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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 116 159 166
Rank change year-on-year +43 +7 +19
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 799 947 1,540
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 1.66% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 1.85% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 594 1,011
10th Percentile £270 £352 £356
25th Percentile £375 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -0.47% +11.05%
75th Percentile £610 £638 £638
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 76 30
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £14.10
25th Percentile £24.25 £37.19 £14.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.09
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +153.83% +7.16%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £46.82
90th Percentile £51.60 £83.75 £70.73
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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
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 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
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% -6.98%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +34 682 £500 -9.09% 1,193
UK excluding London +42 420 £475 -5.00% 797
London +47 313 £500 -9.09% 432
Work from Home +29 245 £500 - 456
South East +25 116 £475 -20.83% 193
East of England +45 77 £388 -31.87% 90
North of England -11 66 £500 -3.29% 231
Scotland +45 54 £475 +7.04% 34
Midlands +21 53 £425 -5.56% 131
South West +16 43 £540 -1.82% 116
North West -6 34 £470 -8.29% 138
West Midlands +6 30 £550 +18.03% 85
Yorkshire +14 29 £622 +18.48% 76
East Midlands +16 20 £400 +6.67% 46
Wales +18 6 £425 -9.57% 16
North East +7 3 £625 +47.06% 20
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 11

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 30 (3.75%) Confluence
1 30 (3.75%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.75%) CMS
3 9 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.63%) ArcGIS
5 4 (0.50%) Appian
5 4 (0.50%) Luigi
6 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
7 2 (0.25%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.13%) Moodle
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 54 (6.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.00%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.00%) Sketch
6 7 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe Captivate
7 4 (0.50%) Adobe XD
7 4 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.38%) InVision
8 3 (0.38%) MicroStation
8 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.25%) Windchill
10 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 18 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.25%) SAP HCM
2 10 (1.25%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.38%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 96 (12.02%) Azure
2 92 (11.51%) AWS
3 42 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 40 (5.01%) GCP
5 23 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (2.50%) GitHub
7 16 (2.00%) OpenShift
7 16 (2.00%) Serverless
8 14 (1.75%) SuccessFactors
9 13 (1.63%) Figma
10 11 (1.38%) PaaS
10 11 (1.38%) Power Automate
11 10 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
11 10 (1.25%) SaaS
12 9 (1.13%) Amazon S3
12 9 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.13%) Kong
12 9 (1.13%) PowerApps
12 9 (1.13%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.88%) Firewall
2 27 (3.38%) VPN
3 18 (2.25%) DNS
4 17 (2.13%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.63%) HTTP
6 10 (1.25%) Network Security
6 10 (1.25%) Wireless
7 7 (0.88%) VSAN
8 6 (0.75%) Internet
8 6 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
8 6 (0.75%) SSL
9 5 (0.63%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.63%) WAN
10 4 (0.50%) LAN
10 4 (0.50%) SSH
11 3 (0.38%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.38%) FTP
11 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.26%) Power BI
2 18 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (2.13%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (1.38%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.38%) SQL Server
6 9 (1.13%) Metadata
6 9 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.88%) Tableau
8 6 (0.75%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.75%) GIS
9 5 (0.63%) Amazon QuickSight
9 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
9 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
10 4 (0.50%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.50%) RDBMS
10 4 (0.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 61 (7.63%) JIRA
2 44 (5.51%) Git
3 20 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.38%) GitLab
5 15 (1.88%) Selenium
6 11 (1.38%) Travis CI
7 10 (1.25%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.13%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.13%) JMeter
9 8 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (1.00%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.88%) Postman
11 5 (0.63%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.50%) Mercurial
12 4 (0.50%) NUnit
13 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
14 2 (0.25%) Mocha
14 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 346 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 133 (16.65%) Analytical Skills
3 121 (15.14%) Finance
4 117 (14.64%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.88%) Aerospace
6 47 (5.88%) Marketing
7 43 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
8 32 (4.01%) Telecoms
9 29 (3.63%) Legal
10 26 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
11 25 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
12 24 (3.00%) Banking
13 23 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
13 23 (2.88%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.75%) Law
16 13 (1.63%) Multimedia
17 11 (1.38%) Local Government
17 11 (1.38%) Mandarin Language
17 11 (1.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 86 (10.76%) Analyst
2 70 (8.76%) Architect
3 65 (8.14%) Senior
4 61 (7.63%) Developer
5 55 (6.88%) Configuration Manager
6 50 (6.26%) Lead
7 40 (5.01%) Project Manager
8 37 (4.63%) Consultant
9 32 (4.01%) Designer
10 28 (3.50%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
11 24 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (2.75%) Contracts Manager
13 21 (2.63%) Business Analyst
14 17 (2.13%) Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.00%) Data Analyst
15 16 (2.00%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.00%) Technical Architect
16 12 (1.50%) Administrator
16 12 (1.50%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.75%) HTML
2 20 (2.50%) .NET
3 19 (2.38%) CSS
4 16 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 16 (2.00%) JSON
5 15 (1.88%) Spring
5 15 (1.88%) XML
6 14 (1.75%) Node.js
7 13 (1.63%) Kafka
7 13 (1.63%) React
7 13 (1.63%) REST
7 13 (1.63%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.25%) GraphQL
9 10 (1.25%) YAML
10 9 (1.13%) RESTful
11 8 (1.00%) Pandas
11 8 (1.00%) Web Services
12 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.88%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 33 (4.13%) Management Information System
1 33 (4.13%) Product Ownership
2 21 (2.63%) Cloud Native
3 20 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 16 (2.00%) Onboarding
5 14 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 11 (1.38%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.38%) Fibre Optics
8 9 (1.13%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.13%) Social Media
9 8 (1.00%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.00%) Virtual Team
10 7 (0.88%) Data Centre
10 7 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (0.88%) FMCG
11 6 (0.75%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (0.63%) Digital Media
12 5 (0.63%) NHS
12 5 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 39 (4.88%) Windows
2 16 (2.00%) Linux
3 15 (1.88%) Unix
4 13 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.13%) Apple iOS
7 5 (0.63%) Android
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (24.66%) Agile
2 191 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
3 145 (18.15%) Project Management
4 87 (10.89%) DevOps
5 79 (9.89%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (9.76%) CI/CD
6 78 (9.76%) Configuration Management
7 67 (8.39%) Coaching
8 65 (8.14%) Change Management
9 58 (7.26%) Decision-Making
10 55 (6.88%) PLM
11 52 (6.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (6.26%) Roadmaps
13 49 (6.13%) Computer Science
13 49 (6.13%) Scrum
14 48 (6.01%) Risk Management
15 46 (5.76%) ITIL
15 46 (5.76%) PRINCE2
16 45 (5.63%) Containerisation
16 45 (5.63%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 65 (8.14%) SQL
2 58 (7.26%) Python
3 32 (4.01%) JavaScript
4 31 (3.88%) PowerShell
5 23 (2.88%) Java
6 20 (2.50%) C#
7 16 (2.00%) Bash
8 10 (1.25%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.75%) C++
11 5 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.50%) Bicep
12 4 (0.50%) PHP
13 3 (0.38%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.38%) Ruby
13 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.25%) ABAP
14 2 (0.25%) Scala
15 1 (0.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (14.02%) Security Cleared
2 111 (13.89%) Degree
3 99 (12.39%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.51%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.38%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.75%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.50%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.25%) CISSP
9 9 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.75%) CISM
10 6 (0.75%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.75%) ISEB
11 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.63%) PMP
12 4 (0.50%) CCNP
12 4 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) CRISC
13 3 (0.38%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.38%) QA
2 27 (3.38%) PMO
3 26 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 21 (2.63%) GDPR
5 20 (2.50%) Data Quality
6 12 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.00%) SLA
8 4 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
8 4 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 3 (0.38%) NIST
9 3 (0.38%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) GAMP
10 2 (0.25%) GMP
10 2 (0.25%) GxP
10 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.25%) NCSC
11 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 39 (4.88%) Docker
2 23 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.00%) VMware NSX
5 7 (0.88%) vCloud
6 4 (0.50%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.50%) NFS
7 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.25%) vSphere
8 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (7.13%) Kubernetes
2 25 (3.13%) Terraform
3 20 (2.50%) Ansible
4 19 (2.38%) Prometheus
5 18 (2.25%) Kibana
6 17 (2.13%) Grafana
7 15 (1.88%) Istio
7 15 (1.88%) Progress Chef
7 15 (1.88%) Puppet
8 12 (1.50%) SCCM
9 9 (1.13%) Docker Swarm
9 9 (1.13%) logstash
10 8 (1.00%) Argo
11 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
11 7 (0.88%) Rancher
11 7 (0.88%) vCenter Server
12 5 (0.63%) WSUS
13 3 (0.38%) AirWatch
13 3 (0.38%) CA Service Virtualization
14 2 (0.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 119 (14.89%) Microsoft
2 40 (5.01%) SAP
3 36 (4.51%) Oracle
4 24 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 20 (2.50%) VMware
6 18 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 17 (2.13%) Google
8 15 (1.88%) Adobe
9 12 (1.50%) BT
9 12 (1.50%) Splunk
10 8 (1.00%) Apple
11 6 (0.75%) Cisco
12 5 (0.63%) CA
12 5 (0.63%) ESRI
12 5 (0.63%) IBM
13 4 (0.50%) Atlassian
13 4 (0.50%) Dell
13 4 (0.50%) F5
13 4 (0.50%) HP
13 4 (0.50%) SmartStream