Hybrid/Remote Collaborative Working Contract Job Trends

Collaborative Working
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Collaborative Working skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 109 126
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 213 262 321
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 2.10% 2.22% 1.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 2.50% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 162 240
10th Percentile £310 £313 £363
25th Percentile £400 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £638
90th Percentile £688 £708 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 4
10th Percentile £22.30 £17.05 £27.92
25th Percentile £24.77 £20.31 £36.84
Median hourly rate £26.30 £26.50 £49.65
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% -46.63% +90.96%
75th Percentile £30.00 £46.03 £61.58
90th Percentile £30.09 £75.00 £66.67
UK median hourly rate £15.63 £25.18 £51.00
% change year-on-year -37.95% -50.63% +104.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Collaborative Working and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Collaborative Working job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Collaborative Working daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Collaborative Working.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Collaborative Working

Collaborative Working
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 (3.76%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.82%) Confluence
3 4 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.41%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.94%) Anypoint
5 2 (0.94%) CMS
6 1 (0.47%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.47%) CICS
6 1 (0.47%) IIS
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.47%) SAS
6 1 (0.47%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.47%) WildFly
6 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.94%) Sketch
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.47%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.47%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.47%) InVision
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.94%) SAP ERP
2 2 (0.94%) SAP MDG
2 2 (0.94%) SAP Payroll
2 2 (0.94%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) HFM
3 1 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.47%) VisionPLUS
3 1 (0.47%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 34 (15.96%) AWS
2 29 (13.62%) Azure
3 16 (7.51%) GitHub
4 14 (6.57%) GCP
5 12 (5.63%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.63%) Power Platform
6 11 (5.16%) Serverless
7 10 (4.69%) Amazon S3
7 10 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
8 9 (4.23%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (3.76%) Figma
10 7 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
10 7 (3.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.82%) Amazon Kinesis
11 6 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (2.35%) Datadog
12 5 (2.35%) Entra ID
12 5 (2.35%) SaaS
13 4 (1.88%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (1.88%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.35%) Firewall
1 5 (2.35%) HTTP
2 4 (1.88%) DNS
2 4 (1.88%) Network Security
2 4 (1.88%) VPN
3 3 (1.41%) WAN
4 2 (0.94%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (0.94%) Internet
4 2 (0.94%) LAN
4 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.94%) VoIP
5 1 (0.47%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.47%) MPLS
5 1 (0.47%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) Wireless
5 1 (0.47%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.69%) Power BI
2 9 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (4.23%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.82%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.35%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.35%) DynamoDB
5 4 (1.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.88%) Big Data
5 4 (1.88%) Tableau
6 3 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
6 3 (1.41%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.41%) Electronic Patient Records
6 3 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (1.41%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.41%) Redshift Spectrum
6 3 (1.41%) Star Schema
7 2 (0.94%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 11 (5.16%) Git
2 9 (4.23%) Jenkins
2 9 (4.23%) JIRA
3 7 (3.29%) GitLab
4 3 (1.41%) Browser DevTools
4 3 (1.41%) Vite
4 3 (1.41%) webpack
5 2 (0.94%) JUnit
5 2 (0.94%) Liquibase
5 2 (0.94%) LSMW
5 2 (0.94%) Maven
5 2 (0.94%) Mockito
5 2 (0.94%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) ChangeMan
6 1 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 1 (0.47%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) MSI
6 1 (0.47%) Subversion
General
1 106 (49.77%) Social Skills
2 55 (25.82%) Finance
3 44 (20.66%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (17.37%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.04%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (6.10%) Manufacturing
6 13 (6.10%) Marketing
7 11 (5.16%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.23%) Legal
9 8 (3.76%) Banking
9 8 (3.76%) Electronics
10 7 (3.29%) Local Government
10 7 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.41%) Military
14 2 (0.94%) Advertising
14 2 (0.94%) Automotive
14 2 (0.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (14.08%) Analyst
2 27 (12.68%) Developer
3 22 (10.33%) Architect
4 16 (7.51%) Senior
5 15 (7.04%) Designer
6 14 (6.57%) Data Engineer
6 14 (6.57%) Lead
7 12 (5.63%) Consultant
8 11 (5.16%) Business Analyst
8 11 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.76%) AWS Engineer
9 8 (3.76%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.29%) Service Designer
11 6 (2.82%) Security Consultant
12 5 (2.35%) Cloud Engineer
12 5 (2.35%) Data Migration Lead
12 5 (2.35%) Interaction Designer
12 5 (2.35%) Senior Analyst
12 5 (2.35%) Service Analyst
13 4 (1.88%) AWS Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (5.63%) CSS
2 11 (5.16%) HTML
3 10 (4.69%) .NET
3 10 (4.69%) RESTful
4 9 (4.23%) Kafka
5 8 (3.76%) React
5 8 (3.76%) REST
6 5 (2.35%) Middleware
6 5 (2.35%) React Native
7 4 (1.88%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.88%) HTML5
7 4 (1.88%) Next.js
8 3 (1.41%) ADO
8 3 (1.41%) AWS CDK
8 3 (1.41%) GatsbyJS
8 3 (1.41%) Jest
8 3 (1.41%) Parceljs
8 3 (1.41%) Sass
8 3 (1.41%) Spark Streaming
8 3 (1.41%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.57%) Onboarding
2 11 (5.16%) Product Ownership
3 10 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.69%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (3.29%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.29%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
5 5 (2.35%) e-Learning
6 4 (1.88%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.88%) NHS
6 4 (1.88%) PMI
6 4 (1.88%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.41%) Legacy Applications
7 3 (1.41%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.41%) Marketing Technology
7 3 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.41%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.69%) Windows
2 7 (3.29%) Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Android
3 3 (1.41%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.94%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.94%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Solaris
5 1 (0.47%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (25.35%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (24.41%) Agile
3 40 (18.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 36 (16.90%) Migration
5 34 (15.96%) CI/CD
6 28 (13.15%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (12.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 26 (12.21%) DevOps
9 21 (9.86%) Analytics
9 21 (9.86%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (9.86%) Containerisation
10 20 (9.39%) Change Management
10 20 (9.39%) Project Management
11 19 (8.92%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (7.98%) Data Analysis
13 15 (7.04%) Scrum
13 15 (7.04%) Service Design
14 14 (6.57%) ITIL
14 14 (6.57%) Programme Management
14 14 (6.57%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 31 (14.55%) Python
2 29 (13.62%) SQL
3 15 (7.04%) C#
4 14 (6.57%) Java
5 11 (5.16%) JavaScript
6 8 (3.76%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.29%) Bash
8 6 (2.82%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.41%) Bicep
9 3 (1.41%) Go
9 3 (1.41%) R
10 2 (0.94%) ABAP
10 2 (0.94%) COBOL
10 2 (0.94%) JCL
10 2 (0.94%) PHP
10 2 (0.94%) PL/SQL
10 2 (0.94%) REXX
10 2 (0.94%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.47%) C
11 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (18.31%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.62%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.86%) Degree
4 9 (4.23%) AWS Certification
5 7 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.82%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (2.35%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (2.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (2.35%) CESG Certified Professional
7 5 (2.35%) CISM
7 5 (2.35%) CISSP
7 5 (2.35%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (1.88%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.88%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.88%) PMP
9 3 (1.41%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.94%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.47%) ACCA
11 1 (0.47%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.92%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.04%) Accessibility
3 10 (4.69%) QA
4 9 (4.23%) PMO
5 8 (3.76%) GDPR
6 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.35%) NCSC
6 5 (2.35%) RMADS
6 5 (2.35%) SLA
6 5 (2.35%) WCAG
7 2 (0.94%) GxP
7 2 (0.94%) ISO 19650
8 1 (0.47%) Basel III
8 1 (0.47%) CRD IV
8 1 (0.47%) HL7
8 1 (0.47%) NIST
8 1 (0.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (8.45%) Docker
2 6 (2.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) ISA Server
3 1 (0.47%) RACF
3 1 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (10.80%) Kubernetes
2 22 (10.33%) Terraform
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.88%) Ansible
5 3 (1.41%) Grafana
5 3 (1.41%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.41%) Puppet
6 2 (0.94%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.94%) Red Hat Satellite
6 2 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.94%) yum
7 1 (0.47%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.47%) CA Endevor
7 1 (0.47%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.47%) Istio
7 1 (0.47%) ITRS Geneos
7 1 (0.47%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.47%) vRealize
7 1 (0.47%) zSecure
Vendors
1 39 (18.31%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.92%) SAP
3 14 (6.57%) Google
3 14 (6.57%) Oracle
4 10 (4.69%) Salesforce
5 7 (3.29%) Red Hat
6 6 (2.82%) Databricks
7 4 (1.88%) Adobe
8 3 (1.41%) Amplitude
8 3 (1.41%) Cisco
8 3 (1.41%) Mercator
8 3 (1.41%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.41%) NEC
8 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.41%) VMware
9 2 (0.94%) BMC
9 2 (0.94%) Commvault
9 2 (0.94%) Meraki
9 2 (0.94%) Palo Alto
9 2 (0.94%) Workday