Hybrid/Remote Dependency Management Contract Job Trends

Dependency Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Dependency Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 303 339
Rank change year-on-year +23 +36 +84
Contract jobs citing Dependency Management 28 22 34
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.28% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.21% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 30
10th Percentile £364 £381 £425
25th Percentile £410 £447 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.39% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £557 £575 £550
90th Percentile £618 £581 £601
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Dependency Management 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 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Dependency Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Dependency Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dependency Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dependency Management

Dependency Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Dependency Management over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Dependency Management daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Dependency Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) Confluence
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (7.14%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) GitHub
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
3 3 (10.71%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (7.14%) Amazon S3
4 2 (7.14%) GCP
4 2 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.57%) GitHub Copilot
5 1 (3.57%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.14%) DNS
1 2 (7.14%) SSH
1 2 (7.14%) SSL
1 2 (7.14%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.57%) HTTP
2 1 (3.57%) HTTPS
2 1 (3.57%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) NoSQL
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (7.14%) Big Data
2 2 (7.14%) Delta Lake
2 2 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 2 (7.14%) Parquet
2 2 (7.14%) Power BI
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.14%) MLflow
4 2 (7.14%) Poetry
4 2 (7.14%) PyCharm
4 2 (7.14%) SonarQube
4 2 (7.14%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (3.57%) Mockito
5 1 (3.57%) ScalaTest
5 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
5 2 (7.14%) Retail
6 1 (3.57%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) PMO Lead
3 3 (10.71%) Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Release Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Security Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Security Solutions Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (7.14%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) IT Manager
4 2 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (7.14%) Project Planner
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Agile Scrum Master
5 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) CyberArk Architect
5 1 (3.57%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Apache Avro
1 2 (7.14%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (7.14%) Flask
1 2 (7.14%) NumPy
1 2 (7.14%) OAuth
1 2 (7.14%) Pandas
1 2 (7.14%) REST
1 2 (7.14%) SAML
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) ADO
2 1 (3.57%) CSS
2 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (3.57%) JSON
2 1 (3.57%) OAuth2
2 1 (3.57%) OpenID
2 1 (3.57%) Play Framework
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) RESTful
2 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) CMDB
2 2 (7.14%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (28.57%) Agile
2 7 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 7 (25.00%) DevOps
2 7 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 7 (25.00%) Project Management
3 6 (21.43%) PRINCE2
3 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (17.86%) Change Management
4 5 (17.86%) CI/CD
4 5 (17.86%) Secrets Management
4 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (17.86%) Technical Debt
4 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
5 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (14.29%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (14.29%) Incident Response
5 4 (14.29%) Programme Management
5 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
5 4 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 2 (7.14%) Bash
2 2 (7.14%) Groovy
3 1 (3.57%) C#
3 1 (3.57%) Go
3 1 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) PMI Certification
1 5 (17.86%) PMP
2 4 (14.29%) CISM
2 4 (14.29%) CISSP
2 4 (14.29%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 2 (7.14%) PhD
4 2 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (7.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) PMO
2 3 (10.71%) P3O
3 2 (7.14%) QA
4 1 (3.57%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.14%) Argo
2 2 (7.14%) Istio
3 1 (3.57%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) BiZZdesign
3 3 (10.71%) Centrify
3 3 (10.71%) CyberArk
4 2 (7.14%) Cloudera
4 2 (7.14%) IBM
4 2 (7.14%) Red Hat
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Thycotic
5 1 (3.57%) Oracle