Driving Licence Contracts

Drivers' Licence
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Driving Licence in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Driving Licence over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 318 518 584
Rank change year-on-year +200 +66 -19
Contract jobs citing Driving Licence 281 185 260
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.16% 0.96% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 140 171
10th Percentile £138 £130 £123
25th Percentile £166 £155 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £205 £175
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +17.14% -14.46%
75th Percentile £331 £355 £375
90th Percentile £420 £450 £500
UK excluding London median daily rate £210 £205 £170
% change year-on-year +2.44% +20.59% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 13 49
10th Percentile - £16.03 £12.43
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.25 £14.82
Median hourly rate £14.63 £18.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -20.95% +6.20% +14.38%
75th Percentile £15.23 £20.00 £19.50
90th Percentile £28.88 £20.80 £20.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.63 £18.06 £17.42
% change year-on-year -19.02% +3.67% +20.14%

All Generic Skills
UK

Driving Licence is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,029 19,287 28,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.30% 33.32% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,387 13,249 20,174
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £678 £663
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 901 634 712
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.25 £22.45 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.21% -18.37% +4.47%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.13 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.50 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +29.55% +4.76% -12.50%

Driving Licence
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Driving Licence as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Driving Licence in the UK

Driving Licence
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Driving Licence.

Daily rate trend for Driving Licence in the UK

Driving Licence
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Driving Licence over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Driving Licence in the UK

Driving Licence
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Driving Licence.

Hourly rate trend for Driving Licence in the UK

Driving Licence
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Driving Licence over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Driving Licence in the UK

Driving Licence
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 Driving Licence within the UK over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +196 251 £214 +1.79% 1,203
UK excluding London +116 251 £210 +2.44% 1,155
North of England +96 89 £190 +11.76% 261
South East +46 82 £215 -38.57% 287
Yorkshire +55 46 £400 +135.29% 98
North West +48 38 £158 -7.35% 135
Midlands +41 29 £190 +2.70% 222
Work from Home +116 28 £375 -6.83% 220
London +101 23 £200 -5.88% 152
South West +26 22 £375 +87.50% 164
Scotland +31 16 £191 +47.12% 78
West Midlands +30 16 £200 -8.05% 126
East Midlands +25 13 £150 -8.54% 96
East of England +11 6 £215 +30.30% 157
North East - 5 £190 - 34
Northern Ireland +7 4 £145 -65.88% 9
Wales +5 4 £153 -25.61% 43

Driving Licence
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 9 (3.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 45 (16.01%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.71%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.03%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (3.91%) Azure
3 3 (1.07%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.36%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.36%) GitHub
4 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
4 1 (0.36%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.74%) LAN
2 20 (7.12%) WAN
3 19 (6.76%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.56%) VLAN
5 9 (3.20%) ATM
5 9 (3.20%) VoIP
6 8 (2.85%) VPN
7 7 (2.49%) Firewall
8 4 (1.42%) Radio Access Network
8 4 (1.42%) Structured Cabling
9 3 (1.07%) Wireless
10 2 (0.71%) Broadband
10 2 (0.71%) DHCP
10 2 (0.71%) DNS
10 2 (0.71%) Internet
10 2 (0.71%) Intranet
10 2 (0.71%) SD-WAN
11 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
11 1 (0.36%) MPLS
11 1 (0.36%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
1 2 (0.71%) Tableau
2 1 (0.36%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.36%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) Navicat
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.36%) Power BI
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.36%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (0.71%) GitLab
2 1 (0.36%) Artifactory
2 1 (0.36%) MSI
General
1 133 (47.33%) Social Skills
2 47 (16.73%) Organisational Skills
3 31 (11.03%) Public Sector
4 28 (9.96%) Telecoms
5 23 (8.19%) Retail
6 15 (5.34%) Finance
7 12 (4.27%) Police
8 8 (2.85%) Analytical Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.14%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.07%) Games
10 3 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.07%) Marketing
10 3 (1.07%) Military
11 2 (0.71%) Automotive
11 2 (0.71%) Environmental Health
11 2 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 38 (13.52%) Support Engineer
2 25 (8.90%) Desktop Support
3 21 (7.47%) Desktop Engineer
4 20 (7.12%) Analyst
5 18 (6.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 18 (6.41%) IT Technician
5 18 (6.41%) Network Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) IT Engineer
6 17 (6.05%) IT Support
7 16 (5.69%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
7 16 (5.69%) Hardware Engineer
8 13 (4.63%) 2nd Line Support
9 12 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.27%) Support Analyst
10 11 (3.91%) Field Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
11 10 (3.56%) Junior
11 10 (3.56%) Lead
11 10 (3.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.36%) Django
1 1 (0.36%) ODBC
1 1 (0.36%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 13 (4.63%) EPoS
1 13 (4.63%) Smartphone
2 7 (2.49%) Clustering
2 7 (2.49%) Data Centre
3 4 (1.42%) CCTV
3 4 (1.42%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.07%) Handset
4 3 (1.07%) Photography
4 3 (1.07%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.71%) Digital Media
5 2 (0.71%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (0.71%) iPad
5 2 (0.71%) Learning Management System
5 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.36%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.36%) IBM XIV
6 1 (0.36%) iPhone
6 1 (0.36%) Robotics
6 1 (0.36%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 83 (29.54%) Windows
2 51 (18.15%) Windows 10
3 32 (11.39%) Windows 7
4 14 (4.98%) Windows Server
5 10 (3.56%) Mac OS
6 7 (2.49%) Windows Server 2012
7 6 (2.14%) Apple iOS
7 6 (2.14%) Unix
7 6 (2.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (1.07%) Linux
9 2 (0.71%) Android
10 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.36%) VMS
10 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (21.71%) Customer Service
2 60 (21.35%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (19.22%) ITIL
4 22 (7.83%) Service Delivery
5 17 (6.05%) Project Management
6 16 (5.69%) Customer Requirements
6 16 (5.69%) Hardware Maintenance
6 16 (5.69%) Software Deployment
6 16 (5.69%) Software Testing
7 15 (5.34%) Break/Fix
8 14 (4.98%) Decision-Making
9 12 (4.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 12 (4.27%) Quality Management
10 10 (3.56%) Mobile Device Management
11 9 (3.20%) Digital Forensics
11 9 (3.20%) Preventative Maintenance
11 9 (3.20%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (2.49%) DevOps
12 7 (2.49%) Root Cause Analysis
13 6 (2.14%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.14%) PowerShell
1 6 (2.14%) Shell Script
2 3 (1.07%) SQL
3 1 (0.36%) Java
3 1 (0.36%) Python
3 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (21.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (12.46%) DV Cleared
3 31 (11.03%) Degree
4 20 (7.12%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 14 (4.98%) DBS Check
7 10 (3.56%) MCP
8 7 (2.49%) CCNA
8 7 (2.49%) CCNP
8 7 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.49%) CITP
9 4 (1.42%) HNC
10 3 (1.07%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.07%) Dell Certification
10 3 (1.07%) NVQ Level 4
11 1 (0.36%) APMP
11 1 (0.36%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.20%) SLA
2 7 (2.49%) QA
3 3 (1.07%) GDPR
3 3 (1.07%) ISO 9001
4 2 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 2 (0.71%) ISO17020
5 1 (0.36%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 28 (9.96%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.47%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (7.12%) Firmware
4 8 (2.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.49%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.71%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 49 (17.44%) SCCM
2 15 (5.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.14%) Autotask
3 6 (2.14%) Failover Clustering
3 6 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
3 6 (2.14%) Netcool
4 2 (0.71%) Ansible
5 1 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.36%) Packer
5 1 (0.36%) Terraform
5 1 (0.36%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 73 (25.98%) Microsoft
2 44 (15.66%) HP
3 22 (7.83%) Virgin Media
4 21 (7.47%) BT
5 19 (6.76%) Cisco
6 14 (4.98%) VMware
7 11 (3.91%) Aruba
8 7 (2.49%) Apple
8 7 (2.49%) Dell
8 7 (2.49%) IBM
9 6 (2.14%) Datto
10 5 (1.78%) Meraki
10 5 (1.78%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.42%) Brocade
12 3 (1.07%) 3Com
12 3 (1.07%) Citrix
12 3 (1.07%) Juniper
12 3 (1.07%) SAP
12 3 (1.07%) Toshiba
12 3 (1.07%) Twitter