Non-Blocking Code Contracts with Work from Home Options

Non-Blocking Code
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 Non-Blocking Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Blocking Code over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 340 462 614
Rank change year-on-year +122 +152 -
Contract jobs citing Non-Blocking Code 4 12 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.047% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.052% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 4
10th Percentile - £475 -
25th Percentile £606 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £614 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.55% -3.00% -
75th Percentile £623 £560 £534
90th Percentile £624 £593 £596
UK median daily rate £614 £518 £650
% change year-on-year +18.60% -20.32% +10.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Non-Blocking Code is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Non-Blocking Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Blocking Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Blocking Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Blocking Code
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 Non-Blocking Code.

Non-Blocking Code daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Blocking Code
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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Apigee
1 3 (75.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (50.00%) GCP Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) Node.js
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth
2 3 (75.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (75.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (75.00%) OpenID
2 3 (75.00%) SOAP
2 3 (75.00%) Swagger
2 3 (75.00%) YAML
3 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) Jest
3 1 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (25.00%) Nuxt
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (75.00%) API Design
2 3 (75.00%) API Management
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 1 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (25.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (25.00%) SEO
4 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Google