Escalation Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Escalation Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Escalation Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Escalation Management over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 334 418
Rank change year-on-year +38 +84 +157
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Escalation Management 7 2 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.070% 0.015% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.018% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £373
25th Percentile £725 - £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -15.00%
75th Percentile £775 - £441
90th Percentile - - £446
UK median daily rate £565 £201 £381
% change year-on-year +181.80% -47.41% -23.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £15.72
UK median hourly rate - - £16.50
% change year-on-year - - -70.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Escalation 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,175 11,330 19,303
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.90% 87.14% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,120 7,557 13,640
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.33% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 372 459
10th Percentile £12.62 £18.29 £17.11
25th Percentile £17.51 £30.69 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.09 £67.50
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £40.59
% change year-on-year -38.57% +0.86% +53.17%

Escalation Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Escalation Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Escalation Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Escalation Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Escalation Management

Escalation Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Escalation Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Escalation Management

Escalation Management
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:

Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
1 1 (14.29%) Power Automate
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) SAP Fieldglass
1 1 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
General
1 3 (42.86%) Organisational Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Arabic Language
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Incident Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Head of Finance
3 1 (14.29%) HR Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Project Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Project Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 3 (42.86%) Backlog Management
2 3 (42.86%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) BCP
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Project Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) WFM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) BMC
1 3 (42.86%) BT
1 3 (42.86%) Remedy
2 2 (28.57%) SAP
3 1 (14.29%) Foundry
3 1 (14.29%) Medallia
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft