WFM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Workforce Management (WFM)
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 WFM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WFM over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 451 580
Rank change year-on-year +139 +129 -122
Contract jobs citing WFM 38 17 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.25% 0.068% 0.093%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.076% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 32
10th Percentile £200 £430 £389
25th Percentile £275 £525 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £575 £538
Median % change year-on-year -20.65% +6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £606 £656 £653
90th Percentile £701 £775 £696
UK median daily rate £445 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -22.70% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

WFM 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 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
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 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

WFM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WFM trend for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
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 WFM.

WFM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WFM over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

WFM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
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 2 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.63%) Apache
2 1 (2.63%) IIS
2 1 (2.63%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Chatbot
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.63%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
1 8 (21.05%) Azure
1 8 (21.05%) GCP
1 8 (21.05%) Power Platform
2 4 (10.53%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (10.53%) Power Automate
2 4 (10.53%) Twilio
3 3 (7.89%) OCI
4 1 (2.63%) Boomi
4 1 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.63%) SaaS
4 1 (2.63%) SAP Fieldglass
4 1 (2.63%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) CTI
1 4 (10.53%) MegaStream
1 4 (10.53%) VoIP
2 1 (2.63%) H.323
2 1 (2.63%) HTTP
2 1 (2.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (21.05%) Power BI
General
1 10 (26.32%) Finance
1 10 (26.32%) Telecoms
2 7 (18.42%) Marketing
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.53%) Retail
5 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Banking
6 1 (2.63%) Law
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (23.68%) Architect
2 7 (18.42%) Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Consultant
3 5 (13.16%) Project Manager
4 4 (10.53%) Coordinator
4 4 (10.53%) Genesys Consultant
4 4 (10.53%) Insight Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Project Coordinator
4 4 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (7.89%) Resource Analyst
5 3 (7.89%) Resource Planner
6 2 (5.26%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (5.26%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.26%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Fibre Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Lead
6 2 (5.26%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.16%) Middleware
2 4 (10.53%) RESTful
2 4 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) IVR
2 6 (15.79%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
4 3 (7.89%) NHS
5 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Linux
1 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (2.63%) VMS
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) Artificial Intelligence
1 10 (26.32%) Conversational UI
2 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
3 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (15.79%) Analytics
4 6 (15.79%) CRM
4 6 (15.79%) Customer Experience
4 6 (15.79%) Roadmaps
5 5 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
5 5 (13.16%) Service Management
6 4 (10.53%) Agile
6 4 (10.53%) Configuration Management
6 4 (10.53%) Data Privacy
6 4 (10.53%) DevOps
6 4 (10.53%) Line Management
6 4 (10.53%) People Management
6 4 (10.53%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (10.53%) Quality Management
6 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Degree
2 5 (13.16%) Master's Degree
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certification
3 4 (10.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Azure Certification
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.26%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.63%) CIPD
5 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) GDPR
1 4 (10.53%) HIPAA
1 4 (10.53%) PCI DSS
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
1 4 (10.53%) SOC 2
2 1 (2.63%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (21.05%) Genesys
3 7 (18.42%) Avaya
4 4 (10.53%) Cisco
4 4 (10.53%) Google
5 3 (7.89%) Ceridian
5 3 (7.89%) Oracle
5 3 (7.89%) Sage
6 2 (5.26%) Datix
6 2 (5.26%) Kronos
6 2 (5.26%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.26%) SAP
6 2 (5.26%) UiPath
7 1 (2.63%) Dell
7 1 (2.63%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.63%) Verint