Educational Technology Contracts

Educational Technology (Edtech)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Educational Technology in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Educational Technology over the 6 months leading up to 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 557 679
Rank change year-on-year +73 +122 +122
Contract jobs citing Educational Technology 34 25 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.058% 0.041%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.34% 0.19% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 15 15
10th Percentile £300 £250 £331
25th Percentile £413 £325 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £544
90th Percentile £700 £783 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +21.43% -22.22% -16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.61
Median hourly rate - - £17.25
75th Percentile - - £17.89
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Educational Technology falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 10,016 13,040 19,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.00% 30.33% 33.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,359 8,394 13,253
10th Percentile £300 £269 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
75th Percentile £652 £663 £678
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 404 904 634
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.94 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.50 £31.25 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +39.21% -18.37%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £64.13
90th Percentile £83.20 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £29.25 £22.00
% change year-on-year +5.74% +32.95% +4.56%

Educational Technology
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Educational Technology in the UK

Educational Technology
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Educational Technology.

Daily rate trend for Educational Technology in the UK

Educational Technology
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Educational Technology over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Educational Technology in the UK

Educational Technology
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Educational Technology.

Hourly rate trend for Educational Technology in the UK

Educational Technology
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Educational Technology within the UK over the 6 months to 11 May 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 +94 27 £463 -7.50% 196
London +46 19 £463 -7.50% 75
UK excluding London +58 11 £425 +21.43% 149
Work from Home +44 10 £450 -10.00% 82
Midlands +23 4 £513 +2.55% 23
Scotland +10 3 £363 +3.57% 8
South West - 3 £160 - 19
West Midlands +20 2 £463 -7.45% 12
East Midlands - 2 £525 - 10
North of England - 1 £750 - 33
North East - 1 £750 - 2

Educational Technology
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 2 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Camtasia
2 2 (5.88%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.94%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 10 (29.41%) AWS
2 4 (11.76%) SaaS
3 3 (8.82%) Serverless
4 2 (5.88%) Azure
4 2 (5.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (5.88%) dbt
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub
4 2 (5.88%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.94%) Figma
5 1 (2.94%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.88%) Metabase
2 2 (5.88%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (5.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Cypress.io
General
1 18 (52.94%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Multimedia
3 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.94%) Marketing
5 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Developer
2 5 (14.71%) e-Learning Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Designer
3 3 (8.82%) Full-Stack Developer
3 3 (8.82%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.88%) Business Change Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Business Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Change Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Transformation
4 2 (5.88%) Digital Transformation Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.88%) Python Developer
4 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Transformation Manager
4 2 (5.88%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (17.65%) React
2 4 (11.76%) Node.js
3 3 (8.82%) Kafka
4 2 (5.88%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (2.94%) CSS
5 1 (2.94%) Django
5 1 (2.94%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) e-Learning
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (5.88%) Learning Management System
2 2 (5.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.94%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (44.12%) Artificial Intelligence
2 7 (20.59%) Agile
2 7 (20.59%) Collaborative Working
2 7 (20.59%) Instructional Design
2 7 (20.59%) LLM
2 7 (20.59%) Technical Architecture
3 6 (17.65%) Machine Learning
3 6 (17.65%) Microservices
4 5 (14.71%) Full-Stack Development
4 5 (14.71%) Mentoring
4 5 (14.71%) Project Management
4 5 (14.71%) User Stories
5 4 (11.76%) Analytics
5 4 (11.76%) B2B
5 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (11.76%) Storyboarding
5 4 (11.76%) Web Development
6 3 (8.82%) Coaching
6 3 (8.82%) Critical Thinking
6 3 (8.82%) Event-Driven Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 8 (23.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (8.82%) JavaScript
3 3 (8.82%) Kotlin
4 2 (5.88%) SQL
5 1 (2.94%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (20.59%) Degree
2 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.94%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) QA
2 3 (8.82%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (14.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Kubernetes
1 5 (14.71%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Adobe