Mercurial Contracts with Work from Home Options

Mercurial
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 Mercurial skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Mercurial over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 438 589
Rank change year-on-year +96 +151 -107
Contract jobs citing Mercurial 3 16 23
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.065% 0.052%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.17% 0.43% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 18
10th Percentile £505 £425 £397
25th Percentile £513 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £556
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -14.61% +8.54%
75th Percentile £538 £561 £600
90th Percentile £545 £760 £620
UK median daily rate £588 £500 £586
% change year-on-year +17.50% -14.71% +13.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £66.25
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £68.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £73.00 £67.50
% change year-on-year -14.38% +8.15% +22.73%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Mercurial is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,785 3,703 8,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.09% 15.03% 18.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,276 2,664 5,867
10th Percentile £360 £388 £383
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £541 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.31% +3.10% +7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 105 106
10th Percentile £25.99 £39.60 -
25th Percentile £43.38 £52.00 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +19.47% +16.26%
75th Percentile £86.25 £71.28 £65.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £85.91 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +14.84%

Mercurial
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Mercurial trend for jobs with a WFH option

Mercurial
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 Mercurial.

Mercurial daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mercurial
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 Mercurial.

Mercurial hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Mercurial
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (33.33%) CouchDB
1 1 (33.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (33.33%) MongoDB
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (33.33%) Redis
1 1 (33.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 1 (33.33%) CircleCI
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Darcs
2 1 (33.33%) Jaeger
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Subversion
2 1 (33.33%) TeamCity
2 1 (33.33%) Travis CI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) React
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CBDC
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Currency
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (66.67%) OOP
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) ATDD
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) SOLID
2 1 (33.33%) Storyboarding
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) C
3 1 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) Go
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Rust
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) SANS
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 20022
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Grafana
1 1 (33.33%) Kibana
1 1 (33.33%) logstash
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Prometheus
1 1 (33.33%) Puppet
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Google
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk