Workstream Lead Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Workstream Leader
UK > Work from Home

The median Workstream Leader daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £549, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 297 342 463
Rank change year-on-year +45 +121 +145
Contract jobs requiring a Workstream Lead 7 3 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.020% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.021% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 12
10th Percentile £451 £410 £451
25th Percentile £531 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year +21.94% -12.20% -6.82%
75th Percentile £611 £575 £642
90th Percentile £635 £650 £731
UK median daily rate £579 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +25.14% -7.50% -11.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Workstream Lead
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Workstream Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Workstream Lead trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Workstream Lead
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Workstream Lead daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Workstream Lead
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Workstream Lead daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Workstream Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Workstream Lead contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Workstream Lead in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (28.57%) Iteration Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Fintech
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (14.29%) Data Design
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (14.29%) Data Science
3 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
3 1 (14.29%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (14.29%) People Management

Workstream Lead Skill Set
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 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Power BI
2 1 (14.29%) Big Data
2 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Agile
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (28.57%) DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Iteration Planning
1 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) RBAC
1 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
2 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Design
2 1 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (14.29%) Data Science
2 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
2 1 (14.29%) Fintech
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) CISM
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Avaloq
1 1 (14.29%) Pega