Spinnaker Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Spinnaker
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Spinnaker skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spinnaker 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 300 344 456
Rank change year-on-year +44 +112 +112
Contract jobs citing Spinnaker 4 1 21
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.007% 0.081%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.054% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 17
10th Percentile £452 - £563
25th Percentile £483 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +16.67%
75th Percentile £550 - £775
90th Percentile - - £785
UK median daily rate £525 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £87.50
Median hourly rate - - £95.00
75th Percentile - - £102.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £95.00

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Spinnaker falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

Spinnaker
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Spinnaker trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Spinnaker daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spinnaker
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Spinnaker daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spinnaker
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECR
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
2 1 (25.00%) Datadog
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (75.00%) Git
2 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 3 (75.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (75.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (25.00%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Release Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Deployment Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Platform Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) Release Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (25.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Argo
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
2 1 (25.00%) Kibana
2 1 (25.00%) logstash
2 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft