Issue Tracking Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Issue Tracking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Issue Tracking skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Issue Tracking 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 288 336 464
Rank change year-on-year +48 +128 +131
Contract jobs citing Issue Tracking 16 9 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.059% 0.050%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.067% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 9
10th Percentile - £238 £435
25th Percentile £275 £281 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £313 £700
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -55.36% +47.37%
75th Percentile £359 £594 £743
90th Percentile £425 £713 -
UK median daily rate £368 £450 £550
% change year-on-year -18.22% -18.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £19.75 - -
Median hourly rate £19.83 £40.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.43% -11.11% -30.77%
75th Percentile £19.92 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.42 £40.00 £34.04
% change year-on-year -6.46% +17.51% -46.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Issue Tracking 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%

Issue Tracking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Issue Tracking trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Issue Tracking daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Issue Tracking
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Issue Tracking over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Issue Tracking daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Issue Tracking
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Issue Tracking.

Issue Tracking hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Issue Tracking
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 2 (12.50%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 1 (6.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub
3 2 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) JIRA
2 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.25%) Maven
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Retail
3 3 (18.75%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Project Officer
1 7 (43.75%) Project Support Officer
1 7 (43.75%) Support Officer
2 3 (18.75%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Python Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support
4 1 (6.25%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Telecoms Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Voice Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Ajax
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) CSS3
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) HTML5
1 1 (6.25%) J2EE
1 1 (6.25%) jQuery
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Batch
1 1 (6.25%) Spring Boot
1 1 (6.25%) WebSphere MQ
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Agile
1 8 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
4 3 (18.75%) DevOps
4 3 (18.75%) Roadmaps
5 2 (12.50%) Build Automation
5 2 (12.50%) Code Quality
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) SDLC
5 2 (12.50%) Software Distribution
5 2 (12.50%) Test Planning
5 2 (12.50%) Validation
6 1 (6.25%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (6.25%) Identity Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) TypeScript
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) Degree
1 1 (6.25%) Master's Degree
1 1 (6.25%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) PMO
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Ansible
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
1 2 (12.50%) Terraform
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
2 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) AppDynamics
2 1 (6.25%) Avaloq
2 1 (6.25%) HP
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) Moogsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Splunk