NEC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of NEC products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NEC over the 6 months to 27 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 the NEC Corporation.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 708 816
Rank change year-on-year +173 +108 -139
Contract jobs citing NEC 63 11 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.018% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.34% 0.043% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 4 13
10th Percentile £393 £164 £288
25th Percentile £425 £260 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £475
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% -28.95% -1.04%
75th Percentile £500 £406 £588
90th Percentile £515 £508 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £213 £481
% change year-on-year +99.53% -55.74% -3.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £24.83 £14.97 -
25th Percentile £33.19 £16.29 £19.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £18.54 £21.82
Median % change year-on-year +154.82% -15.00% -
75th Percentile £61.19 £20.74 £25.08
90th Percentile £69.48 £22.04 £34.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £14.19 £21.82
% change year-on-year - -34.98% -

All Vendors
UK

NEC 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 18,438 25,649 35,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.58% 42.89% 39.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,419 17,207 23,532
10th Percentile £263 £270 £290
25th Percentile £403 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £650 £631
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 1,097 699 889
10th Percentile £12.08 £15.25 £11.50
25th Percentile £14.48 £19.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £43.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.71% +108.33% -6.67%
75th Percentile £56.49 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.75 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £38.50 £18.69
% change year-on-year -44.26% +105.96% -0.44%

NEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NEC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NEC over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NEC within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +182 61 £475 +5.56% 105
London +142 45 £475 +5.56% 22
Work from Home +148 21 £455 - 43
UK excluding London +73 15 £425 +99.53% 95
North of England +38 6 £500 - 20
South East - 5 £300 - 29
Midlands - 4 £350 - 13
Yorkshire - 4 £463 - 7
North West +17 2 £500 - 11
West Midlands - 2 £350 - 9
East Midlands - 2 - - 4

NEC
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 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 42 (66.67%) NEC Housing
2 5 (7.94%) MIS ActiveH
3 2 (3.17%) OPENHousing
3 2 (3.17%) Primavera
4 1 (1.59%) Aareon QL
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 7 (11.11%) AWS
1 7 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
1 7 (11.11%) GitHub
1 7 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (11.11%) Serverless
2 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.76%) Internet
2 2 (3.17%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) Oracle Database
2 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.76%) Data Mining
3 3 (4.76%) Power BI
3 3 (4.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 2 (3.17%) MS Access
5 1 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.59%) Metadata
5 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 11 (17.46%) Local Government
1 11 (17.46%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.11%) Billing
2 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.94%) Finance
4 2 (3.17%) Retail
5 1 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Law
5 1 (1.59%) Legal
5 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.59%) Public Speaking
5 1 (1.59%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Senior
2 14 (22.22%) Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Senior Analyst
4 7 (11.11%) Consultant
4 7 (11.11%) Developer
4 7 (11.11%) Lead
5 5 (7.94%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.35%) Configuration Specialist
6 4 (6.35%) Software Developer
7 3 (4.76%) .NET Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.76%) Risk Consultant
7 3 (4.76%) Trainer
8 2 (3.17%) Data Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Data Migration Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) DBA
8 2 (3.17%) Development Officer
8 2 (3.17%) Implementation Specialist
8 2 (3.17%) Migration Engineer
8 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.11%) .NET
1 7 (11.11%) .NET Core
1 7 (11.11%) OAuth
1 7 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 7 (11.11%) React
1 7 (11.11%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.76%) Housing Association
3 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.17%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.17%) PMI
4 1 (1.59%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (15.87%) Housing Management
1 10 (15.87%) Migration
2 9 (14.29%) Project Management
3 8 (12.70%) Batch Processing
4 7 (11.11%) BDD
4 7 (11.11%) Data Migration
4 7 (11.11%) DevOps
4 7 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 7 (11.11%) TDD
5 6 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (9.52%) CI/CD
5 6 (9.52%) Risk Management
5 6 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (7.94%) Analytics
6 5 (7.94%) Customer Service
6 5 (7.94%) Test Scripting
6 5 (7.94%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (6.35%) Business Analysis
7 4 (6.35%) Data Management
7 4 (6.35%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (41.27%) SQL
2 7 (11.11%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.76%) Degree
3 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
3 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.35%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.35%) QA
1 4 (6.35%) SLA
2 1 (1.59%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (30.16%) Northgate
2 14 (22.22%) Oracle
3 5 (7.94%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.76%) Civica
5 1 (1.59%) Aareon
5 1 (1.59%) Capita
5 1 (1.59%) iManage