Loki Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Loki C++ Library
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Loki skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Loki 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 297 344 475
Rank change year-on-year +47 +131 +154
Contract jobs citing Loki 7 1 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.007% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.027% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £429 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.02%
75th Percentile £533 - £575
90th Percentile £547 - -
UK median daily rate £445 £538 £535
% change year-on-year -17.21% +0.47% +1.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Loki falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

Loki
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Loki trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Loki
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Loki daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Loki
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 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) Redis
1 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jaeger
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
2 1 (14.29%) PHPUnit
2 1 (14.29%) Terragrunt
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
1 1 (14.29%) Consultant
1 1 (14.29%) Developer
1 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Python Developer
1 1 (14.29%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Middleware
2 1 (14.29%) AWS CDK
2 1 (14.29%) Doctrine
2 1 (14.29%) FastAPI
2 1 (14.29%) Metaflow
2 1 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (14.29%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Domain-Driven Design
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Management
3 1 (14.29%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) Time Series Forecasting
3 1 (14.29%) Visualisation
3 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) Rust
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
2 2 (28.57%) Apache ZooKeeper
2 2 (28.57%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
3 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 3 (42.86%) Terraform
4 2 (28.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
1 2 (28.57%) Veritas
1 2 (28.57%) VMware