Contactless Contracts with Work from Home Options

Contactless
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Contactless in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Contactless over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 462 622
Rank change year-on-year +129 +160 -141
Contract jobs citing Contactless 11 9 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.035% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.25% 0.11% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £419 - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% - -
75th Percentile £644 £503 -
90th Percentile £675 £535 -
UK median daily rate £550 £450 -
% change year-on-year +22.22% - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Contactless is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,361 8,067 13,944
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.59% 31.43% 31.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,956 5,673 9,944
10th Percentile £325 £363 £358
25th Percentile £431 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £539
Median % change year-on-year - +2.14% +8.79%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £644
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 153 228
10th Percentile £15.45 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.56
Median hourly rate £51.00 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +29.21% +27.98%
75th Percentile £65.14 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.08
UK median hourly rate £30.14 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +34.04% -18.24% +3.19%

Contactless
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Contactless as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Contactless trend for jobs with a WFH option

Contactless
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Contactless.

Contactless daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Contactless
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Contactless over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Contactless daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Contactless
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (90.91%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Stripe
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (72.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Selenium
1 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
1 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (18.18%) Back Office
1 2 (18.18%) Banking
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Senior
2 6 (54.55%) Developer
2 6 (54.55%) Senior Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Senior Software Developer
3 5 (45.45%) Software Developer
4 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Payments Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
5 1 (9.09%) Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Developer
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) XML
2 5 (45.45%) ARM Templates
3 3 (27.27%) .NET
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Core
4 2 (18.18%) FIDO
4 2 (18.18%) RESTful
5 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Digital Wallet
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) DevOps
2 9 (81.82%) Agile
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) Architecture Roadmap
4 2 (18.18%) Clean Code
4 2 (18.18%) Customer Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Data Encryption
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Banking
4 2 (18.18%) Fraud Detection
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Microservices
4 2 (18.18%) Performance Optimisation
4 2 (18.18%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
4 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (18.18%) TDD
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Bicep
2 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
3 3 (27.27%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
1 2 (18.18%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) PayPal