Onboarding Job Trends in England

Onboarding
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 200 182
Rank change year-on-year +111 -18 +42
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 1,530 686 1,347
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.89% 1.76% 1.60%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.86% 4.22% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,000 518 812
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,563 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.89% +6.32% -26.92%
75th Percentile £68,750 £73,750 £69,063
90th Percentile £90,000 £102,500 £81,225
UK median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -23.08%

All Generic Skills
England

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 22,312 16,242 29,485
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.63% 41.69% 35.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,231 8,383 20,854
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £75,997
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -15.38%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Onboarding relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Onboarding job vacancy trend in England

Onboarding
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in England

Onboarding
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 500 £55,000 -21.43% 489
North of England +82 342 £39,250 +7.53% 185
North West +96 211 £37,500 - 104
South East +48 210 £42,500 +13.33% 214
East of England +93 184 £37,500 -21.05% 62
Midlands -12 170 £42,500 -5.56% 87
Yorkshire +9 114 £40,000 +14.29% 60
West Midlands -9 106 £45,000 -10.00% 52
South West +10 103 £35,000 -12.50% 60
East Midlands -14 64 £40,000 +30.08% 34
North East -34 17 £37,500 -46.43% 22
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 88 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.96%) Confluence
4 9 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.52%) CMS
6 6 (0.39%) WordPress
7 3 (0.20%) Apache
7 3 (0.20%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.20%) nginx
8 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.13%) Gentran
8 2 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.065%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.065%) Jupyter
Applications
1 134 (8.76%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (6.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (2.42%) Acrobat
5 14 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.26%) Trello
8 1 (0.065%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.065%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.065%) Civil 3D
8 1 (0.065%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.065%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.065%) Notion
8 1 (0.065%) ProjectWise
8 1 (0.065%) Revit
Business Applications
1 14 (0.92%) SAP HR
1 14 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.33%) SAP Business One
4 5 (0.33%) SAP HCM
4 5 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
5 4 (0.26%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.20%) BambooHR
6 3 (0.20%) Infor SunSystems
6 3 (0.20%) SAP Business ByDesign
6 3 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
7 2 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.065%) Revive Adserver
8 1 (0.065%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.065%) Sage 50
8 1 (0.065%) Sage CRM
Cloud Services
1 266 (17.39%) Microsoft 365
2 207 (13.53%) SaaS
3 176 (11.50%) Azure
4 100 (6.54%) Entra ID
5 97 (6.34%) AWS
6 40 (2.61%) Power Platform
7 25 (1.63%) GCP
8 23 (1.50%) OneDrive
9 20 (1.31%) Google Workspace
10 18 (1.18%) Amazon Alexa
11 16 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
11 16 (1.05%) Power Automate
12 13 (0.85%) GitHub
12 13 (0.85%) Snowflake
13 11 (0.72%) Slack
13 11 (0.72%) SuccessFactors
14 9 (0.59%) Figma
14 9 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (0.59%) PowerApps
15 8 (0.52%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 58 (3.79%) Firewall
2 55 (3.59%) DNS
3 54 (3.53%) VPN
4 50 (3.27%) DHCP
5 47 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
6 41 (2.68%) Broadband
7 30 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 28 (1.83%) WAN
9 26 (1.70%) LAN
10 25 (1.63%) Wireless
11 18 (1.18%) VoIP
12 15 (0.98%) VLAN
13 13 (0.85%) WebEx
14 12 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 12 (0.78%) SSL
15 11 (0.72%) Internet
16 10 (0.65%) Unified Communications
17 9 (0.59%) Cisco ASA
17 9 (0.59%) Cisco Firepower
18 8 (0.52%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (1.96%) Power BI
2 29 (1.90%) SQL Server
3 17 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (0.92%) MySQL
5 11 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (0.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (0.39%) BigQuery
7 6 (0.39%) Relational Database
8 5 (0.33%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (0.33%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.33%) SAP HANA
9 4 (0.26%) Looker
9 4 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.20%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.20%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.20%) Data Mining
10 3 (0.20%) Metadata
11 1 (0.065%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.065%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 96 (6.27%) JIRA
2 8 (0.52%) Selenium
3 7 (0.46%) Git
3 7 (0.46%) GitLab
4 5 (0.33%) Postman
4 5 (0.33%) VersionOne
5 4 (0.26%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.13%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.13%) JMeter
7 1 (0.065%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.065%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.065%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.065%) GitBook
7 1 (0.065%) JUnit
7 1 (0.065%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.065%) Maven
7 1 (0.065%) Mockito
7 1 (0.065%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.065%) TeamCity
General
1 644 (42.09%) Social Skills
2 321 (20.98%) Finance
3 201 (13.14%) Marketing
4 200 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
5 156 (10.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 129 (8.43%) Legal
7 111 (7.25%) Law
8 107 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
9 98 (6.41%) Retail
10 72 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (4.51%) Public Sector
12 65 (4.25%) Telecoms
13 48 (3.14%) Banking
14 44 (2.88%) Games
14 44 (2.88%) German Language
15 32 (2.09%) Advertising
16 31 (2.03%) Billing
16 31 (2.03%) Manufacturing
17 22 (1.44%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.44%) French Language
Job Titles
1 174 (11.37%) Analyst
2 149 (9.74%) IT Support
3 127 (8.30%) Senior
4 84 (5.49%) Support Engineer
5 82 (5.36%) Lead
6 67 (4.38%) Support Analyst
7 66 (4.31%) IT Engineer
8 65 (4.25%) Consultant
9 55 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
10 54 (3.53%) Sales Executive
11 41 (2.68%) IT Manager
12 40 (2.61%) Project Manager
13 37 (2.42%) IT Analyst
14 33 (2.16%) 1st Line Support
14 33 (2.16%) Coordinator
14 33 (2.16%) Development Manager
14 33 (2.16%) IT Support Analyst
14 33 (2.16%) Support Technician
15 31 (2.03%) Business Manager
15 31 (2.03%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (2.61%) XML
2 38 (2.48%) JSON
3 32 (2.09%) HTML
4 25 (1.63%) Regular Expression
5 21 (1.37%) REST
6 15 (0.98%) Kafka
7 13 (0.85%) CSS
7 13 (0.85%) SOAP
8 11 (0.72%) Middleware
9 10 (0.65%) .NET
9 10 (0.65%) XMPP
10 9 (0.59%) OAuth
10 9 (0.59%) RabbitMQ
10 9 (0.59%) React
11 8 (0.52%) RESTful
11 8 (0.52%) SailPoint
12 7 (0.46%) Node.js
13 5 (0.33%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.33%) OAuth2
13 5 (0.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 94 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
2 67 (4.38%) Driving Licence
3 57 (3.73%) Management Information System
4 49 (3.20%) Mobile App
5 36 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
6 34 (2.22%) Product Ownership
7 32 (2.09%) Video Conferencing
8 29 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
8 29 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
9 27 (1.76%) Data Centre
10 24 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
11 22 (1.44%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.31%) Low-Code
13 16 (1.05%) Virtual Team
14 15 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
15 14 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 14 (0.92%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 13 (0.85%) Cloud Native
16 13 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (0.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 213 (13.92%) Windows
2 58 (3.79%) Windows 10
3 49 (3.20%) Windows Server
4 43 (2.81%) Android
4 43 (2.81%) Apple iOS
5 40 (2.61%) Linux
6 34 (2.22%) Mac OS
7 20 (1.31%) Unix
8 5 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.20%) AIX
9 3 (0.20%) CentOS
10 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 392 (25.62%) Problem-Solving
2 227 (14.84%) Client Onboarding
3 215 (14.05%) Continuous Improvement
4 192 (12.55%) CRM
5 190 (12.42%) Customer Service
6 184 (12.03%) AI
7 152 (9.93%) Cybersecurity
8 151 (9.87%) B2B
9 148 (9.67%) Agile
10 128 (8.37%) Decision-Making
11 126 (8.24%) Stakeholder Management
12 124 (8.10%) Mentoring
13 118 (7.71%) Service Delivery
14 116 (7.58%) ITIL
14 116 (7.58%) Roadmaps
15 115 (7.52%) Business Development
16 104 (6.80%) Process Improvement
17 99 (6.47%) Analytics
18 94 (6.14%) ITSM
18 94 (6.14%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.97%) Python
2 102 (6.67%) SQL
3 91 (5.95%) PowerShell
4 32 (2.09%) JavaScript
5 27 (1.76%) Bash
6 18 (1.18%) Java
7 17 (1.11%) PHP
8 16 (1.05%) C#
9 10 (0.65%) T-SQL
9 10 (0.65%) TypeScript
10 6 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.26%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.26%) Bicep
11 4 (0.26%) Delphi
11 4 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (0.26%) Pascal
12 3 (0.20%) ANSI SQL
12 3 (0.20%) Scala
12 3 (0.20%) SOQL
12 3 (0.20%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 224 (14.64%) Degree
2 91 (5.95%) Security Cleared
3 73 (4.77%) SC Cleared
4 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (1.44%) AWS Certification
7 12 (0.78%) ACCA
8 11 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (0.72%) CISSP
9 10 (0.65%) DV Cleared
10 9 (0.59%) A+ Certification
10 9 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 9 (0.59%) Master's Degree
11 8 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
11 8 (0.52%) PMI Certification
12 7 (0.46%) CIMA
12 7 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (0.33%) CIPD
13 5 (0.33%) CISM
13 5 (0.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (3.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 57 (3.73%) Accessibility
3 54 (3.53%) SLA
4 48 (3.14%) QA
5 44 (2.88%) Data Quality
6 42 (2.75%) GDPR
7 38 (2.48%) PMO
8 25 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 13 (0.85%) NIST
11 12 (0.78%) GRC
11 12 (0.78%) SOC 2
12 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.39%) ISO 20022
14 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.26%) EU AI Act
14 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 3 (0.20%) TickIT
16 2 (0.13%) NIST 800
System Software
1 138 (9.02%) Active Directory
2 23 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (1.05%) Docker
3 16 (1.05%) Hyper-V
4 9 (0.59%) Firmware
5 7 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.46%) vSphere
6 6 (0.39%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.065%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 81 (5.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (1.70%) Terraform
3 20 (1.31%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.24%) SCCM
5 15 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
6 14 (0.92%) Grafana
7 12 (0.78%) Ansible
8 10 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
9 8 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 6 (0.39%) Autotask
11 4 (0.26%) Kibana
11 4 (0.26%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) Argo
12 2 (0.13%) Istio
12 2 (0.13%) Netcool
13 1 (0.065%) FortiGate
13 1 (0.065%) Nessus
13 1 (0.065%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.065%) Prometheus
13 1 (0.065%) QRadar
Vendors
1 440 (28.76%) Microsoft
2 102 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 92 (6.01%) ServiceNow
4 67 (4.38%) Adobe
5 63 (4.12%) HubSpot
5 63 (4.12%) SAP
6 40 (2.61%) Google
7 31 (2.03%) Apple
7 31 (2.03%) BMC
7 31 (2.03%) Cisco
8 27 (1.76%) Workday
9 25 (1.63%) Splunk
10 23 (1.50%) VMware
11 20 (1.31%) Oracle
12 16 (1.05%) Fortinet
13 15 (0.98%) Xero
14 13 (0.85%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.72%) Freshdesk
15 11 (0.72%) ION Trading
16 10 (0.65%) Sage