Onboarding Contract Job Trends

Onboarding
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 97 170
Rank change year-on-year +11 +73 -14
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 1,448 755 601
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 2.92% 2.58% 1.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.05% 7.57% 4.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 901 480 424
10th Percentile £200 £310 £283
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £590 £638 £625
90th Percentile £725 £775 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 23 22
10th Percentile £16.39 £13.86 £12.60
25th Percentile £20.00 £19.97 £14.00
Median hourly rate £44.92 £29.50 £22.48
Median % change year-on-year +52.27% +31.26% -35.79%
75th Percentile £68.75 £40.38 £30.25
90th Percentile £86.50 £73.50 £47.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £19.97 £15.50
% change year-on-year +138.06% +28.84% -16.22%

All Generic Skills
UK

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 15,998 9,980 13,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.32% 34.15% 30.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,850 6,278 8,372
10th Percentile £313 £300 £274
25th Percentile £413 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.37% -2.23%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 789 420 931
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.82 £20.45 £15.32
Median hourly rate £42.50 £33.47 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.99% -5.73% +59.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.60 £82.28 £71.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +33.21% -5.71% +59.09%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the UK

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the UK over the 6 months to 7 June 2026. 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 +20 1,294 £492 -8.89% 1,249
UK excluding London +35 657 £450 -10.00% 769
London +12 653 £520 -6.52% 602
Work from Home +17 398 £510 -7.27% 572
North of England +31 202 £450 -10.00% 228
South East 0 186 £486 -2.41% 228
Midlands -6 129 £441 -20.50% 92
North West +28 118 £420 -22.22% 123
West Midlands -24 87 £492 -10.55% 67
Yorkshire +6 79 £500 +42.86% 85
South West +15 72 £500 +11.86% 83
East Midlands -3 41 £200 -71.43% 25
East of England +5 40 £405 -14.74% 81
Scotland +13 36 £449 -5.58% 35
Wales -13 9 £588 +42.42% 20
North East -33 5 £450 -2.70% 21
Northern Ireland +4 3 £650 +4.00% 25

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 72 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 53 (3.66%) Confluence
3 33 (2.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 7 (0.48%) Apache Spark
5 6 (0.41%) Apache
5 6 (0.41%) CMS
6 5 (0.35%) SAS
7 4 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Pulsar
8 2 (0.14%) CloudStack
8 2 (0.14%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.14%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.14%) nginx
8 2 (0.14%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.14%) WordPress
9 1 (0.069%) Appian
9 1 (0.069%) Camunda
9 1 (0.069%) LiveCycle
9 1 (0.069%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 57 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 52 (3.59%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.28%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.21%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.14%) Windchill
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.069%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.069%) Blender
10 1 (0.069%) InVision
10 1 (0.069%) Sketch
10 1 (0.069%) Trello
Business Applications
1 28 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.35%) Distributed Ledger
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Cash Management
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 4 (0.28%) SAP Business One
6 4 (0.28%) Sprinklr
7 3 (0.21%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Aladdin
8 2 (0.14%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle CRM
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.14%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 313 (21.62%) Azure
2 206 (14.23%) Microsoft 365
3 164 (11.33%) AWS
4 160 (11.05%) Entra ID
5 126 (8.70%) SaaS
6 54 (3.73%) Power Platform
7 45 (3.11%) GCP
8 38 (2.62%) OpenShift
9 37 (2.56%) GitHub
10 34 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
11 26 (1.80%) Google Workspace
11 26 (1.80%) OneDrive
12 19 (1.31%) Datadog
12 19 (1.31%) Slack
13 17 (1.17%) Collibra
14 16 (1.10%) PaaS
15 15 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
15 15 (1.04%) IaaS
15 15 (1.04%) Serverless
16 14 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 55 (3.80%) Firewall
2 54 (3.73%) VPN
3 52 (3.59%) DNS
4 43 (2.97%) TCP/IP
5 30 (2.07%) Network Security
6 28 (1.93%) DHCP
7 26 (1.80%) LAN
8 24 (1.66%) WAN
9 23 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.52%) VLAN
11 14 (0.97%) SD-WAN
11 14 (0.97%) Wireless
12 9 (0.62%) IPsec
12 9 (0.62%) SSL
12 9 (0.62%) WLAN
13 8 (0.55%) BGP
13 8 (0.55%) DMZ
13 8 (0.55%) Kerberos
13 8 (0.55%) OSPF
13 8 (0.55%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.11%) Metadata
2 37 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 36 (2.49%) Power BI
4 18 (1.24%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
6 13 (0.90%) MySQL
7 8 (0.55%) Hadoop
7 8 (0.55%) Tableau
8 7 (0.48%) Big Data
9 6 (0.41%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
9 6 (0.41%) Delta Lake
10 5 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.35%) Parquet
10 5 (0.35%) Relational Database
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.28%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.28%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
11 4 (0.28%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 127 (8.77%) JIRA
2 37 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 31 (2.14%) GitLab
4 25 (1.73%) Git
5 9 (0.62%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.28%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.21%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.21%) Fiddler
7 3 (0.21%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.21%) Jaeger
7 3 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
7 3 (0.21%) Selenium
8 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.14%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.14%) Metasploit
8 2 (0.14%) MSI
8 2 (0.14%) Postman
8 2 (0.14%) SpecFlow
General
1 479 (33.08%) Social Skills
2 391 (27.00%) Finance
3 160 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 125 (8.63%) Banking
6 82 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 79 (5.46%) Documentation Skills
8 60 (4.14%) Legal
9 56 (3.87%) Marketing
10 34 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
11 31 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 31 (2.14%) Retail
12 30 (2.07%) Telecoms
13 26 (1.80%) Publishing
14 24 (1.66%) Financial Institution
14 24 (1.66%) Front Office
15 23 (1.59%) Investment Banking
16 22 (1.52%) General Ledger
17 17 (1.17%) Military
18 14 (0.97%) Law
Job Titles
1 198 (13.67%) Analyst
2 142 (9.81%) Architect
3 100 (6.91%) Senior
4 91 (6.28%) Lead
5 84 (5.80%) IT Support
6 75 (5.18%) Project Manager
7 66 (4.56%) Consultant
8 62 (4.28%) Support Engineer
9 58 (4.01%) Developer
10 55 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 48 (3.31%) IT Analyst
11 48 (3.31%) Support Analyst
12 42 (2.90%) IT Engineer
13 35 (2.42%) Administrator
14 32 (2.21%) IT Support Engineer
15 31 (2.14%) Delivery Manager
15 31 (2.14%) IT Support Analyst
16 29 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (1.93%) Coordinator
17 28 (1.93%) CyberArk Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (3.45%) SAML
2 43 (2.97%) OpenID
3 38 (2.62%) LDAP
3 38 (2.62%) REST
4 36 (2.49%) SailPoint
5 32 (2.21%) OAuth
6 29 (2.00%) Middleware
7 21 (1.45%) .NET
7 21 (1.45%) Kafka
8 18 (1.24%) Node.js
9 17 (1.17%) SAP Basis
10 16 (1.10%) React
11 14 (0.97%) JSON
11 14 (0.97%) OpenTelemetry
12 13 (0.90%) Web Services
13 12 (0.83%) OAuth2
14 11 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
14 11 (0.76%) Spring Boot
15 9 (0.62%) RESTful
15 9 (0.62%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 63 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 58 (4.01%) Cloud Native
3 41 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
4 40 (2.76%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.28%) Data Protection Act
6 30 (2.07%) Virtual Team
7 28 (1.93%) CMDB
8 26 (1.80%) Data Centre
9 24 (1.66%) Taxonomies
10 23 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
10 23 (1.59%) Legacy Systems
11 21 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
13 17 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
14 16 (1.10%) NHS
15 14 (0.97%) Operational Technology
15 14 (0.97%) Security Posture
16 13 (0.90%) Reference Data
17 11 (0.76%) Data Structures
18 10 (0.69%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 262 (18.09%) Windows
2 80 (5.52%) Linux
3 57 (3.94%) Windows 10
4 41 (2.83%) Unix
5 35 (2.42%) Mac OS
5 35 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 20 (1.38%) Android
7 19 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 13 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.41%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.35%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.28%) Solaris
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.14%) AIX
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.069%) CentOS
14 1 (0.069%) VMS
14 1 (0.069%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (16.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 235 (16.23%) Problem-Solving
3 202 (13.95%) Agile
4 180 (12.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 157 (10.84%) AI
6 154 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 145 (10.01%) Migration
8 142 (9.81%) Roadmaps
9 137 (9.46%) DevOps
10 136 (9.39%) CI/CD
11 132 (9.12%) ITSM
12 126 (8.70%) ITIL
13 121 (8.36%) Validation
14 111 (7.67%) Customer Service
15 107 (7.39%) Analytics
16 102 (7.04%) Decision-Making
16 102 (7.04%) Runbook
17 98 (6.77%) Client Onboarding
18 97 (6.70%) Cybersecurity
19 91 (6.28%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (9.19%) Python
2 104 (7.18%) PowerShell
3 87 (6.01%) SQL
4 47 (3.25%) Java
5 18 (1.24%) Bash
6 10 (0.69%) JavaScript
6 10 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
6 10 (0.69%) Search Processing Language
6 10 (0.69%) TypeScript
7 9 (0.62%) Bicep
7 9 (0.62%) C#
8 8 (0.55%) ActionScript
9 7 (0.48%) Kotlin
10 6 (0.41%) BeanShell
11 5 (0.35%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.28%) C++
12 4 (0.28%) Go
12 4 (0.28%) Groovy
13 3 (0.21%) Perl
13 3 (0.21%) PHP
Qualifications
1 304 (20.99%) Security Cleared
2 232 (16.02%) SC Cleared
3 137 (9.46%) Degree
4 54 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 45 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 33 (2.28%) DV Cleared
7 26 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 25 (1.73%) CISSP
9 17 (1.17%) ACCA
9 17 (1.17%) CIMA
10 15 (1.04%) A+ Certification
10 15 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (0.97%) PMI Certification
12 12 (0.83%) PMP
13 11 (0.76%) Azure Certification
13 11 (0.76%) CISM
13 11 (0.76%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (0.55%) AWS Certification
14 8 (0.55%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.55%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (6.22%) Data Quality
2 85 (5.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 85 (5.87%) NIST
3 50 (3.45%) PMO
4 47 (3.25%) QA
5 44 (3.04%) SLA
6 43 (2.97%) GDPR
7 26 (1.80%) GRC
8 22 (1.52%) NCSC
9 17 (1.17%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.90%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.48%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.35%) HL7
14 5 (0.35%) NIST 800
15 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.28%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 3 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 218 (15.06%) Active Directory
2 21 (1.45%) Docker
3 14 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
4 11 (0.76%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (0.48%) Firmware
5 7 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.41%) etcd
7 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.21%) vSphere
9 2 (0.14%) Ceph
9 2 (0.14%) IAG
9 2 (0.14%) KVM
9 2 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (0.14%) NFS
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.069%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.069%) iptables
10 1 (0.069%) ISA Server
10 1 (0.069%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 72 (4.97%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.77%) Single Sign-On
3 68 (4.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 53 (3.66%) Terraform
5 27 (1.86%) SCCM
6 26 (1.80%) Grafana
7 23 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.45%) Ansible
9 12 (0.83%) WSUS
10 8 (0.55%) Istio
11 7 (0.48%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.48%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 6 (0.41%) Fluentd
13 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.21%) Kustomize
14 3 (0.21%) QRadar
15 2 (0.14%) linkerd
15 2 (0.14%) Rancher
15 2 (0.14%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 307 (21.20%) Microsoft
2 122 (8.43%) ServiceNow
3 80 (5.52%) SAP
4 73 (5.04%) CyberArk
5 62 (4.28%) Splunk
6 50 (3.45%) Oracle
7 47 (3.25%) Virgin Media
8 35 (2.42%) Okta
9 33 (2.28%) Cisco
10 31 (2.14%) Google
10 31 (2.14%) Salesforce
11 29 (2.00%) BeyondTrust
12 23 (1.59%) Citrix
13 19 (1.31%) Adobe
14 18 (1.24%) Databricks
15 16 (1.10%) VMware
16 13 (0.90%) Bloomberg
16 13 (0.90%) Workday
17 12 (0.83%) Dynatrace
17 12 (0.83%) Zscaler