Onboarding Contracts

Onboarding
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 169 234
Rank change year-on-year -1 +65 +17
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 611 908 1,117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.58% 1.27%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.72% 4.73% 3.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 640 740
10th Percentile £255 £336 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 17 11
10th Percentile £12.90 £16.43 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.00 £25.00 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% +19.78%
75th Percentile £30.25 £51.00 £30.13
90th Percentile £41.85 £58.05 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +51.49%

All Generic Skills
UK

Onboarding 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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,935 19,188 29,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.31% 33.29% 33.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,332 13,186 20,393
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 632 728
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +3.97%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -12.50%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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 -8 524 £525 -4.55% 693
London -10 307 £525 -8.70% 302
UK excluding London +28 220 £525 -2.78% 415
Work from Home +1 196 £525 -4.55% 428
South East -3 60 £575 +4.55% 99
South West +17 45 £525 -4.55% 50
Midlands +38 36 £465 -20.17% 71
North of England -25 35 £525 -2.78% 128
Scotland +44 27 £513 +20.73% 36
West Midlands +30 27 £500 -20.00% 38
North West +4 21 £538 +2.87% 65
East of England +21 17 £275 -48.84% 20
East Midlands +22 8 £465 +3.33% 33
North East +17 7 £175 -61.75% 15
Yorkshire -13 7 £538 -0.46% 50
Wales +20 3 £413 +5.77% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 3

Onboarding
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 33 (5.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 5 (0.82%) CMS
3 5 (0.82%) Confluence
4 4 (0.65%) Headless CMS
4 4 (0.65%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 3 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.33%) nginx
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
7 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.65%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.96%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.33%) Elite 3E
4 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (18.66%) Azure
2 88 (14.40%) AWS
3 39 (6.38%) GitHub
3 39 (6.38%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (4.58%) SuccessFactors
5 26 (4.26%) Power Platform
6 24 (3.93%) SaaS
7 23 (3.76%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (2.95%) Slack
9 16 (2.62%) Entra ID
10 12 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (1.96%) OCI
10 12 (1.96%) PaaS
11 11 (1.80%) IaaS
12 10 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
13 9 (1.47%) Akamai
13 9 (1.47%) Amazon S3
13 9 (1.47%) GCP
14 8 (1.31%) Serverless
15 6 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.80%) Firewall
2 9 (1.47%) VPN
2 9 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.15%) LAN
4 6 (0.98%) Wireless
5 5 (0.82%) DHCP
5 5 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (0.82%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.65%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.65%) Intranet
6 4 (0.65%) SSH
6 4 (0.65%) WAN
7 3 (0.49%) HTTP
7 3 (0.49%) WLAN
8 2 (0.33%) DNS
8 2 (0.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.33%) Network Security
8 2 (0.33%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (11.13%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.89%) MySQL
2 36 (5.89%) Oracle Reports
3 26 (4.26%) Power BI
4 16 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
5 15 (2.45%) Relational Database
6 14 (2.29%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (2.29%) Tableau
7 13 (2.13%) Metadata
8 12 (1.96%) Data Vault
8 12 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (1.31%) Pentaho
9 8 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (1.31%) QlikView
9 8 (1.31%) RDBMS
10 7 (1.15%) Big Data
11 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 4 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (4.42%) Jenkins
2 26 (4.26%) JIRA
3 11 (1.80%) Git
4 10 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.15%) GitLab
6 5 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.65%) Ant
7 4 (0.65%) JUnit
7 4 (0.65%) Mockito
8 3 (0.49%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.49%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.33%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (25.04%) Social Skills
2 139 (22.75%) Finance
3 80 (13.09%) Public Sector
4 47 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (4.91%) Banking
6 27 (4.42%) Marketing
7 24 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 20 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.29%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 12 (1.96%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.80%) Retail
12 10 (1.64%) Electronics
12 10 (1.64%) Legal
13 9 (1.47%) Back Office
14 8 (1.31%) Publishing
15 6 (0.98%) Automotive
15 6 (0.98%) German Language
15 6 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
15 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (10.97%) Senior
2 65 (10.64%) Developer
3 61 (9.98%) Lead
4 60 (9.82%) Analyst
5 52 (8.51%) Project Manager
6 45 (7.36%) Architect
7 43 (7.04%) Consultant
8 35 (5.73%) Business Analyst
9 23 (3.76%) IT Support
10 22 (3.60%) Administrator
11 20 (3.27%) Senior Developer
11 20 (3.27%) Support Engineer
12 17 (2.78%) Data Architect
12 17 (2.78%) IT Engineer
13 16 (2.62%) SailPoint Developer
14 15 (2.45%) Data Engineer
15 13 (2.13%) IT Support Engineer
15 13 (2.13%) SailPoint Engineer
16 12 (1.96%) IT Manager
16 12 (1.96%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.04%) HTML
2 38 (6.22%) SailPoint
3 31 (5.07%) LDAP
4 30 (4.91%) JDBC
4 30 (4.91%) XML
5 29 (4.75%) Web Services
6 28 (4.58%) JSP
6 28 (4.58%) SOAP
7 27 (4.42%) Servlets
7 27 (4.42%) SPML
8 16 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (1.80%) .NET
9 11 (1.80%) Middleware
10 10 (1.64%) ARM Templates
10 10 (1.64%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (1.47%) HTML5
11 9 (1.47%) Spring
11 9 (1.47%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.15%) JSON
12 7 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 38 (6.22%) Management Information System
2 17 (2.78%) Product Ownership
3 14 (2.29%) Data Centre
4 9 (1.47%) Reference Data
5 8 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (0.98%) Cloud Native
7 6 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (0.82%) Derivative
8 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.65%) Acoustics
9 4 (0.65%) Credit Derivative
9 4 (0.65%) Fat Client
9 4 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (0.65%) Mobile App
9 4 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.65%) Tandem
9 4 (0.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 56 (9.17%) Windows
2 39 (6.38%) Linux
3 21 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 20 (3.27%) Unix
5 15 (2.45%) Windows Server
6 14 (2.29%) CentOS
7 12 (1.96%) Mac OS
8 11 (1.80%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) Android
10 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (22.75%) Agile
2 76 (12.44%) Project Management
3 62 (10.15%) DevOps
4 59 (9.66%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (7.04%) Migration
6 40 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (6.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 38 (6.22%) Technology Transformation
9 35 (5.73%) Analytics
9 35 (5.73%) Data Modelling
9 35 (5.73%) Project Delivery
10 31 (5.07%) CI/CD
11 29 (4.75%) Business Intelligence
11 29 (4.75%) RBAC
12 27 (4.42%) Client Onboarding
13 25 (4.09%) Change Management
13 25 (4.09%) ETL
14 23 (3.76%) Test Automation
14 23 (3.76%) User Experience
15 22 (3.60%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 84 (13.75%) SQL
2 49 (8.02%) Java
2 49 (8.02%) Python
3 29 (4.75%) JavaScript
4 23 (3.76%) Shell Script
5 16 (2.62%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.29%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.64%) C#
7 10 (1.64%) Ruby
7 10 (1.64%) Scala
8 9 (1.47%) Bash
9 7 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
10 6 (0.98%) Go
10 6 (0.98%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.82%) Bourne shell
11 5 (0.82%) Korn
11 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.65%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.16%) COBOL
13 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 126 (20.62%) Security Cleared
2 105 (17.18%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.47%) BPSS Clearance
4 42 (6.87%) Degree
5 11 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (1.80%) DV Cleared
5 11 (1.80%) PMP
6 9 (1.47%) CISSP
7 7 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.65%) CEH
9 4 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.49%) APMP
10 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
10 3 (0.49%) ISEB
11 2 (0.33%) APMG
11 2 (0.33%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.40%) QA
2 18 (2.95%) PMO
3 11 (1.80%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.64%) NCSC
5 8 (1.31%) SLA
6 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) GDPR
9 2 (0.33%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 2 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (13.09%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.58%) IAG
3 25 (4.09%) ACF2
3 25 (4.09%) RACF
4 21 (3.44%) Docker
5 7 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.26%) Ansible
3 23 (3.76%) Terraform
4 16 (2.62%) Kibana
4 16 (2.62%) logstash
5 14 (2.29%) Grafana
6 13 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.65%) SCCM
10 3 (0.49%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.33%) IBM BigFix
11 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Puppet
11 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.16%) Opsview
12 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 84 (13.75%) Microsoft
1 84 (13.75%) Oracle
2 62 (10.15%) ServiceNow
3 53 (8.67%) SAP
4 43 (7.04%) Virgin Media
5 28 (4.58%) Sybase
6 19 (3.11%) Red Hat
7 17 (2.78%) CyberArk
7 17 (2.78%) Splunk
8 13 (2.13%) Amdocs
8 13 (2.13%) VMware
9 12 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.96%) Sparx
10 9 (1.47%) F5
10 9 (1.47%) Informatica
11 8 (1.31%) BT
11 8 (1.31%) Google
11 8 (1.31%) Okta
12 7 (1.15%) Ariba
13 6 (0.98%) Workday