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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 154 159
Rank change year-on-year +29 +5 +27
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 783 959 1,543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 1.71% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 1.91% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 611 1,026
10th Percentile £263 £350 £350
25th Percentile £375 £448 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £526
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.24% +5.25%
75th Percentile £606 £638 £638
90th Percentile £745 £725 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 80 26
10th Percentile £15.13 £26.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.25 £35.00 £14.69
Median hourly rate £50.00 £51.00 £20.09
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +153.83% +7.16%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £44.22
90th Percentile £50.70 £75.00 £73.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% +117.95% -13.02%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
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% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
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% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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 +27 674 £500 -9.09% 1,240
UK excluding London +30 418 £475 -5.00% 822
London +37 306 £500 -9.09% 433
Work from Home +12 238 £500 - 479
South East +15 117 £475 -20.83% 189
East of England +48 80 £363 -27.50% 73
North of England -6 71 £500 - 254
Midlands +4 50 £425 -5.56% 142
Scotland +22 49 £475 - 43
South West -5 40 £581 +5.68% 123
North West -3 37 £473 -11.06% 143
Yorkshire +12 31 £622 +27.59% 70
West Midlands -8 28 £538 +15.34% 84
East Midlands +12 19 £410 +0.92% 58
Wales +18 6 £425 - 15
North East +8 3 £625 +47.06% 44
Isle of Man - 3 - -
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 10

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 37 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 26 (3.32%) Confluence
3 12 (1.53%) CMS
4 10 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.51%) Appian
6 4 (0.51%) Luigi
7 2 (0.26%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.13%) Apache
8 1 (0.13%) Drupal
8 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
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
8 1 (0.13%) WildFly
Applications
1 53 (6.77%) Microsoft Excel
2 40 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.28%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 8 (1.02%) Photoshop
6 7 (0.89%) Adobe Illustrator
6 7 (0.89%) Microsoft Project
7 5 (0.64%) Sketch
8 4 (0.51%) Adobe Captivate
9 3 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.38%) MicroStation
9 3 (0.38%) MS Visio
9 3 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.26%) Adobe XD
10 2 (0.26%) CINEMA 4D
10 2 (0.26%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.26%) InVision
10 2 (0.26%) UserZoom
10 2 (0.26%) Windchill
11 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 15 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (1.15%) SAP HCM
2 9 (1.15%) SAP HR
3 8 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.51%) Distributed Ledger
4 4 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.38%) SAP MII
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.13%) BigMachines
7 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.13%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Financials
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
Cloud Services
1 101 (12.90%) Azure
2 91 (11.62%) AWS
3 44 (5.62%) Power Platform
4 40 (5.11%) GCP
5 27 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (2.43%) GitHub
7 18 (2.30%) OpenShift
8 15 (1.92%) Power Automate
9 14 (1.79%) Serverless
10 12 (1.53%) PowerApps
11 10 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 10 (1.28%) Figma
11 10 (1.28%) PaaS
11 10 (1.28%) SaaS
11 10 (1.28%) SuccessFactors
12 9 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
12 9 (1.15%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (1.15%) Kong
13 8 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (4.09%) Firewall
2 24 (3.07%) VPN
3 20 (2.55%) TCP/IP
4 19 (2.43%) DNS
5 13 (1.66%) HTTP
6 12 (1.53%) Wireless
7 8 (1.02%) Network Security
8 7 (0.89%) VSAN
9 6 (0.77%) Internet
9 6 (0.77%) SD-WAN
9 6 (0.77%) SSL
10 5 (0.64%) VLAN
11 4 (0.51%) DHCP
11 4 (0.51%) FTP
11 4 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
11 4 (0.51%) WAN
12 3 (0.38%) BIG-IP
12 3 (0.38%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
12 3 (0.38%) Reverse Proxy
12 3 (0.38%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (4.73%) Power BI
2 20 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
3 19 (2.43%) Elasticsearch
4 15 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (1.66%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (1.28%) SQL Server
8 9 (1.15%) Metadata
9 7 (0.89%) Tableau
10 6 (0.77%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (0.77%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.77%) GIS
10 6 (0.77%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.64%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.51%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.38%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (0.38%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.38%) QGIS
13 3 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (6.90%) JIRA
2 44 (5.62%) Git
3 22 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.43%) GitLab
5 15 (1.92%) Selenium
6 11 (1.40%) Travis CI
7 10 (1.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 9 (1.15%) CircleCI
8 9 (1.15%) JMeter
9 8 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.89%) Postman
10 7 (0.89%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.51%) NUnit
12 3 (0.38%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.38%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
13 2 (0.26%) Axure RP
13 2 (0.26%) Mocha
13 2 (0.26%) WebDriver
General
1 340 (43.42%) Social Skills
2 129 (16.48%) Analytical Skills
3 116 (14.81%) Finance
3 116 (14.81%) Public Sector
4 55 (7.02%) Aerospace
5 40 (5.11%) Marketing
6 39 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
7 28 (3.58%) Legal
7 28 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (3.45%) Telecoms
9 25 (3.19%) Banking
10 24 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (2.30%) Manufacturing
13 13 (1.66%) Law
13 13 (1.66%) Multimedia
13 13 (1.66%) Retail
14 11 (1.40%) Local Government
15 10 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 83 (10.60%) Analyst
2 68 (8.68%) Architect
3 66 (8.43%) Developer
3 66 (8.43%) Senior
4 55 (7.02%) Configuration Manager
5 44 (5.62%) Lead
6 39 (4.98%) Consultant
7 30 (3.83%) Project Manager
8 29 (3.70%) Designer
9 28 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (3.45%) Data Engineer
11 23 (2.94%) Contracts Manager
12 21 (2.68%) Business Analyst
12 21 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
13 17 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
14 16 (2.04%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.04%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.92%) Data Analyst
16 11 (1.40%) Cabling Engineer
16 11 (1.40%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (3.07%) HTML
2 23 (2.94%) .NET
3 21 (2.68%) CSS
4 18 (2.30%) AngularJS
4 18 (2.30%) React
5 15 (1.92%) JSON
5 15 (1.92%) Node.js
5 15 (1.92%) XML
6 14 (1.79%) RESTful
7 13 (1.66%) Kafka
7 13 (1.66%) Spring
8 12 (1.53%) REST
9 11 (1.40%) Elastic Stack
9 11 (1.40%) Spring Boot
10 10 (1.28%) GraphQL
10 10 (1.28%) YAML
11 8 (1.02%) Pandas
12 7 (0.89%) .NET Framework
12 7 (0.89%) ADO
13 6 (0.77%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 34 (4.34%) Management Information System
2 31 (3.96%) Product Ownership
3 23 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 20 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (1.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 12 (1.53%) Onboarding
6 12 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (1.40%) Data Structures
7 11 (1.40%) Fibre Optics
7 11 (1.40%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.15%) e-Learning
8 9 (1.15%) FMCG
9 8 (1.02%) Data Centre
9 8 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (1.02%) Security Posture
9 8 (1.02%) Social Media
10 6 (0.77%) Digital Media
10 6 (0.77%) NHS
11 5 (0.64%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 35 (4.47%) Windows
2 15 (1.92%) Linux
3 13 (1.66%) Unix
4 12 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.28%) Apple iOS
6 7 (0.89%) Windows 10
7 6 (0.77%) Android
8 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
2 184 (23.50%) Agile
3 132 (16.86%) Project Management
4 90 (11.49%) DevOps
5 79 (10.09%) Configuration Management
5 79 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 77 (9.83%) CI/CD
7 68 (8.68%) Coaching
8 58 (7.41%) Change Management
9 57 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 56 (7.15%) Decision-Making
11 55 (7.02%) PLM
12 49 (6.26%) Roadmaps
13 47 (6.00%) Computer Science
14 46 (5.87%) ITIL
14 46 (5.87%) Scrum
15 45 (5.75%) Containerisation
16 44 (5.62%) Risk Management
17 42 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
17 42 (5.36%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 63 (8.05%) SQL
2 56 (7.15%) Python
3 35 (4.47%) JavaScript
4 33 (4.21%) PowerShell
5 21 (2.68%) Java
6 19 (2.43%) C#
7 16 (2.04%) Bash
8 14 (1.79%) TypeScript
9 7 (0.89%) Shell Script
10 6 (0.77%) C++
10 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.64%) PHP
12 4 (0.51%) Bicep
13 3 (0.38%) ActionScript
13 3 (0.38%) Ruby
14 2 (0.26%) ABAP
14 2 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 2 (0.26%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 109 (13.92%) Security Cleared
2 108 (13.79%) Degree
3 96 (12.26%) SC Cleared
4 36 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 27 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 10 (1.28%) CISSP
9 7 (0.89%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (0.77%) CISM
10 6 (0.77%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.77%) ISEB
10 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.64%) PMI Certification
12 4 (0.51%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.51%) PMP
13 3 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 3 (0.38%) CISA
13 3 (0.38%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (5.36%) QA
2 22 (2.81%) Accessibility
2 22 (2.81%) GDPR
3 21 (2.68%) PMO
4 19 (2.43%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.89%) SLA
7 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
8 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 3 (0.38%) NIST
9 2 (0.26%) GAMP
9 2 (0.26%) GMP
9 2 (0.26%) GxP
9 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.26%) NCSC
9 2 (0.26%) WCAG
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 39 (4.98%) Docker
2 24 (3.07%) Active Directory
3 18 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.89%) vCloud
4 7 (0.89%) VMware NSX
5 3 (0.38%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.38%) NFS
5 3 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.38%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (0.38%) vSphere
6 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.13%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 59 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 27 (3.45%) Terraform
3 22 (2.81%) Ansible
4 21 (2.68%) Prometheus
5 20 (2.55%) Kibana
6 19 (2.43%) Grafana
7 17 (2.17%) Istio
8 15 (1.92%) Progress Chef
8 15 (1.92%) Puppet
9 13 (1.66%) SCCM
10 10 (1.28%) Argo
11 9 (1.15%) Docker Swarm
11 9 (1.15%) logstash
11 9 (1.15%) vCenter Server
12 8 (1.02%) WSUS
13 7 (0.89%) Rancher
14 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
15 5 (0.64%) Nessus
16 4 (0.51%) FortiGate
17 3 (0.38%) SCOM
Vendors
1 125 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.98%) Oracle
3 31 (3.96%) SAP
4 23 (2.94%) ServiceNow
4 23 (2.94%) VMware
5 18 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 16 (2.04%) Google
7 14 (1.79%) Splunk
8 13 (1.66%) Adobe
9 12 (1.53%) BT
10 7 (0.89%) Apple
11 6 (0.77%) Dell
12 5 (0.64%) ESRI
12 5 (0.64%) Qualys
12 5 (0.64%) SmartStream
13 4 (0.51%) Cisco
13 4 (0.51%) Databricks
13 4 (0.51%) Freshdesk
13 4 (0.51%) HP
13 4 (0.51%) IBM