Minimum Viable Product Contracts with Work from Home Options

Minimum Viable Product
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 Minimum Viable Product skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 409 550
Rank change year-on-year +84 +141 -112
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 16 46 69
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.21% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 37 55
10th Percentile £550 - £450
25th Percentile £569 £440 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% -14.29% -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £581
90th Percentile £648 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £543
% change year-on-year +27.78% -17.05% +0.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Minimum Viable Product 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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Minimum Viable Product
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Minimum Viable Product trend for jobs with a WFH option

Minimum Viable Product
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 Minimum Viable Product.

Minimum Viable Product daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Minimum Viable Product
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 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (18.75%) LAN
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) JIRA
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
1 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
2 2 (12.50%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Change Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Business Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Business Process Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Change Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Data Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Process Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Process Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Scrum Master
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Product Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.25%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
2 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 5 (31.25%) User Stories
4 4 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 4 (25.00%) DevOps
4 4 (25.00%) DevSecOps
4 4 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
4 4 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 4 (25.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (18.75%) API Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Target Operating Model
6 2 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (12.50%) Business Case
6 2 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (12.50%) Software Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Identification
6 2 (12.50%) User Research
6 2 (12.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) PMI Certification
3 1 (6.25%) PMP
3 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Black Belt
3 1 (6.25%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (6.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (18.75%) Cisco