ConnectWise Contract Job Trends

ConnectWise
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of ConnectWise products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ConnectWise over the 6 months leading up to 23 February 2026, 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 ConnectWise, Inc.

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 531 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing ConnectWise 5 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.012% 0.003% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.028% 0.007% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £184 - -
25th Percentile £206 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 - -
75th Percentile £296 - -
90th Percentile £321 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £170 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.62 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.62 - -

All Vendors
UK

ConnectWise 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 18,129 14,207 19,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.59% 46.55% 43.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,623 8,576 12,120
10th Percentile £304 £280 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £521
Median % change year-on-year -4.31% +0.24% -1.65%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £711 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 416 947
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.00 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £29.54 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.74% +11.45% -23.37%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.26 £80.75 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £27.13 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.33% -16.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

ConnectWise job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ConnectWise over the 6 months to 23 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ConnectWise in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

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Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ConnectWise within the UK over the 6 months to 23 February 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 -73 5 £248 - 20
UK excluding London - 4 £170 - 19
South West - 3 - - 1
West Midlands - 1 £170 - 1
London - 1 £325 - 8
Midlands - 1 £170 - 1

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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 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Help Desk Technician
1 3 (60.00%) ICT Technician
2 1 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Build Engineer
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft