Onboarding Contracts

Onboarding
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 167 162 231
Rank change year-on-year -5 +69 +22
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 610 913 1,137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.43% 1.59% 1.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.73% 4.79% 3.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 643 752
10th Percentile £257 £350 £327
25th Percentile £410 £464 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £664
90th Percentile £737 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -2.78% +3.85% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 11
10th Percentile £12.90 £16.38 £13.45
25th Percentile £14.00 £23.31 £17.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% -1.23%
75th Percentile £30.25 £51.13 £30.13
90th Percentile £41.85 £59.38 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -8.11% -7.50% +43.94%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,902 19,052 29,287
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 33.27% 33.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,318 13,115 20,490
10th Percentile £267 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £680 £660
90th Percentile £800 £800 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 626 721
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.50 £22.26 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.54% -17.57% +3.85%
75th Percentile £61.30 £62.25 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.76
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £22.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +36.36% +4.76% -10.83%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for Onboarding in the UK

Onboarding
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 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 -9 525 £525 -6.67% 780
London -7 306 £525 -8.70% 365
UK excluding London +13 221 £525 -2.78% 474
Work from Home -2 192 £525 -4.55% 388
South East -5 60 £588 +6.82% 132
South West +16 45 £525 -10.64% 50
North of England -18 38 £523 -3.24% 148
Midlands +30 35 £483 -17.17% 77
Scotland +45 27 £525 +16.15% 36
West Midlands +28 26 £500 -20.00% 41
North West -5 24 £538 +2.87% 70
East of England +18 17 £275 -48.84% 19
East Midlands +21 8 £465 +3.33% 36
North East +19 7 £175 -18.60% 16
Yorkshire -16 7 £538 -0.46% 64
Wales +19 2 £400 +2.56% 13
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 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 32 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 13 (2.13%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 5 (0.82%) CMS
4 5 (0.82%) Confluence
5 4 (0.66%) Headless CMS
5 4 (0.66%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 3 (0.49%) Apache
6 3 (0.49%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.33%) nginx
8 1 (0.16%) Apache Solr
8 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 24 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.66%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.49%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.33%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.33%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP BPC
4 2 (0.33%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.33%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.16%) Elite 3E
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 111 (18.20%) Azure
2 88 (14.43%) AWS
3 39 (6.39%) GitHub
4 37 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (4.59%) SuccessFactors
6 26 (4.26%) Power Platform
7 24 (3.93%) SaaS
8 22 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.95%) Slack
10 16 (2.62%) Entra ID
11 12 (1.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (1.97%) PaaS
12 11 (1.80%) IaaS
12 11 (1.80%) OCI
13 10 (1.64%) GCP
13 10 (1.64%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (1.48%) Akamai
14 9 (1.48%) Amazon S3
15 8 (1.31%) Serverless
16 6 (0.98%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (1.48%) Firewall
1 9 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
2 8 (1.31%) VPN
3 7 (1.15%) LAN
4 6 (0.98%) Wireless
5 5 (0.82%) DHCP
5 5 (0.82%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 5 (0.82%) NetScaler
6 4 (0.66%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
6 4 (0.66%) Intranet
6 4 (0.66%) SSH
6 4 (0.66%) WAN
7 3 (0.49%) HTTP
7 3 (0.49%) WLAN
8 2 (0.33%) DNS
8 2 (0.33%) Internet
8 2 (0.33%) Network Security
8 2 (0.33%) SMS
9 1 (0.16%) HTTPS
9 1 (0.16%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (11.48%) SQL Server
2 36 (5.90%) MySQL
3 35 (5.74%) Oracle Reports
4 26 (4.26%) Power BI
5 16 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
6 15 (2.46%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.30%) NoSQL
7 14 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (2.30%) Tableau
8 13 (2.13%) Metadata
9 12 (1.97%) Data Vault
9 12 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (1.31%) Pentaho
10 8 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (1.31%) QlikView
10 8 (1.31%) RDBMS
11 7 (1.15%) Big Data
12 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 6 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 4 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 27 (4.43%) Jenkins
2 26 (4.26%) JIRA
3 11 (1.80%) Git
4 10 (1.64%) SonarQube
5 7 (1.15%) GitLab
6 5 (0.82%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (0.66%) Ant
7 4 (0.66%) JUnit
7 4 (0.66%) Mockito
8 3 (0.49%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.49%) ScalaTest
9 2 (0.33%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.33%) Liquibase
9 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 2 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.33%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (0.16%) MSI
10 1 (0.16%) Selenium
10 1 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 153 (25.08%) Social Skills
2 137 (22.46%) Finance
3 77 (12.62%) Public Sector
4 46 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
5 33 (5.41%) Banking
6 25 (4.10%) Marketing
7 24 (3.93%) Financial Institution
8 22 (3.61%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 11 (1.80%) Manufacturing
11 11 (1.80%) Retail
12 9 (1.48%) Electronics
13 8 (1.31%) Back Office
13 8 (1.31%) Legal
13 8 (1.31%) Publishing
14 6 (0.98%) Automotive
14 6 (0.98%) German Language
14 6 (0.98%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (10.98%) Senior
2 66 (10.82%) Developer
3 61 (10.00%) Lead
4 60 (9.84%) Analyst
5 52 (8.52%) Project Manager
6 45 (7.38%) Architect
7 43 (7.05%) Consultant
8 36 (5.90%) Business Analyst
9 22 (3.61%) Administrator
9 22 (3.61%) IT Support
9 22 (3.61%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.28%) Senior Developer
11 17 (2.79%) Data Architect
12 16 (2.62%) IT Engineer
12 16 (2.62%) SailPoint Developer
13 14 (2.30%) Data Engineer
14 13 (2.13%) SailPoint Engineer
15 12 (1.97%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (1.97%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
15 12 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (7.05%) HTML
2 38 (6.23%) SailPoint
3 31 (5.08%) LDAP
4 30 (4.92%) JDBC
4 30 (4.92%) XML
5 28 (4.59%) JSP
5 28 (4.59%) SOAP
5 28 (4.59%) Web Services
6 27 (4.43%) Servlets
6 27 (4.43%) SPML
7 16 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
8 14 (2.30%) .NET
9 11 (1.80%) Middleware
10 10 (1.64%) ARM Templates
10 10 (1.64%) Azure Blueprints
11 9 (1.48%) HTML5
11 9 (1.48%) Spring
11 9 (1.48%) Spring Boot
12 8 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 7 (1.15%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.07%) Management Information System
2 16 (2.62%) Product Ownership
3 13 (2.13%) Data Centre
4 9 (1.48%) Reference Data
4 9 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (0.98%) Cloud Native
6 6 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (0.98%) Hedge funds
7 5 (0.82%) Derivative
7 5 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
7 5 (0.82%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.66%) Credit Derivative
8 4 (0.66%) Fat Client
8 4 (0.66%) Fixed Income
8 4 (0.66%) NHS
8 4 (0.66%) Tandem
8 4 (0.66%) Thin Client
8 4 (0.66%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 57 (9.34%) Windows
2 42 (6.89%) Linux
3 21 (3.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 18 (2.95%) Unix
5 14 (2.30%) CentOS
5 14 (2.30%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.97%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.64%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Android
9 1 (0.16%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (22.79%) Agile
2 74 (12.13%) Project Management
3 61 (10.00%) DevOps
4 55 (9.02%) Problem-Solving
5 43 (7.05%) Migration
6 40 (6.56%) Cybersecurity
7 39 (6.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 39 (6.39%) Technology Transformation
8 36 (5.90%) Project Delivery
9 35 (5.74%) Data Modelling
10 33 (5.41%) Analytics
11 31 (5.08%) CI/CD
12 29 (4.75%) RBAC
13 28 (4.59%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (4.26%) Change Management
15 25 (4.10%) Client Onboarding
15 25 (4.10%) ETL
16 24 (3.93%) Test Automation
16 24 (3.93%) User Experience
17 23 (3.77%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (13.93%) SQL
2 48 (7.87%) Java
3 47 (7.70%) Python
4 30 (4.92%) JavaScript
5 23 (3.77%) Shell Script
6 14 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.30%) T-SQL
7 11 (1.80%) C#
8 10 (1.64%) Ruby
8 10 (1.64%) Scala
9 9 (1.48%) Bash
10 7 (1.15%) Search Processing Language
10 7 (1.15%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.98%) Go
12 5 (0.82%) Bourne shell
12 5 (0.82%) Korn
12 5 (0.82%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.66%) ActionScript
14 1 (0.16%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.16%) Perl
Qualifications
1 124 (20.33%) Security Cleared
2 103 (16.89%) SC Cleared
3 64 (10.49%) BPSS Clearance
4 41 (6.72%) Degree
5 12 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.64%) PMP
8 9 (1.48%) CISSP
9 7 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.82%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.66%) CEH
12 3 (0.49%) APMP
12 3 (0.49%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.49%) DBS Check
12 3 (0.49%) ISEB
12 3 (0.49%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.33%) APMG
14 1 (0.16%) CompTIA Security+
14 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.25%) QA
2 17 (2.79%) PMO
3 10 (1.64%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.64%) NCSC
4 9 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (1.31%) SLA
6 6 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) Def Stans
9 2 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.33%) GDPR
9 2 (0.33%) P3O
10 1 (0.16%) GAAP
10 1 (0.16%) GRC
10 1 (0.16%) GxP
10 1 (0.16%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.16%) NIST
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 80 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 28 (4.59%) IAG
3 25 (4.10%) ACF2
3 25 (4.10%) RACF
4 22 (3.61%) Docker
5 7 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (0.82%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.16%) Firmware
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (4.43%) Kubernetes
2 26 (4.26%) Ansible
3 23 (3.77%) Terraform
4 16 (2.62%) Kibana
4 16 (2.62%) logstash
5 14 (2.30%) Grafana
6 13 (2.13%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.64%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
9 4 (0.66%) FortiGate
9 4 (0.66%) SCCM
10 3 (0.49%) PingFederate
11 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Puppet
12 1 (0.16%) Matomo
12 1 (0.16%) Opsview
12 1 (0.16%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.16%) WSUS
Vendors
1 82 (13.44%) Microsoft
2 81 (13.28%) Oracle
3 64 (10.49%) ServiceNow
4 52 (8.52%) SAP
5 45 (7.38%) Virgin Media
6 28 (4.59%) Sybase
7 18 (2.95%) Red Hat
8 17 (2.79%) CyberArk
8 17 (2.79%) Splunk
9 13 (2.13%) Amdocs
9 13 (2.13%) VMware
10 12 (1.97%) Sparx
11 11 (1.80%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.48%) F5
12 9 (1.48%) Informatica
13 8 (1.31%) BT
13 8 (1.31%) Google
13 8 (1.31%) Okta
14 7 (1.15%) Ariba
15 6 (0.98%) Blue Prism