BYOD Contracts with Work from Home Options

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited BYOD over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 451 595
Rank change year-on-year +109 +144 -122
Contract jobs citing BYOD 7 15 25
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.047% 0.060% 0.056%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.16% 0.19% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 23
10th Percentile £395 £375 £328
25th Percentile £444 £394 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +6.28%
75th Percentile £538 £650 £659
90th Percentile £545 - £750
UK median daily rate £320 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -28.89% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £14.48 £15.05 -
% change year-on-year -3.77% - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

BYOD 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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,276 7,932 13,945
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.63% 31.49% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,924 5,588 9,977
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £813 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 152 226
10th Percentile £16.03 £19.00 £13.19
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.75 £52.93 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +18.93% +28.91%
75th Percentile £68.13 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £31.25 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.98% -18.24% +3.19%

BYOD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing BYOD as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

BYOD trend for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing BYOD.

BYOD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing BYOD over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

BYOD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) MPLS
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
1 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
1 1 (14.29%) Power Query
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Service Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
1 1 (14.29%) CMDB
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) IoT
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Customer Service
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Logistics
2 1 (14.29%) Microservices
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (14.29%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) SDLC
2 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Usability Testing
2 1 (14.29%) User Research
2 1 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Fortinet