Benchmarking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Benchmarking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Benchmarking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Benchmarking 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 281 336 423
Rank change year-on-year +55 +87 +136
Contract jobs citing Benchmarking 23 9 54
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.059% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.067% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 6 31
10th Percentile £230 £453 £450
25th Percentile £370 £482 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £513 £590
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% -13.14% +12.38%
75th Percentile £580 £572 £619
90th Percentile £633 £613 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £490 £600
% change year-on-year -8.16% -18.33% +11.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £20.99
25th Percentile £28.21 £14.00 £21.16
Median hourly rate £30.81 £15.50 £22.88
Median % change year-on-year +98.74% -32.24% -10.40%
75th Percentile £33.40 £17.00 £25.16
90th Percentile - - £25.66
UK median hourly rate £28.60 £15.79 £22.88
% change year-on-year +81.13% -30.97% +0.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Benchmarking 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%

Benchmarking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Benchmarking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Benchmarking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Benchmarking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Benchmarking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
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 3 (13.04%) OpenStack
2 1 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (4.35%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.35%) InVision
3 1 (4.35%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) OpenShift
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) OCI
4 1 (4.35%) PaaS
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) 4G
1 2 (8.70%) 5G
1 2 (8.70%) Network Security
1 2 (8.70%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.35%) 2G
2 1 (4.35%) 3G
2 1 (4.35%) 5G NR
2 1 (4.35%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.35%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) InfluxDB
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) Power BI
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Axure RP
1 1 (4.35%) JIRA
1 1 (4.35%) JMeter
1 1 (4.35%) Postman
1 1 (4.35%) Selenium
General
1 7 (30.43%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
4 3 (13.04%) Local Government
4 3 (13.04%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Analyst
2 3 (13.04%) Lead
3 2 (8.70%) Business Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Consultant
3 2 (8.70%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Design Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Information Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Programme Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Radio Design Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Radio Engineer
3 2 (8.70%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.70%) Senior
3 2 (8.70%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Payroll Consultant
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Information Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Senior Information Security Analyst
4 1 (4.35%) Trainee
4 1 (4.35%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) CSS
1 3 (13.04%) HTML
2 2 (8.70%) React
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Private Cloud
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.35%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.35%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (17.39%) DevOps
2 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Automation
2 4 (17.39%) Migration
2 4 (17.39%) Project Management
3 3 (13.04%) Analytics
3 3 (13.04%) Architecture Governance
3 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (13.04%) High Availability
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (13.04%) Low Latency
3 3 (13.04%) Performance Metrics
3 3 (13.04%) Resource Management
3 3 (13.04%) Storage Management
3 3 (13.04%) Strategic Roadmap
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (13.04%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (13.04%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 2 (8.70%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Go
3 1 (4.35%) Python
3 1 (4.35%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) RHCSA
3 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Accessibility
1 2 (8.70%) GRC
1 2 (8.70%) NIST
2 1 (4.35%) Basel III
2 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) IFRS
2 1 (4.35%) IFRS 9
2 1 (4.35%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.35%) NFS
2 1 (4.35%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Ansible
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
1 3 (13.04%) Terraform
2 1 (4.35%) CASB
2 1 (4.35%) Grafana
2 1 (4.35%) NSN NetAct
2 1 (4.35%) vRealize
2 1 (4.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) VMware
3 3 (13.04%) Red Hat
4 2 (8.70%) Nokia
4 2 (8.70%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (4.35%) Ericsson
5 1 (4.35%) Huawei
5 1 (4.35%) Intel