Hybrid/Remote Mocha Contract Job Trends

Mocha
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Mocha skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 345 297 341
Rank change year-on-year -48 +44 +104
Contract jobs citing Mocha 2 5 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.016% 0.052% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.12% 0.33% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £553 - -
25th Percentile £556 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% - -
75th Percentile £569 £438 -
90th Percentile £573 - -
UK median daily rate £525 £425 £575
% change year-on-year +23.53% -26.09% +6.98%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Mocha falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,728 1,495 1,760
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.06% 15.62% 12.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,191 1,091 1,267
10th Percentile £350 £333 £360
25th Percentile £409 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -6.42%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £600
90th Percentile £681 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 18 40
10th Percentile £62.50 £23.60 £24.69
25th Percentile £65.00 £53.19 £40.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £63.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% -1.92% +4.84%
75th Percentile - £75.31 £84.38
90th Percentile £77.73 £90.75 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +13.04% -11.54% +5.69%

Mocha
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Mocha and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Mocha job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Mocha
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mocha.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Mocha

Mocha
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) DocumentDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 2 (100.00%) Jest
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Development
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Grafana
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform