Onboarding Contracts with Work from Home Options

Onboarding
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Onboarding over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 155 169 208
Rank change year-on-year +14 +39 +26
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 211 387 591
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 1.49% 1.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.84% 4.74% 4.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 283 383
10th Percentile £255 £380 £350
25th Percentile £425 £485 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +18.28%
75th Percentile £600 £680 £650
90th Percentile £650 £735 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 3 4
10th Percentile - £54.00 £15.78
25th Percentile £14.00 £58.50 £22.19
Median hourly rate £20.25 £66.00 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -69.32% +142.20% +96.11%
75th Percentile £27.25 £68.75 £33.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £70.40 £43.40
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £44.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -59.09% +120.00% +19.78%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Onboarding is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,363 8,167 13,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,941 5,752 9,905
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 152 229
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.06 £20.75
Median hourly rate £49.25 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Onboarding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding trend for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 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 a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

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 8 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 1 (0.47%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.47%) Confluence
3 1 (0.47%) WordPress
Applications
1 13 (6.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (4.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.95%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.95%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (0.95%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.95%) SAP BPC
2 2 (0.95%) SAP MM
2 2 (0.95%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.47%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (24.17%) Azure
2 34 (16.11%) AWS
3 31 (14.69%) GitHub
4 20 (9.48%) Microsoft 365
5 17 (8.06%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (8.06%) SaaS
6 11 (5.21%) GitHub Actions
6 11 (5.21%) IaaS
6 11 (5.21%) PaaS
7 10 (4.74%) SuccessFactors
8 9 (4.27%) OCI
9 5 (2.37%) Asana
9 5 (2.37%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 5 (2.37%) Slack
10 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
10 4 (1.90%) Azure AKS
10 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.90%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.90%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.79%) VPN
2 5 (2.37%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 5 (2.37%) NetScaler
3 4 (1.90%) DHCP
3 4 (1.90%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 2 (0.95%) Firewall
4 2 (0.95%) LAN
4 2 (0.95%) Network Security
4 2 (0.95%) SSH
4 2 (0.95%) Wireless
5 1 (0.47%) DNS
5 1 (0.47%) InfiniBand
5 1 (0.47%) Intranet
5 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (11.37%) MySQL
1 24 (11.37%) SQL Server
2 23 (10.90%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.90%) Big Data
3 4 (1.90%) Power BI
4 3 (1.42%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.95%) EDMS
5 2 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.95%) Redis
6 1 (0.47%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (6.64%) JIRA
2 10 (4.74%) SonarQube
3 5 (2.37%) GitLab
4 4 (1.90%) Git
5 2 (0.95%) Ant
5 2 (0.95%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.95%) Hamcrest
5 2 (0.95%) JUnit
5 2 (0.95%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.95%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.47%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.47%) JMeter
6 1 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 52 (24.64%) Finance
2 51 (24.17%) Social Skills
3 21 (9.95%) Public Sector
4 18 (8.53%) Banking
5 17 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (4.74%) Financial Institution
7 9 (4.27%) Marketing
8 8 (3.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.84%) Legal
9 6 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.37%) German Language
11 4 (1.90%) Advertising
11 4 (1.90%) Retail
11 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.42%) Electronics
12 3 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.95%) Automotive
13 2 (0.95%) Back Office
13 2 (0.95%) Billing
13 2 (0.95%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 25 (11.85%) Developer
2 24 (11.37%) Consultant
3 22 (10.43%) Senior
4 21 (9.95%) Project Manager
5 20 (9.48%) Analyst
6 15 (7.11%) IT Support
7 14 (6.64%) Lead
8 13 (6.16%) SailPoint Developer
9 11 (5.21%) Administrator
10 10 (4.74%) Business Analyst
10 10 (4.74%) IT Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) SailPoint Engineer
11 8 (3.79%) Support Engineer
12 7 (3.32%) SAP Manager
12 7 (3.32%) Senior Developer
13 6 (2.84%) 2nd Line Support
13 6 (2.84%) Architect
13 6 (2.84%) Financial Analyst
13 6 (2.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.37%) SailPoint
2 22 (10.43%) HTML
3 20 (9.48%) LDAP
4 19 (9.00%) JSP
4 19 (9.00%) Servlets
4 19 (9.00%) SOAP
4 19 (9.00%) SPML
4 19 (9.00%) XML
5 17 (8.06%) Web Services
6 16 (7.58%) JDBC
7 10 (4.74%) ARM Templates
7 10 (4.74%) Azure Blueprints
8 5 (2.37%) .NET
8 5 (2.37%) JSON
9 3 (1.42%) CSS
9 3 (1.42%) EDI
9 3 (1.42%) jQuery
9 3 (1.42%) OpenID
9 3 (1.42%) Spring
9 3 (1.42%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.85%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.27%) Data Centre
3 6 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.37%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.37%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 4 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.90%) NHS
5 4 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.42%) Tandem
7 2 (0.95%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.95%) FMCG
7 2 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.95%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.95%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.47%) CMDB
8 1 (0.47%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.47%) Smart Meter
8 1 (0.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (9.95%) Windows
2 9 (4.27%) Linux
3 7 (3.32%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.42%) Unix
6 2 (0.95%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.47%) Android
7 1 (0.47%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (16.11%) Agile
2 31 (14.69%) DevOps
2 31 (14.69%) Project Management
3 26 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (10.43%) RBAC
5 19 (9.00%) Migration
6 17 (8.06%) Cybersecurity
6 17 (8.06%) Software Engineering
7 13 (6.16%) DevSecOps
7 13 (6.16%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (5.69%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (5.69%) Test Automation
9 11 (5.21%) Analytics
9 11 (5.21%) Mentoring
10 10 (4.74%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (4.74%) Functional Testing
10 10 (4.74%) Non-Functional Testing
10 10 (4.74%) Performance Analysis
10 10 (4.74%) Release Management
10 10 (4.74%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (13.27%) SQL
2 26 (12.32%) Java
3 21 (9.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (4.27%) Python
5 8 (3.79%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.90%) ActionScript
6 4 (1.90%) Bash
6 4 (1.90%) C#
7 3 (1.42%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.95%) Bourne shell
8 2 (0.95%) Korn
8 2 (0.95%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.47%) BeanShell
9 1 (0.47%) COBOL
9 1 (0.47%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.47%) Micro Focus COBOL
9 1 (0.47%) R
9 1 (0.47%) Ruby
9 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.47%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 43 (20.38%) Security Cleared
2 38 (18.01%) SC Cleared
3 29 (13.74%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (6.64%) Degree
5 7 (3.32%) PMP
6 5 (2.37%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.90%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.95%) CISSP
9 2 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.95%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.47%) CIPD
10 1 (0.47%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.21%) QA
2 10 (4.74%) NCSC
3 7 (3.32%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.84%) SLA
5 5 (2.37%) Accessibility
5 5 (2.37%) PMO
6 3 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.95%) GDPR
8 1 (0.47%) GAAP
8 1 (0.47%) GxP
8 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (14.69%) Active Directory
2 21 (9.95%) IAG
3 16 (7.58%) ACF2
3 16 (7.58%) RACF
4 11 (5.21%) Docker
5 5 (2.37%) Virtual Servers
6 3 (1.42%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (0.47%) Firmware
7 1 (0.47%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (7.11%) Kubernetes
1 15 (7.11%) Terraform
2 10 (4.74%) Ansible
3 3 (1.42%) SCCM
3 3 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.47%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (0.47%) Grafana
4 1 (0.47%) Matomo
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.47%) Nagios
4 1 (0.47%) Opsview
4 1 (0.47%) Puppet
Vendors
1 39 (18.48%) Oracle
2 35 (16.59%) ServiceNow
3 31 (14.69%) SAP
4 26 (12.32%) Microsoft
5 20 (9.48%) Sybase
6 8 (3.79%) Splunk
7 6 (2.84%) Ariba
8 5 (2.37%) F5
8 5 (2.37%) Palo Alto
8 5 (2.37%) Red Hat
8 5 (2.37%) Zscaler
9 4 (1.90%) Blue Prism
9 4 (1.90%) Virgin Media
10 3 (1.42%) Datix
10 3 (1.42%) Google
10 3 (1.42%) Phenom
10 3 (1.42%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.42%) VMware
11 2 (0.95%) Okta
11 2 (0.95%) UiPath