Contract Negotiation Job Trends

Contract Negotiation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Contract Negotiation skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 457 426 418
Rank change year-on-year -31 -8 +69
Permanent jobs citing Contract Negotiation 397 270 401
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.34% 0.54% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.61% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 238 161 127
10th Percentile £36,750 £32,500 £43,000
25th Percentile £45,063 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -3.57% +8.74%
75th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,265 44,296 59,619
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.17% 89.00% 82.18%
Number of salaries quoted 59,107 24,598 32,082
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Contract Negotiation
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Contract Negotiation relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Contract Negotiation job vacancy trend in the UK

Contract Negotiation
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Contract Negotiation.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Contract Negotiation

Contract Negotiation
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Contract Negotiation over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Contract Negotiation in the UK

Contract Negotiation
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Contract Negotiation within the UK over the 6 months to 9 October 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
England -58 321 £60,000 -10.93% 569
UK excluding London -30 286 £57,500 -8.00% 263
Work from Home +89 186 £70,000 +55.56% 247
London -60 89 £73,750 -7.81% 323
South East -42 79 £60,000 +23.71% 84
Midlands -4 64 £48,500 -7.09% 46
North of England -59 50 £48,500 -15.60% 64
Northern Ireland - 49 £47,500 - 10
East Midlands -7 40 £48,500 -5.83% 15
North West -9 33 £49,250 -1.61% 32
East of England -30 27 £57,500 -8.00% 19
West Midlands -27 24 £38,500 -41.75% 31
South West -67 19 £87,500 +9.38% 17
Yorkshire -38 11 £40,000 -30.43% 28
North East -61 6 £52,500 -34.38% 4
Wales -77 4 £47,500 -40.63% 6
Scotland +10 1 £37,500 -25.00% 17

Contract Negotiation
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 3 (0.76%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.50%) Confluence
3 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 26 (6.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.76%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 14 (3.53%) Sonata
2 8 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (2.02%) Dynamics NAV
3 3 (0.76%) SAP Business One
3 3 (0.76%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.76%) Shopify
4 2 (0.50%) Infor CloudSuite
4 2 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.25%) SAP EHS
Cloud Services
1 106 (26.70%) SaaS
2 60 (15.11%) Azure
3 58 (14.61%) AWS
4 13 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (2.77%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (1.76%) Amazon GuardDuty
8 4 (1.01%) Entra ID
9 3 (0.76%) Azure AKS
9 3 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.50%) Miro
10 2 (0.50%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.25%) Datadog
11 1 (0.25%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.25%) SAP Fieldglass
11 1 (0.25%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.76%) Internet
2 2 (0.50%) NAS
2 2 (0.50%) SAN
2 2 (0.50%) Wireless
3 1 (0.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.25%) LAN
3 1 (0.25%) VLAN
3 1 (0.25%) VPN
3 1 (0.25%) VXLAN
3 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.01%) Oracle APEX
2 2 (0.50%) JIRA
General
1 169 (42.57%) Finance
2 118 (29.72%) Social Skills
3 116 (29.22%) Legal
4 70 (17.63%) Analytical Skills
5 59 (14.86%) Law
6 42 (10.58%) Marketing
7 33 (8.31%) Manufacturing
8 31 (7.81%) Public Sector
9 29 (7.30%) Retail
10 22 (5.54%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (5.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (3.27%) Back Office
14 12 (3.02%) Banking
14 12 (3.02%) Electronics
15 11 (2.77%) German Language
16 10 (2.52%) French Language
16 10 (2.52%) Polish Language
16 10 (2.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 85 (21.41%) IT Manager
2 48 (12.09%) IT Services Manager
2 48 (12.09%) Resilience Manager
2 48 (12.09%) Service Manager
3 47 (11.84%) Lead
4 40 (10.08%) Development Manager
5 30 (7.56%) Sales Manager
6 26 (6.55%) Procurement Manager
7 24 (6.05%) Senior
8 20 (5.04%) Business Manager
8 20 (5.04%) Procurement Officer
9 19 (4.79%) Business Development Manager
9 19 (4.79%) Senior Manager
10 15 (3.78%) Account Manager
11 11 (2.77%) Contracts Manager
12 10 (2.52%) Commercial Manager
12 10 (2.52%) Consultant
12 10 (2.52%) Sales Engineer
13 9 (2.27%) Category Manager
13 9 (2.27%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.09%) Middleware
2 20 (5.04%) Flash
3 3 (0.76%) EDI
4 1 (0.25%) Terraform
4 1 (0.25%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 48 (12.09%) Cyber Threat
2 34 (8.56%) Driving Licence
3 31 (7.81%) Onboarding
4 22 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
5 21 (5.29%) NHS
6 17 (4.28%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
8 13 (3.27%) Data Centre
9 11 (2.77%) Cloud Native
10 9 (2.27%) FMCG
11 7 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
11 7 (1.76%) Blog
11 7 (1.76%) Credit Risk
11 7 (1.76%) Security Posture
12 4 (1.01%) BYOD
12 4 (1.01%) Culture of Ownership
12 4 (1.01%) Product Ownership
13 3 (0.76%) EPoS
13 3 (0.76%) SystemC
14 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Storage
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (27.71%) Decision-Making
2 93 (23.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 91 (22.92%) Business Development
4 80 (20.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 79 (19.90%) CRM
5 79 (19.90%) Information Security
6 75 (18.89%) Agile
7 66 (16.62%) Continuous Improvement
8 60 (15.11%) Business Continuity
9 59 (14.86%) ITIL
10 58 (14.61%) Data Protection
11 54 (13.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 52 (13.10%) DevOps
13 50 (12.59%) Waterfall
14 49 (12.34%) Enterprise Architecture
14 49 (12.34%) Site Reliability Engineering
15 48 (12.09%) Contingency Planning
15 48 (12.09%) Contract Management
15 48 (12.09%) Runbook
15 48 (12.09%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.01%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 48 (12.09%) CISM
1 48 (12.09%) CISSP
1 48 (12.09%) ITIL Certification
2 39 (9.82%) Degree
3 25 (6.30%) Security Cleared
4 14 (3.53%) DBS Check
5 12 (3.02%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.76%) ACCA
7 7 (1.76%) CIMA
8 4 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.01%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.76%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.76%) PMP
9 3 (0.76%) Postgraduate
10 2 (0.50%) CCNP
10 2 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.50%) MBA
10 2 (0.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (13.85%) NIST
2 48 (12.09%) ISO 22301
3 20 (5.04%) SLA
4 14 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.27%) Def Stans
5 13 (3.27%) GDPR
6 11 (2.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.27%) Data Quality
7 9 (2.27%) ISO 9001
7 9 (2.27%) PMO
8 8 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 5 (1.26%) ISO 14001
10 4 (1.01%) NEBOSH
11 3 (0.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.50%) GRC
12 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
1 2 (0.50%) vSphere
2 1 (0.25%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.76%) Kubernetes
1 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 71 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 14 (3.53%) HubSpot
3 11 (2.77%) SAP
4 10 (2.52%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.01%) Oracle
6 3 (0.76%) Thales
6 3 (0.76%) YouTube
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe
7 2 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco
7 2 (0.50%) Google
7 2 (0.50%) Infor
7 2 (0.50%) NetApp
7 2 (0.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.25%) AppDynamics
8 1 (0.25%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.25%) GoldenSource
8 1 (0.25%) New Relic
8 1 (0.25%) Sony