WebAssembly Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

WebAssembly (Wasm)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WebAssembly skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WebAssembly 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 - 474
Rank change year-on-year - - +147
Contract jobs citing WebAssembly 4 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.040% - 0.012%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £354 - -
25th Percentile £359 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -30.16%
75th Percentile £402 - £575
90th Percentile £427 - -
UK median daily rate £375 - £584
% change year-on-year - - -10.19%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

WebAssembly 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%

WebAssembly
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebAssembly trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WebAssembly
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WebAssembly daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WebAssembly
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 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Flutter Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior JavaScript Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) CSS
1 2 (50.00%) Flutter
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (50.00%) B2B
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Async-Await
3 1 (25.00%) Asynchronous Programming
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) TypeScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Google