Hybrid/Remote Housing Association Contract Job Trends

Housing Association
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Housing Association in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Housing Association over the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 316 414
Rank change year-on-year +16 +98 +164
Contract jobs citing Housing Association 7 17 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.072% 0.13% 0.073%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.21% 0.45% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 14
10th Percentile £419 £391 £257
25th Percentile £450 £411 £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £497
90th Percentile - £500 £636
UK median daily rate £469 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £23.00 -
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £23.33 -
% change year-on-year +24.60% - -

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Housing Association 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 3,391 3,814 6,453
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.07% 30.22% 31.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,199 2,528 4,606
10th Percentile £331 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £444 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £695 £681
90th Percentile £813 £850 £785
UK median daily rate £517 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.95% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 101 135
10th Percentile £13.17 £20.25 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.01 £30.50 £25.71
Median hourly rate £45.00 £62.00 £52.13
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +18.93% -0.70%
75th Percentile £67.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £74.50 £85.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £46.87 £42.35
% change year-on-year -35.99% +10.67% +59.79%

Housing Association
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Housing Association trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Housing Association
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Housing Association.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Housing Association

Housing Association
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Housing Association.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Housing Association

Housing Association
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 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) NEC Housing
1 2 (28.57%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (42.86%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Law
2 1 (14.29%) Social Housing
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Accountant
3 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) IT Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) IT Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Rollout Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Rollout Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Accountant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Driving Licence
1 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (14.29%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Housing Management
3 2 (28.57%) Contract Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Governance
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
4 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (14.29%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Time Management
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Capita
1 2 (28.57%) Civica
1 2 (28.57%) NEC
1 2 (28.57%) Northgate