NEC Contracts

NEC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of NEC products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NEC over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the NEC Corporation.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 682 821
Rank change year-on-year +164 +139 -96
Contract jobs citing NEC 81 9 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.016% 0.037%
As % of the Vendors category 0.44% 0.037% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 4 11
10th Percentile £412 £324 £313
25th Percentile £441 £341 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £438 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.77% -23.87% +27.78%
75th Percentile £500 £547 £619
90th Percentile £538 £564 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +17.58% -20.88% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £23.40 £22.17 £20.14
25th Percentile £29.63 £22.29 £20.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £23.54 £22.93
Median % change year-on-year +69.94% +2.64% -
75th Percentile £57.50 £25.42 £28.81
90th Percentile £68.00 £25.93 £35.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £24.18 £22.93
% change year-on-year +65.46% +5.42% -

All Vendors
UK

NEC is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,406 24,269 35,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.57% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,421 16,176 23,842
10th Percentile £268 £268 £300
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £734
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 642 862
10th Percentile £12.25 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.50 £19.06 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £48.71
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%

NEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NEC over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing NEC over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
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 NEC within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +166 78 £475 -9.61% 110
London +124 50 £481 +6.78% 15
Work from Home +142 33 £450 - 42
UK excluding London +58 26 £500 +17.58% 108
North of England - 10 £500 - 22
Yorkshire - 7 £520 - 5
South East - 7 £510 - 23
South West - 5 £450 - 22
North West - 3 £500 - 14
Midlands +19 2 - - 14
East Midlands +12 2 - - 4
Scotland +39 1 £575 +76.92% 13
East of England +5 1 £450 - 11

NEC
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 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (8.64%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 55 (67.90%) NEC Housing
2 7 (8.64%) MIS ActiveH
3 4 (4.94%) OPENHousing
4 2 (2.47%) Academy Housing
5 1 (1.23%) Aareon QL
5 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle BPM
5 1 (1.23%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (8.64%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (8.64%) Amazon S3
1 7 (8.64%) AWS
1 7 (8.64%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (8.64%) AWS Step Functions
1 7 (8.64%) GitHub
1 7 (8.64%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (8.64%) Serverless
2 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Internet
2 2 (2.47%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (19.75%) Oracle Database
2 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.17%) Data Mining
3 5 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.17%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.70%) Metadata
5 3 (3.70%) Metadata Repository
5 3 (3.70%) Power BI
5 3 (3.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.23%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.23%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Postman
1 1 (1.23%) Selenium
1 1 (1.23%) SpecFlow
1 1 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 20 (24.69%) Local Government
2 12 (14.81%) Social Skills
3 8 (9.88%) Finance
3 8 (9.88%) Public Sector
4 7 (8.64%) Billing
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
5 2 (2.47%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.23%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.23%) Law
6 1 (1.23%) Legal
6 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Senior
2 16 (19.75%) Analyst
3 11 (13.58%) Project Manager
4 10 (12.35%) Senior Analyst
5 9 (11.11%) Consultant
5 9 (11.11%) Developer
6 7 (8.64%) Lead
7 4 (4.94%) Data Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (4.94%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.70%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Configuration Specialist
8 3 (3.70%) Implementation Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.70%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (3.70%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.47%) Applications Support
9 2 (2.47%) Commercial Manager
9 2 (2.47%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) .NET
2 7 (8.64%) .NET Core
2 7 (8.64%) OAuth
2 7 (8.64%) OAuth2
2 7 (8.64%) React
2 7 (8.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.23%) CSS
3 1 (1.23%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.88%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.17%) Housing Association
3 2 (2.47%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.47%) PMI
4 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.70%) Linux
1 3 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (23.46%) Housing Management
2 15 (18.52%) Migration
3 13 (16.05%) Data Migration
4 11 (13.58%) Customer Service
5 9 (11.11%) Project Management
6 8 (9.88%) Batch Processing
6 8 (9.88%) BDD
6 8 (9.88%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.64%) Analytics
7 7 (8.64%) DevOps
7 7 (8.64%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (8.64%) Project Delivery
7 7 (8.64%) TDD
7 7 (8.64%) Test Scripting
8 6 (7.41%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.41%) ETL
8 6 (7.41%) PRINCE2
8 6 (7.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (6.17%) Information Exploitation
Programming Languages
1 32 (39.51%) SQL
2 7 (8.64%) Python
3 6 (7.41%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.23%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (8.64%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.41%) Degree
3 5 (6.17%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) APMP
4 3 (3.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.70%) ISEB
4 3 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 3 (3.70%) RIBA
5 2 (2.47%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.47%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) MRICS
6 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) SLA
3 2 (2.47%) QA
4 1 (1.23%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (29.63%) Northgate
2 18 (22.22%) Oracle
3 6 (7.41%) Civica
4 5 (6.17%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.70%) Capita
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 2 (2.47%) Orchard
7 1 (1.23%) Aareon
7 1 (1.23%) iManage
7 1 (1.23%) Oneserve
7 1 (1.23%) SAP