Commercial Awareness Contracts in the UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Commercial Awareness 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 326 322 413
Rank change year-on-year -4 +91 -33
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 75 108 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.48% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 46 50
10th Percentile £292 £412 £325
25th Percentile £425 £460 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year +20.77% +8.95% -4.04%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £569
90th Percentile £850 £744 £655
UK median daily rate £625 £600 £550
% change year-on-year +4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £27.37 - -
25th Percentile - - £10.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £10.50
75th Percentile - - £10.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £28.00 - £10.50
% change year-on-year - - -68.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness 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 in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Commercial Awareness as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Commercial Awareness in the UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Commercial Awareness in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Commercial Awareness in the UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Commercial Awareness in the UK excluding London

Commercial Awareness
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 Commercial Awareness 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
South West +31 41 £675 +29.19% 24
South East +1 20 £625 +4.17% 47
North of England -9 5 £300 -44.19% 52
West Midlands +11 4 £800 - 24
Midlands +4 4 £800 - 44
North West -2 4 £300 -35.14% 28
East of England -1 2 - - 9
Northern Ireland - 2 £481 - 2
Scotland +45 1 £525 +17.65% 13
Yorkshire +5 1 - - 20
Commercial Awareness
UK

Commercial Awareness
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 1 (1.33%) IIS
1 1 (1.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (32.00%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (32.00%) Microsoft Project
2 24 (32.00%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (2.67%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.33%) PaaS
1 4 (5.33%) SaaS
2 3 (4.00%) AWS
3 1 (1.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.33%) SDH
1 7 (9.33%) WAN
2 4 (5.33%) Junos
2 4 (5.33%) PBX
2 4 (5.33%) VoIP
3 1 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.33%) Power BI
1 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (32.00%) JIRA
2 10 (13.33%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (1.33%) Fiddler
General
1 48 (64.00%) Social Skills
2 37 (49.33%) Finance
3 32 (42.67%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
5 23 (30.67%) Telecoms
6 11 (14.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (13.33%) Aerospace
8 7 (9.33%) Aeronautics
9 6 (8.00%) Public Sector
10 3 (4.00%) Banking
10 3 (4.00%) Digital Economy
10 3 (4.00%) Legal
10 3 (4.00%) Marketing
11 2 (2.67%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (2.67%) Military
11 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.67%) Retail
12 1 (1.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 25 (33.33%) Lead
2 24 (32.00%) Project Leader
3 13 (17.33%) Analyst
4 12 (16.00%) Senior
5 10 (13.33%) Architect
5 10 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 10 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
6 5 (6.67%) Business Requirements Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.67%) Requirements Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Senior Requirements Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Administrator
9 2 (2.67%) Head of Applications
9 2 (2.67%) Head of IT
9 2 (2.67%) IT Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) Project Administrator
9 2 (2.67%) Project Controller
9 2 (2.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) .NET
1 1 (1.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Blackberry
1 4 (5.33%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.33%) e-Health
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (74.67%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (57.33%) Project Management
3 30 (40.00%) Project Planning
4 28 (37.33%) Project Delivery
4 28 (37.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (36.00%) PRINCE2
6 25 (33.33%) Agile
6 25 (33.33%) Data Management
7 24 (32.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 24 (32.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 24 (32.00%) Workshop Facilitation
8 17 (22.67%) Business Analysis
9 12 (16.00%) Portfolio Management
9 12 (16.00%) Roadmaps
10 11 (14.67%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (14.67%) Customer Requirements
10 11 (14.67%) Infrastructure Management
10 11 (14.67%) Validation
11 10 (13.33%) ArchiMate
11 10 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.67%) MATLAB
1 2 (2.67%) Python
2 1 (1.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 34 (45.33%) DV Cleared
3 25 (33.33%) APMP
4 14 (18.67%) Degree
5 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
6 8 (10.67%) CCNP
6 8 (10.67%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (9.33%) HND
7 7 (9.33%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (5.33%) JNCIA
8 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.33%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (40.00%) PMO
2 1 (1.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.33%) SCOM
1 1 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (37.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Cisco
2 11 (14.67%) Juniper
2 11 (14.67%) Nokia
3 10 (13.33%) IBM
4 5 (6.67%) Palo Alto
5 4 (5.33%) Avaya
5 4 (5.33%) Ciena
5 4 (5.33%) Ericsson
5 4 (5.33%) Ribbon
5 4 (5.33%) VMware
6 3 (4.00%) Google
7 2 (2.67%) F5
8 1 (1.33%) SAP