WFM Contracts with Work from Home Options

Workforce Management (WFM)
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 WFM skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WFM over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 442 578
Rank change year-on-year +128 +136 -106
Contract jobs citing WFM 31 17 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.069% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.076% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 15 34
10th Percentile £200 £430 £391
25th Percentile £250 £525 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £700 £656 £650
90th Percentile £710 £775 £689
UK median daily rate £422 £575 £538
% change year-on-year -26.61% +6.98% +2.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

WFM 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 12,944 22,223 40,220
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.86% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,728 29,204
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% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
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 566 510 531
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £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 £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

WFM
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WFM trend for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
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 WFM.

WFM daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing WFM over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

WFM daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WFM
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 2 (6.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) Chatbot
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) SAP ERP
1 1 (3.23%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
1 8 (25.81%) Power Platform
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (12.90%) Power Automate
3 4 (12.90%) Twilio
4 3 (9.68%) OCI
5 1 (3.23%) Boomi
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.23%) SAP Fieldglass
5 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) CTI
1 4 (12.90%) MegaStream
1 4 (12.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Power BI
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
3 6 (19.35%) Marketing
4 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.90%) Retail
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Social Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Architect
2 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Coordinator
3 4 (12.90%) Insight Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) Project Coordinator
3 4 (12.90%) Project Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (9.68%) Consultant
4 3 (9.68%) Resource Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Resource Planner
5 2 (6.45%) Electrical Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Fibre Engineer
5 2 (6.45%) Genesys Consultant
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Project Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Business Data Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Data Integration Architect
6 1 (3.23%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.23%) Telephony Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Telephony Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Middleware
2 4 (12.90%) Web Services
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) IVR
2 5 (16.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.45%) NHS
3 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.23%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (25.81%) Artificial Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) Conversational UI
2 6 (19.35%) Analytics
2 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
2 6 (19.35%) CRM
2 6 (19.35%) Customer Experience
2 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (16.13%) Service Management
4 4 (12.90%) Agile
4 4 (12.90%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (12.90%) Data Privacy
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Facilities Management
4 4 (12.90%) Line Management
4 4 (12.90%) Load Balancing
4 4 (12.90%) OpenUP
4 4 (12.90%) Performance Testing
4 4 (12.90%) Resource Management
4 4 (12.90%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 5 (16.13%) Master's Degree
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certification
3 4 (12.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (12.90%) Azure Certification
3 4 (12.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.90%) GDPR
1 4 (12.90%) HIPAA
1 4 (12.90%) PCI DSS
1 4 (12.90%) SLA
1 4 (12.90%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.23%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 6 (19.35%) Genesys
3 5 (16.13%) Avaya
4 4 (12.90%) Cisco
4 4 (12.90%) Google
5 3 (9.68%) Ceridian
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle
5 3 (9.68%) Sage
6 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
6 2 (6.45%) SAP
6 2 (6.45%) UiPath
7 1 (3.23%) Datix
7 1 (3.23%) Dell
7 1 (3.23%) Kronos