Inversion of Control Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Inversion of Control (IoC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Inversion of Control skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Inversion of Control 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 303 341 475
Rank change year-on-year +38 +134 +143
Contract jobs citing Inversion of Control 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.026% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.030% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £469
25th Percentile - £505 £474
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £483
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +5.70% -26.48%
75th Percentile - £524 £491
90th Percentile - £540 £497
UK median daily rate £550 £510 £875
% change year-on-year +7.84% -41.71% +34.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Inversion of Control falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Inversion of Control
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Inversion of Control trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Inversion of Control
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Inversion of Control daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Inversion of Control
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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Autofac
1 1 (100.00%) Dapper ORM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) StructureMap
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Data Design
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCPD
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification