Non-Blocking Code Contracts with Work from Home Options

Non-Blocking Code
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 Non-Blocking Code skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Non-Blocking Code over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 454 624
Rank change year-on-year +112 +170 -130
Contract jobs citing Non-Blocking Code 6 7 4
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.029% 0.009%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.032% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £606 £501 -
25th Percentile £607 £555 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £585 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.13% +17.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £623 £589 £534
90th Percentile £624 £596 £596
UK median daily rate £615 £585 £650
% change year-on-year +5.13% -9.93% +18.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Non-Blocking Code 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 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
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 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £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 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Non-Blocking Code
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Non-Blocking Code as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Non-Blocking Code trend for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Blocking Code
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 Non-Blocking Code.

Non-Blocking Code daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Non-Blocking Code
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 3 (50.00%) CMS
1 3 (50.00%) Confluence
1 3 (50.00%) Headless CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Apigee
1 3 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Cloud Developer
2 2 (33.33%) GCP Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Angular Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Node.js Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 3 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (50.00%) CSS
2 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 3 (50.00%) HTML5
2 3 (50.00%) JSON
2 3 (50.00%) Next.js
2 3 (50.00%) Node.js
2 3 (50.00%) OAuth
2 3 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 3 (50.00%) OpenAPI
2 3 (50.00%) OpenID
2 3 (50.00%) SOAP
2 3 (50.00%) Swagger
2 3 (50.00%) Web Services
2 3 (50.00%) YAML
3 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
3 2 (33.33%) Jest
3 2 (33.33%) Nuxt
4 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 2 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) API Design
2 3 (50.00%) API Management
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Microservices
2 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (50.00%) SEO
2 3 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Google