Value Proposition Contracts

Value Proposition
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Value Proposition skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Value Proposition over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 438 529 640
Rank change year-on-year +91 +111 -91
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 164 184 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.31% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.34% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 122 161
10th Percentile £316 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £506
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.74% +6.49%
75th Percentile £625 £700 £615
90th Percentile £875 £800 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £434 £475
% change year-on-year +26.80% -8.68% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 12
10th Percentile £68.50 £44.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £85.00 £52.38 £38.75
Median hourly rate £87.80 £67.50 £64.58
Median % change year-on-year +30.07% +4.52% +158.33%
75th Percentile - £72.50 £77.32
90th Percentile £87.92 £74.75 £80.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.80 - £73.36

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Value Proposition 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 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Value Proposition within the UK over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +79 122 £525 -8.70% 236
UK excluding London +78 86 £550 +26.80% 115
London +76 69 £525 -9.68% 120
Work from Home +93 40 £450 -5.26% 99
Scotland +29 23 £450 +6.82% 7
South East +23 20 £450 -23.40% 28
South West +22 17 £550 -10.20% 12
Wales +27 15 £600 +9.09% 4
North of England +24 13 £550 -10.20% 36
North West +24 11 £550 -2.22% 15
North East +22 3 - - 9
Yorkshire +20 3 £560 -13.85% 13
West Midlands +21 1 £575 -11.54% 14
Midlands +19 1 £575 +6.98% 19
East of England +9 1 - - 9

Value Proposition
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 17 (10.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.66%) Confluence
3 3 (1.83%) Apache
4 2 (1.22%) CMS
4 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.22%) SAS
5 1 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.61%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (6.71%) Acrobat
2 10 (6.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (3.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.22%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.22%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.61%) Endur
1 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
1 1 (0.61%) SAP PM
1 1 (0.61%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (14.02%) Azure
2 14 (8.54%) Azure Stack
3 13 (7.93%) Microsoft Purview
4 9 (5.49%) AWS
4 9 (5.49%) SaaS
5 4 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.83%) GCP
6 3 (1.83%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.83%) PaaS
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.22%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.22%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.22%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.22%) GitHub
7 2 (1.22%) IaaS
7 2 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.22%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.22%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.22%) Serverless
7 2 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.93%) PBX
1 13 (7.93%) VoIP
2 6 (3.66%) WAN
3 5 (3.05%) LAN
3 5 (3.05%) Wireless
4 4 (2.44%) SD-WAN
5 3 (1.83%) BGP
5 3 (1.83%) DHCP
5 3 (1.83%) DNS
5 3 (1.83%) Intranet
5 3 (1.83%) SAN
5 3 (1.83%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.22%) Firewall
6 2 (1.22%) VPN
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
7 1 (0.61%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.61%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.61%) MQTT
7 1 (0.61%) Multicast
7 1 (0.61%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.54%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (7.93%) Snowflake Schema
3 3 (1.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.22%) Power BI
4 2 (1.22%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.61%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.61%) Metadata
5 1 (0.61%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.61%) MySQL
5 1 (0.61%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.61%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.61%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (5.49%) Git
1 9 (5.49%) JIRA
2 5 (3.05%) Jenkins
3 4 (2.44%) IntelliJ
3 4 (2.44%) Postman
4 3 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.83%) JUnit
5 2 (1.22%) GitLab
5 2 (1.22%) Selenium
6 1 (0.61%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.61%) HP UFT
6 1 (0.61%) Katalon Studio
6 1 (0.61%) Maven
6 1 (0.61%) Storybook
General
1 60 (36.59%) Social Skills
2 32 (19.51%) Marketing
3 22 (13.41%) Finance
4 20 (12.20%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (12.20%) Telecoms
5 19 (11.59%) Analytical Skills
6 18 (10.98%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.71%) Local Government
8 9 (5.49%) German Language
9 7 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (3.66%) Banking
10 6 (3.66%) Legal
10 6 (3.66%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.83%) Advertising
12 2 (1.22%) French Language
12 2 (1.22%) Retail
13 1 (0.61%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.61%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 38 (23.17%) Architect
2 26 (15.85%) Senior
3 21 (12.80%) Solutions Architect
4 18 (10.98%) Analyst
5 14 (8.54%) Business Analyst
5 14 (8.54%) Data Architect
5 14 (8.54%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.93%) Consultant
7 12 (7.32%) Project Manager
8 11 (6.71%) Bid Manager
9 10 (6.10%) Developer
10 9 (5.49%) Senior Bid Manager
11 8 (4.88%) Junior
11 8 (4.88%) Junior Project Manager
11 8 (4.88%) Network Engineer
12 5 (3.05%) Java Developer
12 5 (3.05%) Marketing Manager
13 4 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.44%) Senior Business Analyst
13 4 (2.44%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (11.59%) REST
2 16 (9.76%) XML
3 15 (9.15%) JSON
4 6 (3.66%) Spring
5 5 (3.05%) Spring Boot
6 4 (2.44%) Kafka
6 4 (2.44%) RESTful
7 3 (1.83%) Apache Camel
7 3 (1.83%) HTML
7 3 (1.83%) J2EE
7 3 (1.83%) React
8 2 (1.22%) Flash
8 2 (1.22%) Middleware
8 2 (1.22%) Playwright
8 2 (1.22%) SailPoint
8 2 (1.22%) SOAP
8 2 (1.22%) Web Services
9 1 (0.61%) Java EE
9 1 (0.61%) jQuery
9 1 (0.61%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 72 (43.90%) Data Protection Act
2 16 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.54%) Data Structures
4 13 (7.93%) Reference Data
5 6 (3.66%) Augmented Reality
5 6 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (3.66%) Virtual Reality
6 5 (3.05%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.44%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.44%) IoT
7 4 (2.44%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.44%) Robotics
8 3 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.83%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.83%) SCADA
8 3 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.83%) Social Media
9 2 (1.22%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.61%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.44%) Linux
1 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 2 (1.22%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Linux
3 1 (0.61%) Unix
3 1 (0.61%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (51.83%) Data Protection
2 48 (29.27%) Agile
3 37 (22.56%) Project Management
4 27 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (15.85%) Analytics
6 25 (15.24%) Presales
7 23 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (11.59%) Change Management
9 18 (10.98%) Business Analysis
9 18 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (10.98%) Scrum
10 17 (10.37%) Roadmaps
11 16 (9.76%) Microservices
12 15 (9.15%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (9.15%) Data Modelling
13 14 (8.54%) Data Governance
14 13 (7.93%) Data Management
14 13 (7.93%) Data Mapping
14 13 (7.93%) Event-Driven
14 13 (7.93%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.71%) Java
2 8 (4.88%) SQL
3 6 (3.66%) Python
4 5 (3.05%) JavaScript
5 3 (1.83%) Perl
6 2 (1.22%) Bash
6 2 (1.22%) C#
6 2 (1.22%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.61%) PHP
7 1 (0.61%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.61%) Rust
7 1 (0.61%) Scala
7 1 (0.61%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.61%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (25.61%) Security Cleared
2 28 (17.07%) SC Cleared
3 27 (16.46%) Degree
4 13 (7.93%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.71%) PMI Certification
5 11 (6.71%) PMP
6 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.44%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.44%) MBA
7 3 (1.83%) CCIE
7 3 (1.83%) CCNP
7 3 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.22%) IIBA
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (0.61%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.93%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.05%) NIST
3 3 (1.83%) NCSC
3 3 (1.83%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.61%) QA
System Software
1 9 (5.49%) Docker
2 5 (3.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.44%) vSphere
4 3 (1.83%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.83%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.61%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 8 (4.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (4.27%) Terraform
3 6 (3.66%) Ansible
4 3 (1.83%) Kibana
4 3 (1.83%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.61%) Grafana
5 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.61%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.61%) Puppet
5 1 (0.61%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (13.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.32%) Adobe
3 11 (6.71%) Cisco
4 7 (4.27%) Oracle
5 6 (3.66%) Cadence
6 5 (3.05%) IBM
6 5 (3.05%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.05%) VMware
7 4 (2.44%) Marketo
8 3 (1.83%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.83%) Dell
8 3 (1.83%) F5
8 3 (1.83%) Google
8 3 (1.83%) Juniper
8 3 (1.83%) SAP
9 2 (1.22%) Aruba
9 2 (1.22%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.22%) Riverbed
10 1 (0.61%) Wrike