German Language Contracts

German Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term German Language in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited German Language over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 439 435 503
Rank change year-on-year -4 +68 +99
Contract jobs citing German Language 80 167 210
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.38% 0.35%
As % of the General category 0.43% 0.66% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 74
10th Percentile £141 £221 £179
25th Percentile £208 £350 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £763 £600
90th Percentile £707 £950 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £130 £325 £493
% change year-on-year -60.00% -34.01% +3.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 21 19
10th Percentile £15.65 - £12.00
25th Percentile £16.19 - £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.85 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.67% +3.45% +11.54%
75th Percentile £21.29 £26.98 £16.63
90th Percentile £36.57 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.30 £15.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year +22.00% +3.45% +11.54%

All General Skills
UK

German Language falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,465 25,387 34,897
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.16% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,795 16,033 24,201
10th Percentile £300 £270 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.23% -0.80% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,939 1,062
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.78 £13.42
25th Percentile £17.85 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -14.29% +59.71%
75th Percentile £56.00 £51.91 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £28.13 £30.54
% change year-on-year -10.58% -7.91% +65.08%

German Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing German Language.

Daily rate trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing German Language over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for German Language in the UK

German Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing German Language.

Hourly rate trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing German Language over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for German Language in the UK

German Language
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing German Language within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 -25 48 £348 -42.08% 366
Work from Home +11 29 £430 -31.20% 316
London -3 27 £300 -51.02% 244
UK excluding London +29 23 £130 -60.00% 133
East of England +31 11 - - 12
Scotland +13 5 £130 - 5
North of England +27 4 £513 -14.58% 37
South East +32 3 £125 -44.44% 43
North West +9 3 £513 -14.58% 22
North East - 1 - - 4

German Language
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 (2.50%) Confluence
1 2 (2.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.25%) Appian
2 1 (1.25%) CMS
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) OpenEdge
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe After Effects
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.25%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.50%) SAP MDM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.25%) SAP SD
3 1 (1.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.25%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.00%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.75%) AWS
3 3 (3.75%) SaaS
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.25%) Figma
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Advertising
4 1 (1.25%) Veeva
4 1 (1.25%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Firewall
2 3 (3.75%) LAN
2 3 (3.75%) VPN
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (2.50%) Network Security
3 2 (2.50%) SNMP
3 2 (2.50%) TACACS
3 2 (2.50%) Wireless
3 2 (2.50%) WLAN
4 1 (1.25%) Intranet
4 1 (1.25%) WAN
4 1 (1.25%) X.21
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Big Data
2 2 (2.50%) Informix
3 1 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.25%) DB2
3 1 (1.25%) MySQL
3 1 (1.25%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.25%) Redis
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (8.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (1.25%) LSMW
General
1 43 (53.75%) Social Skills
2 19 (23.75%) French Language
2 19 (23.75%) Marketing
3 18 (22.50%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.50%) Legal
5 9 (11.25%) Finance
6 8 (10.00%) Italian Language
7 5 (6.25%) Spanish Language
8 4 (5.00%) Billing
8 4 (5.00%) Japanese Language
8 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
8 4 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (5.00%) Telecoms
9 3 (3.75%) Advertising
9 3 (3.75%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (3.75%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.50%) Electronics
10 2 (2.50%) Games
10 2 (2.50%) Law
10 2 (2.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (13.75%) Analyst
2 8 (10.00%) Developer
3 7 (8.75%) Lead
4 6 (7.50%) Consultant
4 6 (7.50%) Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Asset Management Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Delivery Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Lead Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Project Leader
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Manager
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Project Leader
5 4 (5.00%) SAP Project Manager
5 4 (5.00%) Service Analyst
5 4 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Architect
6 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) Product Manager
6 3 (3.75%) Resource Management Analyst
6 3 (3.75%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) .NET
1 3 (3.75%) HTML
1 3 (3.75%) SAML
1 3 (3.75%) Web Services
2 2 (2.50%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.50%) CSS
2 2 (2.50%) LDAP
2 2 (2.50%) RESTful
3 1 (1.25%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.25%) JSON
3 1 (1.25%) Kafka
3 1 (1.25%) OAuth
3 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (1.25%) RxJS
3 1 (1.25%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.25%) SAPUI5
3 1 (1.25%) SOAP
3 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.50%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.00%) Digital Media
3 3 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.75%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.75%) Social Media
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.50%) Life Science
4 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.25%) Clustering
5 1 (1.25%) Graphic Design
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.25%) New Media
5 1 (1.25%) Pharmacovigilance
5 1 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Windows
2 4 (5.00%) Android
2 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.50%) SUSE
5 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (23.75%) Customer Service
3 11 (13.75%) Incident Management
4 10 (12.50%) Mathematics
4 10 (12.50%) Project Management
4 10 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 9 (11.25%) ERP
6 7 (8.75%) Digital Marketing
6 7 (8.75%) Migration
7 6 (7.50%) Analytics
7 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
7 6 (7.50%) Time Management
8 5 (6.25%) CRM
8 5 (6.25%) Customer Experience
8 5 (6.25%) Data Protection
9 4 (5.00%) Agile
9 4 (5.00%) Asset Management
9 4 (5.00%) EAM
9 4 (5.00%) E-Commerce
9 4 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) Bash
1 3 (3.75%) Python
1 3 (3.75%) SQL
2 2 (2.50%) C#
2 2 (2.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.25%) ABAP
3 1 (1.25%) C
3 1 (1.25%) Korn
3 1 (1.25%) Perl
3 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (8.75%) Degree
2 3 (3.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.50%) CCIE
3 2 (2.50%) CCIE Security
3 2 (2.50%) CCNA
3 2 (2.50%) CCNP
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.50%) PMP
4 1 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.25%) CIPD
4 1 (1.25%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.50%) GDPR
2 2 (2.50%) GxP
2 2 (2.50%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.50%) NIST
2 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.25%) Docker
2 1 (1.25%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.25%) TADDM
3 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (26.25%) SAP
2 19 (23.75%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.50%) Ariba
4 3 (3.75%) Apple
4 3 (3.75%) Atlassian
4 3 (3.75%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.50%) Adobe
5 2 (2.50%) Cisco
5 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.25%) Avaloq
6 1 (1.25%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.25%) comScore
6 1 (1.25%) IBM
6 1 (1.25%) Informatica
6 1 (1.25%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.25%) Sparx
6 1 (1.25%) Telerik
6 1 (1.25%) Workday