Hardware Specialist Contracts with Work from Home Options

Hardware Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Hardware Specialist daily rate in Work from Home is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Hardware Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 - -
UK median daily rate £408 £435 -
% change year-on-year -6.32% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Hardware Specialist Skill Set
Top 14 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Hardware Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Hardware Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) IBM
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
1 1 (100.00%) LPAR
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (100.00%) Microcode
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills

Hardware Specialist Skill Set
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DWDM
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) LPAR
1 1 (100.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) CLIST
1 1 (100.00%) JCL
1 1 (100.00%) REXX
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (100.00%) Microcode
1 1 (100.00%) Time Sharing Option
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) IBM