Collaborative Working Contracts in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 147 132
Rank change year-on-year +48 -15 +39
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 419 412 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.06% 1.79% 1.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 2.00% 2.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 272 422
10th Percentile £243 £313 £325
25th Percentile £363 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +15.94%
75th Percentile £590 £603 £575
90th Percentile £663 £678 £675
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -5.24% -0.94% +10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 41 22
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £12.90
25th Percentile £26.93 £30.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +189.20% -21.34%
75th Percentile - £55.00 £45.41
90th Percentile £51.73 £75.00 £76.59
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +155.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +21 115 £479 -20.25% 189
East of England +44 78 £375 -34.07% 89
North of England -1 67 £500 -3.29% 242
Midlands +19 53 £425 -5.56% 139
Scotland +39 51 £475 +7.04% 28
South West 0 44 £550 - 116
North West -4 36 £473 -7.80% 141
West Midlands +10 30 £550 +18.03% 85
Yorkshire +8 28 £622 +18.48% 76
East Midlands +15 20 £400 +6.67% 54
Wales +16 6 £425 -9.57% 11
North East +10 3 £625 +47.06% 28
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 10
Collaborative Working
UK

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (4.30%) Confluence
1 18 (4.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (0.95%) Appian
3 4 (0.95%) CMS
4 3 (0.72%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 38 (9.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (6.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (5.73%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (0.72%) MicroStation
4 3 (0.72%) Sketch
4 3 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.48%) FileZilla
5 2 (0.48%) InVision
5 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.48%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.91%) SAP HCM
2 8 (1.91%) SAP HR
3 6 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.72%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.24%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.69%) Azure
2 39 (9.31%) AWS
3 22 (5.25%) GCP
3 22 (5.25%) Power Platform
4 17 (4.06%) OpenShift
5 13 (3.10%) GitHub
5 13 (3.10%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (2.15%) Kong
7 9 (2.15%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.15%) SuccessFactors
8 8 (1.91%) SaaS
9 7 (1.67%) Serverless
9 7 (1.67%) Yammer
10 6 (1.43%) Apigee
10 6 (1.43%) PowerApps
11 5 (1.19%) OCI
12 4 (0.95%) Dynamics 365
12 4 (0.95%) Figma
12 4 (0.95%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (4.77%) Firewall
2 13 (3.10%) VPN
3 11 (2.63%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.39%) DNS
5 9 (2.15%) HTTP
6 7 (1.67%) VSAN
7 5 (1.19%) SD-WAN
8 4 (0.95%) Network Security
8 4 (0.95%) SSL
9 3 (0.72%) BIG-IP
9 3 (0.72%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
9 3 (0.72%) LAN
9 3 (0.72%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.72%) WAN
9 3 (0.72%) Wireless
10 2 (0.48%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (0.48%) FTP
10 2 (0.48%) Remote Desktop
10 2 (0.48%) VLAN
11 1 (0.24%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.30%) Elasticsearch
2 17 (4.06%) Power BI
3 14 (3.34%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.15%) Metadata
4 9 (2.15%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.95%) GIS
5 4 (0.95%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.72%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.72%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.72%) QGIS
6 3 (0.72%) Spatial Data
6 3 (0.72%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.48%) Tableau
8 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (5.73%) Git
2 22 (5.25%) JIRA
3 14 (3.34%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.63%) GitLab
5 10 (2.39%) Travis CI
6 9 (2.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (2.15%) CircleCI
7 8 (1.91%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (1.43%) Postman
9 4 (0.95%) Mercurial
9 4 (0.95%) NUnit
9 4 (0.95%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.48%) Mocha
11 2 (0.48%) Selenium
11 2 (0.48%) TestRail
12 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
12 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
12 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 166 (39.62%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (13.13%) Aerospace
4 49 (11.69%) Finance
5 39 (9.31%) Public Sector
6 34 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (5.49%) Telecoms
8 22 (5.25%) Marketing
9 18 (4.30%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.82%) Legal
11 15 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
12 12 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
12 12 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 12 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.63%) Law
13 11 (2.63%) Mandarin Language
14 10 (2.39%) Publishing
15 9 (2.15%) Banking
16 7 (1.67%) Local Government
16 7 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (13.13%) Configuration Manager
2 44 (10.50%) Analyst
3 42 (10.02%) Senior
4 30 (7.16%) Architect
5 27 (6.44%) Project Manager
6 24 (5.73%) Lead
7 19 (4.53%) Consultant
8 18 (4.30%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.06%) Developer
10 16 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (2.39%) Cabling Engineer
12 10 (2.39%) Designer
12 10 (2.39%) IT Manager
13 9 (2.15%) Administrator
13 9 (2.15%) Site Engineer
13 9 (2.15%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 9 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
14 8 (1.91%) Change Manager
14 8 (1.91%) Senior Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.34%) HTML
2 11 (2.63%) JSON
3 10 (2.39%) CSS
3 10 (2.39%) Kafka
3 10 (2.39%) React
3 10 (2.39%) XML
3 10 (2.39%) YAML
4 9 (2.15%) .NET
4 9 (2.15%) Elastic Stack
5 8 (1.91%) Spring
6 7 (1.67%) AngularJS
6 7 (1.67%) RESTful
7 6 (1.43%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.43%) REST
7 6 (1.43%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.19%) Node.js
9 4 (0.95%) NumPy
9 4 (0.95%) Pandas
9 4 (0.95%) Playwright
9 4 (0.95%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.25%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.01%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.39%) Fibre Optics
5 9 (2.15%) Data Structures
6 8 (1.91%) Product Ownership
7 7 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
8 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.43%) Social Media
9 5 (1.19%) Data Centre
10 4 (0.95%) Housing Association
10 4 (0.95%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.72%) Enterprise Cloud
11 3 (0.72%) FMCG
11 3 (0.72%) Lidar
11 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.72%) Photography
11 3 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (4.77%) Windows
2 12 (2.86%) Unix
3 6 (1.43%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.95%) Linux
4 4 (0.95%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (23.39%) Agile
2 95 (22.67%) Project Management
3 86 (20.53%) Problem-Solving
4 64 (15.27%) Configuration Management
5 63 (15.04%) Coaching
6 55 (13.13%) PLM
7 54 (12.89%) DevOps
8 52 (12.41%) Stakeholder Management
9 45 (10.74%) CI/CD
10 38 (9.07%) Risk Management
11 36 (8.59%) Change Management
12 33 (7.88%) Decision-Making
13 31 (7.40%) Time Management
14 29 (6.92%) ITIL
14 29 (6.92%) Scrum
15 28 (6.68%) Containerisation
16 27 (6.44%) Data Analysis
16 27 (6.44%) Technical Leadership
16 27 (6.44%) Waterfall
17 25 (5.97%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 26 (6.21%) SQL
2 24 (5.73%) Python
3 17 (4.06%) JavaScript
4 15 (3.58%) PowerShell
5 11 (2.63%) Bash
5 11 (2.63%) Java
6 7 (1.67%) C#
7 6 (1.43%) TypeScript
8 4 (0.95%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.72%) ActionScript
9 3 (0.72%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 53 (12.65%) Degree
1 53 (12.65%) Security Cleared
2 41 (9.79%) SC Cleared
3 20 (4.77%) Master's Degree
4 14 (3.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
6 7 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (1.67%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.43%) ISEB
8 5 (1.19%) CISSP
9 4 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.72%) NVQ Level 4
10 3 (0.72%) SAP Certification
11 2 (0.48%) CCNP
11 2 (0.48%) CRISC
11 2 (0.48%) Dell Certification
11 2 (0.48%) HND
11 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.49%) PMO
2 21 (5.01%) QA
3 14 (3.34%) GDPR
4 9 (2.15%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.91%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.43%) Data Quality
7 5 (1.19%) SLA
8 4 (0.95%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.48%) GAMP
9 2 (0.48%) GMP
9 2 (0.48%) GxP
9 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.48%) WCAG
10 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.24%) ISO 31000
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.24%) JSP 440
System Software
1 25 (5.97%) Docker
2 12 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.15%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.67%) vCloud
4 7 (1.67%) VMware NSX
5 2 (0.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.48%) vSphere
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 38 (9.07%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.53%) Kibana
3 18 (4.30%) Grafana
3 18 (4.30%) Prometheus
4 17 (4.06%) Terraform
5 16 (3.82%) Istio
6 11 (2.63%) Ansible
7 10 (2.39%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.39%) Puppet
8 9 (2.15%) Argo
8 9 (2.15%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.15%) logstash
9 8 (1.91%) vCenter Server
10 7 (1.67%) Rancher
11 4 (0.95%) SCCM
12 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.72%) WSUS
13 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.48%) Nessus
14 1 (0.24%) SCOM
Vendors
1 56 (13.37%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.53%) Oracle
3 16 (3.82%) SAP
4 15 (3.58%) VMware
5 12 (2.86%) BT
6 11 (2.63%) ServiceNow
6 11 (2.63%) Splunk
7 9 (2.15%) Google
8 6 (1.43%) Adobe
9 4 (0.95%) Cisco
9 4 (0.95%) Dell
9 4 (0.95%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.72%) ESRI
10 3 (0.72%) F5
10 3 (0.72%) Fujitsu
10 3 (0.72%) HP
10 3 (0.72%) Twitter
11 2 (0.48%) Juniper
11 2 (0.48%) Qualys
11 2 (0.48%) Workday