FIDO Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

FIDO Alliance (FIDO2)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring FIDO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FIDO over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 342 445
Rank change year-on-year +38 +103 +164
Contract jobs citing FIDO 2 2 7
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.014% 0.029%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.076% 0.053% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -26.91% -3.51% -6.48%
75th Percentile - - £610
90th Percentile - - £654
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £603
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +15.42%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

FIDO 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 2,643 3,749 5,910
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.86% 25.52% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,895 2,627 4,420
10th Percentile £356 £350 £381
25th Percentile £415 £434 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £650 £666 £650
90th Percentile £825 £830 £754
UK median daily rate £514 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -4.37% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 93 76
10th Percentile £32.54 £28.00 £25.75
25th Percentile £61.25 - £45.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +26.50%
75th Percentile £68.00 £62.00 £74.06
90th Percentile £81.50 £72.50 £79.50
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -15.38% +28.40%

FIDO
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

FIDO trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

FIDO
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

FIDO daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FIDO
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (50.00%) Active Listening
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (50.00%) Data Privacy
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Identity
2 1 (50.00%) Fraud Detection
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Assessment
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) NIST
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) HIPAA
2 1 (50.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft