Situational Awareness Contracts

Situational Awareness
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Situational Awareness skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Situational Awareness over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 682 778
Rank change year-on-year +118 +96 -109
Contract jobs citing Situational Awareness 14 34 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.032% 0.058% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.064% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 53
10th Percentile £363 £501 £400
25th Percentile £472 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £563 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £700 £638
90th Percentile £1,013 £771 £685
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £61.61 £32.04
25th Percentile - £65.47 £41.59
Median hourly rate - £71.92 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +25.07% +43.75%
75th Percentile - £78.36 -
90th Percentile - £82.22 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £71.92 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +25.07% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Situational Awareness is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Situational Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Situational Awareness over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Situational Awareness in the UK

Situational Awareness
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Situational Awareness within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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 +93 14 £540 -4.00% 22
London +104 7 £710 +3.31% 4
UK excluding London +51 7 £475 -13.64% 19
South West +26 4 £463 +36.03% 12
Work from Home +117 3 £488 -11.36% 8
Yorkshire - 2 £481 -
North of England - 2 £481 - 1
East of England +9 1 £363 - 1

Situational Awareness
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (14.29%) OneDrive
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Figma
2 1 (7.14%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Internet
1 2 (14.29%) Tactical Data Link
1 2 (14.29%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Git
2 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Games
3 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Wholesale Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Agile Project Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Change Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Deployment Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Deployment Project Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft 365 Project Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Programme Manager
1 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
1 2 (14.29%) QA Engineer
1 2 (14.29%) QA Tester
1 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
1 2 (14.29%) Tester
2 1 (7.14%) Designer
2 1 (7.14%) Digital Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Head of Software Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Principal Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Senior Change Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Training Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) DAO
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
1 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
1 2 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile
2 8 (57.14%) Scrum
3 7 (50.00%) Project Management
4 6 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 5 (35.71%) Conflict Resolution
5 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
6 4 (28.57%) Change Management
6 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (28.57%) Decision-Making
6 4 (28.57%) Project Delivery
6 4 (28.57%) TDD
7 3 (21.43%) BDD
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (21.43%) Kanban
7 3 (21.43%) Line Management
7 3 (21.43%) Mentoring
7 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) User Stories
8 2 (14.29%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
1 2 (14.29%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle