Onboarding Jobs

Onboarding
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 211 170 225
Rank change year-on-year -41 +55 +12
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 755 1,688 1,744
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.45% 1.72% 1.68%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.19% 4.82% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 551 972 968
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% +8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £67,813 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £80,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £38,127 £40,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.63% -26.55% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 18,032 35,027 45,319
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.57% 35.62% 43.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,839 23,030 23,975
10th Percentile £31,500 £28,000 £35,271
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -15.38% +4.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £110,000 £97,500 £107,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Onboarding as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Onboarding.

Salary trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 2025. 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 -19 661 £51,000 +7.37% 2,490
UK excluding London -48 431 £38,127 -5.63% 743
Work from Home +64 322 £55,000 +9.90% 731
London -26 259 £67,500 +12.50% 1,844
Midlands +5 139 £50,000 +42.86% 109
South East +13 111 £37,500 -11.76% 177
North of England -1 91 £37,000 -16.35% 207
West Midlands -20 77 £50,000 +25.00% 61
East Midlands +52 62 £31,500 -4.55% 48
North West -19 44 £37,500 -6.25% 125
Yorkshire +35 41 £35,000 -41.67% 64
South West +56 37 £40,000 -8.05% 79
Scotland -15 31 £35,000 -31.71% 74
East of England +10 23 £39,750 -11.17% 81
Wales +15 10 £65,000 +73.33% 29
North East +47 6 £70,000 +27.27% 24
Northern Ireland +28 2 - - 8

Onboarding
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 63 (8.34%) Microsoft Exchange
2 61 (8.08%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.52%) Confluence
4 9 (1.19%) WordPress
5 6 (0.79%) Apache
5 6 (0.79%) IIS
6 5 (0.66%) Jupyter
6 5 (0.66%) Liferay
7 4 (0.53%) Mule
7 4 (0.53%) SAS
8 3 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.40%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.26%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.13%) Camunda
10 1 (0.13%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.13%) nginx
10 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 76 (10.07%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (6.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.32%) Chatbot
5 7 (0.93%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.40%) SOLIDWORKS
6 3 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.26%) Acrobat
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.26%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.13%) 1Password
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe After Effects
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.13%) Blender
8 1 (0.13%) CINEMA 4D
8 1 (0.13%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 28 (3.71%) Aladdin
1 28 (3.71%) thinkFolio
2 10 (1.32%) TrackWise
3 9 (1.19%) Oracle Payroll
4 5 (0.66%) Markit EDM
4 5 (0.66%) SAP HR
5 4 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.40%) Dynamics NAV
6 3 (0.40%) Magento
6 3 (0.40%) Shopify
7 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.13%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
8 1 (0.13%) Eikon
8 1 (0.13%) Fidessa
8 1 (0.13%) RMDS
8 1 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.13%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 156 (20.66%) Microsoft 365
2 147 (19.47%) Azure
3 88 (11.66%) SaaS
4 54 (7.15%) Entra ID
5 52 (6.89%) AWS
6 25 (3.31%) OneDrive
7 23 (3.05%) Power Platform
8 20 (2.65%) GitHub
8 20 (2.65%) Mimecast
9 18 (2.38%) OCI
10 17 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
11 16 (2.12%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (1.99%) IaaS
13 14 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.72%) PaaS
15 12 (1.59%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (1.32%) Veeva
18 9 (1.19%) Google Workspace
19 8 (1.06%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (7.81%) Firewall
2 43 (5.70%) LAN
3 40 (5.30%) WAN
4 39 (5.17%) DNS
5 35 (4.64%) VPN
6 28 (3.71%) DHCP
7 19 (2.52%) Internet
8 13 (1.72%) TCP/IP
8 13 (1.72%) VoIP
9 11 (1.46%) VLAN
10 10 (1.32%) Intranet
10 10 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.93%) IPsec
12 6 (0.79%) IP Telephony
12 6 (0.79%) Network Security
13 5 (0.66%) Kerberos
13 5 (0.66%) Wireless
14 4 (0.53%) SSL
14 4 (0.53%) Telnet
15 3 (0.40%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (2.65%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.99%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 13 (1.72%) Redis
4 13 (1.72%) Relational Database
5 12 (1.59%) Power BI
6 9 (1.19%) MySQL
7 8 (1.06%) Tableau
8 7 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.66%) Data Lake
10 5 (0.66%) Dremio
11 4 (0.53%) Big Data
12 3 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.40%) GIS
13 2 (0.26%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.26%) NoSQL
14 1 (0.13%) BusinessObjects
14 1 (0.13%) Looker
14 1 (0.13%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 38 (5.03%) JIRA
2 16 (2.12%) Git
3 14 (1.85%) SonarQube
4 6 (0.79%) Selenium
5 5 (0.66%) GitLab
5 5 (0.66%) Jenkins
5 5 (0.66%) Postman
6 3 (0.40%) MLflow
7 2 (0.26%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.26%) Maven
8 1 (0.13%) Android Studio
8 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.13%) Gradle
8 1 (0.13%) Hudson
8 1 (0.13%) IntelliJ
8 1 (0.13%) JetBrains Rider
8 1 (0.13%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.13%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.13%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.13%) Zephyr
General
1 358 (47.42%) Social Skills
2 199 (26.36%) Finance
3 82 (10.86%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (6.89%) Law
5 50 (6.62%) Front Office
5 50 (6.62%) Marketing
6 49 (6.49%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (5.43%) Banking
8 40 (5.30%) Legal
8 40 (5.30%) Public Sector
9 37 (4.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 36 (4.77%) Retail
11 22 (2.91%) Back Office
12 21 (2.78%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.65%) Local Government
14 17 (2.25%) Manufacturing
15 15 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.99%) Presentation Skills
16 14 (1.85%) Telecoms
17 11 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 148 (19.60%) Analyst
2 89 (11.79%) Senior
3 57 (7.55%) Support Engineer
4 56 (7.42%) IT Support
5 53 (7.02%) Business Manager
6 44 (5.83%) Consultant
7 39 (5.17%) Business Analyst
8 37 (4.90%) Developer
9 34 (4.50%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
10 33 (4.37%) Lead
10 33 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
11 29 (3.84%) IT Manager
12 26 (3.44%) 2nd Line Support
13 23 (3.05%) Development Manager
13 23 (3.05%) Support Analyst
14 21 (2.78%) Project Manager
14 21 (2.78%) Technical Support
15 19 (2.52%) Administrator
15 19 (2.52%) IT Engineer
16 18 (2.38%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.18%) .NET
2 15 (1.99%) OAuth
3 14 (1.85%) HTML
3 14 (1.85%) RESTful
4 13 (1.72%) FIX Protocol
5 12 (1.59%) Laravel
6 11 (1.46%) Node.js
6 11 (1.46%) React
7 10 (1.32%) SailPoint
7 10 (1.32%) SAML
8 8 (1.06%) ARM Templates
8 8 (1.06%) Azure Blueprints
8 8 (1.06%) CSS
8 8 (1.06%) WebSockets
9 7 (0.93%) Memcached
9 7 (0.93%) OpenID
10 6 (0.79%) Django
10 6 (0.79%) Flask
10 6 (0.79%) pytest
10 6 (0.79%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 50 (6.62%) Self-Motivation
2 49 (6.49%) Management Information System
3 42 (5.56%) Derivative
4 38 (5.03%) Fixed Income
5 34 (4.50%) Hedge funds
6 28 (3.71%) Data Centre
7 27 (3.58%) Virtual Team
8 22 (2.91%) Driving Licence
8 22 (2.91%) Social Media
9 17 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.99%) Tandem
11 12 (1.59%) Equities
11 12 (1.59%) Reference Data
12 11 (1.46%) Robotics
13 10 (1.32%) CMDB
13 10 (1.32%) CSOC
13 10 (1.32%) Mobile App
14 9 (1.19%) Client/Server
14 9 (1.19%) FMCG
15 8 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 155 (20.53%) Windows
2 56 (7.42%) Windows Server
3 32 (4.24%) Windows 10
4 30 (3.97%) Linux
5 25 (3.31%) Mac OS
6 22 (2.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 16 (2.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 14 (1.85%) Android
9 12 (1.59%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.59%) Unix
10 6 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.53%) Rocky
11 4 (0.53%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.40%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.40%) Windows 7
13 2 (0.26%) CentOS
14 1 (0.13%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (25.03%) Problem-Solving
2 163 (21.59%) Client Onboarding
3 137 (18.15%) Agile
4 116 (15.36%) Project Management
5 97 (12.85%) Customer Service
6 81 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
8 75 (9.93%) Mentoring
9 74 (9.80%) ITIL
9 74 (9.80%) Project Delivery
10 72 (9.54%) Asset Management
11 69 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 68 (9.01%) CRM
13 59 (7.81%) Business Development
14 56 (7.42%) Artificial Intelligence
15 55 (7.28%) Change Management
16 54 (7.15%) Service Delivery
17 49 (6.49%) Business Intelligence
18 47 (6.23%) DevOps
19 46 (6.09%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 97 (12.85%) SQL
2 81 (10.73%) Python
3 62 (8.21%) PowerShell
4 34 (4.50%) JavaScript
5 27 (3.58%) C#
6 17 (2.25%) PHP
7 11 (1.46%) Bash
8 8 (1.06%) Java
8 8 (1.06%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.93%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.40%) R
10 3 (0.40%) VBA
11 1 (0.13%) C
11 1 (0.13%) C++
11 1 (0.13%) Go
11 1 (0.13%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
11 1 (0.13%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.13%) VB
11 1 (0.13%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 111 (14.70%) Degree
2 58 (7.68%) Security Cleared
3 27 (3.58%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 22 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (2.12%) Computer Science Degree
7 14 (1.85%) Master's Degree
8 12 (1.59%) DBS Check
9 11 (1.46%) CISSP
10 10 (1.32%) CISM
11 9 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.19%) PMI Certification
12 8 (1.06%) PMP
13 5 (0.66%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (0.66%) MCP
14 4 (0.53%) AWS Certification
14 4 (0.53%) CIPD
14 4 (0.53%) MCSA
14 4 (0.53%) Postgraduate
15 3 (0.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.70%) QA
2 28 (3.71%) GDPR
3 22 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (2.91%) SLA
4 10 (1.32%) GMP
4 10 (1.32%) NCSC
5 9 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 9 (1.19%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.19%) PMO
6 7 (0.93%) Accessibility
6 7 (0.93%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.79%) GRC
7 6 (0.79%) NIST
7 6 (0.79%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.66%) Software Quality Assurance
9 3 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 14001
11 1 (0.13%) Actionable Recommendations
11 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 118 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 59 (7.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (4.37%) Hyper-V
4 24 (3.18%) Docker
5 14 (1.85%) XenApp
6 9 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.40%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.26%) VirtualBox
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Firmware
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 55 (7.28%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (3.31%) Terraform
3 23 (3.05%) Kubernetes
4 15 (1.99%) QRadar
5 14 (1.85%) SCCM
6 12 (1.59%) Grafana
6 12 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
7 11 (1.46%) Ansible
8 7 (0.93%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.66%) ZABBIX
10 3 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.40%) Autotask
10 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.26%) Forefront Identity Manager
12 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
12 1 (0.13%) CSIRT
12 1 (0.13%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.13%) WMI
12 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 249 (32.98%) Microsoft
2 59 (7.81%) VMware
3 44 (5.83%) Oracle
4 34 (4.50%) Charles River
5 33 (4.37%) Cisco
6 32 (4.24%) SAP
7 31 (4.11%) Meraki
8 28 (3.71%) BISAM
8 28 (3.71%) Calypso
8 28 (3.71%) SimCorp
9 26 (3.44%) Citrix
10 23 (3.05%) Salesforce
11 21 (2.78%) SonicWALL
12 17 (2.25%) Dell
12 17 (2.25%) ServiceNow
13 15 (1.99%) Apple
13 15 (1.99%) Google
13 15 (1.99%) Veeam
14 14 (1.85%) CheckPoint
15 12 (1.59%) YouTube