Code Optimisation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Code Optimisation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Code Optimisation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Code Optimisation over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 454 605
Rank change year-on-year +118 +151 -134
Contract jobs citing Code Optimisation 1 13 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.051% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.057% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 13
10th Percentile - £563 £495
25th Percentile £525 £682 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £800 £612
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% +30.72% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £915 £657
90th Percentile - - £688
UK median daily rate £588 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -26.56% +18.52% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Code Optimisation 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,316 22,957 40,627
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,913 16,228 29,490
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £626
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 528 539
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.93 £13.70
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.13
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Code Optimisation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Code Optimisation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Code Optimisation
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 Code Optimisation.

Code Optimisation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Code Optimisation
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript