Employee Productivity Contract Job Trends

Employee Productivity
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Employee Productivity skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 542 603
Rank change year-on-year -49 +61 +182
Contract jobs citing Employee Productivity 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.003% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.003% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £304
25th Percentile - - £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +49.50% -27.27% +144.44%
75th Percentile - - £625
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £360

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Employee Productivity 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 32,672 29,808 38,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.28% 88.28% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,566 18,179 25,645
10th Percentile £300 £307 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
75th Percentile £616 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £743 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £477 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.70% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,089 966 1,478
10th Percentile £14.60 £15.62 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%
75th Percentile £51.02 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £73.88 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.50 £31.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% -30.00% +40.63%

Employee Productivity
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Employee Productivity job vacancy trend in the UK

Employee Productivity
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Employee Productivity

Employee Productivity
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Employee Productivity within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 -35 1 £598 +49.50% 46
Work from Home - 1 £598 - 46

Employee Productivity
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Graph
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft