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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 134 152 126
Rank change year-on-year +18 -26 -22
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 322 376 644
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.59% 1.63% 2.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.48% 5.04% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 215 378
10th Percentile £179 £200 £179
25th Percentile £230 £363 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £480 £433
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +10.85% +2.36%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £538
90th Percentile £608 £688 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 27 63
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.05 £11.75
25th Percentile £23.12 £20.22 £14.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £23.15 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year +169.98% +8.23% -14.44%
75th Percentile £72.50 £49.19 £46.30
90th Percentile - £54.28 £58.69
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year +150.00% -13.79% -5.54%

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 5,873 7,460 9,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.93% 32.42% 31.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,529 5,015 6,780
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% +9.20%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 719 421 450
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.47
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +4.14% -11.29%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £46.39
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.26 £27.50
% change year-on-year +40.98% -19.07% +4.90%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 +50 98 £253 -43.89% 260
South East -28 61 £605 +21.00% 294
South West +43 55 £463 +32.14% 129
West Midlands +21 50 £450 - 146
East Midlands +47 48 £245 -38.75% 114
North of England +7 47 £525 -3.00% 314
East of England +10 42 £319 -39.29% 120
North West +9 32 £540 -1.82% 172
Yorkshire 0 14 £500 -1.96% 117
Scotland +17 13 £400 -15.43% 61
Wales +11 3 £380 -24.94% 36
Northern Ireland -4 3 - - 10
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 23 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (4.35%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.55%) IIS
4 2 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.62%) CMS
4 2 (0.62%) SAS
5 1 (0.31%) Apache
5 1 (0.31%) Confluence
5 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.31%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.31%) MTS
5 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.31%) Tomcat
Applications
1 62 (19.25%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (10.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.55%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.93%) Maya
7 2 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.62%) PTC Creo
7 2 (0.62%) SPSS
7 2 (0.62%) Windchill
7 2 (0.62%) ZBrush
8 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.31%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.31%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Maximo
2 2 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.31%) Primavera
3 1 (0.31%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.31%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 40 (12.42%) Azure
2 30 (9.32%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (7.14%) Entra ID
4 17 (5.28%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (5.28%) Azure Storage
5 13 (4.04%) AWS
6 11 (3.42%) Power Platform
7 10 (3.11%) Google Workspace
7 10 (3.11%) IaaS
8 9 (2.80%) PaaS
8 9 (2.80%) SaaS
9 5 (1.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (1.24%) Power Automate
11 3 (0.93%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.62%) GCP
12 2 (0.62%) PowerApps
13 1 (0.31%) Akamai
13 1 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 43 (13.35%) Firewall
2 28 (8.70%) Modbus
2 28 (8.70%) RS-422
2 28 (8.70%) RS-485
3 21 (6.52%) DNS
4 19 (5.90%) DHCP
5 15 (4.66%) WAN
6 11 (3.42%) LAN
7 8 (2.48%) IPsec
7 8 (2.48%) VPN
8 7 (2.17%) BGP
8 7 (2.17%) MPLS
9 5 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.55%) Wireless
10 3 (0.93%) Junos
10 3 (0.93%) WLAN
11 2 (0.62%) Broadband
11 2 (0.62%) Internet
11 2 (0.62%) SNMP
11 2 (0.62%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.11%) Power BI
2 7 (2.17%) Hadoop
3 5 (1.55%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (1.55%) Impala
4 4 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.24%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.24%) Tableau
5 3 (0.93%) Big Data
5 3 (0.93%) Data Mining
6 2 (0.62%) Power Query
6 2 (0.62%) Presto
7 1 (0.31%) DTS
7 1 (0.31%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.31%) MySQL
7 1 (0.31%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.31%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.24%) JIRA
3 3 (0.93%) GitLab
4 1 (0.31%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.31%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.31%) ClearQuest
4 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.31%) Git
4 1 (0.31%) JMeter
4 1 (0.31%) LabVIEW
4 1 (0.31%) Maven
4 1 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (0.31%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.31%) Selenium
General
1 190 (59.01%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.49%) Electronics
4 36 (11.18%) Finance
5 35 (10.87%) Telecoms
6 28 (8.70%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.52%) Organisational Skills
8 19 (5.90%) Legal
9 14 (4.35%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.80%) Marketing
11 7 (2.17%) Retail
12 6 (1.86%) German Language
12 6 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.55%) Police
14 4 (1.24%) Automotive
14 4 (1.24%) Avionics
14 4 (1.24%) Banking
14 4 (1.24%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (12.11%) Lead
2 33 (10.25%) Architect
3 30 (9.32%) Software Engineer
4 27 (8.39%) Analyst
5 25 (7.76%) Network Architect
5 25 (7.76%) Systems Architect
6 22 (6.83%) Lead Architect
7 19 (5.90%) C++ Software Engineer
8 18 (5.59%) Test Engineer
9 17 (5.28%) 1st Line Engineer
9 17 (5.28%) Active Directory Support
10 16 (4.97%) Administrator
11 15 (4.66%) Support Engineer
12 14 (4.35%) Active Directory Specialist
12 14 (4.35%) Azure Specialist
12 14 (4.35%) Senior
12 14 (4.35%) Support Specialist
13 13 (4.04%) Developer
13 13 (4.04%) Project Manager
14 10 (3.11%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.28%) ARM Templates
2 8 (2.48%) JSON
3 6 (1.86%) REST
3 6 (1.86%) Spring
4 5 (1.55%) .NET
4 5 (1.55%) HTML
5 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.24%) CSS
5 4 (1.24%) OAuth
6 3 (0.93%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.93%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.93%) OpenID
6 3 (0.93%) React
6 3 (0.93%) SAML
6 3 (0.93%) XHTML
7 2 (0.62%) Java EE
7 2 (0.62%) LDAP
7 2 (0.62%) RESTful
7 2 (0.62%) Visualforce
7 2 (0.62%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 41 (12.73%) PKI
2 25 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 13 (4.04%) Virtual Team
4 6 (1.86%) iPhone
4 6 (1.86%) Product Ownership
5 5 (1.55%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (1.55%) IoT
5 5 (1.55%) iPad
5 5 (1.55%) Smartphone
5 5 (1.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.24%) Driving Licence
7 3 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 3 (0.93%) Blog
7 3 (0.93%) Data Structures
7 3 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (0.93%) Solar Power
7 3 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.62%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.62%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 40 (12.42%) Windows
2 31 (9.63%) Linux
3 24 (7.45%) Windows Server
4 17 (5.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (5.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 10 (3.11%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.55%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.93%) Android
7 3 (0.93%) Unix
7 3 (0.93%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.62%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.31%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.31%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (24.53%) Agile
3 63 (19.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 58 (18.01%) DevOps
5 56 (17.39%) Time Management
6 43 (13.35%) ITIL
7 40 (12.42%) Customer Requirements
8 37 (11.49%) Software Engineering
9 36 (11.18%) Analytics
9 36 (11.18%) TDD
10 32 (9.94%) Conflict Management
11 31 (9.63%) Project Management
12 30 (9.32%) Continuous Integration
12 30 (9.32%) Software Testing
13 28 (8.70%) Pair Programming
13 28 (8.70%) Unit Testing
14 27 (8.39%) Systems Engineering
15 25 (7.76%) Network Management
16 24 (7.45%) Service Management
16 24 (7.45%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.22%) C#
2 30 (9.32%) C++
3 29 (9.01%) C
4 24 (7.45%) Python
5 21 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 19 (5.90%) SQL
7 17 (5.28%) Bicep
7 17 (5.28%) VB
7 17 (5.28%) VBScript
8 16 (4.97%) Java
9 8 (2.48%) JavaScript
9 8 (2.48%) R
10 3 (0.93%) BeanShell
11 2 (0.62%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.62%) Bash
11 2 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.31%) PHP
Qualifications
1 126 (39.13%) Degree
2 79 (24.53%) Security Cleared
3 68 (21.12%) SC Cleared
4 28 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 28 (8.70%) NVQ Level 3
5 17 (5.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 13 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (2.80%) APMP
7 9 (2.80%) Master's Degree
7 9 (2.80%) PMI Certification
7 9 (2.80%) PMP
8 7 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (1.86%) HND
10 5 (1.55%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (1.24%) HNC
12 3 (0.93%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.31%) CCIE
13 1 (0.31%) MCSA
13 1 (0.31%) MCSE
13 1 (0.31%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.48%) QA
2 6 (1.86%) PMO
3 4 (1.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.24%) SLA
4 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) GDPR
5 1 (0.31%) HAZOP
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (0.31%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 33 (10.25%) Active Directory
2 18 (5.59%) Virtual Machines
3 17 (5.28%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.55%) Docker
4 5 (1.55%) vSphere
5 3 (0.93%) OpenAM
5 3 (0.93%) OpenIDM
5 3 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (0.62%) Firmware
6 2 (0.62%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.31%) NFS
7 1 (0.31%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 26 (8.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (6.52%) Kubernetes
3 20 (6.21%) SCCM
4 18 (5.59%) WSUS
5 17 (5.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 17 (5.28%) SCOM
6 3 (0.93%) Ansible
6 3 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.93%) Terraform
7 2 (0.62%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.31%) AirWatch
8 1 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.31%) Nessus
8 1 (0.31%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.31%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.31%) Puppet
8 1 (0.31%) vRealize
Vendors
1 82 (25.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.90%) SAP
3 17 (5.28%) CA
4 14 (4.35%) Oracle
5 12 (3.73%) Cisco
5 12 (3.73%) Google
5 12 (3.73%) Juniper
5 12 (3.73%) Salesforce
6 9 (2.80%) VMware
7 7 (2.17%) Citrix
8 6 (1.86%) Meraki
9 5 (1.55%) 3Com
9 5 (1.55%) Aruba
9 5 (1.55%) Brocade
9 5 (1.55%) Progress
10 4 (1.24%) Databricks
10 4 (1.24%) ForgeRock
10 4 (1.24%) HP
11 3 (0.93%) Nintex
11 3 (0.93%) Pega