Programmer Contracts with Work from Home Options

Programmer
UK > Work from Home

The median Programmer daily rate in Work from Home is £535 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 404 540
Rank change year-on-year +125 +136 -122
Contract jobs requiring a Programmer 70 60 70
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.24% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.50% 0.25% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 17 31
10th Percentile £343 £324 £70
25th Percentile £463 £374 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.88% -5.56% +11.11%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £504
90th Percentile £600 £549 £513
UK median daily rate £534 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +12.32% +5.56% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile - - £50.35
25th Percentile £41.25 £61.25 £52.13
Median hourly rate £58.75 £62.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.61% +111.32%
75th Percentile £77.81 £63.75 £69.38
90th Percentile £78.38 - £70.00
UK median hourly rate £19.00 £65.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -70.77% +16.07% +30.23%

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 13,932 23,816 42,408
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.57% 95.33% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,353 16,817 30,671
10th Percentile £325 £362 £356
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £721
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 545 603
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.50 £13.50
25th Percentile £23.22 £25.71 £19.30
Median hourly rate £44.87 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +50.00% +44.03%
75th Percentile £63.75 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.15 £68.65
UK median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.38% +88.21% +6.27%

Programmer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Programmer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Programmer
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 Programmer.

Programmer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programmer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Programmer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Programmer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programmer
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 Programmer.

Programmer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programmer
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Programmer over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Programmer hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programmer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, Programmer 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 Programmer in the job title.

1 33 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 31 (44.29%) C
4 30 (42.86%) PL/SQL
4 30 (42.86%) Visual Studio
4 30 (42.86%) PVCS
5 18 (25.71%) SAS
6 16 (22.86%) zOS
6 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
7 12 (17.14%) Python
8 11 (15.71%) Time Sharing Option
8 11 (15.71%) ISPF
8 11 (15.71%) IBM
8 11 (15.71%) JCL
8 11 (15.71%) Mainframe
8 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
9 9 (12.86%) Assembly Language
9 9 (12.86%) REXX
9 9 (12.86%) Risk Management
9 9 (12.86%) OMEGAMON
9 9 (12.86%) R
9 9 (12.86%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (11.43%) Broadcom
10 8 (11.43%) ACF2
10 8 (11.43%) Splunk
10 8 (11.43%) Configuration Management
10 8 (11.43%) RACF
10 8 (11.43%) C++
11 7 (10.00%) SQL

Programmer 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (25.71%) SAS
2 4 (5.71%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.29%) OpenEdge
Business Applications
1 1 (1.43%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.14%) AWS
2 4 (5.71%) Power Platform
2 4 (5.71%) Veeva
3 2 (2.86%) Amazon S3
3 2 (2.86%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (2.86%) Serverless
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (1.43%) Azure
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) HTTP
1 1 (1.43%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.43%) RTSP
1 1 (1.43%) TCP/IP
1 1 (1.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.71%) Power BI
2 2 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.43%) Big Data
3 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 30 (42.86%) PVCS
1 30 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 3 (4.29%) Git
3 1 (1.43%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.71%) Public Sector
3 5 (7.14%) Banking
4 2 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.43%) Games
5 1 (1.43%) Multimedia
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) ISPF
2 2 (2.86%) FastAPI
2 2 (2.86%) REST
2 2 (2.86%) RESTful
2 2 (2.86%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.43%) GStreamer
3 1 (1.43%) React
3 1 (1.43%) Unreal Engine
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.71%) Mainframe
2 4 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.43%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.43%) Device Driver
3 1 (1.43%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.43%) Interactive Media
3 1 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 16 (22.86%) zOS
2 3 (4.29%) Linux
3 1 (1.43%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (12.86%) Performance Monitoring
2 9 (12.86%) Risk Management
3 8 (11.43%) Configuration Management
4 5 (7.14%) Validation
5 4 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (5.71%) Data Collection
5 4 (5.71%) Data Management
6 3 (4.29%) SDLC
7 2 (2.86%) Analytics
7 2 (2.86%) API Development
7 2 (2.86%) Computer Science
7 2 (2.86%) DevOps
7 2 (2.86%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (2.86%) Integration Testing
7 2 (2.86%) LLM
7 2 (2.86%) Machine Learning
7 2 (2.86%) Observability
7 2 (2.86%) Software Engineering
7 2 (2.86%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (44.29%) C
2 30 (42.86%) PL/SQL
3 12 (17.14%) Python
4 11 (15.71%) JCL
5 9 (12.86%) Assembly Language
5 9 (12.86%) R
5 9 (12.86%) REXX
6 8 (11.43%) C++
7 7 (10.00%) SQL
8 4 (5.71%) C#
8 4 (5.71%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.71%) VB
9 2 (2.86%) COBOL
9 2 (2.86%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 2 (2.86%) Shell Script
10 1 (1.43%) CLIST
10 1 (1.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 33 (47.14%) Security Cleared
2 32 (45.71%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Degree
3 2 (2.86%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.57%) CDISC
2 1 (1.43%) GxP
System Software
1 11 (15.71%) Time Sharing Option
2 8 (11.43%) ACF2
2 8 (11.43%) RACF
3 1 (1.43%) Docker
3 1 (1.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (12.86%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.43%) Argo
3 1 (1.43%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) IBM
2 8 (11.43%) Broadcom
2 8 (11.43%) Splunk
3 3 (4.29%) CA
4 2 (2.86%) Micro Focus
4 2 (2.86%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.43%) Cisco
5 1 (1.43%) Databricks
5 1 (1.43%) Dell
5 1 (1.43%) Palo Alto