E-business Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring E-business skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited E-business 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 293 327 464
Rank change year-on-year +34 +137 +147
Contract jobs citing E-business 11 18 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.12% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.13% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 16 8
10th Percentile £475 £500 £438
25th Percentile £556 £509 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £613 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% +16.67% +3.45%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £564
90th Percentile - £694 £643
UK median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +14.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-business 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%

E-business
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing E-business as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

E-business trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

E-business
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

E-business daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing E-business over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

E-business daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
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 2 (18.18%) SAS
Business Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (72.73%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (18.18%) Maximo
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
General
1 7 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle Consultant
2 5 (45.45%) Functional Consultant
2 5 (45.45%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Procurement Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Procurement Officer
4 1 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Logistics Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Procurement Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (63.64%) Project Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Logistics
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Management
4 1 (9.09%) Agile
4 1 (9.09%) Change Control
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Oracle