Collaborative Working Contracts

Collaborative Working
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Collaborative Working skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 157 161
Rank change year-on-year +35 +4 +24
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 792 946 1,572
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.86% 1.65% 1.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 1.84% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 594 1,034
10th Percentile £270 £358 £350
25th Percentile £375 £446 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.05%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £638
90th Percentile £745 £738 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 77 30
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £14.10
25th Percentile £24.25 £35.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £19.85
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +156.93% +5.87%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £44.22
90th Percentile £51.60 £75.00 £70.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £46.75 £17.00
% change year-on-year +6.95% +175.00% -24.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Collaborative Working is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Collaborative Working
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Collaborative Working in the UK

Collaborative Working
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Collaborative Working 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 +35 680 £500 -9.09% 1,339
UK excluding London +39 422 £475 -5.00% 909
London +40 309 £500 -9.09% 492
Work from Home +20 241 £502 +0.37% 493
South East +21 117 £475 -20.83% 241
East of England +46 78 £375 -34.07% 95
North of England -1 67 £500 - 266
Midlands +6 54 £425 -5.56% 151
Scotland +38 51 £475 +7.04% 33
South West +5 44 £550 - 123
North West -6 36 £473 -5.50% 148
West Midlands +5 31 £538 +15.34% 92
Yorkshire +13 28 £622 +19.39% 87
East Midlands +19 20 £400 +6.67% 59
Wales +15 6 £425 -9.57% 14
North East +8 3 £625 +47.06% 34
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 11

Collaborative Working
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 31 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.66%) Confluence
3 13 (1.64%) CMS
4 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.63%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) Appian
6 4 (0.51%) Luigi
7 2 (0.25%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.25%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.13%) Moodle
8 1 (0.13%) nginx
8 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.13%) SAS
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 53 (6.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (5.30%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (1.01%) Photoshop
5 8 (1.01%) Sketch
6 7 (0.88%) Adobe Illustrator
7 4 (0.51%) Adobe Captivate
7 4 (0.51%) Adobe XD
8 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.38%) InVision
8 3 (0.38%) MicroStation
8 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.25%) CINEMA 4D
9 2 (0.25%) FileZilla
9 2 (0.25%) UserZoom
9 2 (0.25%) Windchill
10 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 17 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.26%) SAP HCM
2 10 (1.26%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.38%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.13%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 95 (11.99%) Azure
2 90 (11.36%) AWS
3 41 (5.18%) Power Platform
4 38 (4.80%) GCP
5 23 (2.90%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (2.40%) GitHub
8 18 (2.27%) OpenShift
9 15 (1.89%) Serverless
10 13 (1.64%) Figma
11 12 (1.52%) Power Automate
11 12 (1.52%) SuccessFactors
12 11 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.39%) PaaS
13 10 (1.26%) SaaS
14 9 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (1.14%) AWS Lambda
14 9 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
14 9 (1.14%) Kong
14 9 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.79%) Firewall
2 26 (3.28%) VPN
3 18 (2.27%) DNS
4 17 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.64%) HTTP
6 10 (1.26%) Network Security
7 9 (1.14%) Wireless
8 7 (0.88%) VSAN
9 6 (0.76%) Internet
9 6 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.76%) SSL
10 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
10 4 (0.51%) SSH
10 4 (0.51%) WAN
11 3 (0.38%) BIG-IP
11 3 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 3 (0.38%) FTP
11 3 (0.38%) LAN
11 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
12 2 (0.25%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (4.17%) Power BI
2 20 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.40%) Elasticsearch
4 14 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.64%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.26%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.14%) Metadata
9 7 (0.88%) Tableau
10 6 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.76%) GIS
11 5 (0.63%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.63%) Oracle Database
12 4 (0.51%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.51%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
13 3 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.38%) Spatial Data
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (7.32%) JIRA
2 44 (5.56%) Git
3 22 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.40%) GitLab
5 15 (1.89%) Selenium
6 11 (1.39%) Travis CI
7 10 (1.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.14%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.14%) JMeter
9 8 (1.01%) Rational DOORS
9 8 (1.01%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.88%) Postman
11 5 (0.63%) Liquibase
12 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
12 4 (0.51%) NUnit
13 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
13 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
14 2 (0.25%) Axure RP
14 2 (0.25%) Mocha
14 2 (0.25%) WebDriver
General
1 341 (43.06%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.29%) Analytical Skills
3 118 (14.90%) Finance
4 115 (14.52%) Public Sector
5 55 (6.94%) Aerospace
6 43 (5.43%) Marketing
6 43 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 29 (3.66%) Legal
8 28 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
8 28 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (2.90%) Banking
10 23 (2.90%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (2.53%) Manufacturing
12 19 (2.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 14 (1.77%) Law
14 13 (1.64%) Multimedia
15 11 (1.39%) Local Government
15 11 (1.39%) Mandarin Language
15 11 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 85 (10.73%) Analyst
2 70 (8.84%) Architect
3 64 (8.08%) Senior
4 58 (7.32%) Developer
5 55 (6.94%) Configuration Manager
6 49 (6.19%) Lead
7 38 (4.80%) Project Manager
8 36 (4.55%) Consultant
9 32 (4.04%) Designer
10 28 (3.54%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
11 23 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (2.78%) Contracts Manager
13 21 (2.65%) Business Analyst
14 17 (2.15%) Delivery Manager
15 16 (2.02%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.02%) Technical Architect
16 15 (1.89%) Data Analyst
17 12 (1.52%) Azure Engineer
18 11 (1.39%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (2.78%) HTML
2 20 (2.53%) .NET
3 19 (2.40%) CSS
4 16 (2.02%) AngularJS
4 16 (2.02%) JSON
5 15 (1.89%) Kafka
5 15 (1.89%) Spring
5 15 (1.89%) XML
6 14 (1.77%) Node.js
7 13 (1.64%) React
7 13 (1.64%) REST
7 13 (1.64%) Spring Boot
8 11 (1.39%) Elastic Stack
9 10 (1.26%) GraphQL
9 10 (1.26%) YAML
10 8 (1.01%) Pandas
10 8 (1.01%) RESTful
11 7 (0.88%) .NET Framework
11 7 (0.88%) ADO
12 6 (0.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.42%) Management Information System
2 31 (3.91%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 13 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 11 (1.39%) Data Structures
8 11 (1.39%) Fibre Optics
9 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
10 9 (1.14%) e-Learning
11 8 (1.01%) Security Posture
11 8 (1.01%) Social Media
12 7 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 7 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (0.88%) FMCG
13 6 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.63%) Digital Media
14 5 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.55%) Windows
2 15 (1.89%) Linux
3 14 (1.77%) Unix
4 11 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.88%) Windows 10
7 5 (0.63%) Android
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.13%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (24.49%) Agile
2 182 (22.98%) Problem-Solving
3 140 (17.68%) Project Management
4 89 (11.24%) DevOps
5 79 (9.97%) Configuration Management
5 79 (9.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 78 (9.85%) CI/CD
7 68 (8.59%) Coaching
8 64 (8.08%) Change Management
9 58 (7.32%) Decision-Making
10 55 (6.94%) PLM
11 51 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 48 (6.06%) Computer Science
12 48 (6.06%) Risk Management
12 48 (6.06%) Roadmaps
13 47 (5.93%) Containerisation
13 47 (5.93%) Scrum
14 46 (5.81%) ITIL
15 45 (5.68%) PRINCE2
16 44 (5.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 65 (8.21%) SQL
2 57 (7.20%) Python
3 31 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 30 (3.79%) PowerShell
5 22 (2.78%) Java
6 20 (2.53%) C#
7 16 (2.02%) Bash
8 10 (1.26%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.88%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.76%) C++
11 5 (0.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.63%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.51%) Bicep
12 4 (0.51%) PHP
13 3 (0.38%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.38%) Ruby
14 2 (0.25%) ABAP
14 2 (0.25%) Scala
14 2 (0.25%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 116 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 113 (14.27%) Degree
3 102 (12.88%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
5 28 (3.54%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.77%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 11 (1.39%) CISSP
9 8 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (0.88%) CISM
11 6 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 6 (0.76%) DBS Check
11 6 (0.76%) ISEB
12 5 (0.63%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.51%) PMP
13 4 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 3 (0.38%) CRISC
14 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.38%) NVQ Level 4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (5.18%) QA
2 26 (3.28%) Accessibility
2 26 (3.28%) PMO
3 19 (2.40%) GDPR
4 18 (2.27%) Data Quality
5 10 (1.26%) PCI DSS
6 8 (1.01%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
7 4 (0.51%) NIST
8 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.38%) WCAG
9 2 (0.25%) GAMP
9 2 (0.25%) GMP
9 2 (0.25%) GxP
9 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 39 (4.92%) Docker
2 20 (2.53%) Active Directory
3 16 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.88%) vCloud
4 7 (0.88%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.51%) NFS
6 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.25%) vSphere
7 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
7 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 61 (7.70%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.41%) Terraform
3 22 (2.78%) Ansible
4 21 (2.65%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.53%) Kibana
6 19 (2.40%) Grafana
7 17 (2.15%) Istio
8 15 (1.89%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.89%) Puppet
9 10 (1.26%) Argo
9 10 (1.26%) SCCM
10 9 (1.14%) Docker Swarm
10 9 (1.14%) logstash
11 8 (1.01%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.88%) Rancher
13 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
14 5 (0.63%) WSUS
15 3 (0.38%) FortiGate
16 2 (0.25%) AirWatch
16 2 (0.25%) Nessus
Vendors
1 117 (14.77%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.80%) Oracle
3 35 (4.42%) SAP
4 23 (2.90%) ServiceNow
5 19 (2.40%) VMware
6 17 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 16 (2.02%) Google
8 15 (1.89%) Adobe
9 14 (1.77%) Splunk
10 12 (1.52%) BT
11 7 (0.88%) Apple
12 5 (0.63%) Cisco
12 5 (0.63%) Dell
12 5 (0.63%) ESRI
13 4 (0.51%) CyberArk
13 4 (0.51%) Databricks
13 4 (0.51%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.51%) HP
13 4 (0.51%) IBM
13 4 (0.51%) SmartStream
1,469 Collaborative Working jobs Nationwide