E-business Contracts with Work from Home Options

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
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 E-business skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-business over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 455 602
Rank change year-on-year +124 +147 -124
Contract jobs citing E-business 18 11 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.12% 0.044% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.049% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 13
10th Percentile £500 £494 £413
25th Percentile £509 £513 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +6.06% +6.68%
75th Percentile £688 £616 £538
90th Percentile £694 £643 £610
UK median daily rate £625 £603 £520
% change year-on-year +3.73% +15.87% -9.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-business 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 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

E-business
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

E-business trend for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
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 E-business.

E-business daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

E-business daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
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:

Business Applications
1 9 (50.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (44.44%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (5.56%) Maximo
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle ODI
1 6 (33.33%) PowerCenter
2 1 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (44.44%) JIRA
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 11 (61.11%) Finance
3 9 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Consultant
1 8 (44.44%) DBA
1 8 (44.44%) Functional Consultant
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Consultant
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle DBA
1 8 (44.44%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 7 (38.89%) Oracle P2P Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (11.11%) QA Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Administrator
4 1 (5.56%) HR Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) AIX
1 8 (44.44%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) DevOps
2 14 (77.78%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (38.89%) Agile
5 6 (33.33%) High Availability
5 6 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (11.11%) Database Security
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 1 (5.56%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Data Guard
2 6 (33.33%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (33.33%) Informatica