Customer Requirements Contracts with Work from Home Options

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 213 242 366
Rank change year-on-year +29 +124 -45
Contract jobs citing Customer Requirements 138 253 270
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.92% 1.00% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 1.12% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 168 177
10th Percentile £350 £387 £313
25th Percentile £449 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £509
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -1.67% +13.00%
75th Percentile £563 £579 £656
90th Percentile £600 £658 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 18 20
10th Percentile £12.75 £40.60 £12.21
25th Percentile £19.88 £47.50 £20.56
Median hourly rate £26.00 £60.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +29.73% -20.26%
75th Percentile £26.50 £67.50 £65.54
90th Percentile £58.50 £69.13 £65.59
UK median hourly rate £47.83 £10.63 £45.14
% change year-on-year +349.95% -76.45% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Customer Requirements 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 13,143 22,599 40,333
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.00% 89.72% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,800 15,969 29,287
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 519 542
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.63 £14.28
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £37.39
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +42.69% +52.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £71.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Customer Requirements
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Customer Requirements trend for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
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 Customer Requirements.

Customer Requirements daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Customer Requirements daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Customer Requirements.

Customer Requirements hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Customer Requirements over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Customer Requirements hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Customer Requirements
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 4 (2.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (2.17%) Apache
2 3 (2.17%) IIS
2 3 (2.17%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.17%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.72%) Confluence
3 1 (0.72%) SAS
Applications
1 22 (15.94%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (15.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (12.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.90%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.72%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.90%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (2.90%) Workfront
3 1 (0.72%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 17 (12.32%) SaaS
2 13 (9.42%) Azure
2 13 (9.42%) Google Workspace
2 13 (9.42%) IaaS
2 13 (9.42%) PaaS
2 13 (9.42%) Power Platform
3 6 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (2.90%) Adobe Creative Cloud
4 4 (2.90%) OCI
4 4 (2.90%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 4 (2.90%) Power Automate
5 3 (2.17%) AWS
5 3 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.72%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.72%) Firebase
6 1 (0.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.72%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.72%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.52%) VPN
2 8 (5.80%) WAN
3 4 (2.90%) Junos
3 4 (2.90%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.25%) Power BI
2 5 (3.62%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.17%) DB2
4 2 (1.45%) Pentaho
5 1 (0.72%) NonStop SQL
5 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.72%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
2 4 (2.90%) Cypress.io
2 4 (2.90%) Git
2 4 (2.90%) Postman
3 3 (2.17%) JIRA
3 3 (2.17%) NUnit
3 3 (2.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.72%) Appium
4 1 (0.72%) ERwin
4 1 (0.72%) git-flow
4 1 (0.72%) GitLab
4 1 (0.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.72%) JMeter
4 1 (0.72%) PowerDesigner
General
1 34 (24.64%) Finance
2 28 (20.29%) Social Skills
3 22 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (15.94%) Marketing
4 19 (13.77%) Public Sector
5 14 (10.14%) Telecoms
6 13 (9.42%) Legal
6 13 (9.42%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.52%) Electronics
8 8 (5.80%) Banking
8 8 (5.80%) Manufacturing
9 6 (4.35%) Aerospace
9 6 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.90%) Aeronautics
10 4 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.90%) Publishing
11 2 (1.45%) Automotive
11 2 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (26.81%) Architect
2 21 (15.22%) Analyst
3 16 (11.59%) Solutions Architect
4 13 (9.42%) Developer
5 11 (7.97%) Senior
6 10 (7.25%) Lead
6 10 (7.25%) ServiceNow Architect
6 10 (7.25%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (6.52%) Consultant
8 8 (5.80%) Insight Analyst
9 7 (5.07%) Administrator
9 7 (5.07%) Lead Architect
9 7 (5.07%) Lead Solutions Architect
9 7 (5.07%) Test Analyst
10 6 (4.35%) Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Senior Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Senior Systems Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Software Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Systems Integration Engineer
10 6 (4.35%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (4.35%) .NET Framework
2 6 (4.35%) Entity Framework
2 6 (4.35%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 6 (4.35%) WCF
2 6 (4.35%) Web Services
3 5 (3.62%) AngularJS
3 5 (3.62%) XML
4 4 (2.90%) LDAP
5 3 (2.17%) CSS
5 3 (2.17%) EJB
5 3 (2.17%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.17%) J2EE
5 3 (2.17%) JSP
5 3 (2.17%) Playwright
5 3 (2.17%) Servlets
6 2 (1.45%) Ajax
6 2 (1.45%) HTML
6 2 (1.45%) JSON
6 2 (1.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.42%) Self-Motivation
1 13 (9.42%) Virtual Team
2 2 (1.45%) CMDB
2 2 (1.45%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (1.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.72%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (0.72%) Fixed Income
3 1 (0.72%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (0.72%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.32%) Windows
2 9 (6.52%) Windows 7
3 6 (4.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (23.19%) ITIL
2 25 (18.12%) DevOps
3 24 (17.39%) Agile
4 18 (13.04%) Technical Leadership
5 17 (12.32%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (10.87%) Customer Service
6 15 (10.87%) ITSM
7 14 (10.14%) Data Integration
8 13 (9.42%) Roadmaps
8 13 (9.42%) Systems Engineering
9 12 (8.70%) CI/CD
9 12 (8.70%) Information Security
9 12 (8.70%) Performance Tuning
10 11 (7.97%) Collaborative Working
10 11 (7.97%) Customer Engagement
10 11 (7.97%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (7.97%) UML
11 10 (7.25%) Requirements Analysis
11 10 (7.25%) Requirements Management
12 9 (6.52%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 10 (7.25%) JavaScript
2 8 (5.80%) SQL
3 6 (4.35%) C#
4 4 (2.90%) Java
4 4 (2.90%) TypeScript
5 2 (1.45%) Python
6 1 (0.72%) Jython
6 1 (0.72%) R
6 1 (0.72%) VB
6 1 (0.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (28.99%) Security Cleared
2 37 (26.81%) SC Cleared
3 29 (21.01%) Degree
4 14 (10.14%) APMP
5 13 (9.42%) PMI Certification
5 13 (9.42%) PMP
6 7 (5.07%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (4.35%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.35%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (4.35%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.90%) CCNP
8 4 (2.90%) HND
8 4 (2.90%) JNCIA
8 4 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.17%) CISSP
9 3 (2.17%) SANS
10 1 (0.72%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (15.22%) SLA
2 7 (5.07%) Data Quality
3 6 (4.35%) PCI DSS
4 5 (3.62%) NCSC
5 3 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.17%) GRC
6 2 (1.45%) Automotive SPICE
6 2 (1.45%) AUTOSAR
6 2 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.45%) GDPR
6 2 (1.45%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.17%) Docker
2 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (5.80%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (26.81%) Microsoft
2 24 (17.39%) Oracle
3 16 (11.59%) ServiceNow
4 13 (9.42%) Google
5 12 (8.70%) Salesforce
6 7 (5.07%) SAP
7 6 (4.35%) CyberArk
7 6 (4.35%) Informatica
8 5 (3.62%) Computacenter
8 5 (3.62%) Denodo
9 4 (2.90%) Adobe
9 4 (2.90%) Ciena
9 4 (2.90%) Cisco
9 4 (2.90%) IBM
9 4 (2.90%) Juniper
9 4 (2.90%) Nokia
9 4 (2.90%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.72%) Databricks
10 1 (0.72%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.72%) Okta