xMatters Contract Job Trends

xMatters
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of xMatters products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited xMatters over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within xMatters, Inc.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 536 589
Rank change year-on-year -105 +53 -
Contract jobs citing xMatters 2 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.010% 0.002%
As % of the Vendors category 0.009% 0.020% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £597 -
25th Percentile £525 £637 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £708 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% - -
75th Percentile £575 £711 -
90th Percentile - £712 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £708 -

All Vendors
UK

xMatters falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 21,123 14,842 18,645
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.00% 47.46% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,162 9,096 11,591
10th Percentile £313 £281 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £713 £732
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £481 £500
% change year-on-year +3.95% -3.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,094 703 1,150
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.33 £14.90
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.08 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £22.63 £24.00
% change year-on-year +43.61% -5.71% -25.70%

xMatters
Job Vacancy Trend

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

xMatters job vacancy trend in the UK

xMatters
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing xMatters

xMatters
Top 2 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing xMatters within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 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 -121 2 £550 -22.32% 3
London - 2 £550 - 2

xMatters
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 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Git
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) ITSM
1 2 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Security Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Control-M
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Splunk