Trainer Contract Job Trends

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £409, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2026.

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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 443 457
Rank change year-on-year -32 +14 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 176 89 131
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 49 76
10th Percentile £206 £163 £202
25th Percentile £313 £300 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% - +6.31%
75th Percentile £534 £488 £538
90th Percentile £625 £575 £581
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 26
10th Percentile £36.33 £16.48 £17.57
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 £45.86
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 47,123 28,128 40,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.07% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,580 18,010 25,933
10th Percentile £325 £288 £281
25th Percentile £415 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,165 1,254 2,874
10th Percentile £15.50 £13.76 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.31 £16.50
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.50% -28.00% -14.50%
75th Percentile £67.50 £56.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.75 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -45 159 £413 +3.13% 54
UK excluding London -66 90 £413 +10.85% 56
London -40 63 £402 -15.37% 8
Midlands -37 35 £338 -12.90% 22
West Midlands -37 33 £350 +5.66% 16
Work from Home -61 19 £386 -11.77% 21
North of England -60 17 £413 +17.02% 13
South West -26 16 £513 +29.79% 10
Yorkshire -37 15 £413 +1.85% 3
South East -54 12 £575 +91.67% 4
East of England -28 6 £325 -23.53% 1
Scotland -4 3 - - 2
East Midlands -13 2 £163 -59.25% 6
Wales -19 1 £413 +3.13% 3
North East -36 1 £400 +145.40% 2
North West -51 1 - - 8

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 28 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 47 (26.70%) SAP
2 35 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 34 (19.32%) Security Cleared
4 31 (17.61%) SC Cleared
5 19 (10.80%) ERP
6 18 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
6 18 (10.23%) SAP S/4HANA
7 16 (9.09%) AI
7 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
8 14 (7.95%) Analytics
8 14 (7.95%) Change Management
8 14 (7.95%) Instructional Design
9 13 (7.39%) Coaching
10 12 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (5.11%) Logistics
13 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
13 9 (5.11%) Procure-to-Pay
13 9 (5.11%) Salesforce
14 8 (4.55%) Ariba
14 8 (4.55%) Production Planning
14 8 (4.55%) SAP PM
15 7 (3.98%) Asset Management
15 7 (3.98%) EAM
15 7 (3.98%) Incident Response
15 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
15 7 (3.98%) User Acceptance Testing
16 6 (3.41%) Agile
16 6 (3.41%) Cybersecurity

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 (3.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.98%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.27%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.57%) Camtasia
5 1 (0.57%) InDesign
5 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (10.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (4.55%) SAP PM
3 4 (2.27%) NEC Housing
3 4 (2.27%) SAP IBP
3 4 (2.27%) SAP MM
3 4 (2.27%) SAP PP
3 4 (2.27%) SystmOne
4 3 (1.70%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.70%) SAP QM
4 3 (1.70%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.57%) SAP PS
5 1 (0.57%) SAP Travel Management
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
2 16 (9.09%) Microsoft Copilot
3 6 (3.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 5 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (2.84%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.14%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.14%) GitHub
5 2 (1.14%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.14%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.57%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.57%) Asana
6 1 (0.57%) AWS
6 1 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.57%) Azure
6 1 (0.57%) Canva
6 1 (0.57%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (0.57%) GCP
6 1 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.41%) Network Security
2 2 (1.14%) Broadband
2 2 (1.14%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.14%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.70%) GIS
2 2 (1.14%) Power BI
General
1 38 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 23 (13.07%) Finance
3 16 (9.09%) Law
4 14 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.11%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (3.98%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.98%) Marketing
7 6 (3.41%) Banking
7 6 (3.41%) Local Government
8 5 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.27%) Publishing
10 3 (1.70%) Legal
11 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.57%) Advertising
12 1 (0.57%) Automotive
12 1 (0.57%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.57%) German Language
12 1 (0.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.57%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.41%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.57%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.82%) e-Learning
2 8 (4.55%) Learning Management System
3 6 (3.41%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.84%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.84%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.27%) NHS
6 3 (1.70%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.70%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.14%) EPoS
7 2 (1.14%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.14%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.57%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.27%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.14%) Windows
3 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (10.80%) ERP
2 16 (9.09%) AI
3 14 (7.95%) Analytics
3 14 (7.95%) Change Management
3 14 (7.95%) Instructional Design
4 13 (7.39%) Coaching
5 12 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (6.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 10 (5.68%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (5.11%) Logistics
8 9 (5.11%) Procure-to-Pay
9 8 (4.55%) Production Planning
10 7 (3.98%) Asset Management
10 7 (3.98%) EAM
10 7 (3.98%) Incident Response
10 7 (3.98%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (3.41%) Agile
11 6 (3.41%) Cybersecurity
11 6 (3.41%) Risk Management
11 6 (3.41%) Threat Analysis
Qualifications
1 34 (19.32%) Security Cleared
2 31 (17.61%) SC Cleared
3 2 (1.14%) CIPD
3 2 (1.14%) Degree
4 1 (0.57%) ACSP
4 1 (0.57%) ACTC
4 1 (0.57%) CIPFA
4 1 (0.57%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.57%) MCT
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.27%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (0.57%) Ansible
1 1 (0.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (26.70%) SAP
2 35 (19.89%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.11%) Salesforce
4 8 (4.55%) Ariba
5 5 (2.84%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.27%) NEC
7 2 (1.14%) Cisco
7 2 (1.14%) IFS
8 1 (0.57%) Adobe
8 1 (0.57%) Apple
8 1 (0.57%) Concur
8 1 (0.57%) Google
8 1 (0.57%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.57%) Pega
8 1 (0.57%) Workday
8 1 (0.57%) Xero