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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 157 158
Rank change year-on-year +25 +1 +23
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 777 948 1,552
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.79% 1.71% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.90% 1.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 612 1,032
10th Percentile £263 £341 £350
25th Percentile £375 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £745 £725 £717
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 80 31
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £24.25 £35.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +155.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £48.69
90th Percentile £50.70 £75.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +136.11% -19.71%

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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 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 +27 671 £500 -9.09% 1,193
UK excluding London +30 415 £475 -5.00% 830
London +26 307 £500 -9.09% 369
Work from Home +10 234 £500 -0.50% 489
South East +18 116 £466 -22.33% 194
East of England +48 82 £350 -30.00% 82
North of England -6 70 £500 -1.67% 268
Midlands +4 49 £425 -5.56% 144
Scotland +27 48 £475 - 36
South West 0 39 £588 +6.82% 108
North West -12 36 £473 -12.09% 160
Yorkshire +4 31 £622 +25.97% 77
West Midlands -9 27 £525 +12.66% 88
East Midlands +13 19 £410 +0.92% 55
Wales +19 6 £425 - 19
North East +10 3 £625 +38.89% 32
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 7

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 37 (4.76%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.35%) Confluence
3 12 (1.54%) CMS
4 10 (1.29%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) Appian
6 4 (0.51%) Luigi
7 3 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.26%) Apache
9 1 (0.13%) Drupal
9 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.13%) SAS
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 55 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.29%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.03%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.90%) Adobe Illustrator
7 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
8 5 (0.64%) Sketch
9 4 (0.51%) Adobe Captivate
10 3 (0.39%) Chatbot
10 3 (0.39%) MicroStation
10 3 (0.39%) MS Visio
10 3 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
11 2 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
11 2 (0.26%) FileZilla
11 2 (0.26%) InVision
11 2 (0.26%) UserZoom
11 2 (0.26%) Windchill
12 1 (0.13%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.16%) SAP HCM
2 9 (1.16%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.39%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.13%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
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 MDG
7 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 98 (12.61%) Azure
2 88 (11.33%) AWS
3 45 (5.79%) Power Platform
4 40 (5.15%) GCP
5 26 (3.35%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.45%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.45%) GitHub
7 18 (2.32%) OpenShift
8 15 (1.93%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.80%) Serverless
10 12 (1.54%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.29%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.29%) Figma
11 10 (1.29%) PaaS
11 10 (1.29%) SaaS
11 10 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.16%) Kong
13 8 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.12%) Firewall
2 24 (3.09%) VPN
3 21 (2.70%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.57%) DNS
5 14 (1.80%) HTTP
6 12 (1.54%) Wireless
7 7 (0.90%) Network Security
7 7 (0.90%) VSAN
8 6 (0.77%) Internet
8 6 (0.77%) SD-WAN
8 6 (0.77%) SSL
9 5 (0.64%) DHCP
9 5 (0.64%) FTP
9 5 (0.64%) VLAN
10 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.51%) WAN
11 3 (0.39%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.39%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.39%) Reverse Proxy
11 3 (0.39%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (4.89%) Power BI
2 20 (2.57%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.45%) Elasticsearch
4 16 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.29%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.16%) Metadata
9 7 (0.90%) Data Lake
9 7 (0.90%) Tableau
10 6 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.77%) GIS
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.51%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.39%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.39%) QGIS
13 3 (0.39%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.95%) JIRA
2 45 (5.79%) Git
3 22 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.45%) GitLab
5 15 (1.93%) Selenium
6 11 (1.42%) Travis CI
7 10 (1.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.16%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.16%) JMeter
9 8 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.90%) Postman
10 7 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.39%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.39%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
13 2 (0.26%) Mocha
13 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 343 (44.14%) Social Skills
2 132 (16.99%) Analytical Skills
3 115 (14.80%) Finance
4 114 (14.67%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.08%) Aerospace
6 42 (5.41%) Marketing
7 40 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (3.60%) Legal
8 28 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 27 (3.47%) Banking
10 26 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.32%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.67%) Law
13 13 (1.67%) Multimedia
14 12 (1.54%) Retail
15 11 (1.42%) Local Government
16 10 (1.29%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 85 (10.94%) Analyst
2 65 (8.37%) Architect
3 64 (8.24%) Developer
3 64 (8.24%) Senior
4 55 (7.08%) Configuration Manager
5 45 (5.79%) Lead
6 39 (5.02%) Consultant
7 29 (3.73%) Designer
7 29 (3.73%) Project Manager
8 27 (3.47%) Data Engineer
8 27 (3.47%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (2.96%) Contracts Manager
10 22 (2.83%) Business Analyst
11 21 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
12 17 (2.19%) Data Analyst
12 17 (2.19%) Delivery Manager
13 16 (2.06%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (2.06%) Technical Architect
14 11 (1.42%) Senior Developer
14 11 (1.42%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.83%) .NET
1 22 (2.83%) HTML
2 19 (2.45%) CSS
3 17 (2.19%) AngularJS
3 17 (2.19%) React
4 15 (1.93%) JSON
4 15 (1.93%) Node.js
4 15 (1.93%) XML
5 13 (1.67%) Kafka
5 13 (1.67%) RESTful
6 12 (1.54%) REST
6 12 (1.54%) Spring
7 11 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
8 10 (1.29%) GraphQL
8 10 (1.29%) Spring Boot
8 10 (1.29%) YAML
9 8 (1.03%) Pandas
10 7 (0.90%) ADO
11 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
11 6 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 36 (4.63%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.86%) Product Ownership
3 22 (2.83%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.42%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.42%) Fibre Optics
7 11 (1.42%) Onboarding
7 11 (1.42%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.16%) Data Centre
8 9 (1.16%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.16%) FMCG
8 9 (1.16%) Social Media
9 8 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.03%) Security Posture
10 7 (0.90%) Digital Media
11 6 (0.77%) NHS
12 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.50%) Windows
2 14 (1.80%) Linux
3 12 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.29%) Apple iOS
4 10 (1.29%) Unix
5 7 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 6 (0.77%) Android
7 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
2 183 (23.55%) Agile
3 133 (17.12%) Project Management
4 89 (11.45%) DevOps
5 82 (10.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 79 (10.17%) Configuration Management
7 77 (9.91%) CI/CD
8 67 (8.62%) Coaching
9 58 (7.46%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (7.21%) Change Management
10 56 (7.21%) Decision-Making
11 55 (7.08%) PLM
12 48 (6.18%) Computer Science
12 48 (6.18%) Roadmaps
13 47 (6.05%) Scrum
14 45 (5.79%) Containerisation
14 45 (5.79%) Data Analysis
15 44 (5.66%) ITIL
16 43 (5.53%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (5.41%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (7.85%) SQL
2 56 (7.21%) Python
3 33 (4.25%) JavaScript
3 33 (4.25%) PowerShell
4 20 (2.57%) Java
5 18 (2.32%) C#
6 16 (2.06%) Bash
7 15 (1.93%) TypeScript
8 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.90%) Shell Script
9 6 (0.77%) C++
10 5 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.51%) Bicep
11 4 (0.51%) PHP
12 3 (0.39%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.39%) Ruby
13 2 (0.26%) ABAP
13 2 (0.26%) BeanShell
13 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 112 (14.41%) Degree
2 106 (13.64%) Security Cleared
3 93 (11.97%) SC Cleared
4 37 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.60%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.80%) DV Cleared
7 10 (1.29%) ITIL Certification
8 9 (1.16%) CISSP
9 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (0.77%) CISM
9 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
9 6 (0.77%) ISEB
9 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.51%) PMP
12 3 (0.39%) CISA
12 3 (0.39%) CRISC
12 3 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (5.53%) QA
2 22 (2.83%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.83%) GDPR
3 19 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.45%) PMO
4 9 (1.16%) PCI DSS
5 7 (0.90%) SLA
6 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (0.39%) NIST
8 2 (0.26%) GAMP
8 2 (0.26%) GMP
8 2 (0.26%) GxP
8 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.26%) NCSC
8 2 (0.26%) WCAG
9 1 (0.13%) COBIT
System Software
1 39 (5.02%) Docker
2 24 (3.09%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.90%) vCloud
4 7 (0.90%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.39%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.39%) NFS
5 3 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.39%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 57 (7.34%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.47%) Terraform
3 22 (2.83%) Ansible
4 21 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.57%) Kibana
6 19 (2.45%) Grafana
7 17 (2.19%) Istio
8 15 (1.93%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.93%) Puppet
9 13 (1.67%) SCCM
10 10 (1.29%) Argo
11 9 (1.16%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.16%) logstash
11 9 (1.16%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.03%) WSUS
13 7 (0.90%) Rancher
14 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.64%) Nessus
16 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.39%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 37 (4.76%) Oracle
3 32 (4.12%) SAP
4 23 (2.96%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.96%) VMware
5 18 (2.32%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.06%) Google
7 14 (1.80%) Splunk
8 13 (1.67%) Adobe
9 11 (1.42%) BT
10 7 (0.90%) Apple
11 6 (0.77%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) ESRI
12 5 (0.64%) Qualys
12 5 (0.64%) SmartStream
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco
13 4 (0.51%) Databricks
13 4 (0.51%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.51%) HP
13 4 (0.51%) IBM
1,363 Collaborative Working jobs Nationwide