Onboarding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 218 245
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 +14
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 220 260 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.08% 1.13% 1.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.74% 3.49% 3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 193 205
10th Percentile £215 £243 £309
25th Percentile £400 £425 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £629
90th Percentile £721 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 3 5
10th Percentile £12.48 £16.95 £16.07
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.44 -
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +51.49%
75th Percentile £30.06 £23.38 -
90th Percentile £30.38 £26.15 -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% +2.56%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Onboarding is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
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 Onboarding within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 -11 59 £588 +6.82% 98
South West +17 45 £525 -4.55% 53
North of England -21 37 £523 -3.24% 133
Midlands +40 36 £465 -20.17% 70
Scotland +42 27 £513 +19.46% 34
West Midlands +34 27 £500 -20.00% 37
North West -3 23 £538 +2.87% 66
East of England +17 17 £275 -48.84% 23
East Midlands +17 8 £465 +3.33% 33
North East +16 7 £175 -61.75% 14
Yorkshire -19 7 £538 -0.46% 55
Wales +17 2 £400 +2.56% 14
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (7.27%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.91%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.91%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 24 (10.91%) Azure
2 19 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (7.27%) AWS
4 13 (5.91%) SuccessFactors
5 9 (4.09%) OCI
5 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.18%) Azure Data Factory
7 5 (2.27%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.82%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.36%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 3 (1.36%) SaaS
10 2 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.45%) GitHub
11 1 (0.45%) Serverless
11 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.73%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (2.27%) LAN
2 5 (2.27%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.82%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (1.82%) VPN
3 4 (1.82%) WAN
3 4 (1.82%) Wireless
4 3 (1.36%) DHCP
4 3 (1.36%) WLAN
5 2 (0.91%) SMS
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.45%) Firewall
6 1 (0.45%) InfiniBand
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.91%) Tableau
2 12 (5.45%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.09%) Power BI
4 6 (2.73%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 6 (2.73%) Relational Database
4 6 (2.73%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 6 (2.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.82%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.91%) MySQL
8 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.45%) HBase
8 1 (0.45%) IDMS
8 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.82%) Ant
3 3 (1.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) GitLab
4 1 (0.45%) JMeter
4 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 60 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.91%) Finance
3 26 (11.82%) Public Sector
4 23 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.45%) Banking
6 8 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (2.27%) Local Government
7 5 (2.27%) Marketing
8 4 (1.82%) Automotive
8 4 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.82%) Legal
8 4 (1.82%) Retail
8 4 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.36%) German Language
9 3 (1.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.91%) Fire and Rescue
10 2 (0.91%) Police
Job Titles
1 27 (12.27%) Lead
2 22 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 18 (8.18%) Senior
4 15 (6.82%) Developer
4 15 (6.82%) IT Support
5 13 (5.91%) Analyst
6 12 (5.45%) Consultant
6 12 (5.45%) Support Engineer
7 11 (5.00%) Administrator
7 11 (5.00%) IT Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) Architect
9 9 (4.09%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Desktop Support
10 8 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.73%) AML Project Manager
12 6 (2.73%) Splunk Engineer
13 5 (2.27%) SQL Developer
13 5 (2.27%) Subject Matter Expert
13 5 (2.27%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.82%) JSON
2 3 (1.36%) Middleware
3 2 (0.91%) LDAP
3 2 (0.91%) OAuth
3 2 (0.91%) RESTful
3 2 (0.91%) Web Services
4 1 (0.45%) CSS
4 1 (0.45%) HTML
4 1 (0.45%) JWT
4 1 (0.45%) Kafka
4 1 (0.45%) Node.js
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.45%) OpenID
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.45%) REST
4 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.45%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.45%) Sensu
4 1 (0.45%) Spring
4 1 (0.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.09%) Data Centre
1 9 (4.09%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (1.36%) Solar Power
4 3 (1.36%) Tandem
5 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.91%) e-Learning
5 2 (0.91%) Insider Threat
5 2 (0.91%) NHS
5 2 (0.91%) PKI
5 2 (0.91%) PMI
5 2 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.91%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.45%) Cyberattack
6 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.45%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 25 (11.36%) Windows
2 12 (5.45%) Windows Server
3 10 (4.55%) Mac OS
4 8 (3.64%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.18%) Unix
6 5 (2.27%) Linux
7 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (16.36%) Project Management
2 34 (15.45%) Agile
3 22 (10.00%) Migration
3 22 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (6.82%) Client Onboarding
4 15 (6.82%) Project Delivery
5 13 (5.91%) Analytics
5 13 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (5.91%) Cybersecurity
5 13 (5.91%) ERP
5 13 (5.91%) Service Delivery
6 12 (5.45%) Change Management
6 12 (5.45%) Customer Service
6 12 (5.45%) Data Security
6 12 (5.45%) DevOps
6 12 (5.45%) ETL
7 11 (5.00%) Data Modelling
7 11 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (4.55%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (4.55%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.27%) SQL
2 12 (5.45%) Python
3 7 (3.18%) Shell Script
4 6 (2.73%) Bash
4 6 (2.73%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (2.73%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.27%) Bourne shell
5 5 (2.27%) Korn
5 5 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.82%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.82%) Java
7 3 (1.36%) Go
7 3 (1.36%) Scala
7 3 (1.36%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.91%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.45%) C#
9 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 39 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 21 (9.55%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.09%) Degree
5 7 (3.18%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.82%) PMP
7 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.91%) APMG
8 2 (0.91%) APMP
8 2 (0.91%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.91%) ISEB
8 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CIPD
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.27%) PMO
1 16 (7.27%) QA
2 4 (1.82%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.82%) Data Quality
2 4 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.36%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.91%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.91%) GDPR
4 2 (0.91%) P3O
5 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
3 4 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.45%) Firmware
4 1 (0.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.45%) IAG
4 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (1.82%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) FortiGate
2 3 (1.36%) SCCM
3 1 (0.45%) Ansible
3 1 (0.45%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (0.45%) Endace
3 1 (0.45%) Grafana
3 1 (0.45%) IBM BigFix
3 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (0.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.45%) Nagios
3 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 29 (13.18%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.36%) SAP
3 20 (9.09%) Oracle
4 15 (6.82%) Virgin Media
5 10 (4.55%) Splunk
6 8 (3.64%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.73%) Ariba
7 6 (2.73%) F5
8 5 (2.27%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.82%) VMware
10 3 (1.36%) Apple
10 3 (1.36%) CA
10 3 (1.36%) Workday
11 2 (0.91%) Adobe
11 2 (0.91%) BMC
11 2 (0.91%) Cadence
11 2 (0.91%) Cisco
11 2 (0.91%) Dell
11 2 (0.91%) NEC
11 2 (0.91%) Remedy