Are your Skills in Demand for Outside IR35 roles?

Outside Spy crunches through the latest 1862 IT Contract vacancies advertised as “Outside IR35” to reveal the skills most in demand.

Outside Spy has been monitoring the level of IT contract vacancies since the start of 2020, when we first launched our service to bring all the relevant advertised vacancies “Outside IR35” to the attention of our members in one easy-to-search database.

This analysis, repeated every six months, takes the full database of current vacancies, ie roles advertised in the last 10 days, to help answer queries such as “How many Outside IR35 roles are there with my skillset?”.

Keyword in Job Title

Number of Jobs

% of all Adverts

Rise or Fall

1

Developer

367

19.7

↔

2

Architect

198

10.6

↔

3

Data

163

8.8

↔

4

Project Manager

155

8.3

↔

5

Business Analyst

91

4.9

↑

6

Network

87

4.7

↑

7

Azure

68

3.7

↑

8

DevOps

66

3.5

↓

9

AWS

62

3.3

↓

10

Java/Javascript

54

2.9

↓

11

react

53

2.8

↓

12

.net

35

1.9

↓

13

Programme Manager

34

1.8

↑

14

SAP

33

1.8

↑

15

BI/Business Intelligence

30

1.6

↓

16

SQL

22

1.2

↓

17

Salesforce

20

1.1

↓

18

Cyber Security

16

0.9

↑

19

C#

15

0.8

↓

20

PMO

15

0.8

↓

21

ServiceNow

13

0.7

↑

22

Trainer

3

0.2

↑

23

iOS

2

0.1

↓

24

Ruby

1

0.1

↓

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 
Whilst Developers, Architects, Data Professionals and Project Managers retain their spots at the top of the most sought-after list, the most noticeable increases are for Business Analysts and Networking Professionals. With Programme Manager and Project Manager roles also showing a small increase, Outside Spy co-founder Brian Stalley commented, “Business Analysts are often recruited at the start of projects, so hopefully these numbers provide some reassurance that new IT projects are continuing to be resourced with Outside IR35 professionals, despite the current uncertain economic picture”.

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Note on method

The method was to analyse all 1862 current roles and see how often our portfolio of 24 keywords were specified in the Job Title by advertisers. Our portfolio of Keywords contains a mixture of skill-based keywords (eg AWS, Java, SQL) and role-based keywords (eg Project Manager, Business Analyst). The analysis is restricted to the Job Title itself, rather than include the job description, so as to exclude advertisers’ “wish list” of skills.