Value Proposition Contract Job Trends

Value Proposition
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Value Proposition skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 434 474
Rank change year-on-year -100 +40 +53
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 48 109 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.31% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.35% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 58 71
10th Percentile £315 £314 £277
25th Percentile £444 £414 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +15.87% -4.55% -5.21%
75th Percentile £700 £594 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +26.47% -15.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £21.60
25th Percentile - £19.38 £26.63
Median hourly rate - £20.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - -42.86% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £20.63 £51.28
90th Percentile - - £61.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £20.00 £43.53
% change year-on-year - -54.05% -16.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Value Proposition falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Value Proposition relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Value Proposition job vacancy trend in the UK

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Value Proposition.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Value Proposition

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Value Proposition.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Value Proposition

Value Proposition
Top 12 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Value Proposition within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -86 46 £559 +14.78% 219
London -37 36 £559 +14.78% 42
Work from Home -30 10 £550 +15.79% 140
UK excluding London -59 10 £538 +26.47% 204
South East -17 3 £500 - 50
Midlands -30 3 £775 +19.23% 33
North of England -44 3 £475 +11.76% 42
North West -14 2 £475 -31.06% 21
West Midlands - 2 £788 - 17
South West -13 1 £225 +114.29% 27
East Midlands -17 1 £575 -11.54% 14
Yorkshire -41 1 - - 17

Value Proposition
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 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.17%) Azure
2 8 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 6 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
4 5 (10.42%) AWS
5 4 (8.33%) Anthropic Claude
5 4 (8.33%) ChatGPT
5 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (8.33%) Power Automate
5 4 (8.33%) PowerApps
6 3 (6.25%) Azure AI
6 3 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
6 3 (6.25%) GCP
7 2 (4.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.08%) Asana
8 1 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.08%) SaaS
8 1 (2.08%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.42%) CTI
1 5 (10.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon Aurora
2 1 (2.08%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.08%) Power Query
2 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) CircleCI
1 1 (2.08%) GitLab
1 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.08%) JUnit
1 1 (2.08%) TestDirector
General
1 16 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 15 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.75%) Public Sector
4 6 (12.50%) Finance
5 5 (10.42%) Marketing
6 3 (6.25%) Advertising
6 3 (6.25%) Military
7 2 (4.17%) Banking
7 2 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Front Office
8 1 (2.08%) Games
8 1 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.08%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.08%) Private Banking
8 1 (2.08%) Retail
8 1 (2.08%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (25.00%) Senior
2 8 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Genesys Developer
4 5 (10.42%) Lead
4 5 (10.42%) Marketing Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Business Integration Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Business Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Gen AI Specialist
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Integration Specialist
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Integration Analyst
5 4 (8.33%) Systems Integration Specialist
6 3 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Data Scientist
6 3 (6.25%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (4.17%) Bid Writer
7 2 (4.17%) Product Manager
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Marketing Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) LangChain
2 3 (6.25%) NumPy
2 3 (6.25%) Pandas
2 3 (6.25%) scikit-learn
3 2 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.17%) Kafka
3 2 (4.17%) React
3 2 (4.17%) REST
3 2 (4.17%) Spring
3 2 (4.17%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.08%) Bootstrap
4 1 (2.08%) CrewAI
4 1 (2.08%) JSON
4 1 (2.08%) LangGraph
4 1 (2.08%) RESTful
4 1 (2.08%) Semantic Kernel
4 1 (2.08%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (10.42%) AI Agents
2 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (10.42%) IVR
2 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.08%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Mainframe
5 1 (2.08%) Market Risk
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
5 1 (2.08%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (2.08%) Linux
2 1 (2.08%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (25.00%) AI
3 11 (22.92%) Data Protection
3 11 (22.92%) Machine Learning
3 11 (22.92%) Roadmaps
4 10 (20.83%) Generative AI
4 10 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (18.75%) Computer Science
6 8 (16.67%) Business Development
6 8 (16.67%) Business Strategy
6 8 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 8 (16.67%) LLM
6 8 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
7 7 (14.58%) Business Case
7 7 (14.58%) Data Science
7 7 (14.58%) Observability
7 7 (14.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (12.50%) Project Management
8 6 (12.50%) Sales Enablement
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) Java
2 2 (4.17%) SQL
3 1 (2.08%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.08%) JCL
Qualifications
1 14 (29.17%) Degree
2 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (12.50%) Master's Degree
5 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.33%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.17%) APMP
7 2 (4.17%) CISM
7 2 (4.17%) CISSP
8 1 (2.08%) AAT
8 1 (2.08%) ACCA
8 1 (2.08%) BC Cleared
8 1 (2.08%) CEH
8 1 (2.08%) CIMA
8 1 (2.08%) CRISC
8 1 (2.08%) CSSLP
8 1 (2.08%) GCIH
8 1 (2.08%) MBA
8 1 (2.08%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) NIST
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Salesforce
3 5 (10.42%) Genesys
4 3 (6.25%) Adobe
4 3 (6.25%) Foundry
5 2 (4.17%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) Citrix
6 1 (2.08%) Dell
6 1 (2.08%) IBM
6 1 (2.08%) Murex
6 1 (2.08%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Sitecore
6 1 (2.08%) Workday