WFM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Workforce Management (WFM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for WFM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WFM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 455 584
Rank change year-on-year +149 +129 -130
Contract jobs citing WFM 40 17 39
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.26% 0.066% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.073% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 15 31
10th Percentile £204 £430 £400
25th Percentile £275 £525 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.17% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £656 £600
90th Percentile £700 £775 £700
UK median daily rate £400 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -30.43% +9.52% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

WFM is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,424 23,231 40,628
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.84% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,419 29,475
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £715
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 532 547
10th Percentile £15.12 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.89
Median hourly rate £40.28 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.76% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.20
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

WFM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WFM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WFM trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing WFM.

WFM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WFM over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

WFM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
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 3 (7.50%) Apache
1 3 (7.50%) IIS
1 3 (7.50%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (22.50%) Chatbot
2 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP ERP
1 1 (2.50%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
2 7 (17.50%) GCP
3 4 (10.00%) Azure
3 4 (10.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (7.50%) OCI
5 1 (2.50%) Boomi
5 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.50%) SaaS
5 1 (2.50%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (2.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) MegaStream
2 3 (7.50%) H.323
2 3 (7.50%) HTTP
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 11 (27.50%) Telecoms
2 8 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Marketing
3 6 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 3 (7.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Social Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Law
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
1 8 (20.00%) Consultant
2 7 (17.50%) Genesys Consultant
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Project Manager
3 5 (12.50%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) Coordinator
4 4 (10.00%) Insight Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (7.50%) Business Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Resource Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Resource Planner
6 2 (5.00%) Electrical Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Linux Support
6 2 (5.00%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Telecoms Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) RESTful
2 1 (2.50%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 12 (30.00%) IVR
2 5 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 4 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Windows
2 1 (2.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) Artificial Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) Conversational UI
1 9 (22.50%) Roadmaps
2 8 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 7 (17.50%) CI/CD
3 7 (17.50%) Computer Science
3 7 (17.50%) Configuration Management
3 7 (17.50%) Presales
3 7 (17.50%) Quality Management
4 5 (12.50%) Change Management
4 5 (12.50%) Service Management
5 4 (10.00%) Facilities Management
5 4 (10.00%) Line Management
5 4 (10.00%) OpenUP
5 4 (10.00%) People Management
5 4 (10.00%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (10.00%) Project Delivery
5 4 (10.00%) Resource Management
5 4 (10.00%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) CIPD
3 1 (2.50%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Genesys
3 6 (15.00%) Avaya
4 3 (7.50%) Ceridian
4 3 (7.50%) Datix
4 3 (7.50%) Oracle
4 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
4 3 (7.50%) Sage
4 3 (7.50%) Verint
5 2 (5.00%) Kronos
5 2 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 2 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (5.00%) UiPath
6 1 (2.50%) Dell