Korean Language Contracts

Korean Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Korean Language in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Korean Language over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 516 580 712
Rank change year-on-year +64 +132 -
Contract jobs citing Korean Language 4 2 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.014% 0.005% 0.010%
As % of the General category 0.022% 0.008% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £341 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £359 - -
90th Percentile £361 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - -

All General Skills
UK

Korean 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 18,479 25,363 34,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.12% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 16,004 24,197
10th Percentile £300 £275 £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 £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,943 1,063
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.20 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
% change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%

Korean Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Korean Language in the UK

Korean Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Korean Language in the UK

Korean Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Korean Language in the UK

Korean Language
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Korean Language 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 +59 4 £350 - 17
UK excluding London - 2 £350 - 3
South East - 2 £350 - 2
Work from Home +40 1 - - 4
London +38 1 - - 14

Korean 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe After Effects
1 1 (25.00%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (25.00%) Photoshop
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) DB2
2 1 (25.00%) Informix
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Arabic Language
2 2 (50.00%) French Language
2 2 (50.00%) German Language
2 2 (50.00%) Japanese Language
3 1 (25.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (25.00%) Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support
2 2 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Artworker
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Creative Artworker
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Support
3 1 (25.00%) Web Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Hosting Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Web Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Graphic Design
2 1 (25.00%) New Media
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Deadline-Driven
3 1 (25.00%) High Availability
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Typography
3 1 (25.00%) Virtual Environments
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Bash
3 1 (25.00%) Korn
3 1 (25.00%) Perl
3 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) TADDM
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) IBM