Feasibility Study Contracts

Feasibility Studies
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Feasibility Study skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Feasibility Study over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 639 706
Rank change year-on-year +104 +67 -37
Contract jobs citing Feasibility Study 50 50 149
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.089% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.099% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 87
10th Percentile £450 £383 £402
25th Percentile £463 £431 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +27.54%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £650
90th Percentile £788 £622 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £775 £525 £481
% change year-on-year +47.62% +9.09% +14.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £40.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Feasibility Study 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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +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% -4.99%

Feasibility Study
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Feasibility Study in the UK

Feasibility Study
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Feasibility Study in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Feasibility Study over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Feasibility Study in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Feasibility Study in the UK

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Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Feasibility Study within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +103 42 £525 - 116
London +93 32 £475 - 21
Work from Home +96 13 £475 -13.64% 48
UK excluding London +24 9 £775 +47.62% 101
South East +14 5 £775 +55.00% 27
North of England +27 4 - - 23
North West +20 2 - - 12
Yorkshire - 2 - - 9

Feasibility Study
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 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP EHS
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.00%) GitHub
3 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Network Security
1 1 (2.00%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) Couchbase
2 4 (8.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Metadata
3 1 (2.00%) Power BI
3 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (2.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.00%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 21 (42.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (34.00%) Finance
3 7 (14.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.00%) Law
5 5 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Front Office
7 2 (4.00%) Agriculture
7 2 (4.00%) Banking
7 2 (4.00%) German Language
7 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Spanish Language
8 1 (2.00%) Advertising
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Local Government
8 1 (2.00%) Marketing
8 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Analyst
1 16 (32.00%) Business Analyst
2 8 (16.00%) Development Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Software Development Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Software Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Architect
3 6 (12.00%) C++ Software Engineer
3 6 (12.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Business Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) C++ Developer
6 3 (6.00%) Commodities Business Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Azure Software Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Backend Developer
7 2 (4.00%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) Kafka
2 4 (8.00%) AngularJS
2 4 (8.00%) CSS
3 3 (6.00%) HTML
3 3 (6.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (4.00%) OpenAPI
4 2 (4.00%) Playwright
4 2 (4.00%) REST
4 2 (4.00%) SailPoint
4 2 (4.00%) Swagger
5 1 (2.00%) .NET
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Core
5 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (2.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.00%) React
5 1 (2.00%) Redux
5 1 (2.00%) Sass
5 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (6.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.00%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.00%) Solar Panel
3 2 (4.00%) Derivative
3 2 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.00%) Cyberattack
4 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Agile
2 14 (28.00%) Product Management
3 13 (26.00%) Validation
4 12 (24.00%) Business Analysis
5 11 (22.00%) Computer Science
6 10 (20.00%) Business Case
7 8 (16.00%) Software Engineering
7 8 (16.00%) Translating Business Requirements
8 7 (14.00%) Business Strategy
8 7 (14.00%) Impact Assessments
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.00%) Use Case
9 6 (12.00%) Acceptance Criteria
9 6 (12.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
9 6 (12.00%) Customer-Centricity
9 6 (12.00%) DevOps
9 6 (12.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 6 (12.00%) Roadmaps
9 6 (12.00%) Scrum
9 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) C++
2 5 (10.00%) TypeScript
3 4 (8.00%) Python
4 3 (6.00%) C
4 3 (6.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) Bicep
5 1 (2.00%) C#
5 1 (2.00%) Java
5 1 (2.00%) SQL
5 1 (2.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (34.00%) Degree
2 8 (16.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (6.00%) CBAP
4 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.00%) CCNA
5 1 (2.00%) CCNP
5 1 (2.00%) CCSP
5 1 (2.00%) CEH
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.00%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Okta
4 1 (2.00%) Salesforce