RIMES Contract Job Trends

RIMES
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of RIMES products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RIMES over the 6 months leading up to 26 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the RIMES Technologies Corporation.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing RIMES 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

RIMES falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 19,705 13,939 18,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.17% 47.47% 42.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,590 8,769 11,529
10th Percentile £313 £290 £262
25th Percentile £413 £406 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £491 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 991 558 1,076
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.39
Median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.00 £24.19 £21.46
% change year-on-year +11.62% +12.72% -45.74%

RIMES
Job Vacancy Trend

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

RIMES job vacancy trend in the UK

RIMES
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

RIMES
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

RIMES
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing RIMES within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Scotland - 1 - -
UK excluding London - 1 - -

RIMES
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Support Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle