Hybrid/Remote Swim Lanes Contract Job Trends

Swim Lane Diagrams
UK > Work from Home

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 314 421
Rank change year-on-year +10 +107 +162
Contract jobs citing Swim Lanes 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.042% 0.032% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.045% 0.037% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile £421 £303 £479
25th Percentile £421 £370 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £415 £513
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -19.02% +13.89%
75th Percentile £471 £442 £534
90th Percentile £474 £477 £536
UK median daily rate £450 £563 £595
% change year-on-year -20.00% -5.46% +32.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Swim Lanes 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 8,857 10,927 17,566
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.10% 88.10% 89.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,885 6,894 12,341
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -1.69% -2.91%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 279 268 421
10th Percentile £13.20 £19.88 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £31.13 £25.95
Median hourly rate £35.89 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.53% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £41.08 £42.75
% change year-on-year -38.77% -3.91% +45.83%

Swim Lanes
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Swim Lanes job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Swim Lanes
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Swim Lanes
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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (75.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (50.00%) Target Operating Model
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) BPMN
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Use Case
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce