Mercator Contracts

Mercator
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Mercator products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mercator over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Mercator Software, Inc.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 588 672 747
Rank change year-on-year +84 +75 -62
Contract jobs citing Mercator 3 35 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.058% 0.13%
As % of the Vendors category 0.016% 0.14% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 6
10th Percentile - £384 -
25th Percentile - £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £430 £180
Median % change year-on-year - +138.89% -
75th Percentile - £456 -
90th Percentile - £477 £315
UK excluding London median daily rate - £400 £450
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -

All Vendors
UK

Mercator is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,621 25,856 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.66% 42.87% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,553 17,300 23,547
10th Percentile £260 £271 £288
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £647 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +8.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,098 716 897
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.00 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.08 £43.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.96% +105.95% -6.67%
75th Percentile £57.12 £65.00 £45.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.88% -0.70%

Mercator
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mercator in the UK

Mercator
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Mercator in the UK

Mercator
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Mercator in the UK

Mercator
Top 1 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mercator within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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
Work from Home +102 3 - -

Mercator
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Apigee
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GCP
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) IaaS
1 2 (66.67%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Artifactory
1 2 (66.67%) Bitbucket
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Maven
1 2 (66.67%) SonarQube
1 2 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Resilience Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Software Assurance
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) PDM
2 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sparx