Hybrid/Remote WireMock Contract Job Trends

WireMock
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring WireMock skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 298 333
Rank change year-on-year -50 +35 +50
Contract jobs citing WireMock 22 6 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.062% 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.59% 0.20% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 4 1
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £441 £443 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% -
75th Percentile £501 £594 -
90th Percentile £526 £605 -
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £645
% change year-on-year -2.70% -28.29% +29.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

WireMock 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 3,718 2,946 3,540
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.18% 30.47% 28.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,449 1,963 2,392
10th Percentile £381 £358 £331
25th Percentile £440 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £519 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.16% -3.44% -0.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £661
90th Percentile £725 £750 £825
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 68 48
10th Percentile £41.60 £31.10 £33.15
25th Percentile £60.00 £35.81 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £56.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.35% +31.98% -33.85%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £67.30 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £50.72 £65.00
% change year-on-year +28.15% -21.97% +10.11%

WireMock
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

WireMock job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

WireMock
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

WireMock
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing WireMock over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

WireMock daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 16 (72.73%) AWS
2 13 (59.09%) GitHub
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (18.18%) Serverless
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon S3
5 2 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (4.55%) Azure
6 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) DynamoDB
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
2 2 (9.09%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
3 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (95.45%) Cucumber
2 16 (72.73%) JUnit
3 15 (68.18%) GitLab
3 15 (68.18%) Selenium
4 13 (59.09%) Git
5 10 (45.45%) Gatling
6 9 (40.91%) SonarQube
7 5 (22.73%) Mockito
8 4 (18.18%) Maven
8 4 (18.18%) Postman
8 4 (18.18%) REST Assured
9 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
9 3 (13.64%) JIRA
9 3 (13.64%) JMeter
10 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
10 1 (4.55%) Gradle
10 1 (4.55%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
10 1 (4.55%) XCTest
10 1 (4.55%) XCUITest
General
1 9 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Quality Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Java Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Automation Tester
4 2 (9.09%) Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Automation Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Serverless Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (59.09%) Spring
2 11 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 10 (45.45%) Playwright
3 10 (45.45%) REST
4 7 (31.82%) Spring Boot
5 4 (18.18%) SOAP
6 3 (13.64%) Kafka
7 2 (9.09%) OAuth
7 2 (9.09%) React
7 2 (9.09%) YAML
8 1 (4.55%) Android Jetpack
8 1 (4.55%) Dagger
8 1 (4.55%) JSON
8 1 (4.55%) OkHttp
8 1 (4.55%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (4.55%) RAML
8 1 (4.55%) RxJava
8 1 (4.55%) Swagger
8 1 (4.55%) UIKit
8 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.55%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Code
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 19 (86.36%) BDD
2 19 (86.36%) CI/CD
3 15 (68.18%) Agile
3 15 (68.18%) Microservices
3 15 (68.18%) TDD
4 13 (59.09%) Software Testing
5 12 (54.55%) Security Testing
6 11 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (40.91%) Coaching
7 9 (40.91%) OWASP
7 9 (40.91%) Pair Programming
7 9 (40.91%) Scrum
8 8 (36.36%) Manual Testing
8 8 (36.36%) Test Strategy
9 7 (31.82%) API Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Containerisation
10 6 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (27.27%) Performance Testing
11 5 (22.73%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (90.91%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) C#
2 2 (9.09%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Shell Script
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
3 1 (4.55%) Objective-C
3 1 (4.55%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Swift
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
1 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
2 6 (27.27%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (63.64%) Accessibility
2 12 (54.55%) WCAG
3 9 (40.91%) QA
System Software
1 16 (72.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (63.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 1 (4.55%) Red Hat