Housing Association Contracts

Housing Association
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Housing Association in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Housing Association over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 538 667
Rank change year-on-year +31 +129 +120
Contract jobs citing Housing Association 19 45 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.065% 0.10% 0.064%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.19% 0.34% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 33
10th Percentile £178 £338 £246
25th Percentile £363 £391 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £513
90th Percentile £570 £585 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £431 £475
% change year-on-year +10.14% -9.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 0
10th Percentile £20.01 £11.87 -
25th Percentile £21.52 £12.81 -
Median hourly rate £24.04 £16.32 -
Median % change year-on-year +47.32% - -
75th Percentile £26.55 £20.35 -
90th Percentile £28.06 £40.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £15.63 -
% change year-on-year +21.56% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Housing Association 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 9,948 13,193 19,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.95% 30.39% 33.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,351 8,470 13,586
10th Percentile £300 £263 £306
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £651 £659 £680
90th Percentile £775 £793 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 401 911 639
10th Percentile £16.67 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £64.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.78 £28.38 £22.00
% change year-on-year +8.48% +28.98% +10.00%

Housing Association
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Housing Association.

Daily rate trend for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Housing Association over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Housing Association.

Hourly rate trend for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Housing Association within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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 +52 19 £475 -5.00% 42
London +43 15 £475 -9.52% 19
Work from Home +23 5 £475 -2.56% 18
UK excluding London +44 4 £475 +10.14% 24
Midlands +16 3 £475 +5.56% 6
West Midlands +10 2 £475 +5.56% 6
East of England +38 1 £525 +27.27% 3
East Midlands - 1 £475 -

Housing Association
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:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) NEC Housing
2 2 (10.53%) OPENHousing
3 1 (5.26%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
1 3 (15.79%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) Data Lake
2 2 (10.53%) Power BI
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Appium
1 2 (10.53%) Selenium
2 1 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (36.84%) Local Government
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Law
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Project Manager
2 6 (31.58%) Senior
3 5 (26.32%) IT Manager
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Manager
3 5 (26.32%) Senior Project Manager
4 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 4 (21.05%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (15.79%) Senior IT Manager
5 3 (15.79%) Senior IT Project Manager
6 2 (10.53%) Data Cleanser
6 2 (10.53%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
7 1 (5.26%) Data Migration Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Information Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) IT Programme Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Support Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Systems Support Analyst
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
7 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
2 1 (5.26%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Android
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Housing Management
2 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Agile
5 3 (15.79%) Budget Management
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (10.53%) API Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Contract Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Migration
6 2 (10.53%) Project Governance
6 2 (10.53%) Project Planning
6 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.26%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.26%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) GDPR
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) NEC
2 4 (21.05%) Civica
2 4 (21.05%) Northgate
3 3 (15.79%) Capita
3 3 (15.79%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.53%) Aareon
5 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.26%) Oracle
5 1 (5.26%) Orchard