Edge Computing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Edge Computing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Edge Computing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Edge Computing 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 299 343 475
Rank change year-on-year +44 +132 +137
Contract jobs citing Edge Computing 5 2 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.013% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.015% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
UK median daily rate £515 £500 £850
% change year-on-year +3.00% -41.18% +34.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Edge Computing 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%

Edge Computing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Edge Computing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Edge Computing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Edge Computing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Edge Computing
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 1 (20.00%) Apache
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AI
1 1 (20.00%) Azure AKS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) 5G
1 4 (80.00%) LTE
1 4 (80.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Designer
1 4 (80.00%) Solutions Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (20.00%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Network Design
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (20.00%) Agile
2 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (20.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) ETL
2 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (20.00%) MLOps
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) R
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes