Focus Group Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Focus Group skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Focus Group 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 297 333 451
Rank change year-on-year +36 +118 +108
Contract jobs citing Focus Group 7 12 26
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.078% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.089% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 21
10th Percentile £371 £356 £263
25th Percentile £403 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £390 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -13.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £492 £450 £575
90th Percentile £524 £498 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £390 £475
% change year-on-year +28.21% -17.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £61.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Focus Group 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%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Focus Group trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Focus Group daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Focus Group over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Focus Group daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Focus Group.

Focus Group hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) User Researcher
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Pega Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Pega Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) UI Developer
3 1 (14.29%) UI/UX Developer
3 1 (14.29%) User Experience Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) UX Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) CMDB
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Research
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) User Experience
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
3 3 (42.86%) Ethnographic Research
3 3 (42.86%) Ethnography
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) UX Design
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Customer Insight
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
4 2 (28.57%) Quantitative Research
4 2 (28.57%) Service Design
4 2 (28.57%) Social Listening
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) Accessibility
2 1 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow