Blog Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Blogs
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Blog in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Blog over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 332 428
Rank change year-on-year +30 +96 +134
Contract jobs citing Blog 5 15 31
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.10% 0.13%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.15% 0.35% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 25
10th Percentile - £223 £267
25th Percentile - - £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -2.61% +15.00%
75th Percentile - £719 £644
90th Percentile - £725 £693
UK median daily rate £375 £560 £481
% change year-on-year -33.04% +16.36% -0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £26.63 -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £13.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year +246.15% -29.73% -53.75%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Blog falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,430 4,338 7,456
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.43% 29.59% 31.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,249 2,936 5,266
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £434 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.45% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £683
90th Percentile £825 £850 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 185 146
10th Percentile £16.33 £15.35 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.13 £25.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £44.50 £50.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -4.43% +17.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.63 £77.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.81 £35.65 £22.50
% change year-on-year -13.59% +58.44% -16.60%

Blog
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blog trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blog daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Blog hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (20.00%) NetWeaver
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (20.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Brand Awareness
2 2 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (40.00%) Retail
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Communications Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Social Media
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Media
2 2 (40.00%) Digital Signage
3 1 (20.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) B2B
1 2 (40.00%) B2B Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Brand Management
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Media Management
1 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (40.00%) Email Marketing
1 2 (40.00%) Market Research
1 2 (40.00%) Marketing Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Pay per click
1 2 (40.00%) SEO
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Convergent Charging
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (20.00%) Instructional Design
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) PHP
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CCNA
2 1 (20.00%) CCNP
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
1 1 (20.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Facebook
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) Twitter
2 1 (20.00%) VMware