Onboarding Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 173 164
Rank change year-on-year +60 -9 +69
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 704 616 932
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.41% 1.41% 1.56%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.10% 4.65% 4.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 435 660
10th Percentile £288 £255 £336
25th Percentile £408 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £613 £624 £675
90th Percentile £724 £728 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% +5.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 15
10th Percentile £13.88 £12.70 £20.95
25th Percentile £15.19 £14.00 £25.63
Median hourly rate £28.25 £18.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.94% -59.09% +120.00%
75th Percentile £48.13 £28.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £77.98 £30.25 £60.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.70 £17.00 £22.75
% change year-on-year +27.62% -25.27% +13.75%

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 9,915 13,252 19,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.91% 30.40% 33.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,331 8,505 13,670
10th Percentile £300 £263 £308
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £660 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.90% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 394 910 640
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.66 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.99 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.93 £27.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year +11.46% +26.14% +9.64%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 17 Contract 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 30 April 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 +60 608 £514 -2.10% 2,454
London +47 343 £538 +2.38% 1,810
UK excluding London +74 268 £500 -4.76% 740
Work from Home +47 226 £500 -4.76% 726
South East +81 98 £498 -13.29% 176
North of England +50 71 £500 -4.76% 206
Midlands +32 43 £550 +7.32% 110
North West +23 43 £513 -4.51% 124
West Midlands +24 33 £550 +4.76% 62
South West +24 27 £430 -18.10% 78
Scotland +3 19 £488 -2.50% 74
North East +7 15 £500 +185.71% 24
East of England +28 14 £488 +21.88% 81
Yorkshire +19 13 £350 -34.88% 64
East Midlands +12 10 £450 -3.23% 48
Wales +6 3 - - 29
Northern Ireland -6 3 £625 - 7

Onboarding
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 35 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 15 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 14 (1.99%) Confluence
4 6 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 5 (0.71%) CMS
5 5 (0.71%) Oracle Workflow
6 4 (0.57%) Apache
7 3 (0.43%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.43%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.43%) Umbraco
8 2 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.28%) Drupal
8 2 (0.28%) nginx
8 2 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.14%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.14%) Mule ESB
9 1 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
Applications
1 25 (3.55%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (0.71%) EngageOne
6 3 (0.43%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.14%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.14%) Sketch
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 14 (1.99%) Aladdin
1 14 (1.99%) thinkFolio
2 10 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.28%) CiviCRM
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.28%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP HCM
5 2 (0.28%) SAP WM
5 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.14%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.14%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 100 (14.20%) Azure
2 79 (11.22%) AWS
3 60 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
4 37 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 36 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 24 (3.41%) SaaS
7 17 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
8 15 (2.13%) Amazon ELB
8 15 (2.13%) GitHub
9 14 (1.99%) OCI
10 13 (1.85%) Asana
10 13 (1.85%) Snowflake
11 12 (1.70%) Serverless
11 12 (1.70%) Slack
12 11 (1.56%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.42%) OneDrive
14 9 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.28%) PowerApps
15 8 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (2.41%) Firewall
2 14 (1.99%) VPN
3 12 (1.70%) SSL
4 8 (1.14%) HTTPS
5 6 (0.85%) Remote Desktop
5 6 (0.85%) SSH
6 5 (0.71%) LTE
6 5 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.57%) 3G
7 4 (0.57%) 3GPP
7 4 (0.57%) 4G
7 4 (0.57%) DNS
7 4 (0.57%) Network Security
7 4 (0.57%) WAN
8 3 (0.43%) HTTP
8 3 (0.43%) LAN
8 3 (0.43%) Skype
8 3 (0.43%) TACACS
8 3 (0.43%) TCP/IP
8 3 (0.43%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.69%) Power BI
2 11 (1.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (1.42%) Data Lake
3 10 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (1.28%) Tableau
5 8 (1.14%) Relational Database
6 7 (0.99%) Metadata
6 7 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 6 (0.85%) NoSQL
7 6 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.71%) Big Data
9 4 (0.57%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.43%) DynamoDB
10 3 (0.43%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.43%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.43%) SAP Data Services
11 2 (0.28%) NewSQL
11 2 (0.28%) Redis
Development Applications
1 47 (6.68%) JIRA
2 27 (3.84%) GitLab
3 23 (3.27%) Git
4 17 (2.41%) Jenkins
5 7 (0.99%) Selenium
6 6 (0.85%) Postman
7 4 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.57%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.57%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.57%) Maven
8 3 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.43%) Oracle Forms
8 3 (0.43%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.43%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.43%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.28%) GCC
9 2 (0.28%) MLflow
9 2 (0.28%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
9 2 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 201 (28.55%) Social Skills
2 162 (23.01%) Finance
3 102 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 84 (11.93%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (7.39%) Banking
6 40 (5.68%) Marketing
7 36 (5.11%) Telecoms
8 30 (4.26%) Legal
9 26 (3.69%) Front Office
10 23 (3.27%) Investment Banking
11 21 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (2.84%) Retail
13 17 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
14 16 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
16 14 (1.99%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.70%) Billing
18 10 (1.42%) Electronics
18 10 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
18 10 (1.42%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 87 (12.36%) Analyst
2 74 (10.51%) Architect
3 66 (9.38%) Developer
4 50 (7.10%) Consultant
5 47 (6.68%) Business Analyst
6 45 (6.39%) Lead
7 36 (5.11%) Senior
8 31 (4.40%) Project Manager
9 22 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 21 (2.98%) Support Engineer
11 20 (2.84%) AWS Architect
11 20 (2.84%) Data Engineer
11 20 (2.84%) IT Support
12 18 (2.56%) Administrator
12 18 (2.56%) Business Manager
13 17 (2.41%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
14 16 (2.27%) IT Engineer
14 16 (2.27%) IT Support Engineer
15 14 (1.99%) Delivery Manager
15 14 (1.99%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.70%) REST
2 18 (2.56%) SailPoint
3 16 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 13 (1.85%) .NET
4 13 (1.85%) LDAP
4 13 (1.85%) SAML
5 12 (1.70%) Middleware
6 11 (1.56%) FastAPI
6 11 (1.56%) JSON
6 11 (1.56%) OpenID
7 10 (1.42%) Web Services
8 9 (1.28%) SOAP
9 8 (1.14%) React
10 7 (0.99%) HTML
11 6 (0.85%) CSS
12 5 (0.71%) OAuth
12 5 (0.71%) RESTful
13 4 (0.57%) AngularJS
13 4 (0.57%) Kafka
13 4 (0.57%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (2.98%) Derivative
1 21 (2.98%) Fixed Income
2 18 (2.56%) Hedge funds
3 15 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (1.99%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 11 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (1.56%) Social Media
7 10 (1.42%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.14%) e-Learning
10 7 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
10 7 (0.99%) Data Centre
11 6 (0.85%) BYOD
11 6 (0.85%) CSOC
11 6 (0.85%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.71%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.71%) Data Structures
12 5 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 87 (12.36%) Windows
2 27 (3.84%) Windows 10
3 26 (3.69%) Windows Server
4 18 (2.56%) Unix
5 17 (2.41%) Linux
6 7 (0.99%) Android
6 7 (0.99%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.71%) MVS
8 3 (0.43%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.14%) AIX
10 1 (0.14%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 116 (16.48%) Agile
2 111 (15.77%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (11.65%) Project Management
4 73 (10.37%) DevOps
5 67 (9.52%) Analytics
6 65 (9.23%) Client Onboarding
7 62 (8.81%) Migration
8 61 (8.66%) Stakeholder Management
9 54 (7.67%) Business Intelligence
10 49 (6.96%) Roadmaps
11 41 (5.82%) Asset Management
11 41 (5.82%) CI/CD
12 40 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
13 37 (5.26%) Service Management
14 36 (5.11%) Business Analysis
15 35 (4.97%) User Experience
16 32 (4.55%) Decision-Making
16 32 (4.55%) ITSM
16 32 (4.55%) RBAC
17 31 (4.40%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 74 (10.51%) SQL
2 73 (10.37%) Python
3 48 (6.82%) Java
4 36 (5.11%) PowerShell
5 19 (2.70%) C#
6 16 (2.27%) JavaScript
7 15 (2.13%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.28%) Bash
9 6 (0.85%) ActionScript
9 6 (0.85%) ActionScript 2.0
10 5 (0.71%) C
11 4 (0.57%) Scala
12 3 (0.43%) Groovy
12 3 (0.43%) PHP
12 3 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.43%) Ruby
13 2 (0.28%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.28%) Rust
13 2 (0.28%) Search Processing Language
13 2 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 165 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 125 (17.76%) SC Cleared
3 38 (5.40%) Degree
4 36 (5.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (2.27%) DV Cleared
6 10 (1.42%) PMI Certification
7 9 (1.28%) CISSP
8 8 (1.14%) PMP
9 7 (0.99%) Azure Certification
9 7 (0.99%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 6 (0.85%) GIAC
11 5 (0.71%) APMG
11 5 (0.71%) CCNA
12 4 (0.57%) CISM
12 4 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (0.57%) Master's Degree
12 4 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.43%) A+ Certification
13 3 (0.43%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (3.84%) Data Quality
2 25 (3.55%) PMO
3 23 (3.27%) GDPR
4 22 (3.13%) QA
5 17 (2.41%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 12 (1.70%) HIPAA
8 11 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (1.42%) SLA
10 8 (1.14%) NIST
11 4 (0.57%) GRC
11 4 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.28%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.28%) EMIR
13 2 (0.28%) MiFID
14 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.14%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (11.36%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.85%) Docker
2 13 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (0.57%) BitLocker
3 4 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.28%) Ceph
4 2 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.28%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.28%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.14%) Firmware
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
5 1 (0.14%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 26 (3.69%) Single Sign-On
2 24 (3.41%) Kubernetes
3 23 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (3.27%) Terraform
4 14 (1.99%) Ansible
5 10 (1.42%) MIIS
6 7 (0.99%) SCCM
7 6 (0.85%) Grafana
8 5 (0.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.57%) McAfee ePO
10 3 (0.43%) Argo
10 3 (0.43%) Forefront Identity Manager
10 3 (0.43%) Norton AntiVirus
10 3 (0.43%) Packer
10 3 (0.43%) QRadar
10 3 (0.43%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
11 2 (0.28%) CASB
11 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.28%) VxRail
Vendors
1 104 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 82 (11.65%) Virgin Media
3 43 (6.11%) ServiceNow
4 39 (5.54%) SAP
5 32 (4.55%) Oracle
6 30 (4.26%) Splunk
7 28 (3.98%) CyberArk
8 21 (2.98%) Salesforce
9 20 (2.84%) VMware
10 17 (2.41%) Charles River
11 14 (1.99%) BISAM
11 14 (1.99%) Calypso
11 14 (1.99%) SimCorp
11 14 (1.99%) Zscaler
12 13 (1.85%) Dell
13 10 (1.42%) Cisco
13 10 (1.42%) Databricks
13 10 (1.42%) Google
13 10 (1.42%) IBM
14 9 (1.28%) Wyse