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 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 462 521
Rank change year-on-year +7 +59 -9
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 137 69 80
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.21% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.24% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 46 62
10th Percentile £380 £406 £408
25th Percentile £434 £500 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £660 £594
90th Percentile £681 £744 £695
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £22.50 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year - -71.15% +27.46%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £22.50 £78.00
% change year-on-year - -71.15% +27.46%

All Process & 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 32,425 28,554 37,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 87.87% 88.48% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,478 17,360 24,692
10th Percentile £304 £308 £305
25th Percentile £406 £413 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £720 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,006 922 1,534
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%
75th Percentile £55.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £45.00
% change year-on-year -21.65% -32.42% +55.17%

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 8 January 2026.

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 8 January 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 +3 116 £525 -12.50% 38
UK excluding London -14 85 £500 -4.76% 25
London -3 40 £595 -2.86% 20
Work from Home +7 34 £535 +0.71% 22
North of England -32 26 £525 +31.25% 7
Yorkshire -22 25 £525 +31.25% 4
South East -6 20 £520 -16.80% 13
Midlands -25 20 £450 +8.70% 3
West Midlands -30 13 £450 -25.00% 1
Scotland +5 11 £500 +2.56%
East Midlands -21 7 £459 +10.81% 2
East of England -16 4 £613 -
South West -11 2 £550 -2.65% 2
Northern Ireland - 2 - -
North East -12 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 (17.52%) Confluence
2 3 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.46%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 22 (16.06%) Microsoft Project
2 7 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.73%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.19%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (2.19%) SAP MDG
1 3 (2.19%) SAP Retail
2 2 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.46%) Primavera
2 2 (1.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.73%) Cognos Controller
3 1 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.73%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.73%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
Cloud Services
1 29 (21.17%) Azure
2 20 (14.60%) AWS
3 16 (11.68%) GitHub
4 12 (8.76%) GitHub Actions
5 11 (8.03%) Azure DevOps
6 10 (7.30%) GCP
7 6 (4.38%) OCI
8 5 (3.65%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.92%) Amazon S3
9 4 (2.92%) GitHub Copilot
9 4 (2.92%) Serverless
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECR
10 3 (2.19%) Amazon ECS
10 3 (2.19%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (2.19%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (2.19%) SaaS
11 2 (1.46%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Key Vault
11 2 (1.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.38%) Firewall
2 3 (2.19%) HTTP
2 3 (2.19%) Kerberos
3 2 (1.46%) DNS
3 2 (1.46%) Internet
3 2 (1.46%) SSH
3 2 (1.46%) SSL
3 2 (1.46%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.73%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.73%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.38%) NoSQL
1 6 (4.38%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (3.65%) Power BI
3 4 (2.92%) MongoDB
3 4 (2.92%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.19%) Delta Lake
5 2 (1.46%) Big Data
5 2 (1.46%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.46%) DynamoDB
5 2 (1.46%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.46%) MySQL
5 2 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.46%) Parquet
5 2 (1.46%) Weaviate
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.73%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.73%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.73%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 39 (28.47%) JIRA
2 16 (11.68%) Git
3 9 (6.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (2.92%) Mockito
4 4 (2.92%) Poetry
4 4 (2.92%) SonarQube
4 4 (2.92%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (2.19%) GitLab
5 3 (2.19%) PyCharm
5 3 (2.19%) ScalaTest
5 3 (2.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (1.46%) Maven
6 2 (1.46%) MLflow
7 1 (0.73%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.73%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.73%) Pylint
7 1 (0.73%) Snyk
General
1 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 52 (37.96%) Social Skills
3 20 (14.60%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (11.68%) Banking
5 12 (8.76%) Retail
6 11 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (6.57%) Public Sector
8 8 (5.84%) Legal
9 6 (4.38%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (3.65%) Retail Banking
11 1 (0.73%) Aeronautics
11 1 (0.73%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.73%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.73%) Law
11 1 (0.73%) Local Government
11 1 (0.73%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.73%) Military
11 1 (0.73%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.73%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 27 (19.71%) Lead
2 24 (17.52%) Project Manager
3 12 (8.76%) Analyst
4 10 (7.30%) PMO Analyst
4 10 (7.30%) PMO Lead
4 10 (7.30%) Senior
5 9 (6.57%) Architect
5 9 (6.57%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (5.84%) Security Architect
6 8 (5.84%) Security Solutions Architect
6 8 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (5.11%) Programme Manager
8 6 (4.38%) Developer
8 6 (4.38%) Implementation Specialist
8 6 (4.38%) IT Manager
8 6 (4.38%) Planning Manager
8 6 (4.38%) Senior Manager
8 6 (4.38%) Senior Project Manager
9 5 (3.65%) Consultant
9 5 (3.65%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.57%) REST
2 7 (5.11%) OAuth
3 6 (4.38%) GraphQL
4 4 (2.92%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.92%) RESTful
4 4 (2.92%) SAML
5 3 (2.19%) .NET
5 3 (2.19%) Flask
5 3 (2.19%) JSON
5 3 (2.19%) JWT
5 3 (2.19%) NumPy
5 3 (2.19%) Pandas
5 3 (2.19%) Play Framework
5 3 (2.19%) Scalaz
6 2 (1.46%) Apache Avro
6 2 (1.46%) Kafka
6 2 (1.46%) Node.js
6 2 (1.46%) OAuth2
6 2 (1.46%) PySpark
6 2 (1.46%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.76%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (6.57%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.11%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.92%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.19%) CMDB
6 3 (2.19%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.19%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.19%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.46%) CUDA
7 2 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.46%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.46%) Reinsurance
8 1 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.73%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.73%) Legacy Code
8 1 (0.73%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.38%) Windows
2 3 (2.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.73%) Android
3 1 (0.73%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (36.50%) Agile
2 39 (28.47%) Project Management
3 38 (27.74%) Stakeholder Management
4 32 (23.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 29 (21.17%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (20.44%) DevOps
7 25 (18.25%) Decision-Making
7 25 (18.25%) Risk Management
8 23 (16.79%) CI/CD
8 23 (16.79%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 21 (15.33%) Project Delivery
10 20 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (14.60%) PRINCE2
11 19 (13.87%) Scrum
12 18 (13.14%) Incident Response
12 18 (13.14%) Migration
12 18 (13.14%) Programme Management
13 17 (12.41%) Cybersecurity
14 16 (11.68%) Project Governance
15 15 (10.95%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.41%) Python
2 10 (7.30%) Java
3 6 (4.38%) Bash
4 5 (3.65%) Go
5 4 (2.92%) SQL
6 3 (2.19%) Groovy
7 2 (1.46%) Scala
8 1 (0.73%) Bicep
8 1 (0.73%) C#
8 1 (0.73%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.73%) Korn
8 1 (0.73%) Kotlin
8 1 (0.73%) PHP
8 1 (0.73%) Swift
8 1 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 17 (12.41%) SC Cleared
3 15 (10.95%) PMI Certification
4 14 (10.22%) PMP
5 13 (9.49%) Degree
6 11 (8.03%) CISM
6 11 (8.03%) CISSP
7 8 (5.84%) TOGAF Certification
8 7 (5.11%) Master's Degree
8 7 (5.11%) PhD
9 4 (2.92%) DV Cleared
10 3 (2.19%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (1.46%) AWS Certification
11 2 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.73%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
12 1 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.73%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.73%) PgMP
12 1 (0.73%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.90%) PMO
2 15 (10.95%) QA
3 6 (4.38%) COBIT
4 4 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.19%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (2.19%) P3O
6 2 (1.46%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.46%) NCSC
7 1 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.73%) GDPR
7 1 (0.73%) GMP
7 1 (0.73%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.73%) NIST
7 1 (0.73%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (8.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (10.95%) Terraform
2 11 (8.03%) Kubernetes
3 8 (5.84%) Ansible
4 3 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (1.46%) Argo
5 2 (1.46%) Grafana
5 2 (1.46%) Istio
6 1 (0.73%) Kibana
6 1 (0.73%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.49%) Oracle
3 11 (8.03%) SAP
4 10 (7.30%) BiZZdesign
5 9 (6.57%) CyberArk
6 8 (5.84%) Centrify
7 6 (4.38%) CheckPoint
7 6 (4.38%) Dell
7 6 (4.38%) Dynatrace
7 6 (4.38%) F5
7 6 (4.38%) HP
7 6 (4.38%) ServiceNow
8 4 (2.92%) IBM
9 3 (2.19%) Atlassian
9 3 (2.19%) ESRI
9 3 (2.19%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.19%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.19%) Thycotic
10 2 (1.46%) Cloudera
10 2 (1.46%) Google