEW
7 1 (0.99%) ISEB
7 1 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.99%) MBA
7 1 (0.99%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.94%) SLA
2 2 (1.98%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.98%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (1.98%) GRC
2 2 (1.98%) QA
2 2 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.99%) COBIT
3 1 (0.99%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.99%) GDPR
3 1 (0.99%) GxP
3 1 (0.99%) NIST
3 1 (0.99%) PMO
3 1 (0.99%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.95%) Virtual Servers
2 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.99%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) HP Data Protector
2 2 (1.98%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.99%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.99%) SCCM
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (11.88%) Oracle
2 11 (10.89%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.95%) SAP
4 4 (3.96%) MuleSoft
4 4 (3.96%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.97%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.97%) Dell
5 3 (2.97%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.98%) Concur
6 2 (1.98%) Jitterbit
6 2 (1.98%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.98%) Veritas
6 2 (1.98%) VMware
7 1 (0.99%) Ariba
7 1 (0.99%) Aruba
7 1 (0.99%) Cerner
7 1 (0.99%) Databricks
7 1 (0.99%) eFront
7 1 (0.99%) Pardot
7 1 (0.99%) Red Hat