Hackathon Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hackathon
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Hackathon in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hackathon 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 303 343 476
Rank change year-on-year +40 +133 +148
Contract jobs citing Hackathon 1 2 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.013% 0.004%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.031% 0.045% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £386 -
UK median daily rate £750 £386 £425
% change year-on-year +94.17% -9.12% -26.09%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Hackathon falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Hackathon
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Hackathon trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Hackathon
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Hackathon daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hackathon
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 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flask
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Community of Practice
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes