Benchmarking Jobs with Work from Home Options

Benchmarking
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Benchmarking skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Benchmarking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 490 551 662
Rank change year-on-year +61 +111 -170
Permanent jobs citing Benchmarking 95 101 207
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.25% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 45 49 96
10th Percentile £34,750 £42,250 £39,375
25th Percentile £47,788 £46,250 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,250 £65,000 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +1.96% +15.91%
75th Percentile £91,934 £85,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £88,596 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £58,861
% change year-on-year +20.00% -15.05% +7.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Benchmarking is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,100 38,207 71,189
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 90.53% 96.06% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 23,476 26,508 41,843
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,621 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +4.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Benchmarking
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Benchmarking trend for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Benchmarking.

Benchmarking salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Benchmarking over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Benchmarking salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Benchmarking
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 (2.11%) IIS
2 1 (1.05%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) UserZoom
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.05%) Abaqus
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.26%) SaaS
2 4 (4.21%) dbt
2 4 (4.21%) Prefect
3 3 (3.16%) GCP
3 3 (3.16%) OCI
3 3 (3.16%) PaaS
4 2 (2.11%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.05%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 21 (22.11%) SAN
2 6 (6.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 5 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) MariaDB
2 3 (3.16%) Metadata
2 3 (3.16%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.05%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) Burp Suite
1 6 (6.32%) Metasploit
2 5 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 46 (48.42%) Social Skills
2 17 (17.89%) Finance
3 16 (16.84%) Legal
4 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.53%) Automotive
6 9 (9.47%) Marketing
7 8 (8.42%) Banking
7 8 (8.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (6.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (6.32%) Retail
9 5 (5.26%) Manufacturing
9 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
10 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.16%) Law
11 2 (2.11%) Advertising
11 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (2.11%) Social Housing
11 2 (2.11%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.05%) German Language
12 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 21 (22.11%) Administrator
1 21 (22.11%) IT Administrator
1 21 (22.11%) Server Administrator
2 14 (14.74%) Senior
3 13 (13.68%) Lead
4 10 (10.53%) Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) IT Manager
5 8 (8.42%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Security Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Senior Security Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Android Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Physicist
8 4 (4.21%) Category Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) IT Procurement Manager
8 4 (4.21%) IT Services Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Procurement Manager
8 4 (4.21%) Service Manager
9 3 (3.16%) DBA
9 3 (3.16%) Oracle DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.37%) Web Services
2 6 (6.32%) REST
3 5 (5.26%) Android Jetpack
3 5 (5.26%) Android SDK
3 5 (5.26%) Jetpack Compose
3 5 (5.26%) RESTful
4 2 (2.11%) CSS
4 2 (2.11%) CSS3
4 2 (2.11%) Dagger
4 2 (2.11%) HTML
4 2 (2.11%) HTML5
4 2 (2.11%) NumPy
4 2 (2.11%) Pandas
4 2 (2.11%) PyTorch
4 2 (2.11%) Retrofit
4 2 (2.11%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 25 (26.32%) Self-Motivation
2 21 (22.11%) Data Centre
3 5 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.16%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.16%) Online Banking
4 3 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.11%) CUDA
5 2 (2.11%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.11%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.11%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 30 (31.58%) Linux
2 27 (28.42%) Windows
3 23 (24.21%) Windows Server
4 8 (8.42%) Unix
5 5 (5.26%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (28.42%) Performance Monitoring
1 27 (28.42%) Vulnerability Management
2 25 (26.32%) Agile
3 23 (24.21%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (22.11%) Data Centre Operations
4 21 (22.11%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 21 (22.11%) Server Management
5 12 (12.63%) Roadmaps
6 11 (11.58%) Analytics
6 11 (11.58%) Information Security
6 11 (11.58%) Mentoring
7 9 (9.47%) Service Delivery
7 9 (9.47%) Visualisation
8 8 (8.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (8.42%) Physics
8 8 (8.42%) Process Improvement
9 7 (7.37%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (7.37%) Supplier Management
9 7 (7.37%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (22.11%) PowerShell
2 14 (14.74%) Python
3 10 (10.53%) SQL
4 7 (7.37%) C++
5 5 (5.26%) Fortran
5 5 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.26%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.11%) C
6 2 (2.11%) Java
7 1 (1.05%) R
Qualifications
1 26 (27.37%) Security Cleared
2 22 (23.16%) Degree
3 21 (22.11%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.53%) Master's Degree
5 7 (7.37%) PhD
6 1 (1.05%) CCDP
6 1 (1.05%) CCNP
6 1 (1.05%) CCSP
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.21%) ISO 14000
2 4 (4.21%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (22.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.32%) Nmap
2 4 (4.21%) Terraform
Vendors
1 29 (30.53%) Microsoft
2 21 (22.11%) Citrix
2 21 (22.11%) NetApp
2 21 (22.11%) VMware
3 7 (7.37%) Google
4 3 (3.16%) Oracle
4 3 (3.16%) Qualtrics
5 2 (2.11%) BT
6 1 (1.05%) SAP