MoSCoW Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

MoSCoW Method
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring MoSCoW skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MoSCoW 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 297 339 473
Rank change year-on-year +42 +134 +139
Contract jobs citing MoSCoW 7 6 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.039% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.045% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
10th Percentile £480 £510 £197
25th Percentile £506 - £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +71.43% -26.32%
75th Percentile - - £478
90th Percentile - - £484
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £388
% change year-on-year +22.22% +16.13% -18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

MoSCoW falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

MoSCoW
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MoSCoW trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MoSCoW
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

MoSCoW daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MoSCoW
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 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 5 (71.43%) Analyst
3 4 (57.14%) Data Business Analyst
4 2 (28.57%) Data Analyst
5 1 (14.29%) SIEM Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Structures
1 2 (28.57%) Derivative
1 2 (28.57%) Equities
1 2 (28.57%) Fixed Income
1 2 (28.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (28.57%) Management Information System
1 2 (28.57%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (71.43%) Process Improvement
2 5 (71.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (57.14%) Business Analysis
3 4 (57.14%) Data Management
3 4 (57.14%) Regulatory Compliance
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Business Process Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Change Control
5 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
5 2 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (28.57%) Project Management
5 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
5 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) CBAP
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) PMI Certification
1 2 (28.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) EMIR
1 4 (57.14%) MiFID
2 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (28.57%) Dodd-Frank
2 2 (28.57%) NIST