Freedom of Information Contracts with Work from Home Options

Freedom of Information (FOI)
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Freedom of Information in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 322 465 587
Rank change year-on-year +143 +122 -136
Contract jobs citing Freedom of Information 22 10 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.039% 0.079%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.50% 0.12% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 28
10th Percentile £206 £318 £201
25th Percentile £224 £413 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £285 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -39.44% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £438 £608 £550
90th Percentile £719 £679 £575
UK median daily rate £425 £624 £450
% change year-on-year -31.86% +38.61% +18.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £15.78 - -
25th Percentile £17.79 £18.70 £16.50
Median hourly rate £21.14 £18.90 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.85% +11.18% -32.00%
75th Percentile £24.49 £19.10 £17.50
90th Percentile £26.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £12.25 £31.72 £26.00
% change year-on-year -61.37% +21.98% +38.48%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Freedom of Information is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,363 8,167 13,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,941 5,752 9,905
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 152 229
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.06 £20.75
Median hourly rate £49.25 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Freedom of Information
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Freedom of Information trend for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information.

Freedom of Information daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Freedom of Information daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information.

Freedom of Information hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Freedom of Information over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Freedom of Information hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Freedom of Information
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:

Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (9.09%) Big Data
1 2 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (9.09%) Power BI
2 1 (4.55%) Parquet
2 1 (4.55%) Star Schema
General
1 11 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Local Government
6 1 (4.55%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Data Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Integration Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Integration Specialist
2 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow Developer
2 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow Specialist
3 3 (13.64%) Information Officer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Product Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Security Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Avro
1 1 (4.55%) JSON
1 1 (4.55%) JSON Schema
1 1 (4.55%) XML
1 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (22.73%) Freedom of Information Act
3 4 (18.18%) CMDB
3 4 (18.18%) Management Information System
4 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
5 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Protection
2 5 (22.73%) Project Management
3 4 (18.18%) Analytics
3 4 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (18.18%) Information Governance
3 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
4 3 (13.64%) Agile
4 3 (13.64%) Change Management
4 3 (13.64%) Data Modelling
4 3 (13.64%) ETL
4 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
4 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (13.64%) Visualisation
5 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis
5 2 (9.09%) Information Management
5 2 (9.09%) Resource Management
5 2 (9.09%) Risk Management
5 2 (9.09%) Scrum
5 2 (9.09%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.55%) ISEB
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.64%) GDPR
3 2 (9.09%) COBIT
4 1 (4.55%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow