Trainer Contract Job Trends

Trainer
UK

The median Trainer daily rate in the UK is £338, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026.

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

 6 months to
23 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 453 433 459
Rank change year-on-year -20 +26 +97
Contract jobs requiring a Trainer 163 88 130
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.32% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 47 83
10th Percentile - £296 £200
25th Percentile £163 £322 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.59% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £438 £484 £465
90th Percentile £500 £550 £548
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -23.53% +6.25% +10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 20
10th Percentile - £16.11 £15.87
25th Percentile £26.25 £16.94 £19.25
Median hourly rate £46.06 £19.00 £25.81
Median % change year-on-year +142.42% -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 42,836 27,359 40,556
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.64% 92.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,486 17,911 26,489
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,746 1,013 2,627
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.44 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.51 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £30.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -14.29% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.60 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.75 £75.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.00 £28.88 £37.18
% change year-on-year +52.38% -22.34% -12.52%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -29 152 £344 -15.38% 56
UK excluding London -33 113 £325 -23.53% 46
London -44 42 £400 +4.92% 16
North of England -36 33 £282 -22.34% 16
Midlands -38 30 £338 -12.90% 17
Work from Home -34 27 £400 -7.25% 6
West Midlands -46 20 £350 -9.68% 13
Yorkshire -35 19 £406 - 6
South West -22 18 £219 -52.55% 2
South East -43 17 £575 +76.92% 6
East of England -23 11 £325 -23.53% 2
East Midlands -24 10 £163 - 4
North West -29 10 £163 -61.65% 7
North East -16 4 £163 -45.67% 3
Scotland +5 2 - - 2
Wales -8 2 £163 - 1

Trainer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 23 April 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 31 (19.02%) Coaching
2 21 (12.88%) Microsoft
3 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
4 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
5 17 (10.43%) Instructional Design
6 13 (7.98%) SAP
7 12 (7.36%) ERP
7 12 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (6.13%) Agile
8 10 (6.13%) Analytics
8 10 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
8 10 (6.13%) Salesforce
8 10 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
10 8 (4.91%) Time Management
11 7 (4.29%) Change Management
11 7 (4.29%) Procure-to-Pay
12 6 (3.68%) Ariba
12 6 (3.68%) Incident Response
12 6 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 6 (3.68%) Project Management
12 6 (3.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 6 (3.68%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (3.68%) Workflow
13 5 (3.07%) Cybersecurity
13 5 (3.07%) Google
13 5 (3.07%) Mentoring
13 5 (3.07%) Network Security
13 5 (3.07%) Risk Management

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 5 (3.07%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (6.13%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.61%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.61%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.61%) Camtasia
4 1 (0.61%) InDesign
4 1 (0.61%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.61%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 5 (3.07%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (3.07%) SystmOne
2 2 (1.23%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.61%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP QM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 9 (5.52%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (3.68%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 4 (2.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
3 4 (2.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 3 (1.84%) OneDrive
5 2 (1.23%) ChatGPT
5 2 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.23%) GitHub
5 2 (1.23%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (1.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.61%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.61%) Asana
6 1 (0.61%) AWS
6 1 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.61%) Azure
6 1 (0.61%) Canva
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (0.61%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.07%) Network Security
2 2 (1.23%) Broadband
3 1 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.45%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (1.23%) Power BI
3 1 (0.61%) GIS
General
1 65 (39.88%) Social Skills
2 16 (9.82%) Finance
3 13 (7.98%) Presentation Skills
4 10 (6.13%) Marketing
5 9 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.68%) Banking
6 6 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.07%) Law
7 5 (3.07%) Legal
8 4 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.45%) Publishing
8 4 (2.45%) Retail
9 3 (1.84%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.61%) Advertising
10 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.61%) Automotive
10 1 (0.61%) Czech Language
10 1 (0.61%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.61%) Local Government
10 1 (0.61%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.45%) VML
2 3 (1.84%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.61%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 43 (26.38%) Driving Licence
2 38 (23.31%) EPoS
3 19 (11.66%) e-Learning
4 9 (5.52%) Learning Management System
5 8 (4.91%) NHS
6 7 (4.29%) Product Ownership
7 5 (3.07%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (1.84%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.84%) Web Conferencing
9 1 (0.61%) Blog
9 1 (0.61%) Housing Association
9 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.61%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.84%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.61%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (19.02%) Coaching
2 17 (10.43%) Instructional Design
3 12 (7.36%) ERP
3 12 (7.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (6.13%) Agile
4 10 (6.13%) Analytics
4 10 (6.13%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (6.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (4.91%) Time Management
6 7 (4.29%) Change Management
6 7 (4.29%) Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (3.68%) Incident Response
7 6 (3.68%) Project Management
7 6 (3.68%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (3.68%) Workflow
8 5 (3.07%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (3.07%) Mentoring
8 5 (3.07%) Risk Management
8 5 (3.07%) Threat Analysis
9 4 (2.45%) AI
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.61%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 20 (12.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (11.04%) SC Cleared
3 4 (2.45%) CSPO
4 1 (0.61%) ACSP
4 1 (0.61%) ACTC
4 1 (0.61%) DBS Check
4 1 (0.61%) MCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.45%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (0.61%) Ansible
1 1 (0.61%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (12.88%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.98%) SAP
3 10 (6.13%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.68%) Ariba
5 5 (3.07%) Google
5 5 (3.07%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.45%) iManage
7 3 (1.84%) Adobe
7 3 (1.84%) Oracle
8 2 (1.23%) IFS
8 2 (1.23%) Synthesia
9 1 (0.61%) Apple
9 1 (0.61%) Concur
9 1 (0.61%) Intel
9 1 (0.61%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.61%) Pega
9 1 (0.61%) Siemens
64 Trainer jobs Nationwide