Self-Motivation Contracts with Work from Home Options

Self-Motivation
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Self-Motivation in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 10 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 202 183
Rank change year-on-year +39 -19 -8
Contract jobs citing Self-Motivation 185 284 663
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.25% 1.19% 1.51%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.29% 3.77% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 184 453
10th Percentile £263 £313 £275
25th Percentile £400 £379 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.11%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £600
90th Percentile £622 £775 £688
UK median daily rate £475 £518 £510
% change year-on-year -8.30% +1.57% +12.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 26
10th Percentile - £23.15 £11.56
25th Percentile £25.50 £44.61 £12.20
Median hourly rate £70.00 £52.32 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.80% +207.74% +34.07%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.88 £60.00
90th Percentile - £59.75 £64.13
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £32.00 £22.13
% change year-on-year +95.31% +44.63% -28.63%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Self-Motivation is in the General and Transferable Skills 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 generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,308 7,539 13,938
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.15% 31.58% 31.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,931 5,341 10,063
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £433 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 145 224
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £15.10
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.94
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +28.91%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.26 £27.00
% change year-on-year +59.51% -17.57% +8.00%

Self-Motivation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Self-Motivation trend for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation.

Self-Motivation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Self-Motivation daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 Self-Motivation.

Self-Motivation hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Self-Motivation over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Self-Motivation hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Self-Motivation
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 23 (12.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (5.41%) SharePoint
3 4 (2.16%) SAS
4 3 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.54%) CMS
5 1 (0.54%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (10.27%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (9.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.62%) Maya
5 3 (1.62%) Photoshop
6 2 (1.08%) AutoCAD
6 2 (1.08%) ZBrush
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.54%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.54%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.54%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.54%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 35 (18.92%) Azure
2 32 (17.30%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (13.51%) Entra ID
4 20 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
4 20 (10.81%) Azure Storage
5 14 (7.57%) IaaS
5 14 (7.57%) PaaS
5 14 (7.57%) SaaS
6 13 (7.03%) Google Workspace
7 12 (6.49%) Power Platform
8 11 (5.95%) AWS
9 6 (3.24%) GCP
10 5 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.70%) PowerApps
11 4 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.16%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (2.16%) Veeva
12 3 (1.62%) Amazon Kinesis
12 3 (1.62%) Azure Data Factory
12 3 (1.62%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (13.51%) Firewall
2 22 (11.89%) DHCP
2 22 (11.89%) DNS
3 3 (1.62%) Network Security
4 2 (1.08%) SAN
4 2 (1.08%) SSL
4 2 (1.08%) VPN
4 2 (1.08%) Wireless
5 1 (0.54%) BGP
5 1 (0.54%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (0.54%) Internet
5 1 (0.54%) Intranet
5 1 (0.54%) OSPF
5 1 (0.54%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.54%) SSH
5 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.49%) Power BI
2 11 (5.95%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (4.32%) Tableau
4 7 (3.78%) Hadoop
5 4 (2.16%) Big Data
5 4 (2.16%) Impala
5 4 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.62%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (1.62%) Presto
6 3 (1.62%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.54%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.54%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.54%) OLAP
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (3.78%) Git
2 3 (1.62%) JIRA
3 2 (1.08%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.54%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.54%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.54%) GitLab
4 1 (0.54%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.54%) Maven
4 1 (0.54%) Selenium
4 1 (0.54%) Spinnaker
4 1 (0.54%) WebDriver
General
1 95 (51.35%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.41%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (16.22%) Finance
4 22 (11.89%) Telecoms
5 18 (9.73%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (8.65%) Legal
7 13 (7.03%) Public Sector
8 8 (4.32%) Banking
9 5 (2.70%) Marketing
10 4 (2.16%) Front Office
10 4 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.62%) Advertising
11 3 (1.62%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.62%) Games
11 3 (1.62%) Retail
12 2 (1.08%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.08%) Automotive
12 2 (1.08%) German Language
12 2 (1.08%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.08%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (15.14%) Architect
2 27 (14.59%) Analyst
3 24 (12.97%) Lead
4 22 (11.89%) Lead Architect
4 22 (11.89%) Network Architect
4 22 (11.89%) Systems Architect
5 20 (10.81%) Active Directory Support
6 18 (9.73%) Senior
7 15 (8.11%) Project Manager
8 14 (7.57%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (7.57%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (7.57%) Support Specialist
9 11 (5.95%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.86%) Developer
11 8 (4.32%) Support Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Active Directory Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Active Directory Support Engineer
12 6 (3.24%) Azure Engineer
13 5 (2.70%) Administrator
13 5 (2.70%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (10.81%) ARM Templates
2 11 (5.95%) .NET
3 5 (2.70%) React
4 4 (2.16%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.16%) Node.js
5 3 (1.62%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.62%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.62%) CSS
5 3 (1.62%) HTML
6 2 (1.08%) Django
6 2 (1.08%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (1.08%) OAuth
6 2 (1.08%) PySpark
6 2 (1.08%) RESTful
6 2 (1.08%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.08%) Visualforce
6 2 (1.08%) Vue
7 1 (0.54%) IDoc
7 1 (0.54%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 21 (11.35%) PKI
2 14 (7.57%) Virtual Team
3 8 (4.32%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.16%) Algorithms
4 4 (2.16%) Blockchain
4 4 (2.16%) Cloud Native
4 4 (2.16%) Data Structures
4 4 (2.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.62%) Distributed Applications
5 3 (1.62%) Mainframe
5 3 (1.62%) Video Editing
6 2 (1.08%) Clustering
6 2 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (1.08%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.08%) Equities
6 2 (1.08%) Social Media
7 1 (0.54%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.54%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.54%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (18.38%) Windows
2 29 (15.68%) Linux
3 23 (12.43%) Windows Server
4 21 (11.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (11.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.08%) Android
5 2 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.54%) Unix
6 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (35.68%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (27.03%) Agile
3 35 (18.92%) Analytics
4 31 (16.76%) DevOps
5 29 (15.68%) ITIL
6 26 (14.05%) Strategic Thinking
7 24 (12.97%) Service Management
8 22 (11.89%) CI/CD
8 22 (11.89%) Infrastructure as Code
8 22 (11.89%) Network Management
9 21 (11.35%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (11.35%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 21 (11.35%) Release Management
9 21 (11.35%) Systems Engineering
10 20 (10.81%) Computer Science
10 20 (10.81%) Identity Management
10 20 (10.81%) Log Analytics
10 20 (10.81%) Privileged Identity Management
10 20 (10.81%) RBAC
11 18 (9.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (19.46%) SQL
2 34 (18.38%) C#
3 28 (15.14%) PowerShell
4 27 (14.59%) VB
5 20 (10.81%) Bicep
5 20 (10.81%) Python
5 20 (10.81%) VBScript
6 10 (5.41%) R
7 9 (4.86%) JavaScript
8 7 (3.78%) VBA
9 6 (3.24%) C++
9 6 (3.24%) Go
9 6 (3.24%) Java
10 5 (2.70%) Bash
10 5 (2.70%) VB.NET
11 2 (1.08%) Apex Code
11 2 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (1.08%) Perl
11 2 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.08%) Rust
Qualifications
1 77 (41.62%) Degree
2 58 (31.35%) Security Cleared
3 56 (30.27%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.81%) DV Cleared
4 20 (10.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 15 (8.11%) PMI Certification
5 15 (8.11%) PMP
6 12 (6.49%) APMP
7 9 (4.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.08%) GCIA
10 2 (1.08%) GCIH
10 2 (1.08%) GIAC
10 2 (1.08%) MCSA
10 2 (1.08%) MCSE
11 1 (0.54%) CCNP
11 1 (0.54%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.86%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.78%) QA
3 4 (2.16%) CDISC
3 4 (2.16%) PMO
4 2 (1.08%) GDPR
4 2 (1.08%) GRC
4 2 (1.08%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) Accessibility
System Software
1 26 (14.05%) Active Directory
2 22 (11.89%) Virtual Machines
3 20 (10.81%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (1.08%) Docker
6 1 (0.54%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.54%) OpenAM
6 1 (0.54%) OpenIDM
6 1 (0.54%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.54%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 27 (14.59%) Kubernetes
1 27 (14.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (11.35%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 20 (10.81%) SCCM
3 20 (10.81%) SCOM
3 20 (10.81%) WSUS
4 3 (1.62%) Ansible
4 3 (1.62%) Nessus
5 2 (1.08%) CSIRT
5 2 (1.08%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (1.08%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.08%) QRadar
6 1 (0.54%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.54%) Grafana
6 1 (0.54%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.54%) Puppet
6 1 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.89%) Oracle
3 16 (8.65%) Salesforce
4 14 (7.57%) Google
5 9 (4.86%) SAP
6 5 (2.70%) Splunk
7 4 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.62%) Citrix
8 3 (1.62%) Teradata
8 3 (1.62%) VMware
9 2 (1.08%) Alteryx
9 2 (1.08%) Apple
9 2 (1.08%) Avaya
9 2 (1.08%) Cadence
9 2 (1.08%) Databricks
9 2 (1.08%) Dell
9 2 (1.08%) ForgeRock
9 2 (1.08%) HP
9 2 (1.08%) Sybase
9 2 (1.08%) Twitter