Hybrid/Remote Cost Transparency Contract Job Trends

Cost Transparency
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cost Transparency skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 314 300 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Cost Transparency 2 5 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% 0.046% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.052% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £326 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £349 £300 -
Median % change year-on-year +16.17% - -
75th Percentile £371 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £355 £300 -
% change year-on-year +18.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Cost Transparency 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 8,958 9,701 14,424
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.47% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,878 6,084 9,779
10th Percentile £331 £325 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 183 379
10th Percentile £15.55 £18.60 £16.53
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.00 £24.13
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.89% -30.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Cost Transparency
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cost Transparency and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cost Transparency job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cost Transparency
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cost Transparency.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cost Transparency

Cost Transparency
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Mining
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
1 2 (100.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Report Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Reporting Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Management
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 2 (100.00%) Cost Reduction
1 2 (100.00%) Data Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (100.00%) Financial Modelling
1 2 (100.00%) FinOps
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Portfolio Management
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree