Onboarding Contracts with Work from Home Options

Onboarding
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding 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 Onboarding over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 166 205
Rank change year-on-year +12 +39 +17
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 203 382 582
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.35% 1.52% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.69% 4.84% 4.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 277 379
10th Percentile £260 £390 £350
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 3 4
10th Percentile - £54.00 £15.78
25th Percentile £14.00 £58.50 £22.19
Median hourly rate £22.50 £66.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -65.91% +142.20% +96.11%
75th Percentile £28.75 £68.75 £33.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £70.40 £43.40
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% +19.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Onboarding 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 4,326 7,897 13,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.70% 31.48% 31.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,958 5,553 9,859
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £455 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £793 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 154 221
10th Percentile £15.49 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.94 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.13 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.43% -18.24% +4.05%

Onboarding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding trend for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 Onboarding.

Onboarding daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Onboarding daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 Onboarding.

Onboarding hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Onboarding hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 8 (3.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.48%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.49%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.49%) Confluence
4 1 (0.49%) WordPress
Applications
1 12 (5.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.49%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.99%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.99%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.99%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.99%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.99%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.99%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.49%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.49%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (23.15%) Azure
2 36 (17.73%) AWS
3 27 (13.30%) GitHub
4 17 (8.37%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (8.37%) SaaS
5 15 (7.39%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.93%) GitHub Actions
6 10 (4.93%) IaaS
6 10 (4.93%) PaaS
6 10 (4.93%) SuccessFactors
7 9 (4.43%) OCI
8 5 (2.46%) Entra ID
8 5 (2.46%) Oracle Service Cloud
8 5 (2.46%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.97%) Asana
9 4 (1.97%) AWS CloudFormation
9 4 (1.97%) Azure AKS
9 4 (1.97%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.97%) Slack
10 3 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.46%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (2.46%) NetScaler
1 5 (2.46%) VPN
2 4 (1.97%) DHCP
2 4 (1.97%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 3 (1.48%) SSH
4 2 (0.99%) LAN
4 2 (0.99%) Wireless
5 1 (0.49%) DNS
5 1 (0.49%) Firewall
5 1 (0.49%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.49%) Intranet
5 1 (0.49%) Network Security
5 1 (0.49%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (11.33%) SQL Server
2 20 (9.85%) MySQL
2 20 (9.85%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (2.46%) Power BI
4 4 (1.97%) Big Data
5 3 (1.48%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.99%) EDMS
7 1 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.49%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.49%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (7.39%) JIRA
2 10 (4.93%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.46%) GitLab
4 4 (1.97%) Git
5 2 (0.99%) Ant
5 2 (0.99%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.99%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.99%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.49%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.49%) JMeter
6 1 (0.49%) MSI
General
1 52 (25.62%) Finance
2 47 (23.15%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.84%) Public Sector
4 16 (7.88%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.88%) Banking
5 9 (4.43%) Financial Institution
6 8 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (3.45%) Marketing
7 7 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (1.97%) Advertising
8 4 (1.97%) Legal
8 4 (1.97%) Retail
9 3 (1.48%) German Language
10 2 (0.99%) Automotive
10 2 (0.99%) Back Office
10 2 (0.99%) Billing
10 2 (0.99%) Electronics
10 2 (0.99%) Front Office
10 2 (0.99%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.99%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (12.32%) Consultant
2 22 (10.84%) Developer
3 21 (10.34%) Senior
4 20 (9.85%) Project Manager
5 19 (9.36%) Analyst
6 14 (6.90%) Lead
7 13 (6.40%) IT Support
8 12 (5.91%) Administrator
9 10 (4.93%) Business Analyst
9 10 (4.93%) SailPoint Developer
10 8 (3.94%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.94%) SailPoint Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
11 7 (3.45%) Service Manager
11 7 (3.45%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Architect
12 6 (2.96%) Cloud Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) SAP Consultant
12 6 (2.96%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.34%) SailPoint
2 20 (9.85%) HTML
3 17 (8.37%) LDAP
4 16 (7.88%) JSP
4 16 (7.88%) Servlets
4 16 (7.88%) SOAP
4 16 (7.88%) SPML
4 16 (7.88%) Web Services
4 16 (7.88%) XML
5 15 (7.39%) JDBC
6 10 (4.93%) ARM Templates
6 10 (4.93%) Azure Blueprints
7 5 (2.46%) .NET
7 5 (2.46%) JSON
8 4 (1.97%) ADO
9 3 (1.48%) CSS
9 3 (1.48%) EDI
9 3 (1.48%) HTML5
9 3 (1.48%) Middleware
9 3 (1.48%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 25 (12.32%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.43%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.97%) Tandem
5 4 (1.97%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.48%) NHS
7 2 (0.99%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.49%) CMDB
8 1 (0.49%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.49%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.49%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.49%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.49%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.49%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.84%) Windows
2 11 (5.42%) Linux
3 7 (3.45%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.97%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.97%) Unix
5 2 (0.99%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.49%) Android
6 1 (0.49%) CentOS
6 1 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (16.75%) Agile
2 32 (15.76%) Project Management
3 29 (14.29%) DevOps
4 26 (12.81%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (8.87%) RBAC
6 17 (8.37%) Migration
6 17 (8.37%) Software Engineering
7 16 (7.88%) Cybersecurity
8 14 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (6.40%) DevSecOps
10 12 (5.91%) Analytics
10 12 (5.91%) Deployment Automation
10 12 (5.91%) Test Automation
11 11 (5.42%) Mentoring
11 11 (5.42%) User Experience
12 10 (4.93%) Continuous Delivery
12 10 (4.93%) Functional Testing
12 10 (4.93%) Non-Functional Testing
12 10 (4.93%) Performance Analysis
12 10 (4.93%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (12.81%) SQL
2 20 (9.85%) Java
3 17 (8.37%) JavaScript
4 10 (4.93%) Python
5 8 (3.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.97%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.97%) Bash
6 4 (1.97%) C#
7 2 (0.99%) Bourne shell
7 2 (0.99%) Korn
7 2 (0.99%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.99%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.49%) COBOL
8 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.49%) Micro Focus COBOL
8 1 (0.49%) R
8 1 (0.49%) Ruby
8 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.49%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (21.18%) Security Cleared
2 40 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 29 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
4 13 (6.40%) Degree
5 6 (2.96%) PMP
6 4 (1.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.97%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.99%) Azure Certification
7 2 (0.99%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.99%) Master's Degree
7 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.49%) APMP
8 1 (0.49%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.49%) CIPD
8 1 (0.49%) CISSP
8 1 (0.49%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.49%) ISEB
8 1 (0.49%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.49%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.93%) NCSC
1 10 (4.93%) QA
2 6 (2.96%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.96%) SLA
3 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) PMO
4 3 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
6 1 (0.49%) GAAP
6 1 (0.49%) GxP
6 1 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.49%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (15.27%) Active Directory
2 17 (8.37%) IAG
3 15 (7.39%) ACF2
3 15 (7.39%) RACF
4 11 (5.42%) Docker
5 5 (2.46%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.49%) Firmware
7 1 (0.49%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 14 (6.90%) Terraform
3 10 (4.93%) Ansible
4 3 (1.48%) SCCM
4 3 (1.48%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.49%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (0.49%) Matomo
5 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.49%) Nagios
5 1 (0.49%) Opsview
5 1 (0.49%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (18.72%) Oracle
2 29 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 28 (13.79%) SAP
4 23 (11.33%) Microsoft
5 17 (8.37%) Sybase
6 6 (2.96%) Ariba
6 6 (2.96%) Virgin Media
7 5 (2.46%) F5
7 5 (2.46%) Red Hat
7 5 (2.46%) Splunk
8 4 (1.97%) Blue Prism
8 4 (1.97%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.97%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.97%) Genesys
8 4 (1.97%) Palo Alto
8 4 (1.97%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.48%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.48%) Google
9 3 (1.48%) Phenom
9 3 (1.48%) Salesforce