IT Technician Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

IT Technician
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Technician daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £188, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 332 453
Rank change year-on-year +31 +121 +163
Contract jobs requiring an IT Technician 3 13 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.085% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.091% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 15
10th Percentile £156 £198 £156
25th Percentile £166 - £169
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £188 £200 £200
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £216 £244 -
90th Percentile £229 £362 -
UK median daily rate £133 £180 £175
% change year-on-year -26.39% +2.86% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.25
Median hourly rate - £14.53 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year - -19.55% +3.20%
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - £22.20
UK median hourly rate £18.18 £14.14 £16.31
% change year-on-year +28.57% -13.28% -1.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Technician
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured IT Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Technician trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

IT Technician
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Technician daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Technician
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

IT Technician hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Technician Skill Set
Top 22 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Technician 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 IT Technician in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience

IT Technician 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
288 IT Technician jobs Nationwide