Self-Motivation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Self-Motivation
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation 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 Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 169 230 176
Rank change year-on-year +61 -54 -3
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 179 262 692
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.04% 1.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% 3.31% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 169 469
10th Percentile £358 £225 £275
25th Percentile £413 £374 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -0.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £608 £650 £600
90th Percentile £634 £750 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £504
% change year-on-year -3.85% +3.17% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 6 30
10th Percentile - £23.15 £11.71
25th Percentile £25.50 £28.06 £11.82
Median hourly rate £70.00 £48.05 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.67% +182.66% +34.07%
75th Percentile £72.50 £51.60 £57.44
90th Percentile - £54.82 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £24.50 £27.00
% change year-on-year +155.10% -9.26% -12.48%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Self-Motivation 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 4,296 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.60% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,934 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £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 £792 £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 £65.20 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.16 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.13% -18.24% +4.90%

Self-Motivation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Self-Motivation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation.

Self-Motivation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Self-Motivation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation.

Self-Motivation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Self-Motivation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.15%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.23%) Apache Spark
3 4 (2.23%) SAS
4 1 (0.56%) Apache
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
4 1 (0.56%) IIS
4 1 (0.56%) Moodle
Applications
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 20 (11.17%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (10.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.23%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.12%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.56%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.56%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.56%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.56%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 30 (16.76%) Azure
2 27 (15.08%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (11.73%) Entra ID
4 16 (8.94%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (8.94%) Azure Storage
5 15 (8.38%) IaaS
5 15 (8.38%) SaaS
6 14 (7.82%) Google Workspace
6 14 (7.82%) PaaS
7 11 (6.15%) Power Platform
8 9 (5.03%) AWS
9 6 (3.35%) GCP
10 4 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 4 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (2.23%) PowerApps
10 4 (2.23%) Veeva
11 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.12%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 19 (10.61%) DHCP
1 19 (10.61%) DNS
1 19 (10.61%) Firewall
2 2 (1.12%) SAN
2 2 (1.12%) SSL
2 2 (1.12%) VPN
2 2 (1.12%) Wireless
3 1 (0.56%) BGP
3 1 (0.56%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (0.56%) Internet
3 1 (0.56%) Intranet
3 1 (0.56%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.56%) Network Security
3 1 (0.56%) NFC
3 1 (0.56%) OSPF
3 1 (0.56%) PPP
3 1 (0.56%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.56%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.15%) Power BI
2 9 (5.03%) SQL Server
3 7 (3.91%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (3.91%) Hadoop
3 7 (3.91%) Tableau
4 4 (2.23%) Big Data
4 4 (2.23%) Impala
5 3 (1.68%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.68%) Presto
5 3 (1.68%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.12%) Amazon QuickSight
6 2 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.56%) DB2
7 1 (0.56%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.56%) OLAP
7 1 (0.56%) Oracle OLAP
7 1 (0.56%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.56%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.47%) Git
2 4 (2.23%) JIRA
3 3 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.56%) Eclipse
5 1 (0.56%) GitLab
5 1 (0.56%) GoogleTest
5 1 (0.56%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.56%) Maven
5 1 (0.56%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.56%) Spinnaker
5 1 (0.56%) TestRail
5 1 (0.56%) Valgrind
5 1 (0.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (51.40%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (17.88%) Finance
4 23 (12.85%) Telecoms
5 19 (10.61%) Legal
5 19 (10.61%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (8.38%) Public Sector
7 9 (5.03%) Banking
8 4 (2.23%) Front Office
8 4 (2.23%) German Language
8 4 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Advertising
9 3 (1.68%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.68%) Investment Banking
9 3 (1.68%) Marketing
9 3 (1.68%) Retail
10 2 (1.12%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.12%) Automotive
10 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (16.76%) Architect
2 24 (13.41%) Lead
3 23 (12.85%) Analyst
4 22 (12.29%) Lead Architect
4 22 (12.29%) Network Architect
4 22 (12.29%) Systems Architect
5 18 (10.06%) Senior
6 16 (8.94%) Active Directory Support
6 16 (8.94%) Project Manager
7 14 (7.82%) Active Directory Specialist
7 14 (7.82%) Azure Specialist
7 14 (7.82%) Support Specialist
8 10 (5.59%) Data Analyst
9 8 (4.47%) Developer
10 5 (2.79%) Administrator
10 5 (2.79%) Business Analyst
10 5 (2.79%) Designer
10 5 (2.79%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.23%) Platform Engineer
11 4 (2.23%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.94%) ARM Templates
2 9 (5.03%) .NET
3 4 (2.23%) AngularJS
3 4 (2.23%) HTML
3 4 (2.23%) Node.js
3 4 (2.23%) React
4 3 (1.68%) ASP.NET
4 3 (1.68%) CSS
5 2 (1.12%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.12%) Django
5 2 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.12%) HTML5
5 2 (1.12%) JSON
5 2 (1.12%) OAuth
5 2 (1.12%) REST
5 2 (1.12%) RESTful
5 2 (1.12%) Spring
5 2 (1.12%) Spring Boot
5 2 (1.12%) Visualforce
5 2 (1.12%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.50%) PKI
2 15 (8.38%) Virtual Team
3 6 (3.35%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.23%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.23%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.23%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.23%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.68%) Blockchain
5 3 (1.68%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.68%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.68%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.68%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.12%) Clustering
6 2 (1.12%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.12%) Equities
6 2 (1.12%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.12%) IoT
6 2 (1.12%) Social Media
7 1 (0.56%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.64%) Windows
2 24 (13.41%) Linux
3 19 (10.61%) Windows Server
4 16 (8.94%) Windows Server 2016
4 16 (8.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.12%) Android
5 2 (1.12%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (37.43%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (27.93%) Agile
3 31 (17.32%) Analytics
4 26 (14.53%) DevOps
4 26 (14.53%) ITIL
5 25 (13.97%) Strategic Thinking
6 22 (12.29%) Network Management
7 21 (11.73%) Computer Science
7 21 (11.73%) Service Management
7 21 (11.73%) Systems Engineering
8 19 (10.61%) Business Intelligence
8 19 (10.61%) Project Management
9 18 (10.06%) Infrastructure as Code
10 17 (9.50%) CI/CD
10 17 (9.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 17 (9.50%) Release Management
11 16 (8.94%) Identity Management
11 16 (8.94%) Log Analytics
11 16 (8.94%) Privileged Identity Management
11 16 (8.94%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 35 (19.55%) SQL
2 28 (15.64%) C#
3 23 (12.85%) PowerShell
4 22 (12.29%) VB
5 21 (11.73%) Python
6 16 (8.94%) Bicep
6 16 (8.94%) VBScript
7 9 (5.03%) JavaScript
7 9 (5.03%) R
8 7 (3.91%) C++
8 7 (3.91%) Java
9 6 (3.35%) Go
9 6 (3.35%) VBA
10 5 (2.79%) VB.NET
11 4 (2.23%) Bash
12 2 (1.12%) Apex Code
12 2 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (1.12%) Perl
12 2 (1.12%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.12%) Rust
Qualifications
1 74 (41.34%) Degree
2 55 (30.73%) Security Cleared
3 53 (29.61%) SC Cleared
4 16 (8.94%) DV Cleared
4 16 (8.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 16 (8.94%) PMI Certification
4 16 (8.94%) PMP
5 13 (7.26%) APMP
6 11 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.68%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.12%) CCNP
9 2 (1.12%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.12%) MCSA
9 2 (1.12%) MCSE
10 1 (0.56%) CCNA
10 1 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.56%) JNCIA
10 1 (0.56%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.91%) Data Quality
1 7 (3.91%) QA
2 4 (2.23%) CDISC
2 4 (2.23%) PMO
3 2 (1.12%) GDPR
3 2 (1.12%) GRC
3 2 (1.12%) SLA
4 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 21 (11.73%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (8.94%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.12%) Docker
3 2 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.56%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.56%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.56%) OpenIDM
4 1 (0.56%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (12.85%) Kubernetes
1 23 (12.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (9.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 16 (8.94%) SCCM
3 16 (8.94%) SCOM
3 16 (8.94%) WSUS
4 3 (1.68%) Ansible
5 2 (1.12%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.12%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.56%) Grafana
6 1 (0.56%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.56%) Puppet
6 1 (0.56%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (25.70%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.06%) Oracle
3 16 (8.94%) Google
3 16 (8.94%) Salesforce
4 11 (6.15%) SAP
5 5 (2.79%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.79%) Splunk
6 3 (1.68%) Citrix
6 3 (1.68%) Databricks
6 3 (1.68%) Teradata
7 2 (1.12%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.12%) Cadence
7 2 (1.12%) Dell
7 2 (1.12%) ForgeRock
7 2 (1.12%) HP
7 2 (1.12%) Instagram
7 2 (1.12%) Sybase
7 2 (1.12%) Twitter
7 2 (1.12%) VMware
8 1 (0.56%) CyberArk