Onboarding Contracts with Work from Home Options

Onboarding
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Onboarding 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 Onboarding over the 6 months to 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 162 211
Rank change year-on-year -2 +49 0
Contract jobs citing Onboarding 188 371 596
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.28% 1.55% 1.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.37% 4.89% 4.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 263 401
10th Percentile £303 £380 £350
25th Percentile £450 £501 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +15.79%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £650
90th Percentile £650 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 3 2
10th Percentile - £54.00 £15.35
25th Percentile £14.00 £58.50 £21.13
Median hourly rate £23.45 £66.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.47% +112.90% +26.80%
75th Percentile £30.25 £68.75 £40.63
90th Percentile - £70.40 £46.25
UK median hourly rate £22.48 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -35.79% +75.00% -4.76%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Onboarding 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 4,298 7,590 14,093
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.21% 31.68% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,923 5,372 10,172
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £434 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 149 224
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +27.98%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £61.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.26 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.51% -17.51% +5.80%

Onboarding
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Onboarding trend for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 Onboarding.

Onboarding daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Onboarding daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 Onboarding.

Onboarding hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Onboarding over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Onboarding hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Onboarding
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 8 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.60%) Oracle Self-Service HR
3 2 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.53%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.53%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (5.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Financials
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (1.06%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.06%) SAP ERP
2 2 (1.06%) SAP MM
2 2 (1.06%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.53%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.53%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.21%) Azure
2 34 (18.09%) AWS
3 26 (13.83%) GitHub
4 16 (8.51%) SaaS
5 14 (7.45%) Azure DevOps
6 11 (5.85%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (5.32%) GitHub Actions
7 10 (5.32%) IaaS
7 10 (5.32%) PaaS
7 10 (5.32%) SuccessFactors
8 7 (3.72%) OCI
9 5 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.66%) Entra ID
9 5 (2.66%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 5 (2.66%) Power Platform
10 4 (2.13%) Asana
10 4 (2.13%) Slack
11 3 (1.60%) Amazon S3
11 3 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.66%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
1 5 (2.66%) NetScaler
2 4 (2.13%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 4 (2.13%) VPN
3 3 (1.60%) SSH
4 2 (1.06%) LAN
4 2 (1.06%) Wireless
5 1 (0.53%) DHCP
5 1 (0.53%) DNS
5 1 (0.53%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.53%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (13.30%) SQL Server
2 20 (10.64%) MySQL
3 19 (10.11%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (2.66%) Big Data
4 5 (2.66%) Power BI
5 3 (1.60%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.06%) EDMS
6 2 (1.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.53%) GIS
7 1 (0.53%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.45%) JIRA
2 10 (5.32%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.13%) Git
3 4 (2.13%) GitLab
4 2 (1.06%) Ant
4 2 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.06%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.06%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.53%) JMeter
5 1 (0.53%) MSI
General
1 52 (27.66%) Finance
2 40 (21.28%) Social Skills
3 21 (11.17%) Public Sector
4 16 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (7.98%) Banking
6 9 (4.79%) Financial Institution
7 7 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.66%) Legal
8 5 (2.66%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.13%) Advertising
10 3 (1.60%) Marketing
10 3 (1.60%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.06%) Automotive
11 2 (1.06%) Back Office
11 2 (1.06%) Billing
11 2 (1.06%) Front Office
11 2 (1.06%) German Language
11 2 (1.06%) Retail
12 1 (0.53%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.53%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 28 (14.89%) Consultant
2 22 (11.70%) Developer
3 19 (10.11%) Project Manager
4 18 (9.57%) Senior
5 16 (8.51%) Analyst
6 13 (6.91%) Administrator
7 12 (6.38%) Lead
8 11 (5.85%) Business Analyst
9 10 (5.32%) SailPoint Developer
10 8 (4.26%) IT Support
10 8 (4.26%) SailPoint Engineer
11 6 (3.19%) AML Project Manager
11 6 (3.19%) Architect
11 6 (3.19%) IT Manager
11 6 (3.19%) SAP Consultant
11 6 (3.19%) Senior Developer
11 6 (3.19%) Service Manager
12 5 (2.66%) Management Consultant
12 5 (2.66%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.13%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (11.17%) HTML
1 21 (11.17%) SailPoint
2 17 (9.04%) LDAP
3 16 (8.51%) JSP
3 16 (8.51%) Servlets
3 16 (8.51%) SOAP
3 16 (8.51%) SPML
3 16 (8.51%) XML
4 15 (7.98%) JDBC
4 15 (7.98%) Web Services
5 10 (5.32%) ARM Templates
5 10 (5.32%) Azure Blueprints
6 5 (2.66%) .NET
6 5 (2.66%) JSON
7 4 (2.13%) ADO
7 4 (2.13%) HTML5
7 4 (2.13%) Middleware
8 3 (1.60%) CSS
8 3 (1.60%) EDI
8 3 (1.60%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.77%) Management Information System
2 6 (3.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 6 (3.19%) Data Centre
3 5 (2.66%) Product Ownership
4 4 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.13%) Tandem
4 4 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
5 3 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.06%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.06%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.53%) CMDB
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.53%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (0.53%) NHS
7 1 (0.53%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.11%) Windows
2 12 (6.38%) Linux
3 4 (2.13%) Mac OS
3 4 (2.13%) Unix
4 3 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.53%) Android
6 1 (0.53%) CentOS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (18.62%) Agile
2 28 (14.89%) Project Management
3 27 (14.36%) DevOps
4 24 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (9.57%) Migration
5 18 (9.57%) RBAC
5 18 (9.57%) Software Engineering
6 15 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
7 13 (6.91%) DevSecOps
8 12 (6.38%) Deployment Automation
8 12 (6.38%) Test Automation
8 12 (6.38%) User Experience
9 11 (5.85%) Containerisation
9 11 (5.85%) Mentoring
9 11 (5.85%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (5.32%) Continuous Delivery
10 10 (5.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 10 (5.32%) ERP
10 10 (5.32%) Performance Analysis
10 10 (5.32%) Static Application Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.43%) SQL
2 20 (10.64%) Java
3 17 (9.04%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.66%) PowerShell
5 4 (2.13%) ActionScript
5 4 (2.13%) C#
5 4 (2.13%) Python
6 3 (1.60%) Bash
7 2 (1.06%) Bourne shell
7 2 (1.06%) Korn
7 2 (1.06%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.53%) R
8 1 (0.53%) Ruby
8 1 (0.53%) Rust
8 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (22.34%) Security Cleared
2 36 (19.15%) SC Cleared
3 27 (14.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 9 (4.79%) Degree
5 5 (2.66%) PMP
6 4 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (2.13%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.60%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (1.06%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.06%) CEH
8 2 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.06%) CISM
8 2 (1.06%) CISMP
8 2 (1.06%) CISSP
8 2 (1.06%) CSSLP
8 2 (1.06%) GCIH
8 2 (1.06%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.53%) APMP
9 1 (0.53%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.32%) NCSC
2 9 (4.79%) QA
3 6 (3.19%) SLA
4 5 (2.66%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.66%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.66%) PMO
5 2 (1.06%) COBIT
5 2 (1.06%) GDPR
5 2 (1.06%) NIST
6 1 (0.53%) GxP
6 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.53%) WCAG
System Software
1 27 (14.36%) Active Directory
2 17 (9.04%) IAG
3 15 (7.98%) ACF2
3 15 (7.98%) RACF
4 12 (6.38%) Docker
5 5 (2.66%) Virtual Servers
5 5 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.06%) KVM
6 2 (1.06%) QEMU
6 2 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (7.98%) Terraform
2 13 (6.91%) Kubernetes
3 10 (5.32%) Ansible
4 3 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.53%) Matomo
5 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.53%) Nagios
5 1 (0.53%) Opsview
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 36 (19.15%) Oracle
2 29 (15.43%) ServiceNow
3 25 (13.30%) SAP
4 19 (10.11%) Microsoft
5 17 (9.04%) Sybase
6 6 (3.19%) Virgin Media
7 5 (2.66%) Blue Prism
7 5 (2.66%) CyberArk
7 5 (2.66%) F5
7 5 (2.66%) Splunk
7 5 (2.66%) VMware
8 4 (2.13%) Ariba
8 4 (2.13%) CheckPoint
8 4 (2.13%) Genesys
8 4 (2.13%) Palo Alto
8 4 (2.13%) Zscaler
9 3 (1.60%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (1.60%) Phenom
10 2 (1.06%) Okta
10 2 (1.06%) UiPath