Loose Coupling Contracts with Work from Home Options

Loose Coupling
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 Loose Coupling skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Loose Coupling 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 335 459 613
Rank change year-on-year +124 +154 -
Contract jobs citing Loose Coupling 2 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.031% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.015% 0.035% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 9
10th Percentile - £663 £470
25th Percentile £655 £734 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £788 £590
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +33.47% -
75th Percentile £665 £800 £675
90th Percentile - - £692
UK median daily rate £600 £775 £623
% change year-on-year -22.58% +24.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Loose Coupling 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%

Loose Coupling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Loose Coupling trend for jobs with a WFH option

Loose Coupling
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 Loose Coupling.

Loose Coupling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Loose Coupling
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 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Architect
1 2 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (50.00%) ERP Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft