BYOD Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term BYOD in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited BYOD over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 329 429
Rank change year-on-year +13 +100 +172
Contract jobs citing BYOD 5 8 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.049% 0.059% 0.052%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.19% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 12
10th Percentile £229 £176 £400
25th Percentile £235 £182 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £185 £650
Median % change year-on-year +35.14% -71.54% +13.04%
75th Percentile £503 £283 -
90th Percentile £651 £458 £695
UK median daily rate £240 £185 £525
% change year-on-year +29.73% -64.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £14.48 £16.94
% change year-on-year - -14.50% -71.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

BYOD 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 3,540 4,121 7,198
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 34.56% 30.25% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,277 2,798 5,073
10th Percentile £342 £325 £359
25th Percentile £413 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £825 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 137 146
10th Percentile £14.78 £19.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £24.77 £30.16 £23.61
Median hourly rate £33.89 £55.00 £51.07
Median % change year-on-year -38.39% +7.71% +2.13%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £82.10
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -25.00% +12.68% +31.58%

BYOD
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BYOD trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

BYOD
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

BYOD daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing BYOD over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

BYOD daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

BYOD
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 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Analyst
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support
3 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Information Security
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Principle of Least Privilege
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Systematic Trading
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) CCSP
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) CISM
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
1 1 (20.00%) GRC
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) NIST 800
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (20.00%) Istio
2 1 (20.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (20.00%) linkerd
2 1 (20.00%) SCCM
2 1 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Bloomberg
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Reuters
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Zscaler