FCAPS Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

FCAPS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring FCAPS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited FCAPS over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 405 582
Rank change year-on-year +75 +177 -
Contract jobs citing FCAPS 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.008% 0.005% 0.003%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.077% 0.041% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £750
75th Percentile £638 - £775
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £598 - £750

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

FCAPS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,298 2,438 4,187
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.66% 13.10% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 1,594 2,850
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £612 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £713
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 86 156
10th Percentile £34.63 £19.24 £19.09
25th Percentile £37.50 £21.11 £42.00
Median hourly rate £46.78 £50.00 £56.55
Median % change year-on-year -6.44% -11.58% +19.05%
75th Percentile £66.52 £69.38 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.63 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £55.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -18.18% +30.95% +90.91%

FCAPS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing FCAPS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

FCAPS trend for jobs with a WFH option

FCAPS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing FCAPS.

FCAPS daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

FCAPS
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) 2G
1 1 (100.00%) 3G
1 1 (100.00%) 4G
1 1 (100.00%) Radio Access Network
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Management
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ericsson
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia