Hybrid/Remote DOM Contract Job Trends

Document Object Model (DOM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DOM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 346 298 334
Rank change year-on-year -48 +36 +107
Contract jobs citing DOM 5 3 12
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% 0.031% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.12% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £797 - £363
25th Percentile £811 - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £856 £268 £500
Median % change year-on-year +219.50% -46.40% -8.68%
75th Percentile £886 £364 -
90th Percentile £891 £422 £510
UK median daily rate £800 £268 £475
% change year-on-year +198.51% -43.58% -29.63%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

DOM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,019 2,602 3,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.50% 26.84% 25.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,009 1,875 2,594
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £650 £655
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +1.94% -3.74% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 30 92
10th Percentile £50.08 £50.70 £24.23
25th Percentile £62.50 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -33.85%
75th Percentile £76.00 £68.00 £62.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £88.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £56.25 £51.75
% change year-on-year +15.56% +8.70% -20.38%

DOM
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

DOM job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DOM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DOM

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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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Cloudflare
1 2 (40.00%) Figma
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) npm
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
1 2 (40.00%) Serverless
1 2 (40.00%) Yarn
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Claude Code
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Vite
2 2 (40.00%) webpack
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Corporate Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Retail
1 2 (40.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Web Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Developer
2 1 (20.00%) SAPUI5 Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) React
2 4 (80.00%) Apollo GraphQL
2 4 (80.00%) GraphQL
2 4 (80.00%) Jest
2 4 (80.00%) Node.js
2 4 (80.00%) REST
3 2 (40.00%) Kafka
3 2 (40.00%) Playwright
3 2 (40.00%) Redux
3 2 (40.00%) Sass
3 2 (40.00%) TanStack
3 2 (40.00%) Zustand
4 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (20.00%) Django
4 1 (20.00%) Flask
4 1 (20.00%) NumPy
4 1 (20.00%) OpenUI5
4 1 (20.00%) Pandas
4 1 (20.00%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (20.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) AI Agents
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) API Design
2 2 (40.00%) Backends for Frontends
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (40.00%) Coaching
2 2 (40.00%) High-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Product Thinking
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Secure Coding
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Debt
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (40.00%) Trunk-Based Development
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience
2 2 (40.00%) Wealth Management
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) TypeScript
2 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (40.00%) QA
1 2 (40.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP