Collaborative Working Contracts

Collaborative Working
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 161 157
Rank change year-on-year +46 -4 +33
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 813 940 1,573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.62% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.19% 1.80% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 601 1,032
10th Percentile £273 £340 £357
25th Percentile £375 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -5.24% -0.94% +11.58%
75th Percentile £608 £630 £638
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 73 32
10th Percentile £15.13 £30.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.88 £37.50 £14.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £53.87 £20.09
Median % change year-on-year -7.18% +168.11% +5.75%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £49.16
90th Percentile £51.75 £83.75 £69.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.96% +168.42% -15.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,201 52,182 79,685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.27% 89.83% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,946 36,175 55,967
10th Percentile £300 £325 £341
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,727 1,890
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Collaborative Working as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working.

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Collaborative Working.

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 18 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 8 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
England +41 693 £500 -6.98% 1,180
UK excluding London +56 431 £475 -5.00% 790
London +42 313 £500 -9.09% 432
Work from Home +25 247 £500 - 457
South East +23 119 £475 -20.83% 192
East of England +40 78 £388 -32.61% 90
North of England 0 66 £500 -1.67% 203
Midlands +27 58 £425 -5.56% 142
Scotland +39 55 £475 +5.56% 47
South West +17 44 £550 - 115
North West +5 37 £473 -5.50% 120
West Midlands +19 35 £525 +12.66% 86
Yorkshire +18 26 £611 +16.38% 68
East Midlands +21 20 £400 +6.67% 55
Wales +13 6 £425 -12.37% 19
North East +10 3 £625 +47.06% 18
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 9
Isle of Man - 3 - -

Collaborative Working
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 31 (3.81%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.32%) Confluence
3 15 (1.85%) CMS
4 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.62%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.49%) Appian
6 4 (0.49%) Luigi
7 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 2 (0.25%) SAS
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.12%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.12%) Moodle
9 1 (0.12%) nginx
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 54 (6.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 9 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.98%) Photoshop
6 8 (0.98%) Sketch
7 7 (0.86%) Adobe Illustrator
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe Captivate
8 4 (0.49%) Adobe XD
8 4 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.37%) InVision
9 3 (0.37%) MicroStation
9 3 (0.37%) MS Visio
10 2 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.25%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.25%) Windchill
11 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.23%) SAP HCM
2 10 (1.23%) SAP HR
3 8 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.37%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.12%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.12%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.12%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.12%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 90 (11.07%) Azure
2 85 (10.46%) AWS
3 43 (5.29%) Power Platform
4 35 (4.31%) GCP
5 24 (2.95%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (2.09%) GitHub
8 16 (1.97%) Serverless
9 15 (1.85%) OpenShift
10 14 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
11 13 (1.60%) Figma
12 11 (1.35%) PaaS
12 11 (1.35%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.23%) AWS Lambda
13 10 (1.23%) SaaS
13 10 (1.23%) Yammer
14 9 (1.11%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.11%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.11%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.32%) Firewall
2 21 (2.58%) VPN
3 15 (1.85%) DNS
4 13 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.23%) HTTP
6 9 (1.11%) Network Security
7 7 (0.86%) VSAN
8 6 (0.74%) Internet
8 6 (0.74%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.74%) WAN
8 6 (0.74%) Wireless
9 5 (0.62%) LAN
10 4 (0.49%) SSH
11 3 (0.37%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.37%) Intranet
11 3 (0.37%) SSL
12 2 (0.25%) Broadband
12 2 (0.25%) DHCP
12 2 (0.25%) FTP
12 2 (0.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.18%) Power BI
2 17 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (1.97%) Data Warehouse
4 13 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
5 12 (1.48%) Relational Database
6 9 (1.11%) Metadata
6 9 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
6 9 (1.11%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (0.74%) GIS
7 6 (0.74%) Tableau
8 5 (0.62%) Amazon QuickSight
8 5 (0.62%) NoSQL
8 5 (0.62%) Oracle Database
9 4 (0.49%) Data Lake
9 4 (0.49%) RDBMS
9 4 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (0.37%) Amazon Athena
10 3 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
10 3 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 56 (6.89%) JIRA
2 43 (5.29%) Git
3 16 (1.97%) GitLab
3 16 (1.97%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.60%) Selenium
5 9 (1.11%) JMeter
6 7 (0.86%) Postman
6 7 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
6 7 (0.86%) Travis CI
7 6 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 6 (0.74%) CircleCI
7 6 (0.74%) Mercurial
7 6 (0.74%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.62%) Liquibase
9 4 (0.49%) NUnit
10 3 (0.37%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
11 2 (0.25%) Mocha
11 2 (0.25%) TestRail
General
1 345 (42.44%) Social Skills
2 134 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (14.88%) Finance
3 121 (14.88%) Public Sector
4 55 (6.77%) Aerospace
5 48 (5.90%) Marketing
6 43 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.06%) Telecoms
8 29 (3.57%) Legal
9 25 (3.08%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
10 24 (2.95%) Influencing Skills
11 22 (2.71%) Banking
11 22 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.85%) Multimedia
14 14 (1.72%) Law
15 12 (1.48%) Local Government
16 11 (1.35%) Electronics
16 11 (1.35%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 84 (10.33%) Analyst
2 72 (8.86%) Architect
3 67 (8.24%) Developer
4 62 (7.63%) Senior
5 55 (6.77%) Configuration Manager
6 52 (6.40%) Lead
7 44 (5.41%) Project Manager
8 39 (4.80%) Consultant
9 33 (4.06%) Designer
10 28 (3.44%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.44%) Solutions Architect
11 22 (2.71%) Contracts Manager
12 21 (2.58%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.58%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (2.09%) Delivery Manager
13 17 (2.09%) Technical Architect
14 16 (1.97%) Data Analyst
15 15 (1.85%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (1.60%) Administrator
17 12 (1.48%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (2.83%) HTML
2 21 (2.58%) CSS
3 19 (2.34%) .NET
4 17 (2.09%) AngularJS
4 17 (2.09%) React
5 16 (1.97%) Node.js
6 15 (1.85%) Spring
7 13 (1.60%) JSON
7 13 (1.60%) REST
7 13 (1.60%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.35%) XML
9 10 (1.23%) GraphQL
9 10 (1.23%) Kafka
9 10 (1.23%) Pandas
10 9 (1.11%) RESTful
10 9 (1.11%) Web Services
11 8 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
12 7 (0.86%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.86%) ADO
12 7 (0.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 34 (4.18%) Management Information System
3 20 (2.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 20 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 17 (2.09%) Onboarding
5 13 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.35%) Fibre Optics
6 11 (1.35%) Social Media
7 10 (1.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 9 (1.11%) e-Learning
9 8 (0.98%) Data Centre
9 8 (0.98%) Data Structures
9 8 (0.98%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.86%) Virtual Team
11 6 (0.74%) FMCG
11 6 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (0.74%) Public Cloud
12 5 (0.62%) Digital Media
12 5 (0.62%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 34 (4.18%) Windows
2 17 (2.09%) Linux
3 13 (1.60%) Unix
4 9 (1.11%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.11%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.86%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.62%) Android
7 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.12%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (24.60%) Agile
2 197 (24.23%) Problem-Solving
3 144 (17.71%) Project Management
4 81 (9.96%) DevOps
5 77 (9.47%) Configuration Management
6 76 (9.35%) CI/CD
7 75 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
8 66 (8.12%) Change Management
8 66 (8.12%) Coaching
9 60 (7.38%) Decision-Making
10 55 (6.77%) Computer Science
10 55 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
10 55 (6.77%) PLM
11 54 (6.64%) Roadmaps
12 53 (6.52%) User Experience
13 47 (5.78%) ITIL
13 47 (5.78%) Risk Management
14 46 (5.66%) PRINCE2
15 45 (5.54%) Data Analysis
16 44 (5.41%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 64 (7.87%) SQL
2 60 (7.38%) Python
3 36 (4.43%) JavaScript
4 26 (3.20%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.83%) Java
6 21 (2.58%) C#
7 13 (1.60%) Bash
8 10 (1.23%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.86%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.74%) C++
11 5 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.62%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.49%) Bicep
12 4 (0.49%) PHP
13 3 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.25%) ABAP
14 2 (0.25%) Ruby
14 2 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.12%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 120 (14.76%) Degree
2 115 (14.15%) Security Cleared
3 99 (12.18%) SC Cleared
4 40 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 29 (3.57%) Master's Degree
6 15 (1.85%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
9 8 (0.98%) CISSP
10 6 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.74%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.74%) ISEB
11 5 (0.62%) CCNP
11 5 (0.62%) CISM
12 4 (0.49%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.49%) PMP
12 4 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.37%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (0.37%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (4.92%) QA
2 28 (3.44%) Accessibility
2 28 (3.44%) PMO
3 21 (2.58%) GDPR
4 19 (2.34%) Data Quality
5 11 (1.35%) PCI DSS
5 11 (1.35%) SLA
6 5 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
6 5 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.49%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.37%) NIST
8 3 (0.37%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) GAMP
9 2 (0.25%) GMP
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.12%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 36 (4.43%) Docker
2 19 (2.34%) Active Directory
3 14 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.98%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.86%) vCloud
6 4 (0.49%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.49%) NFS
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.12%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (0.12%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 51 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.71%) Terraform
3 16 (1.97%) Ansible
4 15 (1.85%) Prometheus
5 14 (1.72%) Istio
5 14 (1.72%) Kibana
6 13 (1.60%) Grafana
7 11 (1.35%) Progress Chef
7 11 (1.35%) Puppet
8 8 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 7 (0.86%) Argo
9 7 (0.86%) Rancher
9 7 (0.86%) SCCM
9 7 (0.86%) vCenter Server
10 6 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
10 6 (0.74%) logstash
11 3 (0.37%) CA Service Virtualization
12 2 (0.25%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
13 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 115 (14.15%) Microsoft
2 42 (5.17%) SAP
3 35 (4.31%) Oracle
4 25 (3.08%) ServiceNow
5 18 (2.21%) Salesforce
6 17 (2.09%) Google
7 16 (1.97%) VMware
8 15 (1.85%) Adobe
9 12 (1.48%) BT
10 9 (1.11%) Splunk
11 6 (0.74%) Cisco
12 5 (0.62%) Apple
12 5 (0.62%) CA
12 5 (0.62%) ESRI
13 4 (0.49%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.49%) Databricks
13 4 (0.49%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.49%) IBM
13 4 (0.49%) Palo Alto
13 4 (0.49%) SmartStream