Feature Driven Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Feature Driven Development (FDD)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Feature Driven Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Feature Driven Development over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 348 464
Rank change year-on-year +51 +116 +146
Contract jobs citing Feature Driven Development 5 1 10
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.007% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.007% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 5
10th Percentile £391 - £418
25th Percentile - £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £438 £488
90th Percentile £648 - £645
UK median daily rate £585 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +16.90% +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Feature Driven Development 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 9,017 13,465 23,106
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.06% 87.90% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,189 8,984 16,334
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 221 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.75 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.00 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.50 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Feature Driven Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Feature Driven Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Feature Driven Development trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Feature Driven Development.

Feature Driven Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Feature Driven Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Feature Driven Development over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Feature Driven Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Feature Driven Development
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 2 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) IaaS
1 2 (40.00%) PaaS
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
1 2 (40.00%) PowerApps
1 2 (40.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Management Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) SAP Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) SAP SD Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) .NET
1 2 (40.00%) SAP TM
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) ATDD
3 2 (40.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) SOA
3 2 (40.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) User Experience
3 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) V-Model
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
2 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (40.00%) ISEB
2 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP