Housing Association Contract Job Trends

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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 649 537 517
Rank change year-on-year -112 -20 +69
Contract jobs citing Housing Association 39 19 38
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.071% 0.057% 0.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.20% 0.16% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 24
10th Percentile £348 - £125
25th Percentile £441 £163 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £542 £500 £538
90th Percentile £562 £545 £564
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £175 £450
% change year-on-year +171.43% -61.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.62
25th Percentile £15.39 - £22.79
Median hourly rate £16.86 - £23.33
75th Percentile £18.46 - £23.62
90th Percentile £23.80 - £23.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.44 - £23.33

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 19,207 11,950 11,468
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.75% 36.02% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,472 7,334 6,832
10th Percentile £322 £293 £280
25th Percentile £425 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £529
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -1.94% -3.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £668
90th Percentile £750 £750 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.75% -1.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,350 623 401
10th Percentile £13.94 £14.33 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.57 £18.50 £23.30
Median hourly rate £35.91 £27.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +30.58% -40.45% +2.62%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.06 £72.50 £75.16
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £26.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year +30.84% -49.05% +2.46%

Housing Association
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Housing Association job vacancy trend in the UK

Housing Association
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association

Housing Association
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Housing Association over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Housing Association

Housing Association
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Housing Association over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Housing Association in the UK

Housing Association
Top 11 Contract Job 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 14 October 2026. 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 -101 37 £488 +5.41% 47
Work from Home -49 23 £481 +1.32% 27
London -93 19 £500 +5.26% 22
UK excluding London -92 18 £475 +171.43% 34
North of England -65 8 £510 - 7
Yorkshire - 6 £510 - 2
West Midlands -43 4 £162 -64.97% 6
Midlands -49 4 £162 -49.18% 7
South East - 4 - - 8
North West -50 2 £489 - 5
Wales - 2 - - 4

Housing Association
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:

Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) NEC Housing
2 3 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (7.69%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (2.56%) OPENHousing
3 1 (2.56%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 5 (12.82%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (10.26%) Power Automate
3 4 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.13%) Azure Databricks
5 2 (5.13%) PowerApps
5 2 (5.13%) SaaS
6 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.69%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Data Vault
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Cypress.io
1 2 (5.13%) JIRA
1 2 (5.13%) Postman
1 2 (5.13%) Selenium
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Housing
2 13 (33.33%) Local Government
2 13 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (20.51%) Finance
5 4 (10.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Retail
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (17.95%) Administrator
2 6 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Data Administrator
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Business Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Senior
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Administration Assistant
6 2 (5.13%) Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Information Officer
6 2 (5.13%) Junior
6 2 (5.13%) Procurement Officer
6 2 (5.13%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) IT Support
7 1 (2.56%) Junior IT Support
7 1 (2.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Onboarding
2 3 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.69%) NHS
2 3 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.13%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (5.13%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.13%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.13%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.56%) PropTech
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (25.64%) Migration
2 8 (20.51%) Customer Service
2 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (20.51%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.95%) Housing Management
3 7 (17.95%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (15.38%) Agile
4 6 (15.38%) Compliance Management
4 6 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 5 (12.82%) Asset Management
5 5 (12.82%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (12.82%) Customer Experience
5 5 (12.82%) Data Modelling
5 5 (12.82%) Project Delivery
5 5 (12.82%) Quality Management
5 5 (12.82%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (10.26%) Data Migration
6 4 (10.26%) Integration Testing
6 4 (10.26%) Supplier Management
6 4 (10.26%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.69%) Python
2 2 (5.13%) C#
2 2 (5.13%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
2 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (2.56%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.95%) Data Quality
2 5 (12.82%) GDPR
3 2 (5.13%) QA
4 1 (2.56%) SLA
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Microsoft
2 8 (20.51%) Northgate
3 5 (12.82%) NEC
4 2 (5.13%) Civica
4 2 (5.13%) Databricks
4 2 (5.13%) Oracle
5 1 (2.56%) Orchard