People Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

People Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring People Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited People Management 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 277 277 362
Rank change year-on-year 0 +85 +71
Contract jobs citing People Management 27 68 116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.27% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.50% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 54 65
10th Percentile £356 £412 £344
25th Percentile £406 £503 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £593 £510
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% +16.18% -7.23%
75th Percentile £700 £635 £588
90th Percentile £753 £835 £762
UK median daily rate £575 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile - - £35.00
25th Percentile - - £45.63
Median hourly rate £75.00 £87.80 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +25.43% -
75th Percentile - - £75.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 £22.54 £65.00
% change year-on-year +232.74% -65.32% +63.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

People Management 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%

People Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

People Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

People Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

People Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

People Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

People Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

People Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

People Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

People Management
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 3 (11.11%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.70%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Acrobat
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (3.70%) SAP EWM
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (37.04%) AWS
2 4 (14.81%) Azure
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (11.11%) OneDrive
4 1 (3.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (3.70%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
1 1 (3.70%) Neo4j
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
General
1 15 (55.56%) Finance
2 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Aerospace
5 2 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Aviation
5 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Developer
2 4 (14.81%) Microsoft 365 Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Programme Manager
3 3 (11.11%) ERP Implementation Manager
3 3 (11.11%) ERP Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
4 2 (7.41%) Senior
4 2 (7.41%) Service Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Support Manager
4 2 (7.41%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Finance Manager
5 1 (3.70%) HR Consultant
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
5 1 (3.70%) ITIL Service Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Programme Planning Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) React
2 1 (3.70%) CSS
2 1 (3.70%) CSS3
2 1 (3.70%) FastAPI
2 1 (3.70%) Flask
2 1 (3.70%) HTML
2 1 (3.70%) HTML5
2 1 (3.70%) Plotly
2 1 (3.70%) RESTful
2 1 (3.70%) Spring
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Batch
2 1 (3.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 2 (7.41%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.70%) Industrial Internet of Things
3 1 (3.70%) IoT
3 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.70%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Agile
1 8 (29.63%) PRINCE2
1 8 (29.63%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (22.22%) Process Improvement
3 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
4 4 (14.81%) Coaching
4 4 (14.81%) Project Management
5 3 (11.11%) Budget Management
5 3 (11.11%) ERP
5 3 (11.11%) Impact Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (11.11%) PLM
5 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 3 (11.11%) Project Governance
5 3 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
5 3 (11.11%) Time Management
6 2 (7.41%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) Go
2 1 (3.70%) Java
2 1 (3.70%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.70%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) PMP
2 5 (18.52%) Degree
3 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) CCNA
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (7.41%) MCP
6 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (3.70%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) MAPM
6 1 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (3.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) GRC
2 1 (3.70%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Adobe
2 2 (7.41%) Cisco
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.41%) VMware
3 1 (3.70%) Databricks
3 1 (3.70%) SAP
3 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow