German Language Contracts

German Language
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term German Language in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited German Language over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 411 471 576
Rank change year-on-year +60 +105 -11
Contract jobs citing German Language 165 218 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.38% 0.39% 0.31%
As % of the General category 0.67% 0.66% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 65 96
10th Percentile £213 £168 £171
25th Percentile £300 £213 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £719 £590 £630
90th Percentile £950 £768 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -35.14% +8.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 23 25
10th Percentile - £12.20 £11.21
25th Percentile - £14.25 £12.00
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -3.33%
75th Percentile £29.00 £14.75 £14.75
90th Percentile £35.00 £26.60 £28.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year +3.45% - +1.75%

All General Skills
UK

German Language is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 24,753 32,807 49,724
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 57.49% 58.53% 56.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,550 22,755 34,565
10th Percentile £275 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £763 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +8.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,984 981 1,390
10th Percentile £12.78 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.50 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.30 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +43.56% +4.65%
75th Percentile £52.50 £61.25 £47.36
90th Percentile £67.38 £72.50 £60.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.42 £27.84 £19.50
% change year-on-year +2.08% +42.77% +2.63%

German Language
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for German Language in the UK

German Language
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for German Language in the UK

German Language
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing German Language over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for German Language in the UK

German Language
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing German Language 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 +70 128 £550 +10.00% 225
Work from Home +54 60 £600 +20.00% 249
London +81 56 £625 +28.21% 109
UK excluding London +30 52 £300 -35.14% 123
East of England +4 16 £293 - 21
South East +1 13 £225 -56.73% 40
Midlands +26 10 £600 +200.00% 12
West Midlands +21 10 £600 -17.24% 9
North of England +27 9 £523 -0.48% 36
North West +23 7 £538 +2.38% 21
Scotland +33 3 £234 +79.81% 7
Yorkshire - 2 £184 - 15
Wales +18 1 - - 3

German Language
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 4 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.21%) CMS
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.61%) Confluence
3 1 (0.61%) IIS
3 1 (0.61%) JBoss
3 1 (0.61%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.61%) WildFly
Applications
1 21 (12.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (8.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (3.03%) MS Visio
4 3 (1.82%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.61%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (5.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.21%) BusinessWorks
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle AGIS
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.21%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.61%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.61%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.61%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.61%) SAP PP
3 1 (0.61%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 18 (10.91%) Azure
2 12 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 5 (3.03%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 5 (3.03%) Entra ID
4 4 (2.42%) AWS
4 4 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.42%) SaaS
5 2 (1.21%) Google Workspace
5 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.61%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (0.61%) GCP
6 1 (0.61%) OCI
6 1 (0.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.67%) Firewall
2 4 (2.42%) HTTP
3 3 (1.82%) Network Security
4 2 (1.21%) DHCP
4 2 (1.21%) DNS
4 2 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.21%) VPN
5 1 (0.61%) BGP
5 1 (0.61%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.61%) Internet
5 1 (0.61%) OSPF
5 1 (0.61%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.82%) DynamoDB
1 3 (1.82%) MySQL
1 3 (1.82%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.21%) Big Data
2 2 (1.21%) Data Mart
2 2 (1.21%) DB2
2 2 (1.21%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.21%) MongoDB
2 2 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.61%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.61%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.61%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (3.03%) Git
2 3 (1.82%) JIRA
3 1 (0.61%) CA Gen
3 1 (0.61%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.61%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 71 (43.03%) Social Skills
2 34 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (20.00%) Finance
4 27 (16.36%) Marketing
5 24 (14.55%) French Language
6 21 (12.73%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (6.67%) Spanish Language
8 9 (5.45%) Banking
9 8 (4.85%) Automotive
10 7 (4.24%) Dutch Language
10 7 (4.24%) Retail
11 6 (3.64%) Italian Language
11 6 (3.64%) Legal
12 5 (3.03%) Arabic Language
12 5 (3.03%) Manufacturing
13 4 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (2.42%) Public Sector
13 4 (2.42%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.82%) Electronics
14 3 (1.82%) Japanese Language
Job Titles
1 27 (16.36%) Consultant
2 24 (14.55%) Analyst
3 13 (7.88%) Project Manager
4 12 (7.27%) Senior
5 11 (6.67%) Architect
6 10 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 10 (6.06%) Business Consultant
7 9 (5.45%) Lead
8 6 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (3.64%) Strategy Consultant
9 5 (3.03%) Azure Architect
9 5 (3.03%) Coordinator
9 5 (3.03%) SAP Consultant
10 4 (2.42%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (2.42%) Marketing Manager
10 4 (2.42%) SAP Manager
10 4 (2.42%) SAP Project Manager
10 4 (2.42%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.42%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.42%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.42%) BAPI
1 4 (2.42%) Kafka
1 4 (2.42%) REST
1 4 (2.42%) SAP ALE
2 3 (1.82%) Fastify
2 3 (1.82%) GraphQL
2 3 (1.82%) Next.js
2 3 (1.82%) Node.js
2 3 (1.82%) React
3 2 (1.21%) JSON
3 2 (1.21%) Murex MxML
3 2 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.21%) SAP TM
3 2 (1.21%) SOAP
3 2 (1.21%) TIBCO EMS
3 2 (1.21%) XML
3 2 (1.21%) XSD
3 2 (1.21%) XSLT
4 1 (0.61%) CakePHP
4 1 (0.61%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.24%) Digital Media
1 7 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (3.64%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.42%) Industry 4.0
4 4 (2.42%) IoT
4 4 (2.42%) Social Media
5 3 (1.82%) BYOD
5 3 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.82%) Photography
6 2 (1.21%) Clustering
6 2 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.21%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.21%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.61%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.61%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.61%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.30%) Windows
2 5 (3.03%) Windows 10
3 4 (2.42%) Linux
4 3 (1.82%) Unix
5 2 (1.21%) Android
5 2 (1.21%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (22.42%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (19.39%) Agile
3 24 (14.55%) Project Management
4 22 (13.33%) Customer Service
5 19 (11.52%) Service Delivery
6 18 (10.91%) Migration
7 15 (9.09%) Analytics
7 15 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.88%) Incident Management
9 12 (7.27%) Mathematics
10 11 (6.67%) Data Architecture
11 10 (6.06%) Artificial Intelligence
11 10 (6.06%) Computer Science
11 10 (6.06%) DevOps
11 10 (6.06%) Project Delivery
11 10 (6.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (6.06%) Use Case
12 9 (5.45%) B2B
12 9 (5.45%) Business Strategy
12 9 (5.45%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.06%) SQL
2 5 (3.03%) C++
3 4 (2.42%) ABAP
3 4 (2.42%) C
4 3 (1.82%) Java
4 3 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.82%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.21%) C#
5 2 (1.21%) Python
5 2 (1.21%) XPath
6 1 (0.61%) Bash
6 1 (0.61%) PHP
6 1 (0.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 35 (21.21%) Degree
2 6 (3.64%) PMI Certification
2 6 (3.64%) PMP
3 5 (3.03%) Azure Certification
3 5 (3.03%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.03%) Security Cleared
4 4 (2.42%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (2.42%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.82%) CIMA
6 2 (1.21%) ACCA
6 2 (1.21%) CBAP
6 2 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.21%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (0.61%) CISMP
7 1 (0.61%) CRISC
7 1 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (0.61%) JNCIA
7 1 (0.61%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.45%) QA
2 3 (1.82%) GxP
2 3 (1.82%) SLA
3 2 (1.21%) COBIT
3 2 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.61%) GAAP
4 1 (0.61%) GRC
4 1 (0.61%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.61%) NIST
4 1 (0.61%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (3.64%) Active Directory
2 5 (3.03%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (2.42%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.21%) Docker
5 1 (0.61%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 2 (1.21%) Kubernetes
1 2 (1.21%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.21%) TIBCO Hawk
2 1 (0.61%) Ansible
2 1 (0.61%) Forefront Identity Manager
2 1 (0.61%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.61%) Puppet
2 1 (0.61%) Salt
Vendors
1 35 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 33 (20.00%) SAP
3 8 (4.85%) Oracle
4 6 (3.64%) Apple
4 6 (3.64%) IBM
5 5 (3.03%) Dell
6 3 (1.82%) Ariba
6 3 (1.82%) Google
6 3 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.82%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.21%) Avaya
7 2 (1.21%) Citrix
7 2 (1.21%) Cloudera
7 2 (1.21%) Ivanti
7 2 (1.21%) Murex
7 2 (1.21%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.21%) Sun
7 2 (1.21%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.61%) Cisco
8 1 (0.61%) Remedy