Tech for Good Contract Job Trends

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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 585 533 559
Rank change year-on-year -52 +26 +162
Contract jobs citing Tech for Good 10 11 46
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.032% 0.10%
As % of the General category 0.045% 0.053% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 32
10th Percentile - £344 £378
25th Percentile £263 £381 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £450 £498
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.55% -0.50%
75th Percentile £500 £519 £575
90th Percentile - £593 £635
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -7.43% -7.89% -3.55%

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 22,418 20,832 26,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 61.27% 60.94% 59.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,011 12,446 17,395
10th Percentile £275 £285 £280
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £761 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,442 726 1,092
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.48 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.53 £16.74
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% -16.03% +31.00%
75th Percentile £45.46 £54.69 £59.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £71.25 £70.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.00 £26.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.98% -11.67% +41.01%

Tech for Good
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Tech for Good job vacancy trend in the UK

Tech for Good
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Tech for Good

Tech for Good
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech for Good over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 7 Contract Job 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 18 December 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 -37 8 £325 -27.78% 41
Work from Home -11 5 £325 -25.71% 25
UK excluding London -48 5 £405 -7.43% 29
South West 0 4 £405 -14.74% 6
London - 3 £325 - 17
North of England -50 1 - - 9
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4

Tech for Good
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 2 (20.00%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 7 (70.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) Anthropic Claude
2 2 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
2 2 (20.00%) ClickHouse
2 2 (20.00%) Flink
2 2 (20.00%) Geospatial Data
2 2 (20.00%) GIS
2 2 (20.00%) Pinecone
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
General
1 2 (20.00%) Health Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) GIS Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) AWS CDK
1 2 (20.00%) Faiss
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) PostGIS
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) CSS
2 1 (10.00%) Grails
2 1 (10.00%) Hibernate
2 1 (10.00%) Java EE
2 1 (10.00%) jQuery
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (20.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Analytics
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 2 (20.00%) AI
3 2 (20.00%) Batch Processing
3 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (20.00%) LLM
3 2 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (20.00%) MLOps
3 2 (20.00%) Prompt Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (20.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Databricks
1 2 (20.00%) ESRI
1 2 (20.00%) OpenAI
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware