Hybrid/Remote thinkFolio Contract Job Trends

Markit thinkFolio
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring thinkFolio skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing thinkFolio 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% - -
As % of the Business Applications category 0.40% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 - -
UK median daily rate £700 - -

All Business Application Skills
Work from Home

thinkFolio falls under the Business 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 business application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for business application skills 1,000 1,046 1,591
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 9.79% 8.67% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 577 903
10th Percentile £388 £350 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 18 37
10th Percentile £24.58 £28.70 £46.15
25th Percentile £25.25 £36.25 £49.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £48.75 £84.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -42.31% +29.50%
75th Percentile £91.13 £65.53 £88.75
90th Percentile £93.85 £73.93 £93.75
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -11.12% -20.34% +28.39%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

thinkFolio job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

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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:

Business Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Aladdin
1 4 (100.00%) Fidessa
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
1 4 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (100.00%) Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Front Office
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) C# Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 4 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (100.00%) Derivative
1 4 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Fixed Income
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreaded Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Multithreading
1 4 (100.00%) Order Management
2 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Development
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Portware
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft