Trainer Contract Job Trends

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £402, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 June 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 463 453 459
Rank change year-on-year -10 +6 +59
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 172 85 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.29% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 46 76
10th Percentile £206 £163 £200
25th Percentile £313 £312 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% - +4.58%
75th Percentile £500 £499 £491
90th Percentile £618 £575 £571
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £372 £400
% change year-on-year +10.85% -6.97% +23.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 28
10th Percentile £36.33 £16.48 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.03 £17.50 £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £20.92 £32.51
Median % change year-on-year +162.91% -35.64% +45.05%
75th Percentile £57.50 £28.45 £40.07
90th Percentile - £30.29 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £20.92 £32.90
% change year-on-year +162.91% -36.40% +46.79%

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 46,676 27,509 40,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.36% 92.24% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,368 17,700 26,113
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £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 3,110 1,183 2,977
10th Percentile £15.24 £13.88 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.47 £16.37
Median hourly rate £43.69 £27.21 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.57% -27.44% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -1.45%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -29 158 £405 +0.62% 46
UK excluding London -61 91 £413 +10.85% 45
London -38 62 £402 -15.37% 6
Midlands -32 35 £325 +18.07% 18
West Midlands -35 33 £338 +107.06% 13
Work from Home -49 19 £390 -8.35% 24
North of England -61 17 £413 +17.02% 10
South West -13 16 £425 +7.63% 9
Yorkshire -49 15 £413 +1.85% 2
South East -60 12 £575 +64.29% 3
East of England -28 8 £325 -23.53% 1
Scotland -8 2 - - 2
East Midlands -17 2 £163 -59.25% 5
Wales -17 1 £413 +3.13% 1
North East -35 1 £400 +145.40% 2
North West -39 1 - - 6

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 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 44 (25.58%) SAP
2 32 (18.60%) Security Cleared
3 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
4 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
5 17 (9.88%) ERP
5 17 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (9.88%) SAP S/4HANA
6 15 (8.72%) AI
7 14 (8.14%) Analytics
7 14 (8.14%) Instructional Design
7 14 (8.14%) Microsoft Copilot
8 11 (6.40%) Change Management
9 10 (5.81%) Coaching
9 10 (5.81%) Salesforce
9 10 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 9 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (5.23%) SAP PM
11 8 (4.65%) Ariba
11 8 (4.65%) Logistics
11 8 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (4.07%) Asset Management
12 7 (4.07%) EAM
12 7 (4.07%) Incident Response
12 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
12 7 (4.07%) Procure-to-Pay
12 7 (4.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 7 (4.07%) User Acceptance Testing
13 6 (3.49%) Agile
13 6 (3.49%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Office

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 6 (3.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.58%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.58%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.58%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.58%) InDesign
5 1 (0.58%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 17 (9.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (5.23%) SAP PM
3 5 (2.91%) SystmOne
4 4 (2.33%) NEC Housing
4 4 (2.33%) SAP IBP
5 2 (1.16%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.16%) SAP PP
5 2 (1.16%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.58%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.58%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.58%) SAP PS
6 1 (0.58%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.58%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 17 (9.88%) Microsoft 365
2 14 (8.14%) Microsoft Copilot
3 7 (4.07%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 4 (2.33%) OneDrive
5 3 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.16%) ChatGPT
6 2 (1.16%) GitHub
6 2 (1.16%) GitHub Copilot
6 2 (1.16%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.58%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 1 (0.58%) Asana
7 1 (0.58%) AWS
7 1 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.58%) Azure
7 1 (0.58%) Canva
7 1 (0.58%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.58%) GCP
7 1 (0.58%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.49%) Network Security
2 2 (1.16%) Broadband
2 2 (1.16%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.16%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.74%) GIS
2 2 (1.16%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.16%) Power BI
General
1 36 (20.93%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.21%) Finance
3 14 (8.14%) Law
3 14 (8.14%) Public Sector
4 8 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (4.07%) Marketing
6 6 (3.49%) Banking
6 6 (3.49%) Local Government
6 6 (3.49%) Manufacturing
7 5 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.33%) Publishing
9 2 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.16%) Legal
10 1 (0.58%) Advertising
10 1 (0.58%) Automotive
10 1 (0.58%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.58%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.58%) German Language
10 1 (0.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.58%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.49%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.58%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.98%) e-Learning
2 8 (4.65%) Learning Management System
3 6 (3.49%) Cyber Threat
3 6 (3.49%) Driving Licence
3 6 (3.49%) NHS
4 5 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.74%) EPoS
5 3 (1.74%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.74%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.16%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.16%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.58%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.58%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.16%) Windows
3 1 (0.58%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (9.88%) ERP
2 15 (8.72%) AI
3 14 (8.14%) Analytics
3 14 (8.14%) Instructional Design
4 11 (6.40%) Change Management
5 10 (5.81%) Coaching
5 10 (5.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 9 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (4.65%) Logistics
7 8 (4.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (4.07%) Asset Management
8 7 (4.07%) EAM
8 7 (4.07%) Incident Response
8 7 (4.07%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (4.07%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (3.49%) Agile
9 6 (3.49%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (3.49%) Risk Management
9 6 (3.49%) Threat Analysis
10 5 (2.91%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 32 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 29 (16.86%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.16%) CIPD
3 2 (1.16%) Degree
4 1 (0.58%) ACSP
4 1 (0.58%) ACTC
4 1 (0.58%) CIPFA
4 1 (0.58%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.33%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Ansible
1 1 (0.58%) Terraform
Vendors
1 44 (25.58%) SAP
2 31 (18.02%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.81%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.65%) Ariba
5 5 (2.91%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.33%) NEC
7 2 (1.16%) Cisco
7 2 (1.16%) IFS
8 1 (0.58%) Adobe
8 1 (0.58%) Apple
8 1 (0.58%) Concur
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.58%) Pega
8 1 (0.58%) Workday
8 1 (0.58%) Xero