Trainer Contract Job Trends

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2026.

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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 445 454
Rank change year-on-year -26 +9 +95
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 157 85 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.33% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.31% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 43 83
10th Percentile - £301 £200
25th Percentile £163 £322 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.13% -11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £488 £475
90th Percentile £500 £550 £555
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £372 £400
% change year-on-year -5.95% -6.97% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 20
10th Percentile £35.36 £16.11 £15.87
25th Percentile £48.66 £16.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year +189.47% -26.38% +15.16%
75th Percentile £57.50 £26.69 £35.23
90th Percentile - £28.75 £37.18
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £19.00 £25.81
% change year-on-year +189.47% -26.38% +15.16%

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 43,737 27,092 40,275
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.50% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,961 17,699 26,220
10th Percentile £315 £300 £276
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +3.16% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,818 1,043 2,672
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.00 £29.00 £36.42
Median % change year-on-year +51.72% -20.37% -19.07%
75th Percentile £66.00 £62.50 £61.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.46 £28.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year +62.36% -29.20% -6.94%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -45 142 £386 -0.39% 79
UK excluding London -34 102 £350 -5.95% 60
London -54 43 £400 -4.48% 25
Midlands -45 32 £338 -12.90% 20
Work from Home -31 27 £400 -3.03% 22
West Midlands -42 23 £350 -9.68% 14
North of England -44 23 £400 +10.34% 17
South West -14 17 £275 -38.06% 4
Yorkshire -37 15 £413 - 8
South East -52 14 £575 +76.92% 15
East of England -34 11 £325 -23.53% 3
East Midlands -25 9 £163 - 6
North West -34 6 £163 -61.65% 7
Wales -10 3 £163 - 1
Scotland -5 2 - - 2
North East -18 2 £163 -45.67% 2

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 23 (14.65%) Coaching
2 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
3 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
4 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
5 16 (10.19%) Instructional Design
6 15 (9.55%) SAP
7 14 (8.92%) ERP
8 13 (8.28%) Salesforce
9 12 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
9 12 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (7.01%) Analytics
10 11 (7.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 10 (6.37%) Agile
11 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 8 (5.10%) AI
12 8 (5.10%) SharePoint
12 8 (5.10%) Time Management
13 7 (4.46%) Change Management
13 7 (4.46%) Incident Response
13 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
13 7 (4.46%) Procure-to-Pay
13 7 (4.46%) User Acceptance Testing
14 6 (3.82%) Ariba
14 6 (3.82%) Cybersecurity
14 6 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
14 6 (3.82%) Network Security
14 6 (3.82%) Project Management
14 6 (3.82%) Risk Management
14 6 (3.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 6 (3.82%) Threat Analysis

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 8 (5.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.64%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.64%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.64%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.64%) InDesign
4 1 (0.64%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.64%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (3.18%) SystmOne
2 3 (1.91%) SAP PM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP MM
3 2 (1.27%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.27%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.64%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.64%) SAP QM
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 12 (7.64%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (3.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Copilot
3 4 (2.55%) OneDrive
3 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 4 (2.55%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (1.27%) ChatGPT
4 2 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (1.27%) GitHub
4 2 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 2 (1.27%) Power Platform
5 1 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Cloud
5 1 (0.64%) Asana
5 1 (0.64%) AWS
5 1 (0.64%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.64%) Azure
5 1 (0.64%) Canva
5 1 (0.64%) GCP
5 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.82%) Network Security
2 2 (1.27%) Broadband
3 1 (0.64%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.55%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.27%) Power BI
3 1 (0.64%) GIS
General
1 57 (36.31%) Social Skills
2 15 (9.55%) Finance
3 13 (8.28%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (6.37%) Marketing
4 10 (6.37%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.82%) Banking
5 6 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (2.55%) Law
6 4 (2.55%) Manufacturing
6 4 (2.55%) Publishing
6 4 (2.55%) Retail
7 3 (1.91%) Legal
7 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.27%) Local Government
9 1 (0.64%) Advertising
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Automotive
9 1 (0.64%) Czech Language
9 1 (0.64%) German Language
9 1 (0.64%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.55%) VML
2 3 (1.91%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.64%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.38%) Driving Licence
2 28 (17.83%) EPoS
3 19 (12.10%) e-Learning
4 9 (5.73%) Learning Management System
5 8 (5.10%) NHS
6 7 (4.46%) Product Ownership
7 6 (3.82%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
10 1 (0.64%) Blog
10 1 (0.64%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.64%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.91%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.64%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (14.65%) Coaching
2 16 (10.19%) Instructional Design
3 14 (8.92%) ERP
4 12 (7.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (7.01%) Analytics
5 11 (7.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 10 (6.37%) Agile
6 10 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (5.10%) AI
7 8 (5.10%) Time Management
8 7 (4.46%) Change Management
8 7 (4.46%) Incident Response
8 7 (4.46%) Procure-to-Pay
8 7 (4.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (3.82%) Cybersecurity
9 6 (3.82%) Project Management
9 6 (3.82%) Risk Management
9 6 (3.82%) Threat Analysis
9 6 (3.82%) Workflow
10 5 (3.18%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 21 (13.38%) Security Cleared
2 19 (12.10%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.55%) CSPO
4 1 (0.64%) ACSP
4 1 (0.64%) ACTC
4 1 (0.64%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.55%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (0.64%) Ansible
1 1 (0.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (14.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.55%) SAP
3 13 (8.28%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.82%) Ariba
5 5 (3.18%) Google
5 5 (3.18%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.91%) Adobe
6 3 (1.91%) iManage
6 3 (1.91%) Oracle
7 2 (1.27%) IFS
7 2 (1.27%) Synthesia
8 1 (0.64%) Apple
8 1 (0.64%) Concur
8 1 (0.64%) Intel
8 1 (0.64%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.64%) Pega
8 1 (0.64%) Siemens