Junior Contracts with Work from Home Options

Junior
UK > Work from Home

The median Junior daily rate in Work from Home is £315 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 268 373 431
Rank change year-on-year +105 +58 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Junior 76 90 192
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.37% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 65 140
10th Percentile £175 £200 £174
25th Percentile £216 £213 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £303 £319
Median % change year-on-year +4.13% -5.10% +18.06%
75th Percentile £350 £369 £362
90th Percentile £409 £473 £421
UK median daily rate £325 £263 £300
% change year-on-year +23.81% -12.50% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 13
10th Percentile - £14.15 £15.70
25th Percentile - £16.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £21.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +90.48% - +4.37%
75th Percentile - £30.54 £22.40
90th Percentile - £38.32 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £10.42 £13.58 £20.00
% change year-on-year -23.24% -32.13% +8.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 13,692 23,318 42,215
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.30% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,254 16,497 30,553
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.98%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 556 540 593
10th Percentile £14.19 £17.48 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.71 £25.71 £19.50
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.65 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £78.08 £68.23
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Junior
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Junior in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Junior trend for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
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 Junior.

Junior daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Junior over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Junior daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Junior
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 Junior.

Junior hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, Junior 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 Junior in the job title.

1 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 17 (22.37%) Project Management
4 13 (17.11%) Banking
5 12 (15.79%) Finance
5 12 (15.79%) Azure
5 12 (15.79%) PMO
6 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
7 10 (13.16%) Retail
8 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
8 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (11.84%) Agile
8 9 (11.84%) JIRA
8 9 (11.84%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (11.84%) Data Protection
8 9 (11.84%) User Experience
9 8 (10.53%) Workday
9 8 (10.53%) HTML
9 8 (10.53%) CSS
10 7 (9.21%) C#
10 7 (9.21%) .NET
10 7 (9.21%) Python
10 7 (9.21%) Value Proposition
10 7 (9.21%) Customer Value Proposition
10 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (9.21%) DevOps
11 6 (7.89%) Change Management
11 6 (7.89%) Workflow
11 6 (7.89%) Intranet
11 6 (7.89%) Social Skills

Junior 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.63%) Confluence
2 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
3 1 (1.32%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (15.79%) Azure
2 5 (6.58%) AWS
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Cognitive Services
5 1 (1.32%) ClickUp
5 1 (1.32%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.32%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) Intranet
2 1 (1.32%) LAN
2 1 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.95%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.32%) Big Data
2 1 (1.32%) Power BI
2 1 (1.32%) Power Query
2 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) Git
General
1 13 (17.11%) Banking
2 12 (15.79%) Finance
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Retail
5 6 (7.89%) Social Skills
6 5 (6.58%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.63%) Electronics
8 2 (2.63%) Marketing
9 1 (1.32%) Automotive
9 1 (1.32%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Law
9 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Publishing
9 1 (1.32%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) CSS
1 8 (10.53%) HTML
2 7 (9.21%) .NET
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (2.63%) PySpark
3 2 (2.63%) React
4 1 (1.32%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.32%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.32%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.32%) CSS3
4 1 (1.32%) Django
4 1 (1.32%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.32%) Flask
4 1 (1.32%) HTML5
4 1 (1.32%) JSON
4 1 (1.32%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (1.32%) REST
4 1 (1.32%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.63%) Blackberry
2 2 (2.63%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.32%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.32%) Clustering
3 1 (1.32%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.32%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.32%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.32%) NHS
3 1 (1.32%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.95%) Windows
2 2 (2.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.32%) Android
3 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.32%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.37%) Project Management
2 9 (11.84%) Agile
2 9 (11.84%) Data Protection
2 9 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
2 9 (11.84%) User Experience
3 7 (9.21%) Customer Value Proposition
3 7 (9.21%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (9.21%) DevOps
3 7 (9.21%) Value Proposition
4 6 (7.89%) Change Management
4 6 (7.89%) Workflow
5 5 (6.58%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (5.26%) Workshop Facilitation
7 3 (3.95%) Analytics
7 3 (3.95%) Data Science
7 3 (3.95%) Regulatory Compliance
7 3 (3.95%) Visualisation
8 2 (2.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (2.63%) Test Management
8 2 (2.63%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.84%) JavaScript
2 7 (9.21%) C#
2 7 (9.21%) Python
3 5 (6.58%) SQL
4 2 (2.63%) Bash
5 1 (1.32%) ABAP
5 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.32%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 22 (28.95%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.58%) Degree
4 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.32%) CAPM
4 1 (1.32%) CCNA
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.32%) PMP
4 1 (1.32%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.79%) PMO
2 1 (1.32%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.32%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.32%) AppManager
2 1 (1.32%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
2 1 (1.32%) SCCM
2 1 (1.32%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (10.53%) Workday
2 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.26%) SAP
3 2 (2.63%) Oracle
3 2 (2.63%) VMware
4 1 (1.32%) Ariba
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco
4 1 (1.32%) HP
4 1 (1.32%) Huawei
4 1 (1.32%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.32%) Pega
4 1 (1.32%) Talend
4 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro