Freedom of Information Contracts with Work from Home Options

Freedom of Information (FOI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information 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 Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 458 585
Rank change year-on-year +128 +127 -118
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information 17 10 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.041% 0.084%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.40% 0.13% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 28
10th Percentile £192 £341 £222
25th Percentile £205 £453 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £347 £535 £450
Median % change year-on-year -35.11% +18.89% -
75th Percentile £516 £611 £550
90th Percentile £750 £695 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £610 £450
% change year-on-year -30.33% +35.56% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £15.78 £18.88 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.79 £19.15 £17.69
Median hourly rate £21.14 £19.95 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.96% +1.01% -21.00%
75th Percentile £24.49 £20.90 £22.19
90th Percentile £26.50 £21.26 £23.13
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £21.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -41.67% -19.23% +8.33%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Freedom of Information 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 4,251 7,781 13,858
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.72% 31.57% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,495 9,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £797 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 150 225
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Freedom of Information
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Freedom of Information trend for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
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 Freedom of Information.

Freedom of Information daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Freedom of Information daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
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 Freedom of Information.

Freedom of Information hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Freedom of Information hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
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:

Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Big Data
1 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Parquet
2 1 (5.88%) Star Schema
General
1 12 (70.59%) Public Sector
2 5 (29.41%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.88%) Back Office
5 1 (5.88%) Law
5 1 (5.88%) Legal
5 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Information Officer
1 4 (23.53%) Integration Developer
1 4 (23.53%) Integration Specialist
1 4 (23.53%) Project Manager
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow Developer
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow Specialist
2 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 1 (5.88%) Compliance Officer
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Data Coordinator
3 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Migration Project Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Officer
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Information
3 1 (5.88%) Head of Information Management
3 1 (5.88%) Information Governance Officer
3 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Lead
3 1 (5.88%) Migration Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Apache Avro
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) JSON Schema
1 1 (5.88%) XML
1 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (41.18%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (29.41%) Freedom of Information Act
3 4 (23.53%) CMDB
3 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (11.76%) Product Ownership
5 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Data Protection
2 4 (23.53%) PRINCE2
2 4 (23.53%) Project Delivery
2 4 (23.53%) Project Management
3 3 (17.65%) Change Management
3 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
4 2 (11.76%) Analytics
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Case Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) Information Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Information Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) PRINCE
4 2 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.76%) Project Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Resource Management
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) DBS Check
2 1 (5.88%) ISEB
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) COBIT
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.88%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow