Self-Motivation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation 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 Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 162 124
Rank change year-on-year +28 -38 -17
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 333 372 648
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.61% 1.56% 2.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.52% 4.80% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 208 367
10th Percentile £180 £180 £174
25th Percentile £245 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £478 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.52% +12.35% -
75th Percentile £576 £626 £538
90th Percentile £608 £688 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £508
% change year-on-year -3.85% +2.46% +12.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 26 69
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £11.75
25th Percentile £24.71 £20.22 £15.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £23.15 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.98% +0.65% -13.04%
75th Percentile £72.50 £49.30 £48.75
90th Percentile - £54.82 £60.65
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £31.00
% change year-on-year +155.10% -20.97% +0.49%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Self-Motivation 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 6,037 7,749 9,816
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.25% 32.44% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,632 5,241 6,787
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £375 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £615 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 721 436 463
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.25 £22.00 £20.13
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% +9.29% -16.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £46.60
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.02
UK median hourly rate £30.12 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +33.96% -18.24% +4.47%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Midlands +63 100 £255 -43.33% 223
South East -35 63 £600 +15.38% 297
South West +57 54 £463 - 145
North of England +4 52 £525 -1.41% 286
West Midlands +24 51 £450 - 131
East Midlands +54 49 £245 +5.38% 92
East of England +21 44 £265 -49.52% 127
North West +16 35 £550 - 176
Scotland +17 16 £400 -15.43% 63
Yorkshire +7 16 £500 +0.25% 91
Wales +10 3 £380 -30.91% 29
Northern Ireland 0 3 - - 9
Self-Motivation
UK

Self-Motivation
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 24 (7.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.50%) IIS
4 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.60%) CMS
4 2 (0.60%) nginx
4 2 (0.60%) SAS
4 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Confluence
5 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.30%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.30%) MTS
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
Applications
1 64 (19.22%) Microsoft Office
2 34 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (6.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.90%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.60%) PTC Creo
6 2 (0.60%) SPSS
6 2 (0.60%) Windchill
7 1 (0.30%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.30%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Maximo
2 2 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.60%) Sage X3
2 2 (0.60%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.30%) Primavera
3 1 (0.30%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.81%) Azure
2 35 (10.51%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (7.21%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.11%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (5.11%) Azure Storage
5 13 (3.90%) AWS
6 12 (3.60%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.00%) Google Workspace
7 10 (3.00%) IaaS
8 9 (2.70%) PaaS
8 9 (2.70%) SaaS
9 5 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.90%) GCP
12 2 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.60%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon ECS
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.30%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 48 (14.41%) Firewall
2 28 (8.41%) Modbus
2 28 (8.41%) RS-422
2 28 (8.41%) RS-485
3 21 (6.31%) DNS
4 19 (5.71%) DHCP
4 19 (5.71%) WAN
5 14 (4.20%) LAN
6 10 (3.00%) VPN
7 8 (2.40%) BGP
7 8 (2.40%) IPsec
8 7 (2.10%) MPLS
8 7 (2.10%) Wireless
9 6 (1.80%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (0.90%) Junos
10 3 (0.90%) SAN
10 3 (0.90%) SNMP
10 3 (0.90%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.30%) Power BI
2 7 (2.10%) Hadoop
3 6 (1.80%) RDBMS
3 6 (1.80%) Relational Database
3 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.50%) Impala
5 4 (1.20%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.20%) Tableau
6 3 (0.90%) Big Data
6 3 (0.90%) Data Mining
6 3 (0.90%) Metadata
6 3 (0.90%) MySQL
7 2 (0.60%) Power Query
7 2 (0.60%) Presto
8 1 (0.30%) DB2
8 1 (0.30%) DTS
8 1 (0.30%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.30%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (1.80%) Jenkins
1 6 (1.80%) JIRA
2 3 (0.90%) Git
2 3 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.60%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.30%) Axure RP
4 1 (0.30%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.30%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.30%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.30%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.30%) GoogleTest
4 1 (0.30%) JMeter
4 1 (0.30%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.30%) Maven
4 1 (0.30%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.30%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.30%) Selenium
4 1 (0.30%) Valgrind
4 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 203 (60.96%) Social Skills
2 77 (23.12%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (11.41%) Electronics
4 35 (10.51%) Finance
5 34 (10.21%) Telecoms
6 33 (9.91%) Public Sector
7 20 (6.01%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (5.41%) Legal
9 14 (4.20%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.10%) Marketing
13 6 (1.80%) German Language
13 6 (1.80%) Retail
14 5 (1.50%) Banking
14 5 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.50%) Police
15 4 (1.20%) Automotive
15 4 (1.20%) Avionics
15 4 (1.20%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (11.71%) Lead
2 38 (11.41%) Architect
3 31 (9.31%) Software Engineer
4 27 (8.11%) Analyst
5 24 (7.21%) Network Architect
5 24 (7.21%) Systems Architect
6 21 (6.31%) Lead Architect
7 20 (6.01%) C++ Software Engineer
8 19 (5.71%) 1st Line Engineer
8 19 (5.71%) Test Engineer
9 18 (5.41%) Support Engineer
10 16 (4.80%) Active Directory Support
10 16 (4.80%) Senior
11 15 (4.50%) Administrator
11 15 (4.50%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (4.20%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (4.20%) Support Specialist
13 13 (3.90%) Developer
13 13 (3.90%) Project Manager
14 10 (3.00%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.80%) ARM Templates
2 9 (2.70%) JSON
3 7 (2.10%) REST
3 7 (2.10%) Spring
4 6 (1.80%) HTML
5 5 (1.50%) .NET
5 5 (1.50%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.20%) CSS
6 4 (1.20%) OAuth
7 3 (0.90%) .NET Framework
7 3 (0.90%) OAuth2
7 3 (0.90%) OpenID
7 3 (0.90%) React
7 3 (0.90%) SAML
7 3 (0.90%) XHTML
7 3 (0.90%) XML
8 2 (0.60%) HTML5
8 2 (0.60%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.60%) PySpark
8 2 (0.60%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.31%) PKI
2 27 (8.11%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.90%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.40%) Product Ownership
5 6 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (1.80%) iPhone
6 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
6 5 (1.50%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (1.50%) IoT
6 5 (1.50%) iPad
6 5 (1.50%) Smartphone
7 4 (1.20%) CMDB
7 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.20%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (1.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.90%) Blog
8 3 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 3 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 44 (13.21%) Windows
2 34 (10.21%) Linux
3 23 (6.91%) Windows Server
4 18 (5.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 16 (4.80%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (3.00%) Windows 10
7 5 (1.50%) Android
7 5 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 4 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 4 (1.20%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.90%) Unix
9 3 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.60%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.30%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.30%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.33%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (24.62%) Agile
3 66 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (17.42%) DevOps
5 57 (17.12%) Time Management
6 49 (14.71%) ITIL
7 42 (12.61%) Customer Requirements
8 38 (11.41%) Software Engineering
9 36 (10.81%) Analytics
9 36 (10.81%) TDD
10 33 (9.91%) Project Management
11 32 (9.61%) Conflict Management
12 31 (9.31%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (9.01%) Software Testing
14 29 (8.71%) Service Management
14 29 (8.71%) Unit Testing
15 28 (8.41%) Pair Programming
16 26 (7.81%) Systems Engineering
17 25 (7.51%) Customer Service
18 24 (7.21%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (15.02%) C#
2 31 (9.31%) C++
3 29 (8.71%) C
4 25 (7.51%) Python
5 23 (6.91%) SQL
6 21 (6.31%) PowerShell
7 18 (5.41%) Java
8 17 (5.11%) VB
8 17 (5.11%) VBScript
9 16 (4.80%) Bicep
10 10 (3.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (2.40%) R
12 3 (0.90%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.60%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.60%) Bash
13 2 (0.60%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.30%) PHP
14 1 (0.30%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 135 (40.54%) Degree
2 82 (24.62%) Security Cleared
3 70 (21.02%) SC Cleared
4 28 (8.41%) DV Cleared
4 28 (8.41%) NVQ Level 3
5 17 (5.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 14 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (3.00%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.70%) APMP
8 9 (2.70%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.70%) PMP
9 8 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.80%) HND
10 6 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.20%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.20%) HNC
12 3 (0.90%) CCNP
12 3 (0.90%) Cisco Certification
13 2 (0.60%) CCIE
13 2 (0.60%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.40%) QA
2 6 (1.80%) PMO
3 5 (1.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.50%) SLA
4 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (0.60%) GDPR
4 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.30%) NIST
5 1 (0.30%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 34 (10.21%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.41%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.50%) Docker
5 4 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (1.20%) vSphere
6 3 (0.90%) OpenAM
6 3 (0.90%) OpenIDM
7 2 (0.60%) Firmware
7 2 (0.60%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.30%) NFS
8 1 (0.30%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 29 (8.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (6.61%) SCCM
3 21 (6.31%) Kubernetes
4 17 (5.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 17 (5.11%) SCOM
4 17 (5.11%) WSUS
5 3 (0.90%) Ansible
5 3 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.90%) Terraform
6 2 (0.60%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.30%) AirWatch
7 1 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.30%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.30%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.30%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) vRealize
Vendors
1 81 (24.32%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.71%) SAP
3 17 (5.11%) CA
3 17 (5.11%) Cisco
4 14 (4.20%) Oracle
5 13 (3.90%) Google
6 12 (3.60%) Juniper
6 12 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.60%) VMware
7 8 (2.40%) Citrix
8 7 (2.10%) Aruba
8 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
9 6 (1.80%) HP
9 6 (1.80%) Meraki
10 5 (1.50%) 3Com
10 5 (1.50%) Brocade
10 5 (1.50%) Progress
11 4 (1.20%) Databricks
11 4 (1.20%) ForgeRock
12 3 (0.90%) Nintex