NFC Contracts with Work from Home Options

Near Field Communication (NFC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for NFC skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited NFC over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 - 632
Rank change year-on-year - - -153
Contract jobs citing NFC 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.007% - 0.004%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.062% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £521 £575 -
% change year-on-year -9.35% - -

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

NFC is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,623 2,957 4,340
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.55% 11.44% 9.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,970 2,945
10th Percentile £300 £350 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
UK median daily rate £495 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -4.53% +3.70% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 101 102
10th Percentile £12.75 £24.50 £18.55
25th Percentile £14.20 £42.50 £25.69
Median hourly rate £24.13 £60.00 £49.29
Median % change year-on-year -59.79% +21.73% +15.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £71.50 £63.19
90th Percentile £87.46 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £19.00 £27.88
% change year-on-year +102.63% -31.84% +1.36%

NFC
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing NFC as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

NFC trend for jobs with a WFH option

NFC
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing NFC.

NFC daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NFC
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) PPP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GoogleTest
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Valgrind
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C++ Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (100.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Memory Management
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google