SPML Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Service Provisioning Markup Language (SPML)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring SPML skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SPML 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 303 328 471
Rank change year-on-year +25 +143 -
Contract jobs citing SPML 1 17 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.010% 0.11% 0.023%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.039% 0.46% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 14 6
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £630 £594 £650
Median % change year-on-year +6.11% -8.65% -
UK median daily rate £630 £606 £650
% change year-on-year +3.92% -6.73% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

SPML falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SPML trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

SPML
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

SPML daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

SPML
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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OpenID
1 1 (100.00%) SAML
1 1 (100.00%) XACML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 SPML jobs Nationwide