Dropbox Contract Job Trends

Dropbox
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Dropbox skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 543 568 654
Rank change year-on-year +25 +86 +196
Contract jobs citing Dropbox 4 1 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.012% 0.003% 0.016%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.033% 0.008% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £231
25th Percentile £550 - £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +60.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £650 - £478
90th Percentile - - £641
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £375

All Cloud Skills
UK

Dropbox falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 12,237 13,032 17,931
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.46% 34.27% 35.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,161 8,779 12,904
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 197 344
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.50 £15.21
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.04 £31.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -11.43% +62.79%
75th Percentile £52.42 £62.50 £66.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £78.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.27 £30.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -35.77% +12.15% +39.00%

Dropbox
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Dropbox in the UK

Dropbox
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Dropbox
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Dropbox
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dropbox within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 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 +17 4 £600 - 10
London - 4 £600 - 7
Work from Home +37 1 £600 - 5

Dropbox
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 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) Miro
1 1 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) ScriptRunner
1 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Records Management
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (25.00%) Nintex
1 1 (25.00%) Okta