Customer Requirements Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Customer Requirements
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Customer Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Customer Requirements 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 252 212 247
Rank change year-on-year -40 +35 +135
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 52 135 249
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.88% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 1.00% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 77 164
10th Percentile £420 £338 £383
25th Percentile £487 £448 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £490 £494
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -0.76% -1.25%
75th Percentile £608 £563 £575
90th Percentile £788 £635 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 21 20
10th Percentile £48.00 £12.75 £31.93
25th Percentile £52.50 £18.00 £47.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -56.67% +23.08%
75th Percentile £67.50 £26.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £45.00 £70.88
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £45.00 £10.63
% change year-on-year +11.11% +323.33% -77.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Customer Requirements 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%

Customer Requirements
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
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 3 (5.77%) CMS
2 1 (1.92%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.92%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.92%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.92%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (3.85%) SAP PP
1 2 (3.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Siebel CRM
2 1 (1.92%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 14 (26.92%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) AWS
3 5 (9.62%) npm
3 5 (9.62%) Yarn
4 4 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon Cognito
5 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.77%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (5.77%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (5.77%) Figma
5 3 (5.77%) GitHub
5 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Purview
5 3 (5.77%) Serverless
6 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.92%) Broadband
1 1 (1.92%) LAN
1 1 (1.92%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Amazon Athena
1 3 (5.77%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (5.77%) Data Lake
1 3 (5.77%) DynamoDB
1 3 (5.77%) Parquet
1 3 (5.77%) Power BI
2 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Git
2 5 (9.62%) webpack
3 2 (3.85%) NUnit
3 2 (3.85%) Postman
3 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.92%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.92%) JIRA
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
4 1 (1.92%) Toad
General
1 12 (23.08%) Finance
2 8 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Investment Banking
5 5 (9.62%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Law
6 3 (5.77%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.77%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Billing
7 2 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.85%) Marketing
8 1 (1.92%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.92%) Electronics
8 1 (1.92%) Legal
8 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Architect
2 13 (25.00%) Senior
3 11 (21.15%) Developer
4 10 (19.23%) Senior Developer
5 6 (11.54%) Consultant
5 6 (11.54%) Service Architect
6 5 (9.62%) Senior UI Developer
6 5 (9.62%) UI Developer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Developer
7 3 (5.77%) AWS Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Developer
7 3 (5.77%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.77%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Management Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (3.85%) Test Analyst
8 2 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.62%) CSS
1 5 (9.62%) JSON
1 5 (9.62%) React
1 5 (9.62%) Redux
1 5 (9.62%) RxJS
2 3 (5.77%) AWS CDK
2 3 (5.77%) DCOM
2 3 (5.77%) XML
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 2 (3.85%) Playwright
3 2 (3.85%) SOAP
3 2 (3.85%) Web Services
4 1 (1.92%) GraphQL
4 1 (1.92%) J2EE
4 1 (1.92%) Middleware
4 1 (1.92%) REST
4 1 (1.92%) RESTful
4 1 (1.92%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.62%) Derivative
1 5 (9.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (5.77%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.77%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.92%) CMDB
3 1 (1.92%) FMCG
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.92%) PMI
3 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.54%) Windows
2 3 (5.77%) Unix
3 1 (1.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.92%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Agile
2 12 (23.08%) DevOps
3 11 (21.15%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (15.38%) Event-Driven
4 8 (15.38%) ITIL
4 8 (15.38%) Service Management
5 7 (13.46%) CI/CD
5 7 (13.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (11.54%) Analytics
6 6 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
6 6 (11.54%) ITSM
6 6 (11.54%) Web Development
7 5 (9.62%) Electronic Trading
7 5 (9.62%) Event-Driven Programming
7 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
7 5 (9.62%) Requirements Gathering
7 5 (9.62%) Service Design
7 5 (9.62%) Test Strategy
8 4 (7.69%) Project Delivery
8 4 (7.69%) Requirements Workshops
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.15%) SQL
2 7 (13.46%) TypeScript
3 6 (11.54%) Java
3 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.69%) Python
5 3 (5.77%) Bicep
6 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
2 14 (26.92%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.77%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Degree
5 1 (1.92%) HNC
5 1 (1.92%) ISEB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.92%) PgMP
5 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.92%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.92%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) QA
3 1 (1.92%) SEPA
3 1 (1.92%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (11.54%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.92%) LXC
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
2 1 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.62%) Atlassian
3 4 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (7.69%) SAP
4 3 (5.77%) Databricks
5 2 (3.85%) QAD
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.92%) Apple
6 1 (1.92%) Ariba
6 1 (1.92%) BT
6 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.92%) Openreach
6 1 (1.92%) Pega
6 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.92%) Samsung
6 1 (1.92%) Siebel
6 1 (1.92%) SOTI
6 1 (1.92%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.92%) webMethods
6 1 (1.92%) Workday