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 9 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 450 510
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 -11
Contract jobs citing Conflict Resolution 118 122 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.31% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.37% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 74 104
10th Percentile £356 £356 £359
25th Percentile £373 £420 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £545 £533
Median % change year-on-year -15.60% +2.35% -3.18%
75th Percentile £538 £647 £625
90th Percentile £669 £698 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £447 £550 £547
% change year-on-year -18.73% +0.50% +4.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
10th Percentile £19.20 - -
25th Percentile £36.00 £100.84 £77.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £101.68 £80.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.53% +27.10% +41.09%
75th Percentile £71.50 £102.52 £82.50
90th Percentile £76.60 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 £101.68 -
% change year-on-year -30.17% - -

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 30,016 33,233 47,065
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.53% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,756 21,319 32,264
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £547
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.07% -0.50%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,695 1,839 1,534
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.25 £18.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +60.38%
75th Percentile £48.44 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.63 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.27 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.47% +12.73% +72.18%

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 9 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Conflict Resolution over the 6 months to 9 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Conflict Resolution in the UK

Conflict Resolution
Top 17 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 9 August 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 +12 102 £475 -17.75% 126
UK excluding London 0 68 £447 -18.73% 63
London +7 45 £488 -11.36% 65
Work from Home +23 38 £449 -16.17% 54
North of England +5 26 £437 -27.17% 16
North West +7 17 £431 -4.22% 7
Midlands -6 14 £400 -40.74% 11
South East +11 12 £475 -9.52% 27
Scotland -6 10 £358 -20.44% 2
East Midlands +2 9 £358 -46.96% 4
Yorkshire -5 8 £450 -27.65% 7
West Midlands -11 5 £538 -18.87% 7
East of England +7 3 £900 +148.28% 7
South West +22 1 £450 -21.74% 3
Wales -1 1 £226 +7.62%
North East -2 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £975 -

