Active Listening Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Active Listening
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Active Listening skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Active Listening over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 335 445
Rank change year-on-year +34 +110 +167
Contract jobs citing Active Listening 3 10 32
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.065% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.074% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 19
10th Percentile £272 £434 £393
25th Percentile £360 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.64% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £530 £550 £550
90th Percentile £535 £654 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £60.00 £10.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +500.00% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Active Listening falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Active Listening
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Listening as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Active Listening trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Active Listening
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Listening.

Active Listening daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Listening
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Active Listening over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Active Listening daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Active Listening
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Active Listening.

Active Listening hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Active Listening
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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Canva
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (33.33%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Communications Assistant
2 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) IT Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP BI Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) SAP BusinessObjects Analyst (SAP BO Analyst)
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) IoT
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Critical Thinking
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Change Management
2 1 (33.33%) Content Management
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) SAP