Value Proposition Contracts

Value Proposition
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 410 514 612
Rank change year-on-year +104 +98 -42
Contract jobs citing Value Proposition 170 170 230
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.30% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.34% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 112 152
10th Percentile £365 £363 £323
25th Percentile £438 £419 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £507
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +8.50% +2.92%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £588
90th Percentile £875 £811 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 12
10th Percentile £51.88 £44.05 £31.25
25th Percentile £64.38 £52.38 £38.75
Median hourly rate £86.40 £67.50 £64.18
Median % change year-on-year +28.00% +5.17% +6.08%
75th Percentile £87.80 £72.50 £77.32
90th Percentile £87.90 £74.75 £80.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.80 - £72.74
% change year-on-year - - +17.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Value Proposition 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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

Value Proposition
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Value Proposition over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Value Proposition in the UK

Value Proposition
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Value Proposition within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +83 131 £525 -12.50% 273
UK excluding London +65 85 £525 +16.67% 148
London +80 72 £525 -16.00% 131
Work from Home +91 49 £525 +10.53% 95
South East +16 23 £425 -22.73% 35
Scotland +39 17 £450 +5.88% 15
South West +19 17 £550 -12.00% 12
Wales +32 15 £600 +26.32% 1
North of England +24 14 £550 -12.87% 36
North West +15 11 £550 +14.58% 17
Yorkshire +19 4 £518 -20.38% 12
North East +14 3 - - 7
Midlands +16 2 £488 -9.30% 31
West Midlands +7 1 £575 -11.54% 23
East Midlands +5 1 £400 -38.46% 8
East of England +2 1 - - 18

Value Proposition
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 17 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.94%) Confluence
3 3 (1.76%) SAS
4 2 (1.18%) Apache
4 2 (1.18%) CMS
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.59%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.59%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (7.06%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (6.47%) Acrobat
3 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (1.18%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.18%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.59%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.59%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.59%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (13.53%) Azure
2 14 (8.24%) Azure Stack
3 13 (7.65%) Microsoft Purview
4 10 (5.88%) AWS
4 10 (5.88%) SaaS
5 5 (2.94%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (2.94%) GCP
5 5 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.76%) PaaS
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.18%) GitHub
7 2 (1.18%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.59%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.59%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.59%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 19 (11.18%) VoIP
2 13 (7.65%) PBX
3 7 (4.12%) WAN
4 6 (3.53%) CTI
5 5 (2.94%) LAN
5 5 (2.94%) SD-WAN
6 4 (2.35%) BGP
6 4 (2.35%) Wireless
7 3 (1.76%) 5G
7 3 (1.76%) DHCP
7 3 (1.76%) Intranet
7 3 (1.76%) Unified Communications
8 2 (1.18%) 4G
8 2 (1.18%) DNS
8 2 (1.18%) Internet
8 2 (1.18%) MPLS
8 2 (1.18%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (1.18%) SAN
8 2 (1.18%) VPN
9 1 (0.59%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (7.65%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.59%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.59%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.59%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.59%) Looker
4 1 (0.59%) Metadata
4 1 (0.59%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.59%) MySQL
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.59%) Power BI
4 1 (0.59%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (4.12%) Git
1 7 (4.12%) JIRA
2 4 (2.35%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.76%) IntelliJ
3 3 (1.76%) Postman
4 2 (1.18%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.18%) JUnit
5 1 (0.59%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.59%) GitLab
5 1 (0.59%) HP UFT
5 1 (0.59%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.59%) Maven
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.59%) Storybook
General
1 57 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 29 (17.06%) Marketing
3 23 (13.53%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (12.35%) Finance
4 21 (12.35%) Telecoms
5 20 (11.76%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (11.18%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.47%) Local Government
8 9 (5.29%) German Language
8 9 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (4.12%) Banking
9 7 (4.12%) Legal
10 6 (3.53%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.76%) Advertising
12 2 (1.18%) French Language
12 2 (1.18%) Retail
13 1 (0.59%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.59%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.59%) Publishing
13 1 (0.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 44 (25.88%) Architect
2 25 (14.71%) Senior
3 24 (14.12%) Solutions Architect
4 17 (10.00%) Analyst
5 14 (8.24%) Data Architect
5 14 (8.24%) Senior Manager
6 13 (7.65%) Business Analyst
7 12 (7.06%) Bid Manager
7 12 (7.06%) Consultant
8 11 (6.47%) Project Manager
9 9 (5.29%) Senior Bid Manager
10 8 (4.71%) Developer
10 8 (4.71%) Network Engineer
11 7 (4.12%) Junior
11 7 (4.12%) Junior Project Manager
12 5 (2.94%) Solutions Consultant
13 4 (2.35%) Business Consultant
13 4 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
13 4 (2.35%) Java Developer
13 4 (2.35%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (10.00%) REST
2 14 (8.24%) JSON
3 13 (7.65%) XML
4 5 (2.94%) Spring
5 4 (2.35%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.76%) HTML
6 3 (1.76%) Kafka
6 3 (1.76%) RESTful
6 3 (1.76%) Web Services
7 2 (1.18%) Apache Camel
7 2 (1.18%) Flash
7 2 (1.18%) J2EE
7 2 (1.18%) Middleware
7 2 (1.18%) Playwright
7 2 (1.18%) React
7 2 (1.18%) SailPoint
7 2 (1.18%) SOAP
8 1 (0.59%) Flask
8 1 (0.59%) Jest
8 1 (0.59%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 74 (43.53%) Data Protection Act
2 15 (8.82%) Product Ownership
3 14 (8.24%) Data Structures
4 13 (7.65%) Reference Data
5 8 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.53%) Augmented Reality
6 6 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.53%) IVR
6 6 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.53%) Virtual Reality
7 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 4 (2.35%) Industry 4.0
7 4 (2.35%) IoT
7 4 (2.35%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.35%) Robotics
8 3 (1.76%) Social Media
9 2 (1.18%) Cloud Native
9 2 (1.18%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.18%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.35%) Windows
2 3 (1.76%) Linux
3 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.59%) Unix
4 1 (0.59%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (51.18%) Data Protection
2 50 (29.41%) Agile
3 34 (20.00%) Project Management
4 32 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
5 27 (15.88%) Analytics
5 27 (15.88%) Presales
6 26 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (14.71%) Roadmaps
8 20 (11.76%) Change Management
8 20 (11.76%) Scrum
9 17 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (9.41%) Customer Value Proposition
11 15 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
11 15 (8.82%) Business Analysis
11 15 (8.82%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (8.82%) Data Modelling
12 14 (8.24%) Data Governance
12 14 (8.24%) Microservices
12 14 (8.24%) Risk Management
12 14 (8.24%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (5.29%) Java
2 8 (4.71%) Python
2 8 (4.71%) SQL
3 5 (2.94%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.76%) Perl
4 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (1.18%) Bash
5 2 (1.18%) Rust
6 1 (0.59%) Assembly Language
6 1 (0.59%) C#
6 1 (0.59%) CLIST
6 1 (0.59%) JCL
6 1 (0.59%) PHP
6 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.59%) R
6 1 (0.59%) REXX
6 1 (0.59%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 34 (20.00%) Degree
3 25 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (7.65%) DV Cleared
5 11 (6.47%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (6.47%) PMI Certification
5 11 (6.47%) PMP
6 9 (5.29%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.35%) CCNP
7 4 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.76%) CCIE
8 3 (1.76%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.76%) MBA
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.59%) IIBA
10 1 (0.59%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.59%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.65%) Data Quality
2 3 (1.76%) NIST
2 3 (1.76%) SLA
3 2 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (1.18%) PMO
4 1 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.59%) NCSC
4 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 7 (4.12%) Docker
2 6 (3.53%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.76%) vSphere
4 2 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.59%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.59%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.53%) Terraform
2 4 (2.35%) Ansible
3 2 (1.18%) Kibana
3 2 (1.18%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.59%) Amdocs OSS
4 1 (0.59%) Grafana
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.59%) OMEGAMON
4 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 14 (8.24%) Cisco
3 13 (7.65%) Adobe
4 7 (4.12%) Cadence
5 6 (3.53%) Genesys
5 6 (3.53%) IBM
5 6 (3.53%) Oracle
6 4 (2.35%) Google
7 3 (1.76%) CheckPoint
7 3 (1.76%) F5
7 3 (1.76%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.76%) SAP
7 3 (1.76%) VMware
8 2 (1.18%) Aruba
8 2 (1.18%) Dell
8 2 (1.18%) Juniper
8 2 (1.18%) Marketo
8 2 (1.18%) Meraki
8 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.18%) Riverbed