Toad Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Quest Toad
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Toad skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Toad 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 300 339 469
Rank change year-on-year +39 +130 +144
Contract jobs citing Toad 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% 0.039% 0.031%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.32% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £407 £392 £366
25th Percentile £440 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £464
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +7.82% +2.04%
75th Percentile £547 - £505
90th Percentile £579 - £506
UK median daily rate £394 £500 £576
% change year-on-year -21.24% -13.23% +33.24%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Toad 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%

Toad
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Toad trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Toad
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Toad daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Toad
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Toad daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Toad
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) WebLogic
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Cognito
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) Datadog
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub
3 1 (25.00%) IaaS
3 1 (25.00%) PaaS
3 1 (25.00%) SaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) FTP
1 1 (25.00%) SSL
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Flyway
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JProfiler
2 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
2 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (25.00%) Mockito
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Performance Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Camel
1 1 (25.00%) AWS CDK
1 1 (25.00%) JWT
1 1 (25.00%) OAuth
1 1 (25.00%) OpenID
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) SAML
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (25.00%) WireMock
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Unix
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Kanban
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Groovy
4 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (25.00%) Okta
3 1 (25.00%) RedGate
3 1 (25.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Talend
3 1 (25.00%) webMethods