Collaborative Culture Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Culture of Collaboration
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Collaborative Culture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Collaborative Culture 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 223 251 440
Rank change year-on-year +28 +189 +114
Contract jobs citing Collaborative Culture 81 94 37
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.61% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.70% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 72 24
10th Percentile £343 £414 £415
25th Percentile £413 £494 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.74% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £650
90th Percentile £705 £825 £758
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Collaborative Culture 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%

Collaborative Culture
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Collaborative Culture trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Collaborative Culture
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Collaborative Culture daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Culture
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Collaborative Culture daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Collaborative Culture
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 7 (8.64%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) Apache
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.23%) IIS
4 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.23%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Trello
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.22%) Azure
2 7 (8.64%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.41%) AWS
3 6 (7.41%) GCP
4 3 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.47%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.23%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.23%) GitHub
6 1 (1.23%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.23%) Google Data Studio
6 1 (1.23%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.23%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.23%) OCI
6 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.23%) PaaS
6 1 (1.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) 5G
1 1 (1.23%) DNS
1 1 (1.23%) Firewall
1 1 (1.23%) HTTP
1 1 (1.23%) HTTPS
1 1 (1.23%) Skype
1 1 (1.23%) SMTP
1 1 (1.23%) SNMP
1 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.35%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (8.64%) Power BI
4 5 (6.17%) Tableau
5 4 (4.94%) MS Access
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (4.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (3.70%) Big Data
6 3 (3.70%) Data Lake
7 2 (2.47%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.47%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.23%) BigQuery
8 1 (1.23%) Flink
8 1 (1.23%) Looker
8 1 (1.23%) MySQL
8 1 (1.23%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.23%) Oracle ODI
8 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (9.88%) QARun
1 8 (9.88%) WinRunner
2 7 (8.64%) JIRA
3 2 (2.47%) MLflow
4 1 (1.23%) Git
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.23%) Subversion
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 44 (54.32%) Social Skills
2 40 (49.38%) Finance
3 20 (24.69%) Banking
4 19 (23.46%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.64%) Retail Banking
6 6 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.94%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Front Office
8 3 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.47%) Marketing
9 2 (2.47%) Retail
10 1 (1.23%) Back Office
10 1 (1.23%) Electronics
10 1 (1.23%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.23%) Legal
10 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (22.22%) Analyst
2 11 (13.58%) Senior
3 9 (11.11%) Developer
3 9 (11.11%) Lead
4 8 (9.88%) Test Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) UAT Analyst
4 8 (9.88%) UAT Test Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Project Manager
5 5 (6.17%) Test Leader
6 4 (4.94%) Architect
6 4 (4.94%) Head of Business Intelligence
6 4 (4.94%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Senior Test Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Senior UAT Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Data Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Incident Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Python Developer
8 2 (2.47%) Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.17%) Middleware
1 5 (6.17%) Web Services
2 4 (4.94%) REST
2 4 (4.94%) SOAP
3 3 (3.70%) Kafka
4 2 (2.47%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.47%) Bootstrap
4 2 (2.47%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.47%) scikit-learn
4 2 (2.47%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.23%) .NET
5 1 (1.23%) .NET Core
5 1 (1.23%) FpML
5 1 (1.23%) JSON
5 1 (1.23%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.23%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.23%) PySpark
5 1 (1.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.23%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (4.94%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (4.94%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (4.94%) Market Risk
2 4 (4.94%) Operational Technology
3 3 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (3.70%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.70%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.70%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.47%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.47%) Derivative
4 2 (2.47%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.23%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.23%) PACS
5 1 (1.23%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.58%) Windows
2 5 (6.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.47%) Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.62%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (44.44%) Agile
3 24 (29.63%) Risk Management
4 22 (27.16%) DevOps
5 21 (25.93%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 17 (20.99%) Project Management
8 15 (18.52%) Software Testing
8 15 (18.52%) Waterfall
9 14 (17.28%) Collaborative Working
9 14 (17.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (16.05%) Test Automation
11 12 (14.81%) Logistics
12 11 (13.58%) Migration
12 11 (13.58%) User Acceptance Testing
13 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (12.35%) Strategic Thinking
14 9 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 9 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
14 9 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (24.69%) SQL
2 12 (14.81%) Python
3 5 (6.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (6.17%) VB
4 4 (4.94%) Bash
4 4 (4.94%) C#
4 4 (4.94%) T-SQL
5 2 (2.47%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.47%) Ruby
5 2 (2.47%) Scala
6 1 (1.23%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.23%) Java
6 1 (1.23%) Perl
6 1 (1.23%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Degree
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.05%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (4.94%) PMP
5 3 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.23%) CISM
6 1 (1.23%) CISSP
6 1 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (19.75%) QA
2 9 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 7 (8.64%) Accessibility
3 7 (8.64%) GDPR
4 3 (3.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.47%) Basel II
5 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.23%) EMIR
6 1 (1.23%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.23%) MiFID
6 1 (1.23%) NIST
6 1 (1.23%) PMO
6 1 (1.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) Docker
3 1 (1.23%) Firmware
3 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) Ansible
1 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.70%) Prometheus
1 3 (3.70%) Terraform
2 2 (2.47%) Grafana
2 2 (2.47%) Kubeflow
2 2 (2.47%) Puppet
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.23%) Forefront Identity Manager
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.23%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (1.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (9.88%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Citrix
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) VMware
5 1 (1.23%) BeyondTrust
5 1 (1.23%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.23%) Cisco
5 1 (1.23%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.23%) Mercator
5 1 (1.23%) Pega
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) SAP
5 1 (1.23%) Splunk