CA Contracts

CA
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of CA products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited CA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within CA Technologies.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 448 585 648
Rank change year-on-year +137 +63 -72
Contract jobs citing CA 127 97 190
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.17% 0.22%
As % of the Vendors category 0.69% 0.40% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 51 117
10th Percentile £359 £313 £400
25th Percentile £400 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -18.18% +15.79%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £675
90th Percentile £588 £670 £718
UK excluding London median daily rate £439 £425 £468
% change year-on-year +3.35% -9.19% +0.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £64.10 -
25th Percentile - £67.25 £62.50
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.50 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +12.21% -0.76%
75th Percentile - £78.75 £67.50
90th Percentile - £81.30 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.36%

All Vendors
UK

CA is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

CA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CA in the UK

CA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CA in the UK

CA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CA over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CA in the UK

CA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CA in the UK

CA
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CA within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +130 110 £439 -2.39% 77
UK excluding London +82 82 £439 +3.35% 47
Work from Home +112 45 £450 - 39
London +93 32 £450 -23.08% 32
North of England +50 31 £430 -9.47% 10
Yorkshire +40 25 £430 -9.47% 4
Midlands +39 25 £674 +150.60% 12
West Midlands +35 25 £674 - 5
South West +19 16 £439 +25.49% 5
South East +5 8 £674 +58.47% 10
North West +26 6 £805 +130.00% 4
Wales - 3 £500 -
Northern Ireland - 3 - -
Scotland +31 2 £500 -4.76% 9

CA
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 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (6.30%) SAS
2 6 (4.72%) IIS
3 4 (3.15%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.57%) WebLogic
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Maximo
2 1 (0.79%) OpenText VIM for SAP
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 37 (29.13%) Azure
2 31 (24.41%) Entra ID
3 19 (14.96%) GitHub
4 17 (13.39%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (9.45%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (9.45%) Power Platform
6 7 (5.51%) Azure Logic Apps
6 7 (5.51%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (3.94%) PaaS
7 5 (3.94%) SaaS
8 4 (3.15%) PowerApps
9 3 (2.36%) Azure Storage
9 3 (2.36%) IaaS
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.79%) AWS
11 1 (0.79%) AWS KMS
11 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
Communications & Networking
1 37 (29.13%) Firewall
2 15 (11.81%) DNS
3 5 (3.94%) Kerberos
4 3 (2.36%) BIG-IP
4 3 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (2.36%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (1.57%) NAS
5 2 (1.57%) Network Security
5 2 (1.57%) SAN
5 2 (1.57%) SSL
5 2 (1.57%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.79%) BGP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (0.79%) NGFW
6 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 12 (9.45%) Power BI
3 6 (4.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.57%) Adabas
4 2 (1.57%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.57%) MySQL
4 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (14.96%) Jenkins
2 5 (3.94%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.79%) MSI
General
1 33 (25.98%) Social Skills
2 23 (18.11%) Finance
3 16 (12.60%) Public Sector
4 7 (5.51%) Banking
5 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.15%) Local Government
7 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.36%) Law
8 2 (1.57%) Electronics
8 2 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.57%) Marketing
8 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.79%) German Language
Job Titles
1 17 (13.39%) 1st Line Engineer
1 17 (13.39%) Storage Manager
2 16 (12.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (7.87%) Consultant
4 8 (6.30%) Applications Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Cloud Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) IT Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Operations Engineer
5 7 (5.51%) Security Engineer
6 6 (4.72%) Architect
7 5 (3.94%) Azure Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) IAM Consultant
7 5 (3.94%) IBM Storage Specialist
7 5 (3.94%) Network Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Programmer
7 5 (3.94%) Storage Specialist
7 5 (3.94%) Systems Programmer
7 5 (3.94%) z/OS Specialist
7 5 (3.94%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (14.96%) YAML
2 9 (7.09%) ISPF
3 7 (5.51%) LDAP
4 2 (1.57%) OAuth
4 2 (1.57%) OpenID
4 2 (1.57%) RESTful
4 2 (1.57%) SailPoint
4 2 (1.57%) SAML
4 2 (1.57%) SOAP
4 2 (1.57%) SPML
4 2 (1.57%) Web Services
5 1 (0.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.20%) PKI
2 18 (14.17%) Data Centre
3 17 (13.39%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (10.24%) Mainframe
5 8 (6.30%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 7 (5.51%) Client/Server
6 7 (5.51%) Replication
7 5 (3.94%) Management Information System
7 5 (3.94%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
9 2 (1.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.57%) Clustering
9 2 (1.57%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.57%) IoT
9 2 (1.57%) NHS
10 1 (0.79%) CMDB
10 1 (0.79%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (25.20%) zOS
2 25 (19.69%) Linux
2 25 (19.69%) Windows
3 13 (10.24%) Windows Server
4 10 (7.87%) Windows 10
5 8 (6.30%) VMS
6 3 (2.36%) MVS
6 3 (2.36%) Unix
6 3 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.79%) Android
7 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.69%) Agile
2 23 (18.11%) Project Management
2 23 (18.11%) Storage Management
3 22 (17.32%) Problem Management
4 20 (15.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 17 (13.39%) Impact Assessments
5 17 (13.39%) Migration
6 16 (12.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 14 (11.02%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (11.02%) Cost Management
7 14 (11.02%) Software Testing
8 11 (8.66%) Risk Management
9 10 (7.87%) Computer Science
9 10 (7.87%) Identity Access Management
9 10 (7.87%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (7.09%) Mobile Device Management
11 8 (6.30%) Containerisation
11 8 (6.30%) DDoS Mitigation
11 8 (6.30%) Validation
11 8 (6.30%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (25.20%) JCL
2 25 (19.69%) REXX
3 24 (18.90%) Python
4 17 (13.39%) SQL
5 6 (4.72%) Assembly Language
5 6 (4.72%) CLIST
5 6 (4.72%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.57%) C++
6 2 (1.57%) Natural
7 1 (0.79%) Java
Qualifications
1 21 (16.54%) Security Cleared
2 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
3 16 (12.60%) Degree
4 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) OSCP
7 4 (3.15%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.57%) CIMA
8 2 (1.57%) CISA
8 2 (1.57%) CISM
8 2 (1.57%) CISSP
8 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.57%) MBA
8 2 (1.57%) MCSE
8 2 (1.57%) PhD
9 1 (0.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.36%) SLA
2 2 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (0.79%) GDPR
3 1 (0.79%) IFRS
3 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (25.98%) Active Directory
2 32 (25.20%) Time Sharing Option
3 23 (18.11%) NFS
4 8 (6.30%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (0.79%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (17.32%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 20 (15.75%) Ansible
3 17 (13.39%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (7.09%) SCCM
5 6 (4.72%) OMEGAMON
6 3 (2.36%) CA Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.57%) Backup Exec
7 2 (1.57%) CA Service Virtualization
8 1 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.79%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 34 (26.77%) IBM
2 32 (25.20%) Microsoft
3 23 (18.11%) Broadcom
3 23 (18.11%) Brocade
3 23 (18.11%) Dell
4 13 (10.24%) VMware
5 8 (6.30%) Qualys
6 5 (3.94%) SAP
7 3 (2.36%) Ariba
7 3 (2.36%) F5
8 2 (1.57%) Cisco
8 2 (1.57%) Micro Focus
8 2 (1.57%) Novell
8 2 (1.57%) Okta
9 1 (0.79%) CyberArk
9 1 (0.79%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.79%) OpenText
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle
9 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.79%) SolarWinds