Traceability Matrix Contract Job Trends

Traceability Matrices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Traceability Matrix skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 513 507 615
Rank change year-on-year -6 +108 +148
Contract jobs citing Traceability Matrix 49 50 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.13% 0.058%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.15% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 16
10th Percentile £348 £217 £353
25th Percentile £363 £340 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £491
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -0.61% +9.00%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £550
90th Percentile £620 £653 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +8.82% -22.73% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £27.13 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Traceability Matrix falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,782 33,017 44,492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.52% 85.70% 89.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,496 20,222 30,222
10th Percentile £300 £309 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,816 1,455 1,568
10th Percentile £14.23 £14.90 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.92
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +53.66%
75th Percentile £44.05 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -47.67% +1.18% +84.78%

Traceability Matrix
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Traceability Matrix in the UK

Traceability Matrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Traceability Matrix

Traceability Matrix
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Traceability Matrix over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Traceability Matrix in the UK

Traceability Matrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Traceability Matrix

Traceability Matrix
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Traceability Matrix within the UK over the 6 months to 20 September 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 +13 43 £411 -22.77% 19
UK excluding London +14 27 £463 +8.82% 11
London +1 14 £362 -19.56% 11
North of England - 13 £450 - 4
North West - 10 £398 - 4
Work from Home +24 9 £470 -11.74% 18
South East +11 6 £550 -15.35% 3
East Midlands +1 4 £350 -17.65% 1
Midlands -13 4 £350 -17.65% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £525 -
South West +26 1 - -
East of England +1 1 £565 -3.83% 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £600 -
Scotland - 1 £501 - 2

Traceability Matrix
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 5 (10.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (8.16%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.04%) Chatbot
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Loan IQ
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.04%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.24%) SaaS
2 2 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (2.04%) Azure
3 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.08%) SD-WAN
1 2 (4.08%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Data Mart
2 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
2 2 (4.08%) Selenium
2 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
3 1 (2.04%) Postman
General
1 14 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 13 (26.53%) Finance
3 12 (24.49%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.33%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 7 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Police
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (57.14%) Analyst
2 22 (44.90%) Business Analyst
3 10 (20.41%) Consultant
4 6 (12.24%) Senior
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Test Analyst
4 6 (12.24%) Test Analyst
5 5 (10.20%) Test Manager
6 4 (8.16%) Functional Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) Logistics Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 4 (8.16%) SAP Logistics Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Banking Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Banking Business Analyst
7 3 (6.12%) Lead
7 3 (6.12%) Oracle Consultant
7 3 (6.12%) Service Design Consultant
8 2 (4.08%) Financial Business Analyst
8 2 (4.08%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (4.08%) Playwright
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) PySpark
3 1 (2.04%) SOAP
3 1 (2.04%) XML
3 1 (2.04%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.12%) Windows
2 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) Change Management
2 16 (32.65%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (30.61%) Business Case
4 13 (26.53%) Agile
4 13 (26.53%) Feasibility Study
4 13 (26.53%) Test Strategy
5 11 (22.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (18.37%) Business Analysis
6 9 (18.37%) Regression Testing
6 9 (18.37%) Requirements Gathering
6 9 (18.37%) Test Automation
7 8 (16.33%) Decision-Making
8 7 (14.29%) Scrum
8 7 (14.29%) Test Scripting
8 7 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (12.24%) Analytics
9 6 (12.24%) Migration
9 6 (12.24%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (12.24%) Scenario Testing
9 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.16%) SQL
2 1 (2.04%) C#
2 1 (2.04%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (30.61%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.20%) BPSS Clearance
3 5 (10.20%) Degree
4 3 (6.12%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) BC Cleared
5 2 (4.08%) CBAP
5 2 (4.08%) ISTQB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.04%) CSPO
6 1 (2.04%) ISEB
6 1 (2.04%) ISEB Practitioner
6 1 (2.04%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) GDPR
2 1 (2.04%) ISO 20022
2 1 (2.04%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.04%) SEPA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.08%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.24%) SAP
3 3 (6.12%) HP
3 3 (6.12%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Compaq
4 1 (2.04%) Databricks
4 1 (2.04%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.04%) IBM
4 1 (2.04%) IBM Sterling
4 1 (2.04%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.04%) Terracotta
4 1 (2.04%) webMethods