HCL Notes Contract Job Trends

HCL Notes (formerly IBM Notes, Lotus Notes)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring HCL Notes skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 535 564 622
Rank change year-on-year +29 +58 +211
Contract jobs citing HCL Notes 24 9 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.024% 0.034%
As % of the Application Platforms category 0.67% 0.22% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 13
10th Percentile £164 £165 -
25th Percentile £400 £272 £133
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £448 £200
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% +124.00% -16.93%
75th Percentile - £463 £388
90th Percentile £505 £485 £522
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £318 £140
% change year-on-year +15.81% +126.96% -63.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.25
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £18.50

All Application Platform Skills
UK

HCL Notes falls under the Application Platforms category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring application platform skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for application platform skills 3,566 4,108 5,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 10.83% 10.74% 10.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,310 2,704 3,481
10th Percentile £277 £264 £256
25th Percentile £388 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.10% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £643
90th Percentile £706 £825 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £475
% change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 86 161
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.08 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £23.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £38.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.95% -27.62% +141.38%
75th Percentile £65.06 £70.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.03 £48.56 £46.09
% change year-on-year -21.68% +5.36% +142.58%

HCL Notes
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HCL Notes in the UK

HCL Notes
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HCL Notes

HCL Notes
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HCL Notes over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HCL Notes in the UK

HCL Notes
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing HCL Notes

HCL Notes
Top 9 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HCL Notes within the UK over the 6 months to 17 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 +47 20 £415 +0.61%
London +33 11 £415 -7.78%
UK excluding London +6 11 £368 +15.81%
Work from Home +14 8 £415 -7.37%
West Midlands - 6 £345 -
Midlands - 6 £345 -
Scotland -8 3 £368 -17.86%
South East - 1 £575 -
South West - 1 £135 -

HCL Notes
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 11 (45.83%) SharePoint
2 4 (16.67%) HCL Domino
3 1 (4.17%) Mendix
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (41.67%) Power Platform
1 10 (41.67%) PowerApps
2 9 (37.50%) Power Automate
3 5 (20.83%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) Power BI
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle Database
3 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
1 1 (4.17%) Subversion
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Banking
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Developer
2 9 (37.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 4 (16.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Help Desk Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) IT Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Service Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Lotus Notes Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (8.33%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) First Line Help Desk Support
5 2 (8.33%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (8.33%) Help Desk Support Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) IT Support
5 2 (8.33%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Low-Code Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Support
5 2 (8.33%) Service Desk Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) HTML5 Canvas
3 1 (4.17%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Low-Code
2 4 (16.67%) Derivative
3 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.33%) Blackberry
4 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.17%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
3 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 4 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (8.33%) Data Migration
6 2 (8.33%) ITIL
6 2 (8.33%) Mobile Device Management
7 1 (4.17%) API Integration
7 1 (4.17%) Backlog Management
7 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
7 1 (4.17%) DevOps
7 1 (4.17%) Sprint Planning
7 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) C#
2 8 (33.33%) LotusScript
3 5 (20.83%) Formula Language
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
4 4 (16.67%) SQL
5 3 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (8.33%) A+ Certification
1 2 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (8.33%) Degree
1 2 (8.33%) Dell Certification
1 2 (8.33%) MCP
1 2 (8.33%) MCSE
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Lotus
2 13 (54.17%) Microsoft
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) ServiceNow
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
6 1 (4.17%) Kofax
6 1 (4.17%) SAP