Technical Writer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Technical Writer
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Writer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 302 381 540
Rank change year-on-year +79 +159 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Writer 29 25 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.13% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.14% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 32
10th Percentile £301 £300 £339
25th Percentile £350 £313 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £388 £415
Median % change year-on-year +3.23% -6.63% +3.75%
75th Percentile £429 £469 £506
90th Percentile £462 £525 £623
UK median daily rate £400 £400 £405
% change year-on-year - -1.23% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £19.30 - -
UK median hourly rate £19.30 - £27.01
% change year-on-year - - -32.06%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 11,337 17,566 36,267
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.07% 94.41% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,100 12,276 26,093
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 399 538
10th Percentile £19.39 £17.11 £15.00
25th Percentile £24.01 £25.98 £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £50.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +96.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £66.56
90th Percentile £72.13 £85.00 £78.58
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £44.50 £28.12
% change year-on-year -19.10% +58.28% +40.58%

Technical Writer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Technical Writer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Technical Writer trend for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Technical Writer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Writer
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Technical Writer over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Technical Writer daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Writer
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Technical Writer.

Technical Writer hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Technical Writer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 15 November 2024, Technical Writer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Technical Writer in the job title.

1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (34.48%) Confluence
3 7 (24.14%) Agile
3 7 (24.14%) Knowledge Management
4 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
4 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
5 5 (17.24%) Finance
5 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
6 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (13.79%) User Research
6 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
6 4 (13.79%) Information Architecture
6 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (10.34%) Process Improvement
7 3 (10.34%) VB
7 3 (10.34%) VBA
7 3 (10.34%) OOP
7 3 (10.34%) OO
7 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
7 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
7 3 (10.34%) Runbook
7 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
8 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
8 2 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (6.90%) Mercator
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
8 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery

Technical Writer Skill Set
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 10 (34.48%) Confluence
2 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (17.24%) MS Visio
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.45%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.45%) AWS
1 1 (3.45%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (3.45%) GCP
1 1 (3.45%) GitHub
1 1 (3.45%) PaaS
1 1 (3.45%) Rubrik
1 1 (3.45%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) EDMS
1 1 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (3.45%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
General
1 19 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Advertising
5 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Military
5 1 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) .NET
1 1 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (6.90%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.45%) Blog
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Linux
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
1 1 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Agile
1 7 (24.14%) Knowledge Management
2 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (13.79%) Information Architecture
3 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.79%) User Research
3 4 (13.79%) Visualisation
4 3 (10.34%) OO
4 3 (10.34%) OOP
4 3 (10.34%) Privileged Access Management
4 3 (10.34%) Process Improvement
4 3 (10.34%) Runbook
5 2 (6.90%) Open Source
5 2 (6.90%) Service Delivery
5 2 (6.90%) Workflow
6 1 (3.45%) Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Data Analytics
6 1 (3.45%) Data Governance
6 1 (3.45%) Metadata Management
6 1 (3.45%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) VB
1 3 (10.34%) VBA
2 1 (3.45%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (3.45%) Degree
1 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.45%) Terraform
1 1 (3.45%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.90%) Mercator
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) EMC
4 1 (3.45%) Google