MKS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MKS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring knowledge or experience of MKS products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MKS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within MKS, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 - 476
Rank change year-on-year - - +152
Contract jobs citing MKS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.004%
As % of the Vendors category 0.044% - 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £720 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £740 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.00%
75th Percentile £760 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £658 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +31.50% -9.09% -10.20%

All Vendors
Work from Home

MKS falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a remote or hybrid options requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 4,540 6,506 11,129
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 45.84% 42.40% 43.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,959 4,024 7,488
10th Percentile £325 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% - -
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £517 £525
% change year-on-year -0.39% -1.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 220 258
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.92 £17.87
25th Percentile £19.56 £16.93 £31.81
Median hourly rate £47.25 £32.31 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.25% -40.72% +55.71%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £43.75
% change year-on-year +18.61% -49.03% +108.14%

MKS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MKS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MKS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MKS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MKS
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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) MQSeries
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JTAPI
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) IVR
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Rancher
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Avaya
1 1 (50.00%) Confluent
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Verint