NsoIT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

New Style of IT (NsoIT)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring NsoIT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NsoIT 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 287 341 473
Rank change year-on-year +54 +132 +150
Contract jobs citing NsoIT 17 4 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.17% 0.026% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.030% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 1 4
10th Percentile £513 - £493
25th Percentile £525 £514 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £588
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -5.96% +11.90%
75th Percentile £594 £591 £638
90th Percentile £635 - £660
UK median daily rate £575 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +9.00% -4.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

NsoIT 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%

NsoIT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NsoIT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

NsoIT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

NsoIT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

NsoIT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing NsoIT over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

NsoIT daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

NsoIT
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 11 (64.71%) Confluence
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (88.24%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Skype
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) JIRA
2 3 (17.65%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (94.12%) Social Skills
2 15 (88.24%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (58.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
2 4 (23.53%) Senior Wintel Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (58.82%) Flash
2 2 (11.76%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (58.82%) Clustering
2 4 (23.53%) PKI
3 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 4 (23.53%) Windows 10
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (11.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Critical Thinking
1 15 (88.24%) Service Management
1 15 (88.24%) System Testing
2 12 (70.59%) Agile
3 11 (64.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 11 (64.71%) Validation
4 10 (58.82%) Computer Science
4 10 (58.82%) High Availability
4 10 (58.82%) Network Virtualisation
4 10 (58.82%) Power Management
4 10 (58.82%) Waterfall
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
7 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
8 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Automation
8 1 (5.88%) Platform Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
8 1 (5.88%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) PowerShell
2 4 (23.53%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) Python
4 1 (5.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 17 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (88.24%) Degree
3 12 (70.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 10 (58.82%) CCNA
4 10 (58.82%) Cisco Certification
4 10 (58.82%) Master's Degree
5 5 (29.41%) MCSE
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.88%) MCSA
6 1 (5.88%) OCA
6 1 (5.88%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 11 (64.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (58.82%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (58.82%) VMware NSX
3 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (64.71%) vCenter Server
2 4 (23.53%) WSUS
3 3 (17.65%) Ansible
4 2 (11.76%) Terraform
5 1 (5.88%) PowerCLI
5 1 (5.88%) Progress Chef
5 1 (5.88%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) VMware
2 11 (64.71%) Atlassian
3 10 (58.82%) Cisco
4 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.88%) Oracle
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.88%) Veeam