Dependency Management Contracts

Dependency Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Dependency Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Dependency Management 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 510 543 495
Rank change year-on-year +33 -48 +96
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 69 160 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.28% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.31% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 123 245
10th Percentile £385 £402 £413
25th Percentile £428 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £682 £700 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £70.60
25th Percentile - - £72.63
Median hourly rate - £78.00 £77.00
Median % change year-on-year - +1.30% -
75th Percentile - £84.00 £81.13
90th Percentile - £87.60 £83.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £78.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Dependency Management 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 36,704 51,058 79,302
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.15% 89.78% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,390 55,663
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,690 1,894
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%

Dependency Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Dependency Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Dependency Management in the UK

Dependency Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Dependency Management.

Daily rate trend for Dependency Management in the UK

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Dependency Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Dependency Management in the UK

Dependency Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Dependency Management.

Hourly rate trend for Dependency Management in the UK

Dependency Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dependency Management within the UK 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
England +26 56 £513 -7.87% 38
UK excluding London +8 34 £500 - 35
London +40 30 £533 -11.25% 9
Work from Home +76 24 £457 -12.45% 28
South West +3 13 £500 -25.09% 2
Scotland +41 8 £475 +7.04% 4
Midlands +30 5 £415 -24.55% 6
West Midlands +25 5 £415 -24.55% 3
South East -10 5 £363 -42.00% 6
North of England +12 3 £538 +11.69% 14
North West +10 2 £538 +11.69% 9
Yorkshire +9 1 £675 +35.00% 4
East of England +2 1 - - 1
Wales - 1 £500 - 2

Dependency Management
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 6 (8.70%) Confluence
1 6 (8.70%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.45%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.45%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Salesforce CRM
1 2 (2.90%) SAP Hybris
1 2 (2.90%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.45%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (24.64%) Azure
2 15 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (14.49%) AWS
4 5 (7.25%) IaaS
4 5 (7.25%) PaaS
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (5.80%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (5.80%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (5.80%) Serverless
6 2 (2.90%) GCP
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub
6 2 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.90%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.90%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle CX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.25%) DNS
1 5 (7.25%) Firewall
1 5 (7.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.80%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.90%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (2.90%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.45%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 16 (23.19%) JIRA
2 13 (18.84%) Git
3 4 (5.80%) Cucumber
3 4 (5.80%) SpecFlow
3 4 (5.80%) TestRail
4 3 (4.35%) FitNesse
5 2 (2.90%) Gradle
5 2 (2.90%) JMeter
5 2 (2.90%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.90%) Maven
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (1.45%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 25 (36.23%) Finance
3 10 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 9 (13.04%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.25%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
6 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Retail
7 3 (4.35%) Back Office
7 3 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.90%) Advertising
8 2 (2.90%) Front Office
8 2 (2.90%) Law
8 2 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.90%) Publishing
8 2 (2.90%) Wearables
9 1 (1.45%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Project Manager
2 13 (18.84%) Lead
3 9 (13.04%) Senior
4 8 (11.59%) Senior Manager
4 8 (11.59%) Senior Project Manager
5 7 (10.14%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (8.70%) Agile Project Manager
7 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared Project Manager
7 5 (7.25%) Support Officer
8 4 (5.80%) AWS Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) Python Engineer
8 4 (5.80%) QA Tester
8 4 (5.80%) Tester
9 3 (4.35%) Analyst
9 3 (4.35%) Change Manager
9 3 (4.35%) Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (13.04%) JSON
2 5 (7.25%) YAML
3 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
3 4 (5.80%) CSS
3 4 (5.80%) HTML
3 4 (5.80%) Kafka
3 4 (5.80%) Lambda Expressions
3 4 (5.80%) Node.js
3 4 (5.80%) Sass
3 4 (5.80%) XML
4 3 (4.35%) Playwright
5 2 (2.90%) ARM Templates
5 2 (2.90%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (2.90%) REST
5 2 (2.90%) RESTful
5 2 (2.90%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) Middleware
6 1 (1.45%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.45%) Spring
6 1 (1.45%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.49%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.14%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.25%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.90%) Genomics
4 2 (2.90%) Life Science
4 2 (2.90%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.90%) PMI
4 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.45%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.45%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.97%) Agile
2 28 (40.58%) Project Management
3 19 (27.54%) Risk Management
4 18 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (24.64%) DevOps
6 13 (18.84%) Change Management
6 13 (18.84%) Project Delivery
7 12 (17.39%) Programme Management
8 11 (15.94%) CI/CD
8 11 (15.94%) Continuous Integration
9 10 (14.49%) Change Control
10 8 (11.59%) Migration
10 8 (11.59%) Programme Delivery
10 8 (11.59%) Supplier Management
11 7 (10.14%) Cloud Security
11 7 (10.14%) Impact Assessments
11 7 (10.14%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (10.14%) Platform Engineering
11 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
11 7 (10.14%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 10 (14.49%) Python
2 7 (10.14%) JavaScript
3 6 (8.70%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.25%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.90%) Bash
5 2 (2.90%) Ruby
6 1 (1.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) Degree
3 7 (10.14%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.25%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.80%) ISTQB
5 4 (5.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 2 (2.90%) APMG
6 2 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.90%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.45%) OCP
7 1 (1.45%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.45%) PgMP
7 1 (1.45%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (23.19%) PMO
2 4 (5.80%) QA
3 1 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.45%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (15.94%) Terraform
2 3 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.90%) Ansible
3 2 (2.90%) Kibana
3 2 (2.90%) logstash
3 2 (2.90%) Progress Chef
3 2 (2.90%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (8.70%) Oracle
2 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.80%) SAP
4 2 (2.90%) Adobe
4 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.45%) Google
5 1 (1.45%) Planview