Swim Lanes Contracts with Work from Home Options

Swim Lane Diagrams
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 Swim Lanes skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Swim Lanes over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 335 467 604
Rank change year-on-year +132 +137 -104
Contract jobs citing Swim Lanes 10 3 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.068% 0.012% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.014% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 9
10th Percentile £300 - £343
25th Percentile £309 £410 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.58% -
75th Percentile £500 £430 £625
90th Percentile £511 - £670
UK median daily rate £438 £600 £425
% change year-on-year -27.08% +41.18% -14.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Swim Lanes 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 12,882 21,904 40,173
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.65% 91.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,678 15,514 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 507 533
10th Percentile £14.83 £18.58 £14.30
25th Percentile £24.06 £26.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +37.60% +58.98%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Swim Lanes
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Swim Lanes trend for jobs with a WFH option

Swim Lanes
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 Swim Lanes.

Swim Lanes daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Swim Lanes
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Swim Lanes over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Swim Lanes daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Swim Lanes
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 4 (40.00%) Confluence
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 5 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
1 8 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Digital Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Payments Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Business IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
1 2 (20.00%) JSON
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 7 (70.00%) Business Analysis
3 6 (60.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 6 (60.00%) User Stories
4 4 (40.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (40.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (30.00%) Business Process Modelling
5 3 (30.00%) ERP
5 3 (30.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (30.00%) Project Management
5 3 (30.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 2 (20.00%) Analytics
6 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
1 2 (20.00%) PSD2
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft