Collaborative Working Contracts with Work from Home Options

Collaborative Working
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 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 133 158 154
Rank change year-on-year +25 -4 +36
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Working 247 400 772
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.64% 1.59% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.86% 1.77% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 262 549
10th Percentile £326 £351 £383
25th Percentile £396 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £625
90th Percentile £720 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £498 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -5.24% -0.94% +11.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 33 14
10th Percentile £18.10 £32.96 £16.05
25th Percentile £24.25 £47.50 £19.09
Median hourly rate £26.00 £65.00 £22.62
Median % change year-on-year -60.00% +187.36% +26.79%
75th Percentile £27.00 £73.75 £44.16
90th Percentile £39.77 £85.00 £68.50
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £53.87 £20.09
% change year-on-year -7.18% +168.11% +5.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
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 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Collaborative Working
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Collaborative Working trend for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Working
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 Collaborative Working.

Collaborative Working daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Working
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Collaborative Working daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Collaborative Working.

Collaborative Working hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Working
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Collaborative Working over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Collaborative Working hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Working
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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (3.64%) Confluence
2 7 (2.83%) CMS
3 4 (1.62%) Luigi
3 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.21%) Appian
4 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.40%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.40%) ArcGIS
5 1 (0.40%) Moodle
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (0.40%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 14 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 3 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.81%) Sketch
6 2 (0.81%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.40%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.40%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.05%) SAP HCM
2 10 (4.05%) SAP HR
3 8 (3.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.40%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 43 (17.41%) Azure
2 33 (13.36%) AWS
3 19 (7.69%) Power Platform
4 14 (5.67%) GCP
5 12 (4.86%) SuccessFactors
6 9 (3.64%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.24%) PowerApps
8 7 (2.83%) SaaS
9 6 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (2.43%) Serverless
10 5 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 5 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
11 4 (1.62%) OCI
11 4 (1.62%) Oracle Service Cloud
12 3 (1.21%) AWS CloudFormation
12 3 (1.21%) Azure Functions
12 3 (1.21%) GitHub
12 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (1.21%) PaaS
12 3 (1.21%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Network Security
2 4 (1.62%) Firewall
3 3 (1.21%) DNS
3 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.81%) Broadband
4 2 (0.81%) HTTP
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
5 1 (0.40%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.40%) Intranet
5 1 (0.40%) MPLS
5 1 (0.40%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) VLAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.07%) Power BI
2 9 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.02%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.62%) Relational Database
4 4 (1.62%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.81%) GIS
6 2 (0.81%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.81%) RDBMS
6 2 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.40%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.40%) DB2
7 1 (0.40%) Metadata
7 1 (0.40%) OLAP
7 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 21 (8.50%) JIRA
2 11 (4.45%) Git
3 8 (3.24%) GitLab
4 7 (2.83%) Jenkins
5 5 (2.02%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (1.21%) Travis CI
7 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.81%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.81%) JMeter
7 2 (0.81%) Mocha
7 2 (0.81%) Selenium
8 1 (0.40%) git-flow
8 1 (0.40%) JUnit
8 1 (0.40%) LSMW
8 1 (0.40%) Mockito
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.40%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.40%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 122 (49.39%) Social Skills
2 45 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (17.81%) Finance
