Hybrid/Remote Technical Specialist Contract Job Trends

Technical Specialist
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Specialist daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £447, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 306 342
Rank change year-on-year +14 +36 +144
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Specialist 21 10 23
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.21% 0.091% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.098% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 16
10th Percentile £328 £306 £384
25th Percentile £424 £317 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £409 £594
Median % change year-on-year +9.37% -31.17% +3.26%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £745
90th Percentile £526 £500 -
UK median daily rate £388 £475 £438
% change year-on-year -18.42% +8.57% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £27.25
Median hourly rate - - £29.50
75th Percentile - - £31.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £14.00 - £29.50

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,458 10,229 15,103
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 93.08% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,132 6,496 10,247
10th Percentile £325 £325 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £638
90th Percentile £718 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 172 381
10th Percentile £15.48 £19.59 £15.42
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.01 £24.50
Median hourly rate £47.25 £36.35 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -28.74% -11.30%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.20 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £26.30 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -19.08% -23.53% +21.43%

Technical Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Specialist' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Technical Specialist job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Specialist job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Specialist job vacancies

Technical Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technical Specialist over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Technical Specialist daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Technical Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Specialist job vacancies.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Specialist job vacancies

Technical Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 15 January 2026, Technical Specialist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Technical Specialist in the job title.

1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) Containerisation
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) Docker
2 13 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 13 (61.90%) Process Improvement
3 12 (57.14%) API Design
3 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) Coaching
3 12 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 12 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 12 (57.14%) GraphQL
3 12 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 12 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 12 (57.14%) Node.js
3 12 (57.14%) Observability
3 12 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 12 (57.14%) Playwright
3 12 (57.14%) SaaS
3 12 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 12 (57.14%) TypeScript
3 12 (57.14%) Vitest
4 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
6 4 (19.05%) Azure
6 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
7 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
8 2 (9.52%) AWS
8 2 (9.52%) Bash

Technical Specialist Skill Set
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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) Confluence
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) SaaS
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
2 1 (4.76%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.76%) WebEx
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (4.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) RDBMS
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (57.14%) GraphQL
1 12 (57.14%) Node.js
1 12 (57.14%) Playwright
1 12 (57.14%) Vitest
2 1 (4.76%) LDAP
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
2 1 (4.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Clustering
2 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
1 2 (9.52%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) CentOS
2 1 (4.76%) Ubuntu
2 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (61.90%) Agile
2 13 (61.90%) Containerisation
2 13 (61.90%) DevOps
2 13 (61.90%) Process Improvement
3 12 (57.14%) API Design
3 12 (57.14%) CI/CD
3 12 (57.14%) Coaching
3 12 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 12 (57.14%) E-Commerce
3 12 (57.14%) Mentoring
3 12 (57.14%) Observability
3 12 (57.14%) Performance Optimisation
3 12 (57.14%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.52%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (9.52%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
4 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) TypeScript
2 3 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (9.52%) Python
4 1 (4.76%) Perl
4 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
2 1 (4.76%) OCP
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (4.76%) RHCE
2 1 (4.76%) RHCSA
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (4.76%) GDPR
1 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 13 (61.90%) Docker
2 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) KVM
3 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (61.90%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) Progress Chef
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.76%) Avaya
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Citrix
3 1 (4.76%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.76%) VMware