NsoIT Contracts

New Style of IT (NsoIT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring NsoIT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NsoIT 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 471 561 695
Rank change year-on-year +90 +134 +141
Contract jobs citing NsoIT 49 21 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.048% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.056% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 16 21
10th Percentile £514 £473 -
25th Percentile £525 £501 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £656 £638
90th Percentile £688 £738 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

NsoIT falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

NsoIT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NsoIT over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NsoIT in the UK

NsoIT
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NsoIT 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
UK excluding London +94 49 £575 +9.00% 2
England +85 49 £575 +9.00% 2
South West +77 49 £575 +9.00% 2
Work from Home +54 17 £550 -0.45% 1

NsoIT
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 23 (46.94%) Confluence
2 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.20%) Skype
2 4 (8.16%) BGP
2 4 (8.16%) OSPF
3 3 (6.12%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (6.12%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (6.12%) DMVPN
3 3 (6.12%) Firewall
3 3 (6.12%) VXLAN
4 2 (4.08%) iSCSI
4 2 (4.08%) SAN
4 2 (4.08%) VSAN
5 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
5 1 (2.04%) VLAN
5 1 (2.04%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 23 (46.94%) JIRA
2 18 (36.73%) Git
3 12 (24.49%) Bitbucket
4 10 (20.41%) Jenkins
General
1 24 (48.98%) Social Skills
2 21 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 14 (28.57%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 8 (16.33%) Platform Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (12.24%) Wintel Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Senior
4 4 (8.16%) Senior Wintel Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Network Design Architect
6 2 (4.08%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Coordinator
7 1 (2.04%) Service Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.04%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.04%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.57%) Flash
2 11 (22.45%) REST
3 10 (20.41%) SOAP
4 3 (6.12%) Spine.js
5 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Clustering
2 6 (12.24%) PKI
3 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
4 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.04%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 25 (51.02%) Windows
2 18 (36.73%) Windows Server
3 17 (34.69%) Linux
4 6 (12.24%) Windows Server 2012
5 4 (8.16%) Windows 10
6 2 (4.08%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (71.43%) Service Management
2 33 (67.35%) System Testing
3 28 (57.14%) Agile
4 27 (55.10%) Validation
5 19 (38.78%) Configuration Management
6 18 (36.73%) Critical Thinking
7 17 (34.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (32.65%) Waterfall
9 14 (28.57%) High Availability
9 14 (28.57%) Power Management
10 13 (26.53%) Computer Science
10 13 (26.53%) Network Virtualisation
11 12 (24.49%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (22.45%) Deployment Automation
13 10 (20.41%) Infrastructure Automation
13 10 (20.41%) Reverse Engineering
14 9 (18.37%) Software Engineering
15 8 (16.33%) ITIL
16 7 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
16 7 (14.29%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 22 (44.90%) PowerShell
2 18 (36.73%) Python
3 10 (20.41%) Bash
4 4 (8.16%) SQL
Qualifications
1 48 (97.96%) Security Cleared
2 47 (95.92%) SC Cleared
3 34 (69.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 25 (51.02%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (38.78%) Degree
6 15 (30.61%) CCNP
7 12 (24.49%) CCNA
7 12 (24.49%) Master's Degree
8 10 (20.41%) OCA
8 10 (20.41%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (18.37%) RHCA
9 9 (18.37%) RHCE
10 7 (14.29%) MCSE
10 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
11 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
12 3 (6.12%) MCSA
13 1 (2.04%) CISA
13 1 (2.04%) CISSP
13 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
13 1 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.04%) GRC
1 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.04%) JSP 440
1 1 (2.04%) NIST
1 1 (2.04%) NIST 800
1 1 (2.04%) RMADS
System Software
1 27 (55.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (28.57%) VMware NSX
3 6 (12.24%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 27 (55.10%) vCenter Server
2 18 (36.73%) Ansible
3 10 (20.41%) Progress Chef
3 10 (20.41%) Puppet
4 8 (16.33%) Terraform
5 4 (8.16%) WSUS
6 3 (6.12%) OPNET
7 2 (4.08%) SCOM
8 1 (2.04%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 34 (69.39%) VMware
2 25 (51.02%) Cisco
3 22 (44.90%) Atlassian
4 10 (20.41%) Oracle
5 8 (16.33%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.08%) Remedy
6 2 (4.08%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.04%) BMC
7 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.04%) Veeam