Onboarding Contracts in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding 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 197 198 232
Rank change year-on-year +1 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 221 262 335
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.04% 1.15% 1.10%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.64% 3.60% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 182 223
10th Percentile £263 £264 £290
25th Percentile £418 £450 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £606 £669 £627
90th Percentile £706 £721 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 5
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.95 £14.90
25th Percentile £14.00 £17.44 -
Median hourly rate £15.50 £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.22% -7.50% +43.94%
75th Percentile £30.19 £23.38 -
90th Percentile £30.63 £26.15 -
UK median hourly rate £22.48 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.79% +75.00% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

Onboarding falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,066 7,275 9,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.45% 32.06% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 4,875 6,837
10th Percentile £210 £220 £208
25th Percentile £375 £381 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +11.43%
75th Percentile £600 £602 £586
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 764 409 422
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.36 £10.63 £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £22.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.23% +2.33% -4.44%
75th Percentile £62.81 £62.50 £45.00
90th Percentile £70.13 £74.40 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +60.15% -17.56% +8.00%

Onboarding
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Onboarding in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK excluding London

Onboarding
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 Onboarding 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 East -3 59 £600 +9.09% 93
South West +3 44 £525 -12.50% 49
North of England -31 40 £525 -2.78% 117
Midlands +33 38 £500 -20.00% 75
West Midlands +25 26 £500 -20.00% 40
Scotland +51 25 £513 +7.89% 28
North West -4 25 £544 +0.46% 67
East of England +10 14 £525 -6.25% 26
East Midlands +16 12 £500 - 35
Yorkshire -27 8 £550 +1.85% 39
North East - 7 £175 - 12
Wales +21 2 £400 +35.59% 9
Onboarding
UK

Onboarding
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 20 (9.05%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.90%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.36%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.90%) NEC Housing
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (0.90%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.45%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.45%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 25 (11.31%) Azure
2 19 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.33%) SuccessFactors
4 11 (4.98%) AWS
5 10 (4.52%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (3.17%) OCI
7 5 (2.26%) OneDrive
8 4 (1.81%) Power Automate
9 3 (1.36%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.36%) Oracle Service Cloud
10 2 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.90%) SaaS
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.45%) GCP
11 1 (0.45%) IaaS
11 1 (0.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.71%) LAN
1 6 (2.71%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (2.26%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (2.26%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.81%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 4 (1.81%) VPN
3 4 (1.81%) WAN
3 4 (1.81%) Wireless
4 3 (1.36%) WLAN
5 2 (0.90%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (0.90%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.88%) SQL Server
1 13 (5.88%) Tableau
2 10 (4.52%) Power BI
3 6 (2.71%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 6 (2.71%) Relational Database
3 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 6 (2.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (1.81%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (1.36%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.90%) MySQL
6 2 (0.90%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.45%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.45%) GIS
7 1 (0.45%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.45%) HBase
7 1 (0.45%) IDMS
7 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 6 (2.71%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.81%) Ant
3 3 (1.36%) JIRA
4 1 (0.45%) JMeter
4 1 (0.45%) MSI
General
1 68 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 43 (19.46%) Finance
3 23 (10.41%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.43%) Banking
6 8 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.71%) Legal
7 6 (2.71%) Local Government
7 6 (2.71%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.81%) Automotive
9 4 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.81%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.81%) Marketing
9 4 (1.81%) Retail
10 3 (1.36%) Billing
10 3 (1.36%) German Language
10 3 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.90%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (12.22%) Lead
2 25 (11.31%) Project Manager
3 20 (9.05%) Senior
4 15 (6.79%) Analyst
5 13 (5.88%) Consultant
6 12 (5.43%) Administrator
6 12 (5.43%) Architect
7 11 (4.98%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.52%) Developer
9 9 (4.07%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.07%) IT Support
10 8 (3.62%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.62%) Desktop Support
11 7 (3.17%) IT Engineer
12 6 (2.71%) AML Project Manager
12 6 (2.71%) Senior Manager
12 6 (2.71%) Splunk Engineer
13 5 (2.26%) IT Support Engineer
13 5 (2.26%) Subject Matter Expert
13 5 (2.26%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.81%) JSON
2 3 (1.36%) Middleware
3 2 (0.90%) LDAP
4 1 (0.45%) .NET
4 1 (0.45%) CSS
4 1 (0.45%) HTML
4 1 (0.45%) J2EE
4 1 (0.45%) Java EE
4 1 (0.45%) JSP
4 1 (0.45%) Kafka
4 1 (0.45%) Node.js
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth
4 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.45%) REST
4 1 (0.45%) RESTful
4 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.45%) SAP PI
4 1 (0.45%) SOAP
4 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.98%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.07%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.26%) Renewable Energy
5 4 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.81%) Solar Power
6 3 (1.36%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.36%) NHS
6 3 (1.36%) Tandem
7 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.90%) Insider Threat
7 2 (0.90%) PKI
7 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (0.90%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.90%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.45%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.45%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.45%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.45%) Life Science
8 1 (0.45%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.86%) Windows
2 13 (5.88%) Mac OS
3 8 (3.62%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.71%) Unix
4 6 (2.71%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.36%) Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (15.84%) Agile
2 33 (14.93%) Project Management
3 27 (12.22%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.86%) Migration
5 17 (7.69%) Project Delivery
6 14 (6.33%) Customer Service
7 13 (5.88%) Analytics
7 13 (5.88%) Change Management
7 13 (5.88%) Client Onboarding
8 12 (5.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (5.43%) Data Security
8 12 (5.43%) DevOps
8 12 (5.43%) ERP
8 12 (5.43%) ETL
8 12 (5.43%) Service Delivery
9 11 (4.98%) Data Modelling
9 11 (4.98%) Impact Assessments
9 11 (4.98%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (4.52%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (4.52%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 27 (12.22%) SQL
2 11 (4.98%) Python
3 7 (3.17%) Shell Script
4 6 (2.71%) Search Processing Language
4 6 (2.71%) T-SQL
5 5 (2.26%) Bash
5 5 (2.26%) Bourne shell
5 5 (2.26%) Korn
5 5 (2.26%) PL/SQL
6 4 (1.81%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.81%) Java
7 3 (1.36%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.36%) Scala
8 2 (0.90%) C#
9 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (0.45%) Perl
9 1 (0.45%) Ruby
9 1 (0.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 36 (16.29%) Security Cleared
2 21 (9.50%) SC Cleared
3 20 (9.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 10 (4.52%) Degree
5 7 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.36%) DBS Check
7 3 (1.36%) PMP
8 2 (0.90%) APMG
8 2 (0.90%) APMP
8 2 (0.90%) ISEB
8 2 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.45%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (0.45%) CIPD
9 1 (0.45%) CISM
9 1 (0.45%) CISSP
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.79%) QA
2 14 (6.33%) PMO
3 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.81%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.90%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.90%) GDPR
4 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.90%) P3O
5 1 (0.45%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.45%) NIST
5 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.26%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.90%) KVM
4 2 (0.90%) QEMU
4 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) Docker
5 1 (0.45%) IAG
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (1.81%) FortiGate
1 4 (1.81%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (1.81%) Terraform
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.90%) Endace
3 2 (0.90%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.45%) Ansible
4 1 (0.45%) Grafana
4 1 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (0.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 25 (11.31%) Microsoft
1 25 (11.31%) SAP
2 17 (7.69%) Oracle
3 14 (6.33%) Virgin Media
4 10 (4.52%) Splunk
5 7 (3.17%) F5
5 7 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.71%) Blue Prism
6 6 (2.71%) VMware
7 3 (1.36%) Apple
7 3 (1.36%) Ariba
7 3 (1.36%) CA
7 3 (1.36%) Cisco
7 3 (1.36%) Workday
8 2 (0.90%) Adobe
8 2 (0.90%) Cadence
8 2 (0.90%) HP
8 2 (0.90%) Juniper
8 2 (0.90%) NEC
8 2 (0.90%) Northgate