Multi-touch Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Multi-touch
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Multi-touch in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Multi-touch 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 298 340 471
Rank change year-on-year +42 +131 -
Contract jobs citing Multi-touch 6 5 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.061% 0.033% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.18% 0.11% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £561
25th Percentile - - £562
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £573
% change year-on-year -16.00% +9.03% +63.79%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Multi-touch falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Multi-touch
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Multi-touch trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Multi-touch
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Multi-touch daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Multi-touch
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 5 (83.33%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 6 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Bayesian Methods
1 6 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 6 (100.00%) Data Science
1 6 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 6 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 5 (83.33%) Statistics
3 4 (66.67%) A/B Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Affinity Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (66.67%) Decision Tree
3 4 (66.67%) Neural Network
3 4 (66.67%) Predictive Modelling
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Customer Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (33.33%) Analytics
4 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Data Collection
4 2 (33.33%) DevOps
4 2 (33.33%) Marketing Mix
4 2 (33.33%) Model Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) R
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks