Contingency Planning Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Contingency Planning
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Contingency Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Contingency Planning 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 280 315 439
Rank change year-on-year +35 +124 +134
Contract jobs citing Contingency Planning 24 30 38
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 28
10th Percentile £320 £313 £499
25th Percentile £391 £495 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £611
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -12.07% +9.89%
75th Percentile £537 £656 £650
90th Percentile £600 £701 £800
UK median daily rate £537 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -6.61% -4.17% +10.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £44.18 - -
25th Percentile £50.44 - -
Median hourly rate £61.75 - -
75th Percentile £73.94 - -
90th Percentile £80.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £35.50 -
% change year-on-year +12.68% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Contingency Planning 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%

Contingency Planning
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Contingency Planning trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Contingency Planning daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Contingency Planning
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Contingency Planning daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Contingency Planning
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Contingency Planning hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Contingency Planning
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Contingency Planning over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Contingency Planning hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Contingency Planning
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 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
1 1 (4.17%) Primavera
1 1 (4.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Glacier
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon Kinesis
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
1 4 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 2 (8.33%) AWS Solution Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Java Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Java Solutions Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
4 2 (8.33%) Security Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Sustainability Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Test Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Disaster Recovery Consultant
5 1 (4.17%) Lead
5 1 (4.17%) Maximo Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Risk Business Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) ActiveMQ
1 4 (16.67%) Kafka
1 4 (16.67%) RESTful
2 2 (8.33%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) PMI
3 2 (8.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (8.33%) Operational Technology
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Agile
2 8 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 7 (29.17%) Project Management
3 7 (29.17%) Project Planning
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (25.00%) SDLC
5 4 (16.67%) Budget Control
5 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
5 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
5 4 (16.67%) Creative Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (16.67%) Event-Driven
5 4 (16.67%) Microservices
5 4 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 4 (16.67%) Programme Governance
5 4 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 4 (16.67%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
1 3 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 2 (8.33%) PMP
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) CFA
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (4.17%) eFront
2 1 (4.17%) Infor
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) SAP