Tech for Good Contracts

Tech for Good (Tech4Good)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Tech for Good in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Tech for Good over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 526 628 780
Rank change year-on-year +102 +152 -99
Contract jobs citing Tech for Good 53 66 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.12% 0.094%
As % of the General category 0.21% 0.20% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 55 79
10th Percentile £408 £340 £400
25th Percentile £475 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £631 £556
90th Percentile £634 £698 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -5.00% +20.48% -7.78%

All General Skills
UK

Tech for Good 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 24,681 33,520 49,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 58.02% 58.54% 56.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,587 23,230 34,613
10th Percentile £275 £313 £320
25th Percentile £413 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,020 1,422
10th Percentile £12.75 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £17.72 £15.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +44.44% -
75th Percentile £52.78 £61.25 £47.40
90th Percentile £66.59 £72.50 £59.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.25 £29.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -2.59% +52.63% -3.52%

Tech for Good
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Tech for Good as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tech for Good.

Daily rate trend for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tech for Good over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tech for Good in the UK

Tech for Good
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tech for Good within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 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 +106 37 £513 -2.38% 147
Work from Home +105 30 £513 +4.59% 80
UK excluding London +46 19 £475 -5.00% 116
London +92 17 £513 +2.50% 52
South West +15 10 £475 -3.80% 15
North of England +27 6 £475 -13.64% 44
Yorkshire +14 4 £525 -4.55% 15
Scotland +33 2 £525 +6.06% 2
North East - 1 £350 - 5
North West - 1 £475 - 24
South East - 1 - - 31

Tech for Good
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 3 (5.66%) CMS
1 3 (5.66%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (32.08%) AWS
2 6 (11.32%) Azure
3 5 (9.43%) GCP
4 4 (7.55%) Amazon Cognito
4 4 (7.55%) GitHub
5 3 (5.66%) Datadog
6 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.77%) SaaS
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.89%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.89%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.77%) Firewall
2 1 (1.89%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.43%) NoSQL
2 4 (7.55%) MySQL
3 3 (5.66%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (7.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.89%) Git
2 1 (1.89%) Postman
2 1 (1.89%) Selenium
2 1 (1.89%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.89%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (11.32%) Finance
1 6 (11.32%) Public Sector
2 5 (9.43%) Manufacturing
3 4 (7.55%) Marketing
4 3 (5.66%) Electronics
4 3 (5.66%) Social Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.89%) Health Technology
5 1 (1.89%) Law
5 1 (1.89%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) Developer
2 9 (16.98%) Senior
3 5 (9.43%) Architect
3 5 (9.43%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 4 (7.55%) Full Stack Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Full Stack Engineer
4 4 (7.55%) React Developer
4 4 (7.55%) Software Developer
4 4 (7.55%) User Researcher
5 3 (5.66%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Lead
5 3 (5.66%) Senior Full Stack Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.66%) Umbraco Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Infrastructure Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Integration Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Security Architect
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.77%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (20.75%) React
2 8 (15.09%) .NET
2 8 (15.09%) CSS
2 8 (15.09%) Node.js
3 6 (11.32%) Next.js
4 5 (9.43%) HTML
5 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET
5 3 (5.66%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (5.66%) Grails
5 3 (5.66%) Hibernate
5 3 (5.66%) Java EE
5 3 (5.66%) jQuery
5 3 (5.66%) Spring
5 3 (5.66%) Web Services
6 2 (3.77%) NumPy
6 2 (3.77%) Pandas
6 2 (3.77%) REST
7 1 (1.89%) CSS3
7 1 (1.89%) HTML5
7 1 (1.89%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.77%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) Augmented Reality
3 1 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.89%) IoT
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.89%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.66%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.19%) Full Stack Development
2 11 (20.75%) Microservices
3 10 (18.87%) DevOps
3 10 (18.87%) Software Engineering
4 8 (15.09%) TDD
5 7 (13.21%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.21%) SDLC
6 6 (11.32%) Agile
6 6 (11.32%) BDD
6 6 (11.32%) Code Quality
6 6 (11.32%) MVC
7 5 (9.43%) Technical Debt
8 4 (7.55%) Clean Code
8 4 (7.55%) Roadmaps
8 4 (7.55%) SOLID
8 4 (7.55%) User Research
8 4 (7.55%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 3 (5.66%) Digital Marketing
9 3 (5.66%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (33.96%) TypeScript
2 14 (26.42%) JavaScript
3 11 (20.75%) SQL
4 10 (18.87%) Go
5 4 (7.55%) C#
5 4 (7.55%) Python
6 3 (5.66%) Java
7 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.89%) Perl
7 1 (1.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (3.77%) ACCA
1 2 (3.77%) CIMA
1 2 (3.77%) Degree
2 1 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (28.30%) Kubernetes
1 15 (28.30%) Terraform
2 2 (3.77%) Ansible
2 2 (3.77%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (5.66%) SAP
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
2 2 (3.77%) Splunk
3 1 (1.89%) Zscaler