Onboarding Job Trends

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 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 163 199
Rank change year-on-year +89 +36 +3
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 1,772 961 932
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 2.95% 1.80% 1.67%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.62% 4.83% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 530 525
10th Percentile £26,500 £32,450 £31,250
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% +4.55% -15.06%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,250 £92,550 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £50,000 £47,557
% change year-on-year -30.00% +5.14% -13.53%

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 20,555 19,907 20,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 34.26% 37.20% 36.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,326 9,320 14,805
10th Percentile £27,850 £33,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £110,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -4.55%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Onboarding job vacancy trend in the UK

Onboarding
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Onboarding

Onboarding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

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 14 January 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 +94 1,602 £40,000 -27.27% 1,003
UK excluding London +105 1,116 £35,000 -30.00% 886
Work from Home +87 581 £35,000 -41.67% 502
London +90 548 £50,000 -16.67% 262
South East +130 321 £37,500 +0.46% 306
Midlands +33 268 £31,000 -48.33% 111
North of England +46 192 £33,500 -29.47% 191
West Midlands +17 139 £45,000 -30.77% 54
South West +77 135 £28,500 -56.15% 102
East Midlands +35 129 £30,000 -36.84% 54
East of England +96 120 £47,500 - 104
North West +49 103 £31,700 -39.62% 89
Yorkshire +15 70 £34,000 -9.33% 79
Scotland +8 46 £35,000 -60.00% 38
Wales +27 33 £50,000 -23.08% 34
North East +13 19 £45,000 -35.71% 28
Northern Ireland -2 11 £38,000 - 19

Onboarding
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
1 113 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 70 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (1.92%) Confluence
4 9 (0.51%) CMS
4 9 (0.51%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.40%) WordPress
7 3 (0.17%) Apache
7 3 (0.17%) Apache Superset
7 3 (0.17%) nginx
8 1 (0.056%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.056%) Drupal
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.056%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 184 (10.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 179 (10.10%) Microsoft Office
3 69 (3.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.07%) Spreadsheet
6 13 (0.73%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.51%) InDesign
8 8 (0.45%) Adobe XD
8 8 (0.45%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.45%) Sketch
8 8 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
9 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
10 4 (0.23%) CATIA
11 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
11 3 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 3 (0.17%) CINEMA 4D
12 2 (0.11%) EPLAN
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe After Effects
13 1 (0.056%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 34 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.28%) Fidessa
4 5 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
5 3 (0.17%) Sage 200
5 3 (0.17%) Sage 50
5 3 (0.17%) Sage CRM
6 2 (0.11%) Endur
6 2 (0.11%) Lawson
6 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.11%) Pegasus Opera
6 2 (0.11%) Sage X3
6 2 (0.11%) Shopify
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.056%) Global One
7 1 (0.056%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.056%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 338 (19.07%) Microsoft 365
2 275 (15.52%) SaaS
3 237 (13.37%) Azure
4 131 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 82 (4.63%) AWS
6 63 (3.56%) Power Platform
7 36 (2.03%) Datadog
8 34 (1.92%) OneDrive
9 27 (1.52%) Amazon Alexa
9 27 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.52%) GCP
10 26 (1.47%) GitHub
11 25 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
12 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
13 22 (1.24%) Power Automate
14 21 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
15 20 (1.13%) Dynamics 365
16 14 (0.79%) Cloud Computing
16 14 (0.79%) Google Workspace
17 13 (0.73%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 106 (5.98%) DNS
2 91 (5.14%) DHCP
3 70 (3.95%) Wi-Fi
4 67 (3.78%) VPN
5 61 (3.44%) Firewall
6 60 (3.39%) TCP/IP
7 39 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
8 30 (1.69%) SMS
8 30 (1.69%) VoIP
9 29 (1.64%) Structured Cabling
10 26 (1.47%) Wireless
11 22 (1.24%) LAN
11 22 (1.24%) WAN
12 21 (1.19%) VLAN
13 19 (1.07%) Internet
14 10 (0.56%) Network Security
15 9 (0.51%) ADSL
15 9 (0.51%) Ethernet
15 9 (0.51%) Skype
15 9 (0.51%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (2.82%) Power BI
2 43 (2.43%) Relational Database
3 20 (1.13%) Looker
4 19 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (1.07%) SQL Server
5 17 (0.96%) Tableau
6 8 (0.45%) DTS
6 8 (0.45%) Metadata
7 6 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 5 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
8 5 (0.28%) Data Mining
8 5 (0.28%) MySQL
8 5 (0.28%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.23%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon QuickSight
10 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
10 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.17%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 89 (5.02%) JIRA
2 16 (0.90%) Git
3 7 (0.40%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.34%) GitLab
5 5 (0.28%) GitBook
6 3 (0.17%) Appcelerator Titanium
7 1 (0.056%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.056%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.056%) JMeter
7 1 (0.056%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.056%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (0.056%) Selenium
7 1 (0.056%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 820 (46.28%) Social Skills
2 349 (19.70%) Analytical Skills
3 336 (18.96%) Finance
4 274 (15.46%) Marketing
5 198 (11.17%) Retail
6 136 (7.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 134 (7.56%) Legal
8 118 (6.66%) Organisational Skills
9 85 (4.80%) Law
10 78 (4.40%) Manufacturing
11 69 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
12 54 (3.05%) German Language
13 48 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 46 (2.60%) Public Sector
15 39 (2.20%) Banking
16 38 (2.14%) Billing
17 31 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
17 31 (1.75%) Italian Language
18 30 (1.69%) Electronics
19 29 (1.64%) French Language
Job Titles
1 241 (13.60%) Senior
2 199 (11.23%) IT Support
3 178 (10.05%) Analyst
4 134 (7.56%) Support Engineer
5 96 (5.42%) Support Analyst
6 82 (4.63%) Support Technician
7 81 (4.57%) Lead
8 79 (4.46%) Consultant
9 76 (4.29%) Account Manager
10 69 (3.89%) Senior Manager
11 65 (3.67%) Developer
12 62 (3.50%) 2nd Line Support
12 62 (3.50%) IT Technician
13 61 (3.44%) Technical Support
14 58 (3.27%) IT Analyst
15 57 (3.22%) Sales Manager
16 54 (3.05%) IT Engineer
17 51 (2.88%) IT Support Technician
18 49 (2.77%) IT Support Analyst
19 48 (2.71%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (2.60%) JSON
2 44 (2.48%) .NET
3 40 (2.26%) XML
4 37 (2.09%) HTML
5 30 (1.69%) REST
6 29 (1.64%) Regular Expression
7 20 (1.13%) React
7 20 (1.13%) RESTful
8 19 (1.07%) CSS
9 16 (0.90%) AngularJS
10 15 (0.85%) ADO
11 11 (0.62%) SAML
12 10 (0.56%) ARM Templates
12 10 (0.56%) Razor View Engine
13 9 (0.51%) OpenID
14 8 (0.45%) EDI
14 8 (0.45%) FIX Protocol
15 7 (0.40%) OAuth
16 6 (0.34%) .NET Framework
16 6 (0.34%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 120 (6.77%) Self-Motivation
2 114 (6.43%) Driving Licence
3 95 (5.36%) Management Information System
4 41 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
5 39 (2.20%) Video Conferencing
6 38 (2.14%) Product Ownership
7 36 (2.03%) Linux Command Line
8 28 (1.58%) Enterprise Software
9 27 (1.52%) Mobile App
10 22 (1.24%) Web Conferencing
11 20 (1.13%) Social Media
12 18 (1.02%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.02%) Public Cloud
13 17 (0.96%) CMDB
14 16 (0.90%) CCTV
15 15 (0.85%) Blog
15 15 (0.85%) NHS
15 15 (0.85%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.79%) Life Science
17 13 (0.73%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 251 (14.16%) Windows
2 81 (4.57%) Windows 10
3 66 (3.72%) Apple iOS
4 59 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 43 (2.43%) Mac OS
6 41 (2.31%) Linux
7 34 (1.92%) Unix
8 33 (1.86%) Android
9 8 (0.45%) VMS
9 8 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
10 6 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.23%) CentOS
11 4 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.17%) Rocky
13 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 569 (32.11%) Problem-Solving
2 294 (16.59%) CRM
3 293 (16.53%) Customer Service
4 290 (16.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 233 (13.15%) Client Onboarding
6 176 (9.93%) AI
7 166 (9.37%) Analytics
8 164 (9.26%) B2B
9 152 (8.58%) Agile
10 147 (8.30%) Stakeholder Management
11 142 (8.01%) Process Improvement
12 141 (7.96%) ITIL
13 140 (7.90%) Mentoring
14 133 (7.51%) Cybersecurity
15 122 (6.88%) Project Management
16 118 (6.66%) Customer Experience
17 114 (6.43%) Coaching
17 114 (6.43%) Roadmaps
18 110 (6.21%) Decision-Making
19 102 (5.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 184 (10.38%) SQL
2 141 (7.96%) Python
3 90 (5.08%) C#
4 86 (4.85%) PowerShell
5 41 (2.31%) Java
6 32 (1.81%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.90%) Bash
8 12 (0.68%) C
8 12 (0.68%) Perl
8 12 (0.68%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.56%) Bicep
9 10 (0.56%) PHP
10 6 (0.34%) Kusto Query Language
11 5 (0.28%) R
12 4 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
12 4 (0.23%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) ANSI SQL
13 3 (0.17%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.17%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.11%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 329 (18.57%) Degree
2 95 (5.36%) Security Cleared
3 53 (2.99%) SC Cleared
4 52 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 41 (2.31%) DBS Check
6 37 (2.09%) CIPD
6 37 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 32 (1.81%) A+ Certification
8 31 (1.75%) Master's Degree
9 23 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 23 (1.30%) Azure Certification
10 21 (1.19%) ACCA
11 20 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
12 18 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
13 17 (0.96%) CISSP
14 16 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
15 15 (0.85%) HND
15 15 (0.85%) PMI Certification
16 12 (0.68%) CISM
17 11 (0.62%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.93%) QA
2 93 (5.25%) GDPR
3 55 (3.10%) SLA
4 52 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.60%) Cyber Essentials
6 42 (2.37%) Accessibility
7 26 (1.47%) Data Quality
8 17 (0.96%) ISO 9001
9 16 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 11 (0.62%) PMO
11 10 (0.56%) GRC
11 10 (0.56%) IEC 61131
11 10 (0.56%) NIST
12 8 (0.45%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.34%) GxP
13 6 (0.34%) ISO 14001
14 5 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 5 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 4 (0.23%) COBIT
15 4 (0.23%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 231 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.98%) Hyper-V
3 33 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (1.52%) Docker
5 16 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.85%) Firmware
7 14 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.23%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 99 (5.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (2.31%) Kubernetes
2 41 (2.31%) Terraform
3 27 (1.52%) SCCM
4 20 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
5 19 (1.07%) Nagios
6 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
6 18 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
7 17 (0.96%) Grafana
8 12 (0.68%) ZABBIX
9 5 (0.28%) SCOM
10 4 (0.23%) Ansible
10 4 (0.23%) vCenter Server
11 2 (0.11%) Argo
11 2 (0.11%) Istio
12 1 (0.056%) AirWatch
12 1 (0.056%) Autotask
12 1 (0.056%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.056%) Kibana
Vendors
1 555 (31.32%) Microsoft
2 106 (5.98%) Salesforce
3 59 (3.33%) Apple
4 49 (2.77%) Adobe
4 49 (2.77%) ServiceNow
5 46 (2.60%) SAP
6 43 (2.43%) Cisco
6 43 (2.43%) Google
7 41 (2.31%) VMware
8 33 (1.86%) HubSpot
9 31 (1.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 30 (1.69%) Citrix
11 26 (1.47%) Guidewire
12 22 (1.24%) Xero
13 18 (1.02%) BMC
14 17 (0.96%) Oracle
15 15 (0.85%) Sage
15 15 (0.85%) Zoho
16 14 (0.79%) SolarWinds
17 13 (0.73%) Fortinet