4 37 (14.98%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.48%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.86%) Marketing
7 11 (4.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.24%) Banking
9 8 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.43%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.62%) French Language
11 4 (1.62%) German Language
11 4 (1.62%) Legal
11 4 (1.62%) Police
11 4 (1.62%) Publishing
12 3 (1.21%) Military
13 2 (0.81%) Law
13 2 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 29 (11.74%) Analyst
2 26 (10.53%) Architect
3 24 (9.72%) Senior
4 22 (8.91%) Developer
5 17 (6.88%) Consultant
5 17 (6.88%) Project Manager
6 15 (6.07%) Lead
7 10 (4.05%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (4.05%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.64%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
9 8 (3.24%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.24%) DevOps Engineer
10 7 (2.83%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.43%) Business Analyst
11 6 (2.43%) Technical Architect
12 5 (2.02%) Integration Engineer
12 5 (2.02%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.02%) Systems Engineer
12 5 (2.02%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.43%) .NET
1 6 (2.43%) HTML
1 6 (2.43%) REST
2 5 (2.02%) .NET Framework
2 5 (2.02%) CSS
2 5 (2.02%) GraphQL
2 5 (2.02%) XML
3 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
3 4 (1.62%) JSON
3 4 (1.62%) Pandas
3 4 (1.62%) React
4 3 (1.21%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (1.21%) Web Services
5 2 (0.81%) Jest
5 2 (0.81%) Redux
5 2 (0.81%) RESTful
5 2 (0.81%) Spring
5 2 (0.81%) Spring Boot
5 2 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.26%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 5 (2.02%) Data Centre
4 4 (1.62%) CMDB
4 4 (1.62%) Mainframe
4 4 (1.62%) NHS
5 3 (1.21%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.81%) Educational Technology
6 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.81%) Low-Code
6 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.81%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (0.81%) Solar Energy
6 2 (0.81%) Video Editing
6 2 (0.81%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.24%) Windows
2 6 (2.43%) Unix
3 4 (1.62%) Linux
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (22.67%) Agile
3 47 (19.03%) Project Management
4 23 (9.31%) Change Management
4 23 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (9.31%) DevOps
4 23 (9.31%) Roadmaps
4 23 (9.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (7.69%) CI/CD
5 19 (7.69%) ITIL
5 19 (7.69%) Risk Management
6 16 (6.48%) Decision-Making
6 16 (6.48%) Migration
6 16 (6.48%) Scrum
6 16 (6.48%) User Stories
7 15 (6.07%) Business Intelligence
8 14 (5.67%) Customer Service
9 13 (5.26%) Computer Science
9 13 (5.26%) Service Management
10 12 (4.86%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.12%) Python
2 18 (7.29%) SQL
3 10 (4.05%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.05%) PowerShell
4 9 (3.64%) C#
5 5 (2.02%) Bash
5 5 (2.02%) Java
6 4 (1.62%) Bicep
6 4 (1.62%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.21%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.21%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.81%) ABAP
8 2 (0.81%) PHP
8 2 (0.81%) Ruby
9 1 (0.40%) C++
9 1 (0.40%) Scala
9 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 41 (16.60%) Degree
2 23 (9.31%) Security Cleared
3 22 (8.91%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (4.45%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.83%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.21%) CISSP
7 2 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
7 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.40%) CISM
8 1 (0.40%) CRISC
8 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.40%) IIBA
8 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.40%) PMP
8 1 (0.40%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.45%) QA
2 6 (2.43%) PCI DSS
3 5 (2.02%) SLA
4 4 (1.62%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.62%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.62%) PMO
5 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.81%) GDPR
6 2 (0.81%) NCSC
7 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) NIST
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (5.26%) Docker
2 7 (2.83%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.24%) Terraform
3 6 (2.43%) Ansible
4 5 (2.02%) Progress Chef
4 5 (2.02%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.02%) Puppet
5 4 (1.62%) Kibana
6 3 (1.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.81%) Docker Swarm
7 2 (0.81%) logstash
7 2 (0.81%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Argo
8 1 (0.40%) Istio
8 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.40%) Nessus
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (17.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.48%) SAP
3 13 (5.26%) Oracle
3 13 (5.26%) ServiceNow
4 9 (3.64%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.83%) BT
5 7 (2.83%) Google
6 4 (1.62%) Adobe
6 4 (1.62%) Freshdesk
6 4 (1.62%) VMware
7 3 (1.21%) Databricks
7 3 (1.21%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) CyberArk
8 2 (0.81%) IBM
9 1 (0.40%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) SaltStack
9 1 (0.40%) Xamarin