Onboarding Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Onboarding
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Onboarding 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 114 154 171
Rank change year-on-year +40 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 227 210 386
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.29% 1.37% 1.49%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.94% 4.76% 4.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 145 283
10th Percentile £363 £255 £380
25th Percentile £411 £450 £489
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £641 £600 £684
90th Percentile £788 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 14 3
10th Percentile £13.29 - £54.00
25th Percentile £13.85 £14.00 £58.50
Median hourly rate £15.50 £20.25 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% -69.32% +142.20%
75th Percentile £23.00 £27.25 £68.75
90th Percentile £55.70 £30.25 £70.40
UK median hourly rate £28.25 £20.25 £44.00
% change year-on-year +39.51% -53.98% +120.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Onboarding 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%

Onboarding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Onboarding
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 13 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.76%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.32%) Confluence
5 2 (0.88%) Drupal
6 1 (0.44%) CMS
6 1 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (6.17%) Aladdin
1 14 (6.17%) thinkFolio
2 4 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.88%) CiviCRM
3 2 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.88%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.44%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 36 (15.86%) Azure
2 28 (12.33%) Microsoft 365
3 20 (8.81%) Power Platform
4 17 (7.49%) AWS
5 13 (5.73%) Entra ID
6 11 (4.85%) Asana
7 9 (3.96%) Slack
8 7 (3.08%) SaaS
9 5 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.20%) GitHub
9 5 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (2.20%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.20%) Serverless
10 4 (1.76%) OCI
10 4 (1.76%) Oracle CX
10 4 (1.76%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.76%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.76%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.96%) Firewall
2 7 (3.08%) VPN
3 5 (2.20%) Remote Desktop
4 2 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.88%) Network Security
4 2 (0.88%) SSH
4 2 (0.88%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) Broadband
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (0.44%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (0.44%) DHCP
5 1 (0.44%) DNS
5 1 (0.44%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.44%) NAS
5 1 (0.44%) POP3
5 1 (0.44%) Skype
5 1 (0.44%) SMTP
5 1 (0.44%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.44%) VLAN
5 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.93%) Power BI
2 4 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Database
3 3 (1.32%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.32%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.88%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.88%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.88%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.44%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.44%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.44%) MySQL
5 1 (0.44%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (0.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 20 (8.81%) JIRA
2 11 (4.85%) Git
3 3 (1.32%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.32%) GitLab
3 3 (1.32%) Oracle Forms
3 3 (1.32%) ScriptRunner
3 3 (1.32%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (0.88%) Cypress.io
4 2 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.88%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.88%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.44%) LSMW
5 1 (0.44%) Postman
General
1 79 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 76 (33.48%) Finance
3 29 (12.78%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.37%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.93%) Banking
5 18 (7.93%) Front Office
6 17 (7.49%) Marketing
7 12 (5.29%) Legal
7 12 (5.29%) Telecoms
8 11 (4.85%) Manufacturing
9 10 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.52%) Electronics
11 6 (2.64%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.64%) Retail
12 5 (2.20%) Billing
12 5 (2.20%) Italian Language
13 4 (1.76%) French Language
13 4 (1.76%) German Language
14 3 (1.32%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (18.50%) Analyst
2 26 (11.45%) Business Analyst
3 23 (10.13%) Developer
4 19 (8.37%) Consultant
4 19 (8.37%) Lead
5 18 (7.93%) Business Manager
6 17 (7.49%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 16 (7.05%) Project Manager
8 14 (6.17%) Senior
9 11 (4.85%) Architect
10 10 (4.41%) IT Support
10 10 (4.41%) Support Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) IT Support Engineer
11 9 (3.96%) Splunk Engineer
12 8 (3.52%) Administrator
12 8 (3.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
13 7 (3.08%) Cloud Engineer
14 5 (2.20%) Full-Stack Developer
14 5 (2.20%) Senior IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.64%) .NET
1 6 (2.64%) LDAP
1 6 (2.64%) Middleware
1 6 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (2.64%) SailPoint
2 5 (2.20%) Web Services
3 3 (1.32%) AngularJS
3 3 (1.32%) AWS CDK
3 3 (1.32%) FastAPI
3 3 (1.32%) OpenID
3 3 (1.32%) React
4 2 (0.88%) Akka
4 2 (0.88%) Compass CSS Framework
4 2 (0.88%) Node.js
4 2 (0.88%) Play Framework
4 2 (0.88%) Redux
4 2 (0.88%) REST
4 2 (0.88%) RESTful
4 2 (0.88%) RxJS
4 2 (0.88%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.93%) Derivative
1 18 (7.93%) Fixed Income
2 17 (7.49%) Hedge funds
3 8 (3.52%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.64%) Product Ownership
5 6 (2.64%) Social Media
6 5 (2.20%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.76%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.76%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.32%) BYOD
8 3 (1.32%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.32%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.88%) Clustering
9 2 (0.88%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.88%) FMCG
9 2 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.88%) PMI
9 2 (0.88%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (13.22%) Windows
2 12 (5.29%) Linux
3 8 (3.52%) Unix
4 6 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.20%) Android
5 5 (2.20%) Apple iOS
6 3 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (1.32%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.44%) AIX
7 1 (0.44%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.26%) Agile
2 43 (18.94%) Problem-Solving
3 38 (16.74%) Business Intelligence
4 35 (15.42%) Client Onboarding
5 32 (14.10%) Project Management
6 26 (11.45%) Asset Management
6 26 (11.45%) Investment Management
7 25 (11.01%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (10.13%) Business Analysis
9 21 (9.25%) DevOps
10 18 (7.93%) ITSM
11 17 (7.49%) Analytics
11 17 (7.49%) Data Mapping
11 17 (7.49%) Migration
11 17 (7.49%) Portfolio Management
11 17 (7.49%) Service Management
12 14 (6.17%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (6.17%) Programme Management
13 13 (5.73%) CRM
13 13 (5.73%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.98%) SQL
2 33 (14.54%) Python
3 12 (5.29%) PowerShell
4 11 (4.85%) Java
5 8 (3.52%) C#
6 7 (3.08%) TypeScript
7 6 (2.64%) JavaScript
8 5 (2.20%) Bash
9 3 (1.32%) Groovy
10 2 (0.88%) ActionScript
10 2 (0.88%) ActionScript 2.0
10 2 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.44%) C
11 1 (0.44%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.44%) Ruby
11 1 (0.44%) Smalltalk
11 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.44%) VB
11 1 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (20.70%) Security Cleared
2 33 (14.54%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 17 (7.49%) Degree
5 6 (2.64%) PMI Certification
6 4 (1.76%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.76%) Azure Certification
6 4 (1.76%) PMP
7 3 (1.32%) APMG
8 2 (0.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.44%) APMP
9 1 (0.44%) CCDE
9 1 (0.44%) CCNA
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.44%) CISM
9 1 (0.44%) CISSP
9 1 (0.44%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.44%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) MCSE
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.85%) PMO
2 8 (3.52%) GDPR
3 7 (3.08%) QA
4 4 (1.76%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.76%) HIPAA
4 4 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.76%) SLA
5 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.88%) EMIR
7 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.44%) GRC
7 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.44%) MiFID
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (12.78%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.44%) Firmware
3 1 (0.44%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.44%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 10 (4.41%) Terraform
2 9 (3.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.64%) Ansible
3 6 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (1.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.32%) Grafana
4 3 (1.32%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.32%) MIIS
4 3 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.88%) Packer
5 2 (0.88%) SCCM
6 1 (0.44%) Forefront Identity Manager
6 1 (0.44%) Plesk
6 1 (0.44%) QRadar
6 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 40 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.49%) Charles River
3 16 (7.05%) Splunk
4 14 (6.17%) BISAM
4 14 (6.17%) Calypso
4 14 (6.17%) SimCorp
5 13 (5.73%) Oracle
6 12 (5.29%) SAP
7 10 (4.41%) CyberArk
7 10 (4.41%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.64%) Palo Alto
8 6 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.20%) Atlassian
9 5 (2.20%) Zscaler
10 4 (1.76%) Cisco
10 4 (1.76%) VMware
11 3 (1.32%) BeyondTrust
11 3 (1.32%) IBM
12 2 (0.88%) Okta
12 2 (0.88%) Solace