Development Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Development Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Development Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 466 -
Rank change year-on-year +126 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Development Specialist 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.004% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £650 -
% change year-on-year -26.92% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,049 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,416 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Development Specialist
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Development Specialist in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Development Specialist trend for jobs with a WFH option

Development Specialist
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 Development Specialist.

Development Specialist daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Development Specialist Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Development Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Development Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Development Specialist Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft