STL Contracts with Work from Home Options

Standard Template Library (STL)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring STL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited STL over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 431 587
Rank change year-on-year +93 +156 -93
Contract jobs citing STL 3 26 36
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.11% 0.082%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.081% 0.44% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 18 36
10th Percentile - £692 -
25th Percentile £458 £788 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £825 £750
Median % change year-on-year -43.64% +10.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £473 - £825
90th Percentile - £1,163 £850
UK median daily rate £465 £788 £725
% change year-on-year -40.95% +8.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

STL falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,723 5,975 13,044
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.23% 25.03% 29.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,616 4,481 9,688
10th Percentile £350 £388 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £825 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 79 111
10th Percentile £23.88 £25.10 £22.50
25th Percentile - £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.81% +21.90% +16.67%
75th Percentile £61.50 £73.75 £67.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £79.05 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%

STL
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

STL trend for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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 STL.

STL daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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 STL.

STL hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

STL
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%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) Confluence
1 1 (33.33%) JBoss
1 1 (33.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (33.33%) WildFly
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (66.67%) NoSQL
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Java Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) JPA
1 3 (100.00%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) REST
2 2 (66.67%) Spring Boot
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Java EE
3 1 (33.33%) JSP
3 1 (33.33%) JSTL
3 1 (33.33%) Servlets
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Memory Management
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Case Management
3 1 (33.33%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C++
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle