Onboarding Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 185 178
Rank change year-on-year +90 -7 +35
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 1,141 422 1,065
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.81% 1.59% 1.59%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.91% 4.37% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 744 294 604
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,188 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% - -27.27%
75th Percentile £55,656 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,250
UK median annual salary £42,500 £54,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -21.30% +8.00% -23.08%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 16,505 9,661 23,385
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 36.39% 34.83%
Number of salaries quoted 8,018 5,240 15,226
10th Percentile £28,000 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £59,720 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.47% +9.09% -15.38%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +81 334 £37,500 - 177
South East +38 235 £40,000 +6.67% 190
North West +89 207 £35,000 -6.67% 89
East of England +79 195 £38,000 -4.40% 73
Midlands -15 176 £40,000 -20.00% 84
West Midlands -2 108 £45,000 -12.20% 49
Yorkshire +8 106 £40,000 +8.84% 65
South West +7 100 £32,500 -27.78% 76
East Midlands -45 68 £34,000 +6.25% 35
Scotland -13 49 £50,000 +53.85% 35
Wales +2 41 £47,500 -26.92% 16
North East -18 21 £46,722 -33.25% 26
Northern Ireland -24 16 £38,000 - 6
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 65 (5.70%) SharePoint
2 43 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.05%) Confluence
4 9 (0.79%) CMS
5 6 (0.53%) WordPress
6 3 (0.26%) nginx
7 2 (0.18%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.18%) Gentran
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 103 (9.03%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (3.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 37 (3.24%) Acrobat
5 10 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.26%) Trello
8 2 (0.18%) InDesign
9 1 (0.088%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.088%) Notion
Business Applications
1 14 (1.23%) SAP HR
2 11 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.35%) NetSuite
4 4 (0.35%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.26%) BambooHR
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Business ByDesign
5 3 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.26%) SAP FSCM
5 3 (0.26%) SAP Payroll
6 2 (0.18%) Infor SunSystems
6 2 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.088%) Global One
7 1 (0.088%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.088%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.088%) SAP Hybris
7 1 (0.088%) Shopify
7 1 (0.088%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 190 (16.65%) Microsoft 365
2 167 (14.64%) SaaS
3 133 (11.66%) Azure
4 71 (6.22%) AWS
5 68 (5.96%) Entra ID
6 17 (1.49%) GCP
6 17 (1.49%) OneDrive
6 17 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 15 (1.31%) Amazon Alexa
8 12 (1.05%) GitHub
8 12 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
9 10 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
9 10 (0.88%) Datadog
10 7 (0.61%) Google Analytics
10 7 (0.61%) Slack
11 6 (0.53%) ClickUp
11 6 (0.53%) OCI
12 5 (0.44%) Power Automate
13 4 (0.35%) Google Workspace
13 4 (0.35%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 47 (4.12%) Firewall
2 45 (3.94%) DNS
3 38 (3.33%) VPN
4 37 (3.24%) DHCP
5 36 (3.16%) Broadband
6 33 (2.89%) Wi-Fi
7 20 (1.75%) Wireless
8 19 (1.67%) LAN
8 19 (1.67%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.67%) VoIP
9 17 (1.49%) WAN
10 15 (1.31%) VLAN
11 11 (0.96%) Unified Communications
12 10 (0.88%) Internet
12 10 (0.88%) SSL
13 9 (0.79%) WebEx
14 8 (0.70%) Cisco ASA
14 8 (0.70%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
15 6 (0.53%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.75%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.23%) Power BI
3 12 (1.05%) MySQL
3 12 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (0.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (0.53%) Looker
5 6 (0.53%) NoSQL
6 5 (0.44%) SAP HANA
7 3 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (0.26%) Metadata
8 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (0.088%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.088%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 55 (4.82%) JIRA
2 4 (0.35%) Git
2 4 (0.35%) Oracle APEX
2 4 (0.35%) VersionOne
3 3 (0.26%) Appcelerator Titanium
3 3 (0.26%) GitBook
4 2 (0.18%) GitLab
5 1 (0.088%) Postman
General
1 517 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 192 (16.83%) Finance
3 139 (12.18%) Marketing
4 131 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
5 128 (11.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 104 (9.11%) Organisational Skills
7 89 (7.80%) Retail
8 82 (7.19%) Legal
9 76 (6.66%) Law
10 51 (4.47%) Public Sector
10 51 (4.47%) Telecoms
11 50 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
12 41 (3.59%) German Language
13 38 (3.33%) Games
14 29 (2.54%) Manufacturing
15 25 (2.19%) Billing
16 18 (1.58%) Banking
17 17 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.49%) French Language
18 16 (1.40%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 133 (11.66%) IT Support
2 116 (10.17%) Analyst
3 105 (9.20%) Senior
4 70 (6.13%) Support Engineer
5 61 (5.35%) IT Engineer
6 54 (4.73%) Lead
7 52 (4.56%) IT Support Engineer
8 51 (4.47%) Consultant
9 48 (4.21%) Sales Executive
10 46 (4.03%) Support Analyst
11 43 (3.77%) Account Manager
12 42 (3.68%) IT Manager
13 37 (3.24%) Support Technician
14 33 (2.89%) Senior Manager
15 32 (2.80%) IT Technician
16 30 (2.63%) Coordinator
16 30 (2.63%) Project Manager
17 29 (2.54%) IT Support Technician
18 28 (2.45%) Sales Representative
19 24 (2.10%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.33%) XML
2 35 (3.07%) JSON
3 30 (2.63%) HTML
4 28 (2.45%) Regular Expression
5 16 (1.40%) .NET
6 10 (0.88%) ADO
6 10 (0.88%) REST
7 9 (0.79%) XMPP
8 8 (0.70%) CSS
9 6 (0.53%) SOAP
10 5 (0.44%) Middleware
10 5 (0.44%) OAuth
10 5 (0.44%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (0.35%) ARM Templates
11 4 (0.35%) Kafka
11 4 (0.35%) React
11 4 (0.35%) RESTful
12 3 (0.26%) EDI
13 2 (0.18%) Web Services
13 2 (0.18%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 72 (6.31%) Self-Motivation
2 69 (6.05%) Driving Licence
3 32 (2.80%) Management Information System
4 30 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
5 29 (2.54%) Mobile App
6 23 (2.02%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.02%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 22 (1.93%) Hybrid Cloud
8 20 (1.75%) Public Cloud
9 19 (1.67%) NHS
9 19 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
10 18 (1.58%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.49%) Low-Code
12 11 (0.96%) Algorithms
12 11 (0.96%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.88%) EPoS
13 10 (0.88%) Life Science
13 10 (0.88%) Security Operations Centre
14 9 (0.79%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 154 (13.50%) Windows
2 48 (4.21%) Windows 10
3 47 (4.12%) Windows Server
4 37 (3.24%) Apple iOS
5 36 (3.16%) Android
6 29 (2.54%) Linux
7 22 (1.93%) Unix
8 16 (1.40%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.44%) CentOS
11 3 (0.26%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.088%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 304 (26.64%) Problem-Solving
2 180 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
3 173 (15.16%) Client Onboarding
4 168 (14.72%) CRM
5 152 (13.32%) Customer Service
6 126 (11.04%) AI
7 121 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
8 114 (9.99%) B2B
9 98 (8.59%) Agile
10 94 (8.24%) Process Improvement
11 93 (8.15%) Decision-Making
12 84 (7.36%) Roadmaps
13 83 (7.27%) ITIL
13 83 (7.27%) Mentoring
13 83 (7.27%) Service Delivery
14 79 (6.92%) Coaching
15 78 (6.84%) Business Development
16 76 (6.66%) Customer Experience
17 75 (6.57%) ITSM
18 64 (5.61%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 80 (7.01%) Python
2 57 (5.00%) PowerShell
3 48 (4.21%) SQL
4 18 (1.58%) Bash
5 17 (1.49%) JavaScript
6 15 (1.31%) C#
7 12 (1.05%) PHP
8 9 (0.79%) T-SQL
9 4 (0.35%) Bicep
9 4 (0.35%) C
9 4 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 4 (0.35%) Perl
9 4 (0.35%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.18%) ABAP
10 2 (0.18%) Google Apps Script
10 2 (0.18%) Java
10 2 (0.18%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.088%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 170 (14.90%) Degree
2 69 (6.05%) Security Cleared
3 57 (5.00%) SC Cleared
4 21 (1.84%) AWS Certification
5 19 (1.67%) CIPD
6 17 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (1.05%) DV Cleared
8 11 (0.96%) ACCA
9 10 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (0.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (0.53%) CISM
11 6 (0.53%) CISSP
11 6 (0.53%) DBS Check
12 5 (0.44%) A+ Certification
12 5 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (0.44%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 4 (0.35%) CEH
13 4 (0.35%) CIMA
13 4 (0.35%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 4 (0.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.47%) QA
2 38 (3.33%) Accessibility
2 38 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 31 (2.72%) SLA
4 26 (2.28%) GDPR
5 25 (2.19%) Data Quality
6 20 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 12 (1.05%) PMO
9 9 (0.79%) SOC 2
10 8 (0.70%) NIST
11 6 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.44%) ISO 20022
12 5 (0.44%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.35%) IEC 61508
13 4 (0.35%) ISO 26262
14 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.26%) GRC
14 3 (0.26%) TickIT
15 2 (0.18%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 108 (9.47%) Active Directory
2 19 (1.67%) Docker
3 17 (1.49%) Hyper-V
4 15 (1.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.70%) Firmware
6 6 (0.53%) vSphere
7 5 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 5 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 50 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (2.10%) Terraform
3 20 (1.75%) Kubernetes
4 19 (1.67%) Grafana
5 15 (1.31%) SCCM
6 12 (1.05%) Ansible
7 11 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
8 10 (0.88%) Prometheus
9 9 (0.79%) Cisco CUCM
9 9 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.18%) Argo
10 2 (0.18%) Istio
10 2 (0.18%) Kibana
11 1 (0.088%) Autotask
11 1 (0.088%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.088%) Nagios
11 1 (0.088%) Nessus
11 1 (0.088%) Netcool
11 1 (0.088%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.088%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 313 (27.43%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.05%) ServiceNow
3 65 (5.70%) Adobe
4 61 (5.35%) Salesforce
5 50 (4.38%) HubSpot
6 45 (3.94%) SAP
7 33 (2.89%) Apple
8 25 (2.19%) BMC
9 24 (2.10%) Workday
10 21 (1.84%) Google
11 17 (1.49%) Splunk
12 15 (1.31%) Cisco
12 15 (1.31%) VMware
13 13 (1.14%) Oracle
14 10 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 10 (0.88%) Freshdesk
14 10 (0.88%) Palo Alto
14 10 (0.88%) Xero
15 8 (0.70%) Sage
16 7 (0.61%) ConnectWise