NEC Contracts

NEC
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of NEC products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NEC over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the NEC Corporation.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 676 807
Rank change year-on-year +174 +131 -85
Contract jobs citing NEC 77 8 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.014% 0.039%
As % of the Vendors category 0.42% 0.033% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 5 12
10th Percentile £411 £185 £323
25th Percentile £438 £313 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £350 £538
Median % change year-on-year +38.86% -34.88% +19.44%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £603
90th Percentile £538 £560 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £325 £500
% change year-on-year +53.85% -35.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £23.40 - £20.14
25th Percentile £29.63 - £20.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £22.90 £22.93
Median % change year-on-year +74.67% -0.14% -
75th Percentile £57.50 - £28.81
90th Percentile £68.00 - £35.52
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 - £22.93

All Vendors
UK

NEC is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,286 24,482 35,411
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.43% 43.42% 40.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,377 16,346 23,689
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 644 856
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.89 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £48.46
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

NEC
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for NEC in the UK

NEC
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Hourly rate histogram for NEC in the UK

NEC
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NEC 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 +166 74 £475 -9.61% 125
London +145 49 £475 +5.56% 23
Work from Home +141 32 £455 - 49
UK excluding London +68 23 £500 +53.85% 117
North of England - 10 £500 - 26
South East - 7 £510 - 25
Yorkshire - 7 £520 - 8
Midlands +27 3 £350 -33.40% 12
North West - 3 £500 - 13
East Midlands +11 2 - - 2
Scotland +41 1 £575 +76.92% 15
East of England - 1 £450 - 10
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 10
South West - 1 £400 - 24

NEC
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 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (9.09%) Spreadsheet
2 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 50 (64.94%) NEC Housing
2 7 (9.09%) MIS ActiveH
3 4 (5.19%) OPENHousing
4 1 (1.30%) Aareon QL
4 1 (1.30%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 7 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
1 7 (9.09%) Amazon S3
1 7 (9.09%) AWS
1 7 (9.09%) AWS Lambda
1 7 (9.09%) AWS Step Functions
1 7 (9.09%) GitHub
1 7 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 7 (9.09%) Serverless
2 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.90%) Internet
2 2 (2.60%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Oracle Database
2 6 (7.79%) SQL Server
3 5 (6.49%) Data Mining
3 5 (6.49%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.49%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.90%) Metadata
4 3 (3.90%) Metadata Repository
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.60%) Power BI
6 1 (1.30%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Postman
1 1 (1.30%) Selenium
1 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
General
1 17 (22.08%) Local Government
2 12 (15.58%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.39%) Finance
3 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.09%) Billing
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
6 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Law
6 1 (1.30%) Legal
6 1 (1.30%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.30%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (20.78%) Senior
2 14 (18.18%) Analyst
3 10 (12.99%) Project Manager
3 10 (12.99%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Consultant
5 8 (10.39%) Developer
6 7 (9.09%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Data Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Migration Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Software Developer
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Configuration Specialist
8 3 (3.90%) Implementation Consultant
8 3 (3.90%) Python Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (3.90%) Trainer
9 2 (2.60%) Category Manager
9 2 (2.60%) Integration Developer
9 2 (2.60%) Migration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.39%) .NET
2 7 (9.09%) .NET Core
2 7 (9.09%) OAuth
2 7 (9.09%) OAuth2
2 7 (9.09%) React
2 7 (9.09%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.60%) Housing Association
2 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
2 2 (2.60%) PMI
3 1 (1.30%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.30%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.78%) Housing Management
2 13 (16.88%) Migration
3 11 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 10 (12.99%) Project Management
5 9 (11.69%) Customer Service
6 8 (10.39%) Batch Processing
6 8 (10.39%) BDD
6 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (9.09%) Analytics
7 7 (9.09%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.09%) DevOps
7 7 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
7 7 (9.09%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.09%) TDD
7 7 (9.09%) Test Scripting
8 6 (7.79%) CI/CD
8 6 (7.79%) PRINCE2
9 5 (6.49%) Data Modelling
9 5 (6.49%) ETL
9 5 (6.49%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (36.36%) SQL
2 7 (9.09%) Python
3 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.39%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 6 (7.79%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) APMP
3 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) ISEB
3 3 (3.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (3.90%) RIBA
4 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.60%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) MRICS
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) SLA
2 3 (3.90%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.60%) QA
4 1 (1.30%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 7 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (29.87%) Northgate
2 14 (18.18%) Oracle
3 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.90%) Civica
4 3 (3.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.30%) Aareon
5 1 (1.30%) Capita
5 1 (1.30%) iManage