E-business Contracts with Work from Home Options

Electronic Business (eBusiness)
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 E-business skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited E-business over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 324 452 605
Rank change year-on-year +128 +153 -121
Contract jobs citing E-business 22 13 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.054% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.060% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 9
10th Percentile £475 £505 £389
25th Percentile £500 £513 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% +6.68%
75th Percentile £688 £673 £538
90th Percentile £690 £750 £565
UK median daily rate £625 £605 £520
% change year-on-year +3.31% +16.35% -9.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

E-business 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 12,810 21,655 40,201
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.61% 89.64% 91.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,641 15,361 29,229
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 571 502 523
10th Percentile £14.88 £18.49 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.13 £25.80 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

E-business
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

E-business trend for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
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 E-business.

E-business daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing E-business over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

E-business daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

E-business
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 2 (9.09%) SAS
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Coherence
Business Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (36.36%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (4.55%) Maximo
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 15 (68.18%) Azure
2 9 (40.91%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (27.27%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle Database
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle ODI
1 6 (27.27%) PowerCenter
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 8 (36.36%) JIRA
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (77.27%) Social Skills
2 12 (54.55%) Finance
3 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Legal
5 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Consultant
1 8 (36.36%) DBA
1 8 (36.36%) Functional Consultant
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle Consultant
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle DBA
1 8 (36.36%) Oracle Functional Consultant
2 7 (31.82%) Oracle P2P Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Procurement Officer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle Applications DBA
4 2 (9.09%) QA Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) QA Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Administrator
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) HR Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Oracle HRMS Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) Middleware
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) AIX
1 8 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) DevOps
2 14 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (40.91%) Procure-to-Pay
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 6 (27.27%) High Availability
5 6 (27.27%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (13.64%) Migration
7 2 (9.09%) Database Security
7 2 (9.09%) Performance Management
7 2 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (9.09%) Test Scripting
8 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis
8 1 (4.55%) Data Governance
8 1 (4.55%) Data Migration
8 1 (4.55%) Knowledge Transfer
8 1 (4.55%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 2 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) Data Guard
2 6 (27.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Oracle
2 6 (27.27%) Informatica
3 1 (4.55%) Workday