Collaborative Working Contracts in the UK excluding London

Collaborative Working
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Collaborative Working skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 132 134
Rank change year-on-year +32 +2 +36
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 413 425 635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.94% 1.87% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 2.10% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 280 452
10th Percentile £240 £306 £301
25th Percentile £355 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £603 £576
90th Percentile £663 £678 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 43 22
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £26.93 £30.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +136.11% -20.74%
75th Percentile - £53.25 £36.25
90th Percentile £51.58 £74.74 £76.59
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +155.00% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Collaborative Working falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,598 20,227 27,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.72% 89.09% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,365 13,876 18,976
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,188 1,246 1,331
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.63 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £73.40 £75.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 +20 115 £466 -22.33% 200
East of England +49 83 £350 -30.00% 79
North of England -3 68 £500 -1.67% 263
Midlands -2 49 £425 -5.56% 146
Scotland +24 48 £475 - 42
South West -5 39 £588 +6.82% 110
North West -13 34 £435 -19.07% 160
Yorkshire -2 31 £622 +25.97% 72
West Midlands -10 27 £525 +12.66% 87
East Midlands +10 19 £410 +0.92% 58
Wales +23 6 £425 - 16
North East +8 3 £625 +38.89% 32
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 9
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 22 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.12%) Confluence
3 9 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.97%) Appian
4 4 (0.97%) CMS
5 3 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.24%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 40 (9.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (6.05%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 3 (0.73%) MicroStation
4 3 (0.73%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.48%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.48%) FileZilla
5 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.48%) Sketch
5 2 (0.48%) Windchill
6 1 (0.24%) InVision
6 1 (0.24%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (1.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.69%) SAP HCM
2 7 (1.69%) SAP HR
3 6 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.73%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.48%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
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 51 (12.35%) Azure
2 38 (9.20%) AWS
3 24 (5.81%) Power Platform
4 22 (5.33%) GCP
5 18 (4.36%) OpenShift
6 15 (3.63%) Microsoft 365
7 13 (3.15%) GitHub
8 12 (2.91%) Azure DevOps
8 12 (2.91%) Power Automate
9 9 (2.18%) Kong
9 9 (2.18%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.69%) Serverless
10 7 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
10 7 (1.69%) Yammer
11 6 (1.45%) Apigee
11 6 (1.45%) SaaS
12 5 (1.21%) OCI
13 4 (0.97%) Dynamics 365
13 4 (0.97%) Oracle Service Cloud
13 4 (0.97%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (5.33%) Firewall
2 14 (3.39%) TCP/IP
3 12 (2.91%) VPN
4 11 (2.66%) DNS
5 9 (2.18%) HTTP
6 7 (1.69%) VSAN
7 6 (1.45%) Wireless
8 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
8 5 (1.21%) VLAN
9 4 (0.97%) SSL
10 3 (0.73%) BIG-IP
10 3 (0.73%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
10 3 (0.73%) Reverse Proxy
10 3 (0.73%) WAN
11 2 (0.48%) DHCP
11 2 (0.48%) FTP
11 2 (0.48%) LAN
12 1 (0.24%) Kerberos
12 1 (0.24%) RTP
12 1 (0.24%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (4.84%) Power BI
2 19 (4.60%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (3.63%) PostgreSQL
4 9 (2.18%) Metadata
4 9 (2.18%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (0.97%) GIS
5 4 (0.97%) Oracle Database
6 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
6 3 (0.73%) Geospatial Data
6 3 (0.73%) QGIS
6 3 (0.73%) Relational Database
6 3 (0.73%) Spatial Data
6 3 (0.73%) SQL Server
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
7 2 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.48%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.48%) Tableau
8 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.24%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (6.05%) Git
2 21 (5.08%) JIRA
3 13 (3.15%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.42%) GitLab
5 9 (2.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (2.18%) CircleCI
5 9 (2.18%) Travis CI
6 7 (1.69%) Rational DOORS
7 6 (1.45%) Postman
8 4 (0.97%) Mercurial
8 4 (0.97%) NUnit
8 4 (0.97%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.73%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.48%) Axure RP
10 2 (0.48%) Mocha
10 2 (0.48%) Selenium
10 2 (0.48%) TestRail
11 1 (0.24%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.24%) Mockito
General
1 171 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 72 (17.43%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (13.32%) Aerospace
4 51 (12.35%) Finance
5 38 (9.20%) Public Sector
6 32 (7.75%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (5.57%) Telecoms
8 22 (5.33%) Marketing
9 17 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 16 (3.87%) Legal
11 15 (3.63%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (3.15%) Law
13 12 (2.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (2.42%) Mandarin Language
14 10 (2.42%) Publishing
15 9 (2.18%) Banking
16 8 (1.94%) Local Government
16 8 (1.94%) Retail
Job Titles
1 55 (13.32%) Configuration Manager
2 46 (11.14%) Analyst
3 38 (9.20%) Senior
4 28 (6.78%) Architect
5 23 (5.57%) Lead
6 22 (5.33%) Consultant
7 19 (4.60%) Developer
8 18 (4.36%) Data Engineer
8 18 (4.36%) Project Manager
9 14 (3.39%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (2.42%) Administrator
11 10 (2.42%) Cabling Engineer
11 10 (2.42%) Site Engineer
11 10 (2.42%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 9 (2.18%) Data Analyst
12 9 (2.18%) IT Manager
12 9 (2.18%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (1.94%) Designer
14 7 (1.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.87%) HTML
2 12 (2.91%) CSS
3 11 (2.66%) .NET
3 11 (2.66%) JSON
3 11 (2.66%) Kafka
3 11 (2.66%) React
4 10 (2.42%) XML
4 10 (2.42%) YAML
5 9 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
5 9 (2.18%) RESTful
6 7 (1.69%) Spring
7 6 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.45%) GraphQL
7 6 (1.45%) REST
8 5 (1.21%) Spring Boot
9 4 (0.97%) Node.js
9 4 (0.97%) NumPy
9 4 (0.97%) Pandas
9 4 (0.97%) Playwright
9 4 (0.97%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.81%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.08%) Cloud Native
3 12 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (2.42%) Fibre Optics
5 9 (2.18%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (2.18%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 7 (1.69%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (1.45%) Social Media
8 5 (1.21%) FMCG
9 4 (0.97%) Housing Association
9 4 (0.97%) NHS
9 4 (0.97%) Onboarding
10 3 (0.73%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Cloud
10 3 (0.73%) Lidar
10 3 (0.73%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.73%) Photography
10 3 (0.73%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (4.60%) Windows
2 9 (2.18%) Unix
3 6 (1.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (0.97%) Linux
5 3 (0.73%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.24%) Android
7 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.24%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (22.28%) Agile
2 86 (20.82%) Project Management
3 85 (20.58%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (15.74%) Configuration Management
5 61 (14.77%) Coaching
6 55 (13.32%) DevOps
6 55 (13.32%) PLM
7 54 (13.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (10.65%) CI/CD
9 33 (7.99%) Risk Management
10 32 (7.75%) Change Management
11 31 (7.51%) Time Management
12 30 (7.26%) Continuous Improvement
13 29 (7.02%) Data Analysis
13 29 (7.02%) Decision-Making
13 29 (7.02%) ITIL
13 29 (7.02%) Scrum
14 28 (6.78%) Containerisation
15 25 (6.05%) Customer Requirements
15 25 (6.05%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.57%) Python
1 23 (5.57%) SQL
2 19 (4.60%) JavaScript
3 15 (3.63%) PowerShell
4 11 (2.66%) Bash
5 10 (2.42%) Java
6 9 (2.18%) TypeScript
7 7 (1.69%) C#
8 4 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.97%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.73%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 53 (12.83%) Degree
2 50 (12.11%) Security Cleared
3 38 (9.20%) SC Cleared
4 19 (4.60%) Master's Degree
5 15 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
7 7 (1.69%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.45%) ISEB
9 5 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (0.73%) CISSP
11 3 (0.73%) NVQ Level 4
11 3 (0.73%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.48%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (0.48%) CRISC
12 2 (0.48%) Dell Certification
12 2 (0.48%) ISTQB
13 1 (0.24%) CCIE
13 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.57%) QA
2 17 (4.12%) GDPR
2 17 (4.12%) PMO
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 6 (1.45%) Data Quality
5 4 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.97%) SLA
6 2 (0.48%) GAMP
6 2 (0.48%) GMP
6 2 (0.48%) GxP
6 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.24%) COBIT
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.24%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.81%) Docker
2 14 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.15%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.69%) vCloud
4 7 (1.69%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.73%) vSphere
6 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.24%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 38 (9.20%) Kubernetes
2 20 (4.84%) Kibana
3 19 (4.60%) Grafana
3 19 (4.60%) Prometheus
4 17 (4.12%) Istio
5 16 (3.87%) Terraform
6 11 (2.66%) Ansible
7 10 (2.42%) Argo
7 10 (2.42%) Progress Chef
7 10 (2.42%) Puppet
8 9 (2.18%) Docker Swarm
8 9 (2.18%) logstash
8 9 (2.18%) vCenter Server
9 7 (1.69%) Rancher
10 6 (1.45%) SCCM
10 6 (1.45%) WSUS
11 5 (1.21%) Nessus
12 3 (0.73%) FortiGate
12 3 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.73%) SCOM
Vendors
1 60 (14.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.60%) VMware
3 17 (4.12%) Oracle
4 15 (3.63%) SAP
5 11 (2.66%) BT
5 11 (2.66%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.66%) Splunk
6 9 (2.18%) Google
7 6 (1.45%) Adobe
8 5 (1.21%) Dell
8 5 (1.21%) Qualys
8 5 (1.21%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.73%) Avaya
9 3 (0.73%) Cisco
9 3 (0.73%) ESRI
9 3 (0.73%) F5
9 3 (0.73%) Fujitsu
9 3 (0.73%) HP
9 3 (0.73%) Twitter
10 2 (0.48%) Workday