Smart Meter Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smart Metering
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Smart Meter 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 Smart Meter over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 447 584
Rank change year-on-year +114 +137 -106
Contract jobs citing Smart Meter 6 4 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.041% 0.017% 0.091%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% 0.053% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 28
10th Percentile £410 £480 £413
25th Percentile £425 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +26.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £750 £528
90th Percentile - £840 £586
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +12.36%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Smart Meter 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 4,276 7,538 13,998
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 29.14% 31.58% 31.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,909 5,341 10,105
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £435 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £825 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 145 226
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.00 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £62.06
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £22.26 £26.98
% change year-on-year +59.85% -17.51% +7.92%

Smart Meter
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Smart Meter trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Meter
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 Smart Meter.

Smart Meter daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Meter
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Smart Meter over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Smart Meter daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Smart Meter
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Smart Metering Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
2 2 (33.33%) Data Cleansing
2 2 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
2 2 (33.33%) Data Transformation
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Business Process Mapping
3 1 (16.67%) Business Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) Data Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) ETL
3 1 (16.67%) ETL Development
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Databricks
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio