Trainer Contract Job Trends

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 469 443 438
Rank change year-on-year -26 -5 +96
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 163 75 129
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.26% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 38 77
10th Percentile £200 £289 £200
25th Percentile £313 £350 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £429 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% +7.25% +5.96%
75th Percentile £438 £499 £488
90th Percentile £538 £558 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £394 £400
% change year-on-year +1.59% -1.56% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 25
10th Percentile £36.33 £16.28 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.03 £17.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% -40.84% +43.31%
75th Percentile £57.50 £30.29 £37.18
90th Percentile - - £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £32.51
% change year-on-year +189.47% -41.55% +45.05%

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 45,172 26,906 39,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 92.35% 92.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,538 17,432 25,857
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,009 1,072 2,824
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.00 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.51 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.23 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.80 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.69 £25.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.55% -36.70% -6.98%

Trainer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Trainer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Trainer job vacancy trend in the UK

Trainer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Trainer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Trainer job vacancies in the UK

Trainer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trainer over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Trainer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Trainer job vacancies in the UK

Trainer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Trainer over the 6 months to 1 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Trainer within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -24 145 £400 -7.62% 49
UK excluding London -36 88 £400 +1.59% 35
London -42 56 £402 -13.08% 22
Midlands -33 29 £325 -16.13% 12
West Midlands -36 26 £325 +18.07% 10
Work from Home -48 25 £397 -6.71% 17
North of England -58 21 £413 +13.79% 7
Yorkshire -44 17 £413 - 3
South West -18 13 £338 -14.53% 2
South East -54 13 £575 +64.29% 6
East of England -32 8 £325 -23.53% 3
East Midlands -26 3 £163 -59.25% 2
North West -44 3 £163 -61.65% 4
Scotland -1 2 - - 4
Wales -11 2 £288 -28.06%
North East -26 1 £400 +145.40%

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 2026, Trainer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Trainer in the job title.

1 33 (20.25%) SAP
2 26 (15.95%) Microsoft
3 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
4 22 (13.50%) SC Cleared
5 16 (9.82%) ERP
5 16 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
6 14 (8.59%) AI
6 14 (8.59%) SAP S/4HANA
7 13 (7.98%) Instructional Design
7 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Copilot
8 12 (7.36%) Analytics
9 11 (6.75%) Coaching
9 11 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (6.13%) Salesforce
11 9 (5.52%) Change Management
12 8 (4.91%) Ariba
12 8 (4.91%) SAP PM
12 8 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
13 7 (4.29%) Agile
13 7 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (4.29%) Incident Response
13 7 (4.29%) Procure-to-Pay
13 7 (4.29%) SharePoint
14 6 (3.68%) Asset Management
14 6 (3.68%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (3.68%) EAM
14 6 (3.68%) Network Security
14 6 (3.68%) Project Management
14 6 (3.68%) Risk Management
14 6 (3.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud

Trainer Skill Set
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 7 (4.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.61%) Acrobat
3 1 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
3 1 (0.61%) InDesign
3 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 14 (8.59%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.91%) SAP PM
3 5 (3.07%) SystmOne
4 4 (2.45%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.23%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.23%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.23%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.61%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.61%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.61%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.61%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.61%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (9.82%) Microsoft 365
2 13 (7.98%) Microsoft Copilot
3 6 (3.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 4 (2.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.23%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.23%) GitHub
5 2 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Asana
6 1 (0.61%) AWS
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.61%) Azure
6 1 (0.61%) Canva
6 1 (0.61%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.68%) Network Security
2 2 (1.23%) Broadband
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.84%) GIS
2 2 (1.23%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.23%) Power BI
General
1 38 (23.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (11.04%) Finance
3 12 (7.36%) Public Sector
4 11 (6.75%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (6.13%) Law
6 7 (4.29%) Marketing
7 6 (3.68%) Banking
7 6 (3.68%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.45%) Publishing
9 3 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.84%) Local Government
9 3 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.61%) German Language
10 1 (0.61%) Legal
10 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.61%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.07%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.61%) SAP TM
2 1 (0.61%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (8.59%) Driving Licence
1 14 (8.59%) e-Learning
2 10 (6.13%) EPoS
3 7 (4.29%) Learning Management System
4 6 (3.68%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (3.68%) NHS
5 4 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.45%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.84%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Blog
7 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.07%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (9.82%) ERP
2 14 (8.59%) AI
3 13 (7.98%) Instructional Design
4 12 (7.36%) Analytics
5 11 (6.75%) Coaching
5 11 (6.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (5.52%) Change Management
7 8 (4.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (4.29%) Agile
8 7 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (4.29%) Incident Response
8 7 (4.29%) Procure-to-Pay
9 6 (3.68%) Asset Management
9 6 (3.68%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (3.68%) EAM
9 6 (3.68%) Project Management
9 6 (3.68%) Risk Management
9 6 (3.68%) Threat Analysis
9 6 (3.68%) Workflow
10 5 (3.07%) Logistics
Qualifications
1 24 (14.72%) Security Cleared
2 22 (13.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.61%) ACSP
3 1 (0.61%) ACTC
3 1 (0.61%) CIPD
3 1 (0.61%) CSPO
3 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.45%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Ansible
1 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (20.25%) SAP
2 26 (15.95%) Microsoft
3 10 (6.13%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.91%) Ariba
5 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.84%) Adobe
7 2 (1.23%) Google
7 2 (1.23%) IFS
7 2 (1.23%) Synthesia
8 1 (0.61%) Apple
8 1 (0.61%) Concur
8 1 (0.61%) NEC
8 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.61%) Pega
8 1 (0.61%) Workday