Hybrid/Remote XBRL Contract Job Trends

eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring XBRL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing XBRL 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.010% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.037% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - £290
% change year-on-year - - -60.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

XBRL 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 2,669 2,894 4,213
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.26% 24.57% 24.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,739 1,901 3,052
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £419 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 28 45
10th Percentile £31.20 £21.78 £40.12
25th Percentile £40.75 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £61.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.45% -5.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.00 £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -8.00% +19.05% -19.23%

XBRL
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

XBRL job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

XBRL
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

XBRL
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Fund Accounting
1 1 (100.00%) Regtech
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CBAP
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) AIFMD
1 1 (100.00%) QA