Grunt Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Grunt
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Grunt skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Grunt 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 302 - 462
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing Grunt 2 0 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.058%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.13% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £435
25th Percentile - - £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £445
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.35%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £590
UK median daily rate £484 £400 £525
% change year-on-year +20.88% -23.81% -25.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Grunt falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Grunt
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Grunt trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Grunt
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Grunt daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Grunt
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) gulp
1 2 (100.00%) Jasmine
1 2 (100.00%) Mocha
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Front-End Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) HTML5
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Mustache
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Sass
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 2 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 2 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Experience
1 2 (100.00%) Web Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) Web Design
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (100.00%) WCAG