IT Trainer Contracts

IT Trainer
UK

The median IT Trainer daily rate in the UK is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 508 538 670
Rank change year-on-year +30 +132 +143
Contract jobs requiring an IT Trainer 12 44 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.10% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.11% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 34 34
10th Percentile £279 - £157
25th Percentile £285 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £270 £230
Median % change year-on-year +20.37% +17.39% -29.23%
75th Percentile £378 £312 £405
90th Percentile - £473 £563
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £205 £200
% change year-on-year +46.55% +2.35% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.75 £19.25 £34.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -43.48% +60.47%
75th Percentile £18.25 £19.75 £34.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £19.50 -
% change year-on-year -10.26% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

IT Trainer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured IT Trainer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for IT Trainer in the UK

IT Trainer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Trainer.

Daily rate trend for IT Trainer in the UK

IT Trainer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Trainer.

Hourly rate trend for IT Trainer in the UK

IT Trainer
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Trainer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 +29 11 £325 +20.37% 15
London +33 7 £350 +12.18% 6
UK excluding London +40 5 £300 +46.55% 11
North of England +20 3 £300 -28.57% 3
Yorkshire +8 2 - - 3
Wales +1 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
North East - 1 £300 -

IT Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Trainer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring IT Trainer in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) e-Learning
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (16.67%) DB2
3 2 (16.67%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Linux
3 2 (16.67%) Tomcat
3 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) AWS
3 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) User Experience
3 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (8.33%) Power BI
4 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (8.33%) Content Development
4 1 (8.33%) Looker
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) Instructional Design
4 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (8.33%) Content Strategy
4 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Adobe
4 1 (8.33%) NHS

IT Trainer Skill Set
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 (16.67%) Tomcat
1 2 (16.67%) WebSphere
2 1 (8.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) Drupal
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) DB2
2 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (8.33%) Looker
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Billing
2 1 (8.33%) Law
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Local Government
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Learning Management System
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
1 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (16.67%) User Experience
2 1 (8.33%) Agile
2 1 (8.33%) Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.33%) Campaign Management
2 1 (8.33%) Content Development
2 1 (8.33%) Content Management
2 1 (8.33%) Content Strategy
2 1 (8.33%) Data Management
2 1 (8.33%) Instructional Design
2 1 (8.33%) Product Management
2 1 (8.33%) SEO
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (8.33%) Web Analytics
2 1 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
1 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) Adobe
3 1 (8.33%) Palantir
3 1 (8.33%) Sitecore