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 16 (13.56%) Confluence
2 9 (7.63%) JBoss
2 9 (7.63%) Tomcat
2 9 (7.63%) WebLogic
2 9 (7.63%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.63%) MS Visio
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (4.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (1.69%) Trello
7 1 (0.85%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.54%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.85%) Actimize
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.85%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.85%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.85%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.85%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.41%) AWS
2 4 (3.39%) Azure
3 3 (2.54%) Boomi
3 3 (2.54%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.69%) GCP
4 2 (1.69%) IaaS
4 2 (1.69%) Lucidchart
5 1 (0.85%) Apigee
5 1 (0.85%) Asana
5 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.85%) Miro
5 1 (0.85%) OCI
5 1 (0.85%) SaaS
5 1 (0.85%) Slack
5 1 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) Firewall
1 2 (1.69%) LAN
1 2 (1.69%) VPN
1 2 (1.69%) WAN
2 1 (0.85%) DHCP
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.85%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (8.47%) DB2
2 3 (2.54%) Power BI
2 3 (2.54%) Tableau
3 2 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.85%) DTS
4 1 (0.85%) GIS
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.85%) MS Access
4 1 (0.85%) MySQL
4 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.85%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.85%) SAP HANA
4 1 (0.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (23.73%) JIRA
2 9 (7.63%) Bitbucket
2 9 (7.63%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.85%) AdminStudio
4 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
4 1 (0.85%) GitLab
4 1 (0.85%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.85%) MSI
4 1 (0.85%) Postman
4 1 (0.85%) Selenium
4 1 (0.85%) WiX
General
1 53 (44.92%) Social Skills
2 48 (40.68%) Finance
3 29 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.56%) Banking
5 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (5.08%) Legal
7 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.39%) Retail
8 3 (2.54%) Aviation
8 3 (2.54%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Retail Banking
9 2 (1.69%) Marketing
10 1 (0.85%) Back Office
10 1 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.85%) Front Office
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
10 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 32 (27.12%) Scrum Master
2 24 (20.34%) Project Manager
3 13 (11.02%) Analyst
4 11 (9.32%) Business Analyst
5 10 (8.47%) IT Manager
6 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 7 (5.93%) Programme Manager
7 7 (5.93%) Technical Manager
8 6 (5.08%) Senior
8 6 (5.08%) Technical Project Manager
9 5 (4.24%) IT Programme Manager
9 5 (4.24%) SAP Manager
10 4 (3.39%) Agile Scrum Master
11 3 (2.54%) Consultant
11 3 (2.54%) IT Project Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Report Manager
11 3 (2.54%) Requirements Engineer
12 2 (1.69%) Infrastructure Project Manager
12 2 (1.69%) Senior Manager
12 2 (1.69%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.71%) REST
1 15 (12.71%) SOAP
2 11 (9.32%) Web Services
3 10 (8.47%) RAML
3 10 (8.47%) WSDL
4 5 (4.24%) Kafka
5 3 (2.54%) EJB
5 3 (2.54%) J2EE
5 3 (2.54%) JSP
5 3 (2.54%) Servlets
5 3 (2.54%) Spring
5 3 (2.54%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.85%) .NET
6 1 (0.85%) Middleware
6 1 (0.85%) OAuth
6 1 (0.85%) OLE
6 1 (0.85%) RESTful
6 1 (0.85%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.85%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.85%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 31 (26.27%) Product Ownership
2 9 (7.63%) Private Cloud
3 7 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (5.93%) Virtual Team
4 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.24%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (3.39%) Life Science
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
7 3 (2.54%) FMCG
7 3 (2.54%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
7 3 (2.54%) NHS
8 1 (0.85%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.85%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.85%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.85%) PMI
8 1 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.54%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) CentOS
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (59.32%) Agile
2 44 (37.29%) Scrum
3 37 (31.36%) Continuous Improvement
4 32 (27.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 31 (26.27%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (21.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 22 (18.64%) Project Management
8 21 (17.80%) SDLC
9 20 (16.95%) Roadmaps
9 20 (16.95%) Servant Leadership
10 19 (16.10%) Backlog Management
10 19 (16.10%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 19 (16.10%) Decision-Making
11 18 (15.25%) Project Delivery
12 17 (14.41%) Change Management
13 16 (13.56%) Budget Control
13 16 (13.56%) Situational Awareness
14 15 (12.71%) Risk Management
15 12 (10.17%) Business Analysis
15 12 (10.17%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 16 (13.56%) SQL
2 9 (7.63%) Java
3 3 (2.54%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.54%) Python
4 2 (1.69%) C#
4 2 (1.69%) Kotlin
4 2 (1.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (1.69%) Scala
5 1 (0.85%) Bash
5 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.85%) TypeScript
5 1 (0.85%) VB
5 1 (0.85%) VB.NET
5 1 (0.85%) VB6
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Security Cleared
2 14 (11.86%) Degree
3 12 (10.17%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (3.39%) IIBA
5 4 (3.39%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.54%) CBAP
6 3 (2.54%) PMP
7 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.85%) ACCA
8 1 (0.85%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.85%) CIMA
8 1 (0.85%) CISA
8 1 (0.85%) CISM
8 1 (0.85%) CISSP
8 1 (0.85%) CRISC
8 1 (0.85%) CSPO
8 1 (0.85%) ISACA
8 1 (0.85%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.85%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (2.54%) WCAG
2 2 (1.69%) COBIT
2 2 (1.69%) PMO
2 2 (1.69%) QA
3 1 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.85%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.85%) GDPR
3 1 (0.85%) GRC
3 1 (0.85%) GxP
3 1 (0.85%) PMBOK
3 1 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.69%) Docker
1 2 (1.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.69%) HP Data Protector
1 2 (1.69%) NetBackup
2 1 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.85%) SCCM
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (16.10%) Oracle
2 14 (11.86%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.78%) SAP
4 5 (4.24%) MuleSoft
5 3 (2.54%) Dell
5 3 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.69%) Cerner
6 2 (1.69%) Jitterbit
6 2 (1.69%) Siebel
6 2 (1.69%) SnapLogic
6 2 (1.69%) Veritas
7 1 (0.85%) Ariba
7 1 (0.85%) Aruba
7 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.85%) Cisco
7 1 (0.85%) Concur
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) Kronos
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) Salesforce