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 have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 227 237
Rank change year-on-year +62 +10 -14
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 1,728 1,674 2,761
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.74% 1.65% 1.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.93% 3.86% 3.69%
Number of salaries quoted 971 925 1,096
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,298 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,186 £55,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year -26.93% +8.91% -6.48%

All Generic Skills
UK

Onboarding is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,055 43,406 74,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.34% 42.74% 47.58%
Number of salaries quoted 23,055 23,484 33,996
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 18 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 8 May 2024. 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 +40 1,354 £47,500 -26.92% 677
UK excluding London +46 1,114 £40,186 -26.93% 394
London +58 517 £60,000 -20.00% 306
Work from Home -31 501 £52,500 -19.23% 383
Midlands +71 259 £35,000 -31.71% 62
Scotland +59 233 £52,500 -0.94% 40
South East -20 223 £41,450 -30.92% 90
West Midlands +93 195 £42,500 -15.00% 38
North of England +1 180 £43,461 -20.98% 118
South West +21 101 £43,500 -3.33% 57
North West +41 94 £40,000 -20.00% 65
Yorkshire +6 77 £57,500 +4.27% 44
East of England -23 67 £44,750 -31.15% 20
East Midlands -13 63 £33,000 -37.14% 24
Wales -7 35 £37,500 -19.35% 11
Northern Ireland +37 11 £38,500 +13.24% 3
North East +6 11 £55,000 +12.82% 11
Channel Islands - 5 - -

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 52 (3.01%) SharePoint
2 34 (1.97%) SAS
3 31 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (1.74%) Confluence
5 16 (0.93%) WordPress
6 8 (0.46%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.29%) Apache
8 4 (0.23%) OpenZeppelin
9 3 (0.17%) Exchange Server 2013
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.058%) CMS
11 1 (0.058%) Headless CMS
11 1 (0.058%) IIS
11 1 (0.058%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.058%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 291 (16.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 281 (16.26%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.81%) Trello
5 9 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.46%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.35%) Photoshop
7 6 (0.35%) SPSS
8 5 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.29%) InVision
8 5 (0.29%) Sketch
9 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.17%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.12%) Revit
12 1 (0.058%) 1Password
12 1 (0.058%) Chatbot
12 1 (0.058%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.058%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.58%) SAP HR
2 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.29%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.23%) iTrent
5 4 (0.23%) Lawson
5 4 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.17%) Epicor Tropos
6 3 (0.17%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.17%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.058%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.058%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.058%) HFM
Cloud Services
1 318 (18.40%) AWS
2 312 (18.06%) Azure
3 176 (10.19%) Microsoft 365
4 103 (5.96%) Power Platform
5 87 (5.03%) SaaS
6 86 (4.98%) GCP
7 60 (3.47%) Entra ID
8 52 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.55%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (2.03%) Power Automate
11 30 (1.74%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.45%) Serverless
13 24 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.39%) GitHub
14 23 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.27%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.22%) AWS Lambda
17 16 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
17 16 (0.93%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 73 (4.22%) Firewall
2 65 (3.76%) DNS
3 50 (2.89%) LAN
4 47 (2.72%) Network Security
5 42 (2.43%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.20%) WAN
7 37 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
8 34 (1.97%) DHCP
8 34 (1.97%) VPN
8 34 (1.97%) Wireless
9 22 (1.27%) VLAN
10 16 (0.93%) FTP
10 16 (0.93%) HTTP
10 16 (0.93%) Structured Cabling
11 14 (0.81%) NAS
12 13 (0.75%) Broadband
12 13 (0.75%) Internet
13 12 (0.69%) NetScaler
14 11 (0.64%) SAN
14 11 (0.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.61%) NoSQL
2 95 (5.50%) Tableau
3 78 (4.51%) Power BI
4 49 (2.84%) Data Mining
5 48 (2.78%) Amazon QuickSight
6 46 (2.66%) Big Data
7 42 (2.43%) Data Lake
8 40 (2.31%) Data Warehouse
8 40 (2.31%) SQL Server
9 39 (2.26%) Qlik Sense
10 35 (2.03%) Relational Database
11 33 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 25 (1.45%) MySQL
13 24 (1.39%) Redis
14 14 (0.81%) DynamoDB
15 12 (0.69%) Metadata
15 12 (0.69%) MongoDB
16 9 (0.52%) Essbase
16 9 (0.52%) Oracle Database
17 8 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 61 (3.53%) Git
2 53 (3.07%) JIRA
3 19 (1.10%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.81%) GitLab
5 12 (0.69%) Selenium
6 8 (0.46%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.46%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.41%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.41%) git-flow
8 5 (0.29%) Postman
8 5 (0.29%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.23%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.23%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.23%) Hardhat
10 2 (0.12%) Grunt
10 2 (0.12%) gulp
10 2 (0.12%) PostCSS
10 2 (0.12%) webpack
11 1 (0.058%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.058%) Sourcetree
General
1 648 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 568 (32.87%) Finance
3 268 (15.51%) Legal
4 237 (13.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
5 202 (11.69%) Law
6 126 (7.29%) Military
7 116 (6.71%) Marketing
8 93 (5.38%) Retail
9 83 (4.80%) Public Sector
10 74 (4.28%) Presentation Skills
11 69 (3.99%) Banking
12 43 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
13 41 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
14 34 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 32 (1.85%) Local Government
16 26 (1.50%) Manufacturing
17 25 (1.45%) French Language
17 25 (1.45%) German Language
17 25 (1.45%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (16.32%) Senior
2 213 (12.33%) Analyst
3 174 (10.07%) Software Engineer
4 142 (8.22%) Graduate
5 121 (7.00%) Developer
6 98 (5.67%) Project Manager
7 94 (5.44%) Lead
8 75 (4.34%) Data Engineer
9 73 (4.22%) Senior Analyst
10 70 (4.05%) Consultant
10 70 (4.05%) Java Engineer
10 70 (4.05%) Java Software Engineer
11 66 (3.82%) Senior Developer
12 59 (3.41%) Support Engineer
13 55 (3.18%) IT Support
14 48 (2.78%) Development Manager
15 42 (2.43%) IT Technician
16 39 (2.26%) Full Stack Engineer
16 39 (2.26%) Full Stack Software Engineer
17 38 (2.20%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.50%) HTML
2 78 (4.51%) Node.js
3 76 (4.40%) React
4 70 (4.05%) .NET
5 60 (3.47%) CSS
5 60 (3.47%) Web Services
6 52 (3.01%) Spring
7 46 (2.66%) XML
8 44 (2.55%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.49%) J2EE
10 39 (2.26%) ASP.NET
10 39 (2.26%) JavaBeans
10 39 (2.26%) JMS
10 39 (2.26%) Kafka
10 39 (2.26%) PySpark
11 37 (2.14%) Middleware
12 35 (2.03%) .NET Core
13 34 (1.97%) HTML5
14 33 (1.91%) EDI
14 33 (1.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.72%) Algorithms
2 82 (4.75%) Management Information System
3 75 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (2.49%) Social Media
5 37 (2.14%) Data Centre
6 33 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 22 (1.27%) Virtual Team
10 21 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
11 18 (1.04%) iPhone
11 18 (1.04%) Public Cloud
11 18 (1.04%) Robotics
12 17 (0.98%) Client/Server
12 17 (0.98%) Cyberattack
13 13 (0.75%) Driving Licence
13 13 (0.75%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.75%) Hedge funds
14 12 (0.69%) Reference Data
15 10 (0.58%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 197 (11.40%) Windows
2 85 (4.92%) Windows Server
3 66 (3.82%) Mac OS
4 52 (3.01%) Linux
5 26 (1.50%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
7 19 (1.10%) Windows Server 2012
8 18 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
9 17 (0.98%) Apple iOS
10 14 (0.81%) Unix
11 13 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 8 (0.46%) Android
13 7 (0.41%) Windows 8
14 4 (0.23%) CentOS
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.23%) Solaris
15 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.058%) VMS
16 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (25.93%) Client Onboarding
2 426 (24.65%) Continuous Improvement
3 399 (23.09%) Problem-Solving
4 396 (22.92%) Agile
5 312 (18.06%) Customer Service
6 275 (15.91%) Software Engineering
7 264 (15.28%) Data Analysis
8 248 (14.35%) Project Management
9 238 (13.77%) Visualisation
10 235 (13.60%) Customer Experience
11 227 (13.14%) Process Improvement
12 221 (12.79%) CI/CD
13 208 (12.04%) Risk Management
14 196 (11.34%) Machine Learning
15 185 (10.71%) SDLC
16 181 (10.47%) Artificial Intelligence
17 180 (10.42%) Analytics
18 177 (10.24%) Performance Metrics
19 172 (9.95%) Logistics
20 166 (9.61%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 293 (16.96%) SQL
2 261 (15.10%) Python
3 208 (12.04%) Java
4 99 (5.73%) C#
5 85 (4.92%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.70%) PowerShell
7 52 (3.01%) R
8 48 (2.78%) PHP
9 27 (1.56%) Bash
10 26 (1.50%) Go
11 25 (1.45%) TypeScript
12 21 (1.22%) MATLAB
13 18 (1.04%) T-SQL
14 13 (0.75%) VBA
15 11 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 10 (0.58%) Kotlin
17 6 (0.35%) C
17 6 (0.35%) C++
18 5 (0.29%) ActionScript
18 5 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 481 (27.84%) Degree
2 128 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 83 (4.80%) BPSS Clearance
4 73 (4.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 72 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 53 (3.07%) Master's Degree
7 51 (2.95%) DBS Check
8 47 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.14%) CISSP
10 35 (2.03%) A+ Certification
11 29 (1.68%) MCP
12 28 (1.62%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.33%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.33%) CISM
14 19 (1.10%) OSCP
15 18 (1.04%) HNC
16 15 (0.87%) ACCA
17 12 (0.69%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.64%) CCNA
18 11 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (2.78%) QA
2 46 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.60%) SLA
4 36 (2.08%) Accessibility
5 28 (1.62%) GDPR
6 27 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 27 (1.56%) PMO
7 23 (1.33%) Data Quality
8 22 (1.27%) NIST
9 14 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.69%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.69%) SOC 2
11 8 (0.46%) NCSC
12 7 (0.41%) ISO 9001
13 6 (0.35%) IFRS
14 5 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.12%) GRC
17 1 (0.058%) COREP
System Software
1 197 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 69 (3.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (2.60%) Hyper-V
4 35 (2.03%) Docker
5 8 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.35%) vSphere
6 6 (0.35%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (3.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 36 (2.08%) Terraform
3 29 (1.68%) Ansible
4 28 (1.62%) Kubernetes
5 20 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (0.69%) Grafana
7 8 (0.46%) Kibana
8 7 (0.41%) Autotask
8 7 (0.41%) Prometheus
8 7 (0.41%) SCCM
9 6 (0.35%) vCenter Server
10 5 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
11 4 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 4 (0.23%) Istio
12 3 (0.17%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.17%) logstash
13 2 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
13 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
13 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 1 (0.058%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 348 (20.14%) Microsoft
2 69 (3.99%) VMware
3 63 (3.65%) Google
4 53 (3.07%) Oracle
5 52 (3.01%) SAP
6 47 (2.72%) Alteryx
7 42 (2.43%) Databricks
8 39 (2.26%) Citrix
9 35 (2.03%) Apple
10 32 (1.85%) Cisco
11 25 (1.45%) Adobe
11 25 (1.45%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.27%) Veeam
13 21 (1.22%) Splunk
14 19 (1.10%) Sage
14 19 (1.10%) Salesforce
15 18 (1.04%) Cadence
16 16 (0.93%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.81%) UiPath
18 13 (0.75%) Xero