Junior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Junior
UK > Work from Home

The median Junior daily rate in Work from Home is £325 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 270 370 427
Rank change year-on-year +100 +57 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 79 104 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.40% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.42% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 76 144
10th Percentile £175 £190 £166
25th Percentile £225 £225 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £319 £319
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% - +27.50%
75th Percentile £350 £405 £362
90th Percentile £397 £470 £420
UK median daily rate £325 £270 £300
% change year-on-year +20.37% -10.00% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - £16.86 £18.65
25th Percentile - £25.66 £19.76
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.54 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.98% +45.43% -3.40%
75th Percentile - £35.41 £25.48
90th Percentile - £44.16 £27.15
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £13.15 £21.00
% change year-on-year -20.76% -37.38% +13.51%

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 14,327 24,531 42,707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.34% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,575 17,328 30,855
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +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 577 565 611
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.22 £13.12
25th Percentile £23.34 £25.95 £18.75
Median hourly rate £44.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%

Junior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Junior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Junior.

Junior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Junior over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Junior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Junior.

Junior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Junior Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 25 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 17 (21.52%) Project Management
4 13 (16.46%) Azure
4 13 (16.46%) PMO
4 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
5 12 (15.19%) Banking
6 11 (13.92%) Finance
7 10 (12.66%) Retail
7 10 (12.66%) Agile
8 9 (11.39%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (11.39%) Workday
8 9 (11.39%) Data Protection
9 8 (10.13%) User Experience
9 8 (10.13%) JIRA
9 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
9 8 (10.13%) C#
9 8 (10.13%) .NET
10 7 (8.86%) HTML
10 7 (8.86%) CSS
10 7 (8.86%) Python
10 7 (8.86%) Value Proposition
10 7 (8.86%) Customer Value Proposition
11 6 (7.59%) Social Skills
11 6 (7.59%) SQL
11 6 (7.59%) Change Management
11 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
11 6 (7.59%) DevOps
11 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving

Junior 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.53%) Confluence
2 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (1.27%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.46%) Azure
2 6 (7.59%) AWS
3 3 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.53%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.27%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.27%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.33%) Intranet
2 1 (1.27%) LAN
2 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.80%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.27%) Big Data
2 1 (1.27%) Power BI
2 1 (1.27%) Power Query
2 1 (1.27%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Git
General
1 13 (16.46%) Public Sector
2 12 (15.19%) Banking
3 11 (13.92%) Finance
4 10 (12.66%) Retail
5 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Social Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.53%) Electronics
7 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Law
8 1 (1.27%) Marketing
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) .NET
2 7 (8.86%) CSS
2 7 (8.86%) HTML
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.53%) PySpark
3 2 (2.53%) React
3 2 (2.53%) REST
4 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.27%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.27%) CSS3
4 1 (1.27%) Django
4 1 (1.27%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.27%) Flask
4 1 (1.27%) HTML5
4 1 (1.27%) JPA
4 1 (1.27%) JSON
4 1 (1.27%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
4 1 (1.27%) Spring Security
4 1 (1.27%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.39%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.53%) Blackberry
2 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.27%) Clustering
3 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.27%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.27%) NHS
3 1 (1.27%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.80%) Windows
2 2 (2.53%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.27%) Android
3 1 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.27%) Linux
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (21.52%) Project Management
2 10 (12.66%) Agile
3 9 (11.39%) Data Protection
4 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (10.13%) User Experience
5 7 (8.86%) Customer Value Proposition
5 7 (8.86%) Value Proposition
6 6 (7.59%) Change Management
6 6 (7.59%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (7.59%) DevOps
6 6 (7.59%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (6.33%) Workflow
8 4 (5.06%) Workshop Facilitation
9 3 (3.80%) Analytics
9 3 (3.80%) Data Analysis
9 3 (3.80%) Data Science
9 3 (3.80%) ITIL
9 3 (3.80%) Regulatory Compliance
9 3 (3.80%) Visualisation
10 2 (2.53%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.13%) C#
1 8 (10.13%) JavaScript
2 7 (8.86%) Python
3 6 (7.59%) SQL
4 2 (2.53%) Bash
5 1 (1.27%) ABAP
5 1 (1.27%) Java
5 1 (1.27%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.27%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (31.65%) Security Cleared
2 23 (29.11%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.33%) Degree
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.27%) CAPM
4 1 (1.27%) CCNA
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.27%) PMP
4 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (16.46%) PMO
2 1 (1.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.80%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.53%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.27%) AppManager
2 1 (1.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.27%) SCCM
2 1 (1.27%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (11.39%) Workday
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.06%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) Oracle
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) Ariba
4 1 (1.27%) Cisco
4 1 (1.27%) HP
4 1 (1.27%) Huawei
4 1 (1.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.27%) Talend
4 1 (1.27%) Trend Micro