Self-Motivation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 140 142 127
Rank change year-on-year +2 -15 -17
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 340 383 641
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.59% 1.69% 2.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.61% 5.26% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 223 375
10th Percentile £178 £203 £186
25th Percentile £230 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £610 £565
90th Percentile £608 £688 £645
UK median daily rate £475 £513 £510
% change year-on-year -7.32% +0.49% +10.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 34 57
10th Percentile £14.00 £17.90 £12.02
25th Percentile £22.33 £20.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +138.10% +31.25% -5.33%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.14 £44.03
90th Percentile - £56.75 £61.30
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +95.31% +42.22% -27.07%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Self-Motivation falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Self-Motivation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Self-Motivation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Self-Motivation in the UK excluding London

Self-Motivation
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Self-Motivation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Midlands +50 96 £253 -50.97% 245
South East -40 71 £605 +42.35% 281
South West +35 57 £469 -6.25% 106
North of England -7 50 £525 - 288
East Midlands +41 48 £245 -53.51% 113
West Midlands +17 48 £450 -10.89% 130
East of England +13 48 £339 -35.48% 124
North West +4 34 £540 -1.82% 167
Yorkshire +2 15 £500 +0.25% 92
Scotland +28 12 £400 -14.89% 71
Wales +11 3 £380 -2.88% 20
Northern Ireland -11 3 - - 14
Self-Motivation
UK

Self-Motivation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (8.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.06%) IIS
4 3 (0.88%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.59%) CMS
5 2 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache
6 1 (0.29%) Confluence
6 1 (0.29%) MTS
6 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 62 (18.24%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 23 (6.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (1.47%) Photoshop
6 3 (0.88%) Maya
6 3 (0.88%) PTC Creo
6 3 (0.88%) Windchill
7 2 (0.59%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.59%) SPSS
7 2 (0.59%) ZBrush
8 1 (0.29%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.29%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.29%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Maximo
2 2 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.59%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.29%) Primavera
3 1 (0.29%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 48 (14.12%) Azure
2 37 (10.88%) Microsoft 365
3 29 (8.53%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.18%) Azure Monitor
4 21 (6.18%) Azure Storage
5 15 (4.41%) AWS
6 12 (3.53%) Power Platform
7 10 (2.94%) Google Workspace
7 10 (2.94%) IaaS
8 9 (2.65%) PaaS
8 9 (2.65%) SaaS
9 5 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.47%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.18%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.88%) GCP
11 3 (0.88%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.59%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon EKS
13 1 (0.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 47 (13.82%) Firewall
2 29 (8.53%) RS-485
3 28 (8.24%) Modbus
3 28 (8.24%) RS-422
4 24 (7.06%) DNS
5 22 (6.47%) DHCP
6 13 (3.82%) WAN
7 11 (3.24%) LAN
8 7 (2.06%) IPsec
9 6 (1.76%) VPN
10 5 (1.47%) BGP
10 5 (1.47%) MPLS
10 5 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.47%) Wireless
11 4 (1.18%) TCP/IP
12 3 (0.88%) SNMP
12 3 (0.88%) WLAN
13 2 (0.59%) Broadband
13 2 (0.59%) HTTP
13 2 (0.59%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.24%) Power BI
2 7 (2.06%) Hadoop
3 6 (1.76%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (1.47%) Impala
5 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 4 (1.18%) Tableau
6 3 (0.88%) Big Data
6 3 (0.88%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.59%) Power Query
7 2 (0.59%) Presto
8 1 (0.29%) DTS
8 1 (0.29%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.29%) MySQL
8 1 (0.29%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (2.06%) JIRA
2 6 (1.76%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.88%) GitLab
4 2 (0.59%) ClearCase
4 2 (0.59%) ClearQuest
4 2 (0.59%) Git
4 2 (0.59%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.29%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.29%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.29%) JMeter
5 1 (0.29%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.29%) Maven
5 1 (0.29%) Oracle APEX
5 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.29%) Selenium
5 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 207 (60.88%) Social Skills
2 75 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (10.59%) Electronics
4 35 (10.29%) Finance
5 33 (9.71%) Telecoms
6 27 (7.94%) Public Sector
7 21 (6.18%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (5.00%) Legal
9 14 (4.12%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.35%) Marketing
10 8 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.06%) Retail
12 6 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.47%) Banking
13 5 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.47%) Police
14 4 (1.18%) Automotive
14 4 (1.18%) Avionics
14 4 (1.18%) Games
14 4 (1.18%) German Language
Job Titles
1 41 (12.06%) Lead
2 35 (10.29%) Architect
3 30 (8.82%) Software Engineer
4 25 (7.35%) Analyst
4 25 (7.35%) Network Architect
4 25 (7.35%) Systems Architect
5 22 (6.47%) Lead Architect
6 21 (6.18%) Active Directory Support
6 21 (6.18%) Support Engineer
7 19 (5.59%) Administrator
7 19 (5.59%) C++ Software Engineer
8 18 (5.29%) Test Engineer
9 17 (5.00%) 1st Line Engineer
10 15 (4.41%) Senior
11 14 (4.12%) Active Directory Specialist
11 14 (4.12%) Azure Specialist
11 14 (4.12%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.12%) Support Specialist
12 13 (3.82%) Developer
13 11 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.18%) ARM Templates
2 8 (2.35%) JSON
3 6 (1.76%) REST
3 6 (1.76%) Spring
4 5 (1.47%) .NET
4 5 (1.47%) HTML
5 4 (1.18%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.18%) CSS
5 4 (1.18%) OAuth
6 3 (0.88%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.88%) LDAP
6 3 (0.88%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.88%) OpenID
6 3 (0.88%) React
6 3 (0.88%) SAML
6 3 (0.88%) Web Services
6 3 (0.88%) XHTML
7 2 (0.59%) Java EE
7 2 (0.59%) RESTful
7 2 (0.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.65%) PKI
2 25 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.82%) Virtual Team
4 8 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (2.06%) Product Ownership
6 6 (1.76%) iPhone
7 5 (1.47%) iPad
7 5 (1.47%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.18%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.88%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.88%) Blog
9 3 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 3 (0.88%) Industry 4.0
9 3 (0.88%) IoT
9 3 (0.88%) Low-Code
9 3 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.88%) Solar Power
10 2 (0.59%) FPGA
10 2 (0.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.12%) Windows
2 38 (11.18%) Linux
3 30 (8.82%) Windows Server
4 22 (6.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 22 (6.47%) Windows Server 2019
5 13 (3.82%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.88%) Unix
8 2 (0.59%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.59%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2003
8 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.59%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.29%) Android
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (28.82%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (23.53%) Agile
3 63 (18.53%) DevOps
4 58 (17.06%) Continuous Improvement
5 56 (16.47%) Time Management
6 46 (13.53%) ITIL
7 40 (11.76%) Analytics
7 40 (11.76%) Customer Requirements
8 39 (11.47%) Software Engineering
9 36 (10.59%) TDD
10 32 (9.41%) Conflict Management
11 31 (9.12%) Continuous Integration
11 31 (9.12%) Project Management
12 30 (8.82%) Software Testing
12 30 (8.82%) Systems Engineering
13 29 (8.53%) Unit Testing
14 28 (8.24%) Pair Programming
15 27 (7.94%) Customer Service
16 25 (7.35%) Network Management
16 25 (7.35%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.59%) C#
2 32 (9.41%) C++
3 30 (8.82%) C
4 27 (7.94%) PowerShell
5 25 (7.35%) Python
6 21 (6.18%) Bicep
6 21 (6.18%) SQL
6 21 (6.18%) VB
6 21 (6.18%) VBScript
7 17 (5.00%) Java
8 8 (2.35%) JavaScript
8 8 (2.35%) R
9 3 (0.88%) Bash
9 3 (0.88%) BeanShell
10 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 134 (39.41%) Degree
2 88 (25.88%) Security Cleared
3 76 (22.35%) SC Cleared
4 34 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 28 (8.24%) NVQ Level 3
6 21 (6.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 12 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.65%) APMP
8 9 (2.65%) Master's Degree
8 9 (2.65%) PMI Certification
8 9 (2.65%) PMP
9 7 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.76%) HND
11 5 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.18%) HNC
13 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
14 1 (0.29%) CEH
14 1 (0.29%) CESG Certified Professional
14 1 (0.29%) CISM
14 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.65%) QA
2 7 (2.06%) SLA
3 6 (1.76%) PMO
4 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) HAZOP
6 2 (0.59%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.29%) GDPR
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 43 (12.65%) Active Directory
2 24 (7.06%) Virtual Machines
3 22 (6.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.76%) vSphere
5 5 (1.47%) Docker
6 4 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (0.88%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.88%) OpenAM
7 3 (0.88%) OpenIDM
7 3 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.59%) Firmware
8 2 (0.59%) NFS
9 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 32 (9.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (7.35%) Kubernetes
3 24 (7.06%) SCCM
4 22 (6.47%) WSUS
5 21 (6.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 21 (6.18%) SCOM
6 4 (1.18%) Terraform
7 3 (0.88%) Ansible
8 2 (0.59%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.59%) Nessus
9 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.29%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.29%) Puppet
9 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 87 (25.59%) Microsoft
2 18 (5.29%) SAP
3 17 (5.00%) CA
4 13 (3.82%) Google
4 13 (3.82%) Oracle
5 12 (3.53%) Cisco
5 12 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.24%) VMware
7 10 (2.94%) Juniper
8 7 (2.06%) Citrix
9 6 (1.76%) Meraki
10 5 (1.47%) 3Com
10 5 (1.47%) Aruba
10 5 (1.47%) Brocade
10 5 (1.47%) Progress
11 4 (1.18%) Databricks
11 4 (1.18%) ForgeRock
11 4 (1.18%) IBM
11 4 (1.18%) Splunk
12 3 (0.88%) Nintex