STL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Standard Template Library (STL)
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 STL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited STL 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 336 444 599
Rank change year-on-year +108 +155 -131
Contract jobs citing STL 1 23 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% 0.090% 0.058%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.028% 0.36% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 16 24
10th Percentile - £638 £613
25th Percentile - £764 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £825 £738
Median % change year-on-year - +11.86% +16.88%
75th Percentile - - £788
90th Percentile - - £825
UK median daily rate - £788 £725
% change year-on-year - +8.62% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £52.50 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

STL is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks 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 technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,622 6,461 13,230
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.91% 25.26% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,540 4,808 9,769
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.46% +12.99%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 119
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £60.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -27.94% +31.31% +10.00%

STL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

STL trend for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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 STL.

STL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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 STL.

STL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) JBoss
1 1 (100.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (100.00%) WildFly
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Maven
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) Java EE
1 1 (100.00%) JPA
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Servlets
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle