GoCD Contracts with Work from Home Options

GoCD Continuous Delivery Server
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for GoCD skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited GoCD over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 468 602
Rank change year-on-year +122 +134 -120
Contract jobs citing GoCD 2 8 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.013% 0.031% 0.045%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.11% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 18
10th Percentile - - £325
25th Percentile - - £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £428 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -16.49% +2.50%
75th Percentile - - £615
90th Percentile - £472 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £428 £561
% change year-on-year +13.90% -23.74% +12.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £59.63 - -
25th Percentile £60.94 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £69.69 - -
90th Percentile £71.38 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 - -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

GoCD is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,829 3,908 8,298
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.07% 15.30% 18.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 2,798 5,997
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% +9.38%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £631
90th Percentile £700 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 109 102
10th Percentile £27.62 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £47.06 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile - £82.50 £67.77
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +16.11%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

GoCD trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 GoCD.

GoCD daily 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) TestCafe
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Jest
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Micro Frontends
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana