Scorecard Contracts

Scorecards
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scorecard skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scorecard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 625 784
Rank change year-on-year +97 +159 -145
Contract jobs citing Scorecard 51 69 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.089%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.13% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 53 47
10th Percentile £440 £406 £410
25th Percentile £490 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +6.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £700 £630 £594
90th Percentile £710 £778 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £520 £475
% change year-on-year +25.00% +9.47% -6.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scorecard 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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
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% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Scorecard in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scorecard in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Scorecard over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Scorecard in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scorecard in the UK

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Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Scorecard within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +109 48 £575 +7.98% 51
London +102 25 £575 +12.20% 18
UK excluding London +38 23 £650 +25.00% 30
Work from Home +92 14 £553 -0.23% 15
South East +22 9 £575 +15.00% 12
West Midlands +20 5 £700 +16.67% 2
Midlands +17 5 £700 +16.67% 5
South West +9 5 £530 -41.11% 1
Scotland +33 2 - - 1
East of England +11 2 - - 3

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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 2 (3.92%) CMS
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
1 2 (3.92%) SAS
1 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.96%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 13 (25.49%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.88%) Azure
3 2 (3.92%) Collibra
3 2 (3.92%) Contentful
3 2 (3.92%) GCP
3 2 (3.92%) Google Analytics
3 2 (3.92%) SaaS
4 1 (1.96%) AWS
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) Azure Storage
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.96%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.96%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.96%) SAP Fieldglass
4 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) Power BI
2 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (9.80%) Tableau
4 3 (5.88%) Ataccama
5 2 (3.92%) Data Lake
5 2 (3.92%) Metadata
6 1 (1.96%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.96%) Big Data
6 1 (1.96%) HDInsight
6 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.96%) OLAP
6 1 (1.96%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (1.96%) SAP HANA
6 1 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.92%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (45.10%) Finance
2 20 (39.22%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
4 9 (17.65%) Legal
5 7 (13.73%) Retail
6 5 (9.80%) Public Sector
7 4 (7.84%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (7.84%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.88%) Marketing
8 3 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (3.92%) Banking
9 2 (3.92%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.96%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Architect
2 10 (19.61%) Analyst
3 7 (13.73%) Developer
4 6 (11.76%) Data Architect
4 6 (11.76%) Service Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Project Manager
5 5 (9.80%) Service Management Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 4 (7.84%) Data Analyst
6 4 (7.84%) Power BI Developer
7 3 (5.88%) Business Architect
7 3 (5.88%) Lead
7 3 (5.88%) Senior
8 2 (3.92%) Commercial Officer
8 2 (3.92%) Data Engineer
8 2 (3.92%) Data Quality Specialist
8 2 (3.92%) HR Manager
8 2 (3.92%) IT Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Procurement Manager
8 2 (3.92%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) JSON
1 1 (1.96%) REST
1 1 (1.96%) SOAP
1 1 (1.96%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.76%) CMDB
3 5 (9.80%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.92%) Marketing Technology
4 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.96%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.96%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (29.41%) Analytics
2 14 (27.45%) Data Management
3 13 (25.49%) Business Intelligence
3 13 (25.49%) ETL
4 11 (21.57%) Decision-Making
4 11 (21.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (19.61%) Coaching
5 10 (19.61%) ITIL
5 10 (19.61%) Roadmaps
6 9 (17.65%) Balanced Scorecard
7 8 (15.69%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (15.69%) Project Management
7 8 (15.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (15.69%) Supplier Management
8 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
8 7 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (13.73%) Data Migration
8 7 (13.73%) ITSM
8 7 (13.73%) Risk Management
8 7 (13.73%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.84%) SQL
2 2 (3.92%) Python
3 1 (1.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.96%) R
3 1 (1.96%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (15.69%) Degree
2 7 (13.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.96%) CISM
4 1 (1.96%) CISSP
4 1 (1.96%) CRISC
4 1 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.96%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.96%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (25.49%) Data Quality
2 9 (17.65%) SLA
3 2 (3.92%) QA
4 1 (1.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.96%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) GxP
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS
4 1 (1.96%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (19.61%) ServiceNow
2 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.80%) Autodesk
3 5 (9.80%) SAP
4 2 (3.92%) Google
4 2 (3.92%) Oracle
5 1 (1.96%) Ariba
5 1 (1.96%) BMC
5 1 (1.96%) Concur
5 1 (1.96%) Databricks
5 1 (1.96%) Informatica
5 1 (1.96%) Jedox
5 1 (1.96%) Remedy
5 1 (1.96%) Snow
5 1 (1.96%) StreamSets
5 1 (1.96%) Talend
5 1 (1.96%) Workday