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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 385 465
Rank change year-on-year -62 +80 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 110 178 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.50% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 83 123
10th Percentile - £143 £200
25th Percentile £163 £350 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +13.33% -
75th Percentile £500 £538 £531
90th Percentile £650 £575 £596
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -12.50% +23.08% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 1
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.00 -
25th Percentile £20.94 £25.74 £17.98
Median hourly rate £22.84 £47.50 £18.64
Median % change year-on-year -51.92% +154.83% -62.72%
75th Percentile £30.07 £48.75 £19.31
90th Percentile £30.29 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.84 £47.50 -
% change year-on-year -51.92% - -

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 30,009 35,817 46,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.07% 92.96% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,949 22,029 31,957
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,585 1,680 1,499
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.99
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.86% +98.86%

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
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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 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 -62 93 £400 - 378
UK excluding London -15 63 £350 -12.50% 407
London -40 33 £475 +5.56% 45
Work from Home 0 24 £450 +12.50% 246
Midlands -17 17 £275 -16.98% 77
North of England -42 15 £415 +3.75% 136
South East +18 12 £163 +12.41% 70
South West +13 10 £269 +85.52% 34
West Midlands -15 10 £275 -21.43% 51
East Midlands 0 7 £282 -9.92% 26
North West -7 7 £450 +4.35% 69
Yorkshire -31 7 £405 +1.25% 51
Wales +7 4 £400 +122.22% 23
Scotland -7 3 £613 +7.93% 41
East of England +1 1 - - 28
North East -3 1 £163 -43.79% 16

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 22 (20.00%) SAP
3 20 (18.18%) e-Learning
3 20 (18.18%) Coaching
4 16 (14.55%) EPoS
5 12 (10.91%) Finance
6 10 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 10 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
7 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (8.18%) ERP
7 9 (8.18%) SAP S/4HANA
8 8 (7.27%) Ariba
9 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
9 7 (6.36%) Logistics
9 7 (6.36%) Degree
9 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
9 7 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
10 6 (5.45%) Chatbot
10 6 (5.45%) Conversational UI
10 6 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
10 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (5.45%) Change Management
11 5 (4.55%) Workflow
11 5 (4.55%) Legal
11 5 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (4.55%) Oracle
11 5 (4.55%) MCT

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 2 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.91%) Moodle
2 1 (0.91%) Oracle UPK
2 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (8.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.64%) Maximo
3 3 (2.73%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.82%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (1.82%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.91%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.91%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.91%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 7 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
2 5 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 2 (1.82%) Azure
3 2 (1.82%) dbt
3 2 (1.82%) OCI
3 2 (1.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (0.91%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 1 (0.91%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (0.91%) Canva
4 1 (0.91%) ChatGPT
4 1 (0.91%) GCP
4 1 (0.91%) GitHub
4 1 (0.91%) GitHub Copilot
4 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
4 1 (0.91%) PowerApps
4 1 (0.91%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.91%) DNS
1 1 (0.91%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.64%) Power BI
2 1 (0.91%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.91%) GIS
2 1 (0.91%) Looker
2 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Git
1 1 (0.91%) Mercurial
1 1 (0.91%) Subversion
General
1 39 (35.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.91%) Finance
3 7 (6.36%) Presentation Skills
3 7 (6.36%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.55%) Legal
5 4 (3.64%) French Language
6 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.73%) Marketing
7 2 (1.82%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Billing
7 2 (1.82%) German Language
7 2 (1.82%) Local Government
7 2 (1.82%) Military
7 2 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Retail
8 1 (0.91%) Banking
8 1 (0.91%) Environmental Health
8 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.91%) Italian Language
8 1 (0.91%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
1 5 (4.55%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.91%) FHIR
2 1 (0.91%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.91%) Node.js
2 1 (0.91%) Pandas
2 1 (0.91%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 20 (18.18%) e-Learning
2 16 (14.55%) EPoS
3 7 (6.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) Driving Licence
5 2 (1.82%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.82%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Blog
6 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.91%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.91%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.73%) Windows
2 2 (1.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (18.18%) Coaching
2 10 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence
3 9 (8.18%) ERP
3 9 (8.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 7 (6.36%) Logistics
5 6 (5.45%) Change Management
5 6 (5.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (5.45%) Conversational UI
5 6 (5.45%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (4.55%) Workflow
7 4 (3.64%) Instructional Design
7 4 (3.64%) Process Improvement
7 4 (3.64%) Project Delivery
8 3 (2.73%) Content Development
8 3 (2.73%) CRM
8 3 (2.73%) Customer Service
9 2 (1.82%) Inventory Management
9 2 (1.82%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.73%) Python
2 2 (1.82%) PHP
3 1 (0.91%) C++
3 1 (0.91%) Go
3 1 (0.91%) Java
3 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.91%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (6.36%) Degree
2 5 (4.55%) MCT
2 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.73%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.82%) City & Guilds
4 2 (1.82%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
4 2 (1.82%) NVQ Level 3
4 2 (1.82%) PhD
4 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.91%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.91%) CCNA
5 1 (0.91%) CCNP
5 1 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.82%) QA
2 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.91%) Def Stans
2 1 (0.91%) GDPR
2 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.91%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (0.91%) Ansible
1 1 (0.91%) Puppet
1 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (0.91%) Terraform
1 1 (0.91%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 22 (20.00%) SAP
2 10 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 8 (7.27%) Ariba
4 5 (4.55%) Oracle
4 5 (4.55%) PayPal
5 3 (2.73%) Cisco
5 3 (2.73%) Concur
5 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.82%) Databricks
6 2 (1.82%) Intapp
6 2 (1.82%) Liquidlogic
6 2 (1.82%) VMware
7 1 (0.91%) Google
7 1 (0.91%) IBM
7 1 (0.91%) OpenAI