Tech for Good Contracts

Tech for Good (Tech4Good)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tech for Good in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Tech for Good 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 505 529 650
Rank change year-on-year +24 +121 +122
Contract jobs citing Tech for Good 15 53 68
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.051% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the General category 0.081% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 58
10th Percentile £376 £425 £323
25th Percentile £408 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £488 £588 £638
90th Percentile £564 £638 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +2.04%

All General Skills
UK

Tech for Good falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 18,479 25,363 34,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 63.12% 58.23% 58.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,802 16,004 24,197
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 1,943 1,063
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.78 £13.43
25th Percentile £17.44 £15.50 £18.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -14.29% +59.31%
75th Percentile £56.00 £52.20 £61.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £65.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.71 £28.42 £30.54
% change year-on-year -13.05% -6.94% +65.08%

Tech for Good
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tech for Good as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tech for Good.

Daily rate trend for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tech for Good 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
Work from Home +22 11 £450 -12.20% 84
UK excluding London +54 9 £450 -7.69% 79
England +29 9 £431 -15.85% 116
Scotland +15 4 £450 -14.29% 3
South West +38 2 £413 -13.16% 21
London +22 2 £363 -29.27% 51
South East +46 1 £550 - 19
North of England +15 1 £475 -9.52% 16
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - - 9
North West - 1 £475 - 7

Tech for Good
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 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 10 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (13.33%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (13.33%) GIS
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) Selenium
General
1 1 (6.67%) Finance
1 1 (6.67%) Health Technology
1 1 (6.67%) Local Government
1 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (13.33%) GIS Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Applications Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Senior
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Applications Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) PySpark
2 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
2 2 (13.33%) FastAPI
2 2 (13.33%) PostGIS
2 2 (13.33%) React
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) Django
3 1 (6.67%) Flask
3 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
3 1 (6.67%) Next.js
3 1 (6.67%) SQLAlchemy
3 1 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Decision-Making
2 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 3 (20.00%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
4 2 (13.33%) DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) ETL
4 2 (13.33%) ITIL
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Change Management
5 1 (6.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Functional Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Manual Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Mentoring
5 1 (6.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Analysis
5 1 (6.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Python
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) ESRI