Hybrid/Remote PERC Contract Job Trends

Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations (PERC)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring PERC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 - 368
Rank change year-on-year - - +161
Contract jobs citing PERC 13 0 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.13% - 0.035%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.71% - 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £306
25th Percentile £581 - £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £505
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.17%
75th Percentile £594 - £654
90th Percentile - - £744
UK median daily rate £563 £488 £505
% change year-on-year +15.38% -3.47% -15.83%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Work from Home

PERC falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,828 1,533 2,551
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 17.99% 13.11% 14.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,223 948 1,766
10th Percentile £325 £256 £325
25th Percentile £413 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £693 £700 £740
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 40 58
10th Percentile £18.78 £15.50 £14.11
25th Percentile £30.72 £21.25 £19.46
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.75 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +116.22% -11.90% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.67 £52.50 £53.94
90th Percentile £70.05 £67.50 £70.57
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £27.50 £35.25
% change year-on-year -8.55% -21.99% +56.03%

PERC
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing PERC and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

PERC job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

PERC
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PERC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing PERC

PERC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) GCP
2 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 5 (38.46%) Azure
3 1 (7.69%) dbt
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Google Analytics
3 1 (7.69%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) BigQuery
1 1 (7.69%) Looker
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
1 1 (7.69%) Tableau
General
1 10 (76.92%) Legal
2 9 (69.23%) Electronics
3 6 (46.15%) Marketing
4 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Consultant
2 5 (38.46%) Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Technology Consultant
4 2 (15.38%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365 Administrator
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Consultant
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Performance Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Product Owner
5 1 (7.69%) SQL Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Marketing Technology
2 5 (38.46%) Product Ownership
3 4 (30.77%) Client/Server
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) E-Commerce
3 9 (69.23%) Data Pipeline
3 9 (69.23%) Event-Driven
4 7 (53.85%) Analytics
5 6 (46.15%) Data Governance
5 6 (46.15%) Data Protection
6 5 (38.46%) BDD
6 5 (38.46%) Data Engineering
6 5 (38.46%) Data Enrichment
6 5 (38.46%) Data Privacy
6 5 (38.46%) Digital Marketing
6 5 (38.46%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (38.46%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
7 4 (30.77%) DevSecOps
7 4 (30.77%) Epics
7 4 (30.77%) Privacy Engineering
7 4 (30.77%) Release Train
7 4 (30.77%) SAFe Practitioner
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) GDPR
2 2 (15.38%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Adobe
1 5 (38.46%) mParticle
1 5 (38.46%) Salesforce
1 5 (38.46%) Tealium
2 1 (7.69%) Facebook
2 1 (7.69%) Google