Trainer Contracts

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 453 504
Rank change year-on-year +1 +51 +168
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 96 133 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.31% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.33% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 76 125
10th Percentile £163 £232 £200
25th Percentile £295 £311 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £378
Median % change year-on-year - +5.96% +0.67%
75th Percentile £491 £538 £538
90th Percentile £575 £581 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £372 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -6.97% +23.08% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 26 3
10th Percentile £16.89 £17.57 £18.86
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.25 £20.19
Median hourly rate £22.84 £32.51 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -29.73% +45.05% -34.95%
75th Percentile £24.76 £45.86 £28.58
90th Percentile £30.29 £48.75 £32.28
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £32.90 £22.41
% change year-on-year -30.57% +46.79% -33.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 29,294 40,276 53,656
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 93.01% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,671 25,908 37,253
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,326 2,804 1,565
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.36 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.96 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%

Trainer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Trainer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Trainer.

Daily rate trend for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Trainer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Trainer.

Hourly rate trend for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Trainer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Trainer in the UK

Trainer
Top 16 Contract 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 6 July 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 +23 83 £394 -1.56% 581
UK excluding London +19 54 £372 -6.97% 563
London +35 30 £475 - 85
Work from Home +16 30 £438 -7.89% 260
Midlands +19 15 £331 -8.62% 99
West Midlands +13 12 £275 -26.67% 68
North of England -23 10 £353 -17.06% 172
South West +40 8 £395 +43.59% 70
East of England +35 8 £425 -22.73% 45
South East +25 8 £300 +46.72% 105
Yorkshire -2 5 £405 +1.25% 57
North West -7 4 £363 -14.71% 90
Wales +10 3 £400 +45.45% 22
East Midlands +1 3 £400 +14.29% 31
Scotland +4 2 £500 -11.89% 48
North East -4 1 £163 -43.79% 25

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Trainer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Trainer in the job title.

1 39 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 24 (25.00%) e-Learning
3 23 (23.96%) Finance
4 22 (22.92%) Degree
5 18 (18.75%) SAP
6 16 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
8 13 (13.54%) Python
9 12 (12.50%) Coaching
10 10 (10.42%) Chatbot
10 10 (10.42%) Conversational UI
10 10 (10.42%) Onboarding
10 10 (10.42%) SQL
10 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
11 9 (9.38%) Ariba
11 9 (9.38%) Instructional Design
11 9 (9.38%) PayPal
12 8 (8.33%) Content Development
12 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
12 8 (8.33%) Change Management
12 8 (8.33%) EPoS
13 7 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
13 7 (7.29%) ERP
13 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
13 7 (7.29%) Oracle
13 7 (7.29%) C++
13 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (7.29%) Power BI
14 6 (6.25%) User Experience

Trainer Skill Set
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 3 (3.13%) CMS
2 2 (2.08%) Drupal
3 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.04%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) Moodle
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle UPK
3 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (10.42%) Chatbot
2 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (2.08%) AutoCAD
4 2 (2.08%) Revit
5 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.08%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (2.08%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.04%) MIS ActiveH
4 1 (1.04%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Copilot
2 4 (4.17%) OCI
2 4 (4.17%) Snowflake
3 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (3.13%) SuccessFactors
4 2 (2.08%) Attraqt
4 2 (2.08%) Azure
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.04%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.04%) Canva
5 1 (1.04%) ChatGPT
5 1 (1.04%) GCP
5 1 (1.04%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Storyblok
5 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) Intranet
2 1 (1.04%) DNS
2 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Data Warehouse
1 7 (7.29%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.04%) GIS
2 1 (1.04%) Looker
2 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Git
1 1 (1.04%) Mercurial
1 1 (1.04%) Subversion
General
1 39 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.21%) Marketing
5 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (3.13%) Law
6 3 (3.13%) Local Government
6 3 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.08%) Banking
7 2 (2.08%) French Language
7 2 (2.08%) German Language
7 2 (2.08%) Legal
7 2 (2.08%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.04%) Dutch Language
8 1 (1.04%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.04%) Polish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) HTML
2 4 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.08%) Node.js
4 1 (1.04%) .NET
4 1 (1.04%) FHIR
4 1 (1.04%) Hugging Face
4 1 (1.04%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.04%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 24 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 10 (10.42%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.33%) EPoS
4 4 (4.17%) Learning Management System
5 3 (3.13%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.08%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.08%) NHS
6 2 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) Blog
7 1 (1.04%) Life Science
7 1 (1.04%) Low-Code
7 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Linux
1 1 (1.04%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (14.58%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (12.50%) Coaching
3 10 (10.42%) Conversational UI
4 9 (9.38%) Instructional Design
5 8 (8.33%) Change Management
5 8 (8.33%) Content Development
5 8 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
6 7 (7.29%) ERP
6 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (6.25%) Code Quality
7 6 (6.25%) User Experience
8 5 (5.21%) CRM
9 4 (4.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (4.17%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (4.17%) Data Strategy
9 4 (4.17%) Resource Management
9 4 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (4.17%) Statistics
9 4 (4.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.54%) Python
2 10 (10.42%) SQL
3 7 (7.29%) C++
4 6 (6.25%) C#
4 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.08%) Java
5 2 (2.08%) PHP
6 1 (1.04%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.04%) Go
6 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (22.92%) Degree
2 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
2 3 (3.13%) MCT
3 2 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.08%) PhD
3 2 (2.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.04%) CCNA
4 1 (1.04%) CCNP
4 1 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.13%) QA
2 2 (2.08%) GxP
2 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.04%) GDPR
3 1 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.04%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Ansible
1 1 (1.04%) Puppet
1 1 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.04%) Terraform
1 1 (1.04%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 18 (18.75%) SAP
2 10 (10.42%) Microsoft
3 9 (9.38%) Ariba
3 9 (9.38%) PayPal
4 7 (7.29%) Oracle
5 5 (5.21%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.13%) Cisco
6 3 (3.13%) Concur
6 3 (3.13%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (2.08%) Autodesk
7 2 (2.08%) VMware
7 2 (2.08%) Workday
8 1 (1.04%) Adobe
8 1 (1.04%) Hitachi
8 1 (1.04%) OpenAI
8 1 (1.04%) Palantir
8 1 (1.04%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.04%) Sitecore