Onboarding
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 174 222 237
Rank change year-on-year +48 +15 -11
Permanent jobs citing Onboarding 1,690 1,726 2,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.71% 1.66% 1.73%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.83% 3.89% 3.66%
Number of salaries quoted 978 953 1,095
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £31,345 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +8.33% -4.00%
75th Percentile £69,688 £85,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £96,250 £97,290
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,186 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -26.93% +10.00% -8.68%

All Generic Skills
UK

Onboarding is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 34,988 44,314 74,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.48% 42.70% 47.35%
Number of salaries quoted 23,043 23,940 34,254
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,056
90th Percentile £97,500 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Onboarding.

Salary trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Onboarding within the UK over the 6 months to 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +36 1,314 £47,500 -26.92% 663
UK excluding London +42 1,085 £40,186 -26.93% 391
London +47 507 £60,000 -20.00% 302
Work from Home -19 503 £50,047 -23.00% 367
Scotland +48 235 £50,000 -5.66% 41
South East -19 226 £40,400 -32.67% 92
Midlands +59 224 £35,000 -31.71% 62
North of England 0 180 £43,461 -20.98% 109
West Midlands +83 166 £42,500 -15.00% 39
South West +22 100 £43,500 -3.33% 55
North West +37 94 £40,000 -20.00% 63
Yorkshire -3 77 £57,500 +4.27% 37
East of England -19 70 £44,750 -31.15% 22
East Midlands -17 57 £33,000 -37.14% 23
Wales -10 35 £37,500 -19.35% 13
North East +4 11 £55,000 +12.82% 10
Northern Ireland +38 10 £38,500 +13.24% 5
Channel Islands - 5 - -

Onboarding
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 52 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 31 (1.83%) Confluence
3 30 (1.78%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (1.78%) SAS
4 16 (0.95%) WordPress
5 8 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.30%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) OpenZeppelin
8 3 (0.18%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.059%) CMS
10 1 (0.059%) Headless CMS
10 1 (0.059%) IIS
10 1 (0.059%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.059%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 245 (14.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 241 (14.26%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (0.83%) Trello
5 10 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
6 8 (0.47%) Adobe XD
7 6 (0.36%) Photoshop
8 5 (0.30%) Adobe Illustrator
8 5 (0.30%) InVision
8 5 (0.30%) Sketch
8 5 (0.30%) SPSS
9 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Revit
11 1 (0.059%) 1Password
11 1 (0.059%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.059%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.059%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (0.59%) SAP HR
2 7 (0.41%) SAP ERP
3 6 (0.36%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.30%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.24%) iTrent
5 4 (0.24%) Lawson
5 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.18%) Epicor Tropos
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle HRMS
6 3 (0.18%) SAP HCM
7 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.059%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (0.059%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.059%) HFM
8 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 314 (18.58%) AWS
2 311 (18.40%) Azure
3 176 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 101 (5.98%) Power Platform
5 88 (5.21%) SaaS
6 86 (5.09%) GCP
7 59 (3.49%) Entra ID
8 52 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
9 44 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
10 35 (2.07%) Power Automate
11 30 (1.78%) PowerApps
12 25 (1.48%) Serverless
13 24 (1.42%) GitHub
13 24 (1.42%) Google Workspace
14 23 (1.36%) SuccessFactors
15 22 (1.30%) GitHub Actions
16 21 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
17 20 (1.18%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.95%) OneDrive
19 14 (0.83%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 75 (4.44%) Firewall
2 67 (3.96%) DNS
3 50 (2.96%) LAN
4 47 (2.78%) Network Security
5 42 (2.49%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.31%) WAN
7 37 (2.19%) Wi-Fi
8 36 (2.13%) VPN
9 35 (2.07%) DHCP
9 35 (2.07%) Wireless
10 23 (1.36%) VLAN
11 17 (1.01%) HTTP
12 16 (0.95%) FTP
12 16 (0.95%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.83%) NAS
14 13 (0.77%) Broadband
14 13 (0.77%) Internet
15 12 (0.71%) NetScaler
16 11 (0.65%) SAN
16 11 (0.65%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.62%) NoSQL
2 87 (5.15%) Tableau
3 76 (4.50%) Power BI
4 48 (2.84%) Data Mining
5 43 (2.54%) Amazon QuickSight
6 42 (2.49%) Big Data
6 42 (2.49%) Data Lake
7 40 (2.37%) SQL Server
8 39 (2.31%) Qlik Sense
9 35 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
9 35 (2.07%) Relational Database
10 28 (1.66%) Amazon Redshift
11 25 (1.48%) MySQL
12 24 (1.42%) Redis
13 12 (0.71%) DynamoDB
13 12 (0.71%) Metadata
13 12 (0.71%) MongoDB
14 9 (0.53%) Essbase
14 9 (0.53%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.47%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 60 (3.55%) Git
2 54 (3.20%) JIRA
3 18 (1.07%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.83%) GitLab
5 12 (0.71%) Selenium
6 8 (0.47%) Cucumber
6 8 (0.47%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.41%) CircleCI
7 7 (0.41%) git-flow
8 5 (0.30%) Postman
9 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.24%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.24%) Hardhat
9 4 (0.24%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.12%) Grunt
10 2 (0.12%) gulp
10 2 (0.12%) PostCSS
10 2 (0.12%) webpack
11 1 (0.059%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.059%) Sourcetree
General
1 653 (38.64%) Social Skills
2 560 (33.14%) Finance
3 267 (15.80%) Legal
4 240 (14.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 203 (12.01%) Law
6 196 (11.60%) Analytical Skills
7 119 (7.04%) Marketing
8 95 (5.62%) Retail
9 87 (5.15%) Military
10 85 (5.03%) Public Sector
11 75 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (4.20%) Banking
13 42 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 41 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
15 35 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 32 (1.89%) Local Government
17 28 (1.66%) Manufacturing
18 25 (1.48%) French Language
18 25 (1.48%) German Language
18 25 (1.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 282 (16.69%) Senior
2 205 (12.13%) Analyst
3 175 (10.36%) Software Engineer
4 122 (7.22%) Developer
5 101 (5.98%) Graduate
6 99 (5.86%) Project Manager
7 93 (5.50%) Lead
8 75 (4.44%) Data Engineer
9 71 (4.20%) Consultant
9 71 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
10 70 (4.14%) Java Engineer
10 70 (4.14%) Java Software Engineer
11 66 (3.91%) Senior Developer
12 59 (3.49%) Support Engineer
13 56 (3.31%) IT Support
14 50 (2.96%) Development Manager
15 42 (2.49%) IT Technician
16 39 (2.31%) Full Stack Engineer
16 39 (2.31%) Full Stack Software Engineer
16 39 (2.31%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 95 (5.62%) HTML
2 78 (4.62%) Node.js
3 77 (4.56%) React
4 69 (4.08%) .NET
5 60 (3.55%) CSS
5 60 (3.55%) Web Services
6 52 (3.08%) Spring
7 46 (2.72%) XML
8 44 (2.60%) AngularJS
9 43 (2.54%) J2EE
10 39 (2.31%) ASP.NET
10 39 (2.31%) JavaBeans
10 39 (2.31%) JMS
10 39 (2.31%) Kafka
10 39 (2.31%) PySpark
11 37 (2.19%) Middleware
12 35 (2.07%) .NET Core
13 34 (2.01%) EDI
13 34 (2.01%) HTML5
14 33 (1.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 168 (9.94%) Algorithms
2 81 (4.79%) Management Information System
3 76 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
4 43 (2.54%) Social Media
5 38 (2.25%) Data Centre
6 34 (2.01%) Product Ownership
7 24 (1.42%) Enterprise Software
8 23 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 23 (1.36%) Virtual Team
9 21 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
10 19 (1.12%) Robotics
11 18 (1.07%) iPhone
11 18 (1.07%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.01%) Client/Server
12 17 (1.01%) Cyberattack
13 13 (0.77%) Driving Licence
13 13 (0.77%) Fixed Income
13 13 (0.77%) Hedge funds
14 11 (0.65%) PMI
14 11 (0.65%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 198 (11.72%) Windows
2 86 (5.09%) Windows Server
3 68 (4.02%) Mac OS
4 55 (3.25%) Linux
5 25 (1.48%) Windows 10
6 21 (1.24%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (1.18%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
10 13 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.77%) Unix
11 10 (0.59%) Android
12 8 (0.47%) Windows 8
13 5 (0.30%) CentOS
14 3 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
14 3 (0.18%) Solaris
15 1 (0.059%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.059%) VMS
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (26.75%) Client Onboarding
2 401 (23.73%) Agile
3 398 (23.55%) Problem-Solving
4 386 (22.84%) Continuous Improvement
5 275 (16.27%) Software Engineering
6 273 (16.15%) Customer Service
7 246 (14.56%) Project Management
8 231 (13.67%) Visualisation
9 220 (13.02%) CI/CD
10 219 (12.96%) Data Analysis
11 208 (12.31%) Risk Management
12 198 (11.72%) Machine Learning
13 190 (11.24%) Customer Experience
14 186 (11.01%) Process Improvement
15 184 (10.89%) SDLC
16 180 (10.65%) Artificial Intelligence
17 179 (10.59%) Analytics
18 166 (9.82%) Community of Practice
19 146 (8.64%) KYC
20 136 (8.05%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 280 (16.57%) SQL
2 257 (15.21%) Python
3 207 (12.25%) Java
4 97 (5.74%) C#
5 86 (5.09%) JavaScript
6 64 (3.79%) PowerShell
7 50 (2.96%) PHP
8 46 (2.72%) R
9 27 (1.60%) Bash
10 26 (1.54%) Go
11 25 (1.48%) TypeScript
12 19 (1.12%) MATLAB
13 18 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.71%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.59%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.59%) VBA
16 6 (0.36%) C
16 6 (0.36%) C++
17 5 (0.30%) Perl
17 5 (0.30%) VB
Qualifications
1 435 (25.74%) Degree
2 133 (7.87%) Security Cleared
3 84 (4.97%) BPSS Clearance
4 75 (4.44%) SC Cleared
5 72 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
6 54 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 51 (3.02%) DBS Check
8 48 (2.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.19%) CISSP
10 35 (2.07%) A+ Certification
11 29 (1.72%) MCP
12 28 (1.66%) AWS Certification
13 23 (1.36%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.36%) CISM
14 19 (1.12%) OSCP
15 18 (1.07%) HNC
16 14 (0.83%) ACCA
17 13 (0.77%) PMI Certification
18 11 (0.65%) CCNA
18 11 (0.65%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (2.96%) QA
2 48 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 45 (2.66%) SLA
4 35 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 29 (1.72%) PMO
6 28 (1.66%) Cyber Essentials
7 27 (1.60%) GDPR
8 21 (1.24%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.24%) NIST
9 16 (0.95%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.83%) SOC 2
11 12 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.47%) NCSC
13 7 (0.41%) ISO 9001
14 6 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 5 (0.30%) IFRS
16 4 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
17 2 (0.12%) Actionable Recommendations
17 2 (0.12%) GRC
18 1 (0.059%) SOC 3
System Software
1 197 (11.66%) Active Directory
2 70 (4.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (2.72%) Hyper-V
4 34 (2.01%) Docker
5 8 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.36%) vSphere
6 6 (0.36%) XenDesktop
7 5 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.24%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 60 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (2.07%) Terraform
3 28 (1.66%) Ansible
4 27 (1.60%) Kubernetes
5 20 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.65%) Grafana
7 8 (0.47%) Kibana
8 7 (0.41%) Autotask
8 7 (0.41%) SCCM
9 6 (0.36%) Prometheus
9 6 (0.36%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 4 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.18%) Istio
11 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.18%) logstash
12 2 (0.12%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.12%) Host Intrusion Detection System
12 2 (0.12%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.059%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 350 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 70 (4.14%) VMware
3 64 (3.79%) Google
4 52 (3.08%) SAP
5 50 (2.96%) Oracle
6 47 (2.78%) Alteryx
7 42 (2.49%) Databricks
8 39 (2.31%) Citrix
9 35 (2.07%) Apple
10 32 (1.89%) Cisco
11 25 (1.48%) Adobe
11 25 (1.48%) ServiceNow
12 22 (1.30%) Splunk
12 22 (1.30%) Veeam
13 21 (1.24%) Salesforce
14 19 (1.12%) Sage
15 17 (1.01%) Atlassian
16 16 (0.95%) Cadence
17 14 (0.83%) UiPath
18 13 (0.77%) Xero