Dependency Management Contract Job Trends

Dependency Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Dependency Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 471 510
Rank change year-on-year 0 +39 +28
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 120 70 87
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.21% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.23% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 46 66
10th Percentile £376 £406 £408
25th Percentile £435 £498 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £660 £600
90th Percentile £686 £744 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £62.18 - -
25th Percentile £63.56 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £22.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.67% -71.15% +27.46%
75th Percentile £69.56 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £70.73 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £66.75 £22.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year +196.67% -71.15% +27.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Dependency Management 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 32,565 30,055 38,949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.34% 88.19% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,467 18,359 26,012
10th Percentile £300 £306 £307
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £723 £742 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £476 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.80% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,103 978 1,503
10th Percentile £14.55 £15.62 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%
75th Percentile £49.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
% change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%

Dependency Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Dependency Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dependency Management

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dependency Management over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Dependency Management in the UK

Dependency Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Dependency Management

Dependency Management
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dependency Management within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +2 101 £535 -10.83% 19
UK excluding London +10 80 £500 -2.91% 17
London +1 32 £602 -3.68% 7
Work from Home +8 29 £535 +4.39% 10
North of England -29 26 £525 +31.25% 4
Yorkshire -26 25 £525 +31.25% 1
South East -7 18 £452 -24.67% 8
Midlands -27 16 £475 +14.73% 1
Scotland +9 12 £500 +2.56% 1
West Midlands -23 11 £475 -20.83% 1
East Midlands -16 5 £459 +10.81%
East of England -19 4 £613 -
South West -7 2 £550 +8.91% 3
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -10 1 £500 -33.33%

Dependency Management
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 24 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (14.17%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.33%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (2.50%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.83%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.83%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.83%) Primavera
3 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (25.83%) Azure
2 21 (17.50%) AWS
3 16 (13.33%) GitHub
4 12 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (9.17%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.17%) GCP
6 7 (5.83%) OCI
7 6 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
8 5 (4.17%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.33%) Amazon S3
9 4 (3.33%) Serverless
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.67%) Apigee
11 2 (1.67%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (1.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (2.50%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.67%) DNS
3 2 (1.67%) Internet
3 2 (1.67%) SSH
3 2 (1.67%) SSL
3 2 (1.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.83%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.17%) Power BI
2 4 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.50%) Delta Lake
4 2 (1.67%) Big Data
4 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
4 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
4 2 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.67%) MySQL
4 2 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.67%) Parquet
4 2 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.67%) Weaviate
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.83%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 33 (27.50%) JIRA
2 16 (13.33%) Git
3 7 (5.83%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.33%) Poetry
4 4 (3.33%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.50%) GitLab
5 3 (2.50%) PyCharm
5 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.67%) Maven
6 2 (1.67%) MLflow
6 2 (1.67%) Mockito
7 1 (0.83%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.83%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.83%) Pylint
7 1 (0.83%) ScalaTest
7 1 (0.83%) Snyk
General
1 45 (37.50%) Finance
2 44 (36.67%) Social Skills
3 17 (14.17%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.17%) Banking
4 10 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 9 (7.50%) Retail
6 8 (6.67%) Legal
6 8 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 6 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (4.17%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Aeronautics
9 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.83%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Law
9 1 (0.83%) Local Government
9 1 (0.83%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 24 (20.00%) Lead
2 21 (17.50%) Project Manager
3 10 (8.33%) Analyst
3 10 (8.33%) PMO Lead
3 10 (8.33%) Senior
4 9 (7.50%) Architect
5 8 (6.67%) PMO Analyst
5 8 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 8 (6.67%) Security Solutions Architect
5 8 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
6 7 (5.83%) Programme Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
7 6 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Planning Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Manager
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Project Manager
8 5 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
8 5 (4.17%) Site Reliability Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) Implementation Project Manager
9 4 (3.33%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.50%) REST
2 8 (6.67%) GraphQL
3 7 (5.83%) OAuth
4 5 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
5 4 (3.33%) SAML
6 3 (2.50%) .NET
6 3 (2.50%) Flask
6 3 (2.50%) JWT
6 3 (2.50%) NumPy
6 3 (2.50%) Pandas
7 2 (1.67%) Apache Avro
7 2 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
7 2 (1.67%) Faiss
7 2 (1.67%) Kafka
7 2 (1.67%) LangChain
7 2 (1.67%) LangGraph
7 2 (1.67%) Node.js
7 2 (1.67%) OAuth2
7 2 (1.67%) PySpark
7 2 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.17%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.33%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.50%) CMDB
5 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.67%) CUDA
6 2 (1.67%) Life Science
6 2 (1.67%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.67%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.67%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.83%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.83%) Android
3 1 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (36.67%) Agile
2 33 (27.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 30 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 29 (24.17%) Project Management
5 28 (23.33%) DevOps
6 25 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
7 24 (20.00%) Decision-Making
8 21 (17.50%) CI/CD
8 21 (17.50%) Migration
9 20 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 18 (15.00%) Incident Response
10 18 (15.00%) Project Delivery
10 18 (15.00%) Risk Management
11 17 (14.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (14.17%) Programme Management
12 16 (13.33%) Project Governance
13 15 (12.50%) PRINCE2
13 15 (12.50%) Scrum
14 14 (11.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 20 (16.67%) Python
2 12 (10.00%) Java
3 7 (5.83%) Go
4 6 (5.00%) Bash
5 5 (4.17%) SQL
6 3 (2.50%) Groovy
7 1 (0.83%) Bicep
7 1 (0.83%) C#
7 1 (0.83%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.83%) Korn
7 1 (0.83%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.83%) PHP
7 1 (0.83%) Swift
7 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 13 (10.83%) PMI Certification
3 12 (10.00%) Degree
3 12 (10.00%) PMP
4 11 (9.17%) CISM
4 11 (9.17%) CISSP
4 11 (9.17%) SC Cleared
5 8 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
6 7 (5.83%) Master's Degree
6 7 (5.83%) PhD
7 4 (3.33%) DV Cleared
8 3 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 2 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 1 (0.83%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.83%) PgMP
10 1 (0.83%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.00%) PMO
2 11 (9.17%) QA
3 6 (5.00%) COBIT
4 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (2.50%) P3O
6 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.67%) NCSC
7 1 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.83%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.83%) GDPR
7 1 (0.83%) GMP
7 1 (0.83%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.83%) NIST
7 1 (0.83%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (10.83%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (14.17%) Terraform
2 13 (10.83%) Kubernetes
3 8 (6.67%) Ansible
4 3 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.67%) Argo
5 2 (1.67%) Grafana
5 2 (1.67%) Istio
6 1 (0.83%) Kibana
6 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 23 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.83%) Oracle
3 10 (8.33%) BiZZdesign
4 9 (7.50%) CyberArk
5 8 (6.67%) Centrify
6 6 (5.00%) CheckPoint
6 6 (5.00%) Dell
6 6 (5.00%) Dynatrace
6 6 (5.00%) F5
6 6 (5.00%) HP
6 6 (5.00%) SAP
6 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 4 (3.33%) IBM
8 3 (2.50%) ESRI
8 3 (2.50%) Red Hat
8 3 (2.50%) Thycotic
9 2 (1.67%) Cloudera
9 2 (1.67%) Databricks
9 2 (1.67%) Google
9 2 (1.67%) NVIDIA