MoSCoW Contracts

MoSCoW Method
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring MoSCoW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MoSCoW 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 566 686 814
Rank change year-on-year +120 +128 -96
Contract jobs citing MoSCoW 18 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.041% 0.020% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.022% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 11 29
10th Percentile £325 £325 £405
25th Percentile £358 £363 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £403 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -15.07% -4.52%
75th Percentile £600 £451 £538
90th Percentile - £500 £575
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £381 £475
% change year-on-year -8.20% -19.74% +1.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

MoSCoW falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
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 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

MoSCoW
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MoSCoW in the UK

MoSCoW
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MoSCoW in the UK

MoSCoW
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MoSCoW over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MoSCoW in the UK

MoSCoW
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MoSCoW within the UK 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
England +92 16 £365 -7.70% 5
UK excluding London +30 9 £350 -8.20% 6
Work from Home +120 7 £600 +26.32% 4
London +87 7 £450 -16.28%
South East - 7 - - 1
North of England +13 2 £350 -8.20%
North West +11 2 £350 -8.20%

MoSCoW
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 2 (11.11%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (38.89%) BGP
1 7 (38.89%) MPLS
2 1 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 1 (5.56%) WAN
Development Applications
1 9 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 5 (27.78%) Telecoms
2 4 (22.22%) Marketing
3 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Senior
2 8 (44.44%) Analyst
3 7 (38.89%) IP Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior IP Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Senior Test Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Business Analyst
5 5 (27.78%) Project Manager
6 4 (22.22%) Project Analyst
6 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Analyst
6 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Business Analyst
6 4 (22.22%) Salesforce Project Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Implementation Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Implementation Project Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Marketing Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Marketing Business Analyst
7 2 (11.11%) Marketing Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Marketing Project Manager
7 2 (11.11%) Product Owner
7 2 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Migration
2 7 (38.89%) Agile
2 7 (38.89%) Risk Assessment
3 5 (27.78%) Project Management
4 4 (22.22%) Data Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Project Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Storyboarding
4 4 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
6 2 (11.11%) Business Case
6 2 (11.11%) Development Roadmap
6 2 (11.11%) Epics
6 2 (11.11%) Journey Map
6 2 (11.11%) Product Backlog
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) System Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) PMO
2 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Juniper
2 4 (22.22%) Salesforce
3 2 (11.11%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft