Data Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 179 185
Rank change year-on-year +72 +6 -20
Contract jobs citing Data Management 291 341 662
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.94% 1.36% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 1.51% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 226 451
10th Percentile £363 £394 £375
25th Percentile £450 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.50% +9.00%
75th Percentile £658 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 5
10th Percentile £27.20 £24.50 £29.30
25th Percentile £31.42 £30.27 £38.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £30.54 £56.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.98% -45.95% +151.11%
75th Percentile £58.75 £64.88 £75.00
90th Percentile £61.81 £66.00 -
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year -0.44% -5.47% +59.47%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Management
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 Data Management.

Data Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Management
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 Data Management.

Data Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Management hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Management
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 15 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.44%) SAS
3 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.34%) CMS
3 1 (0.34%) Confluence
3 1 (0.34%) JBoss
3 1 (0.34%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 20 (6.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.44%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.09%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.69%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.69%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (2.75%) Dynamics CRM
1 8 (2.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 6 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.03%) MIS ActiveH
3 3 (1.03%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.69%) Adobe Campaign
4 2 (0.69%) Eloqua
4 2 (0.69%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.69%) Siebel CRM
5 1 (0.34%) OPENHousing
5 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.34%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.34%) SAP CX
5 1 (0.34%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.34%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.34%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 53 (18.21%) Azure
2 43 (14.78%) Power Platform
3 32 (11.00%) AWS
4 15 (5.15%) Serverless
5 13 (4.47%) AWS Lambda
6 12 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.12%) Collibra
7 10 (3.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 10 (3.44%) AWS Step Functions
8 9 (3.09%) GCP
9 8 (2.75%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (2.41%) Amazon Kinesis
10 7 (2.41%) Veeva
11 6 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 6 (2.06%) Azure Stack
11 6 (2.06%) dbt
12 5 (1.72%) Amazon EventBridge
12 5 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
12 5 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.72%) Network Security
2 3 (1.03%) Firewall
3 2 (0.69%) LAN
3 2 (0.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.34%) 4G
4 1 (0.34%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.34%) MPLS
4 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (13.40%) Power BI
2 37 (12.71%) Metadata
3 30 (10.31%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (7.22%) SQL Server
5 11 (3.78%) Tableau
6 10 (3.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (3.44%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.75%) Big Data
8 6 (2.06%) KDB
8 6 (2.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (1.72%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.72%) DynamoDB
10 4 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.37%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.03%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (0.69%) Metadata Repository
12 2 (0.69%) Power Query
12 2 (0.69%) SAS EBI
Development Applications
1 12 (4.12%) ERwin
1 12 (4.12%) JIRA
2 9 (3.09%) Git
3 3 (1.03%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.69%) CircleCI
4 2 (0.69%) RStudio
4 2 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.34%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.34%) JMeter
5 1 (0.34%) kappa
5 1 (0.34%) NeoLoad
5 1 (0.34%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.34%) Xcode
General
1 88 (30.24%) Finance
2 87 (29.90%) Social Skills
3 65 (22.34%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (14.43%) Public Sector
5 22 (7.56%) Marketing
6 21 (7.22%) Banking
7 18 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 18 (6.19%) Retail
7 18 (6.19%) Telecoms
8 13 (4.47%) Electronics
9 10 (3.44%) Legal
10 9 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.09%) Local Government
11 8 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (2.06%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.37%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.37%) Publishing
15 3 (1.03%) Back Office
15 3 (1.03%) Billing
Job Titles
1 84 (28.87%) Architect
2 46 (15.81%) Analyst
2 46 (15.81%) Data Architect
3 32 (11.00%) Data Analyst
4 26 (8.93%) Data Engineer
5 22 (7.56%) Developer
5 22 (7.56%) Solutions Architect
6 20 (6.87%) Lead
7 17 (5.84%) Business Analyst
7 17 (5.84%) Enterprise Architect
8 15 (5.15%) Senior
9 14 (4.81%) Data Manager
9 14 (4.81%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 9 (3.09%) Consultant
10 9 (3.09%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.75%) Data Business Analyst
11 8 (2.75%) Data Scientist
11 8 (2.75%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (2.41%) Administrator
12 7 (2.41%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.78%) XML
2 9 (3.09%) REST
3 8 (2.75%) JSON
4 6 (2.06%) Node.js
5 5 (1.72%) HTML
5 5 (1.72%) PySpark
5 5 (1.72%) PyTorch
6 4 (1.37%) CSS
6 4 (1.37%) RESTful
7 3 (1.03%) .NET
7 3 (1.03%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.03%) scikit-learn
7 3 (1.03%) TensorFlow
8 2 (0.69%) AWS SAM
8 2 (0.69%) Hugging Face
8 2 (0.69%) LangChain
8 2 (0.69%) React
9 1 (0.34%) Pandas
9 1 (0.34%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.71%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.81%) Data Protection Act
2 14 (4.81%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.12%) Wiki
4 11 (3.78%) Data Structures
5 10 (3.44%) Reference Data
6 6 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (2.06%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.72%) NHS
8 4 (1.37%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.37%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.03%) Data Fabric
9 3 (1.03%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.03%) IoT
9 3 (1.03%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.69%) Life Science
10 2 (0.69%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.72%) Linux
2 3 (1.03%) Unix
2 3 (1.03%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (29.55%) Data Governance
2 84 (28.87%) Analytics
3 74 (25.43%) Data Modelling
4 67 (23.02%) Business Intelligence
5 63 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 57 (19.59%) Agile
7 45 (15.46%) Migration
8 43 (14.78%) Data Architecture
9 40 (13.75%) Stakeholder Management
10 39 (13.40%) Data Strategy
11 34 (11.68%) Data Analysis
12 31 (10.65%) Decision-Making
13 30 (10.31%) Data Security
13 30 (10.31%) ETL
13 30 (10.31%) Project Management
14 29 (9.97%) Master Data Management
14 29 (9.97%) Visualisation
15 28 (9.62%) Data Migration
16 27 (9.28%) Data Integration
16 27 (9.28%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.59%) SQL
2 38 (13.06%) Python
3 17 (5.84%) JavaScript
4 12 (4.12%) C#
4 12 (4.12%) Java
4 12 (4.12%) PL/SQL
5 10 (3.44%) R
6 8 (2.75%) VB
7 6 (2.06%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.03%) Bash
8 3 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (1.03%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.69%) Go
9 2 (0.69%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.69%) Perl
9 2 (0.69%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.69%) VBA
10 1 (0.34%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 42 (14.43%) Security Cleared
2 41 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 38 (13.06%) Degree
4 7 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 4 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 3 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.69%) CISSP
7 2 (0.69%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.34%) CISM
8 1 (0.34%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.34%) PhD
8 1 (0.34%) PMP
8 1 (0.34%) Postgraduate
8 1 (0.34%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 86 (29.55%) Data Quality
2 33 (11.34%) GDPR
3 20 (6.87%) QA
4 12 (4.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 8 (2.75%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.41%) CDISC
7 6 (2.06%) COBIT
7 6 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (1.72%) ISO 22301
8 5 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 3 (1.03%) Good Clinical Practice
9 3 (1.03%) GxP
9 3 (1.03%) NCSC
10 2 (0.69%) Disclosure Scotland
10 2 (0.69%) NIST
10 2 (0.69%) PMO
11 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.34%) PCI DSS
11 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (1.03%) Docker
2 1 (0.34%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (3.09%) Terraform
2 4 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.03%) Ansible
4 2 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.34%) Control-M
5 1 (0.34%) Kibana
5 1 (0.34%) logstash
5 1 (0.34%) Matomo
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.34%) MOM
5 1 (0.34%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 27 (9.28%) Microsoft
2 25 (8.59%) SAP
3 24 (8.25%) Oracle
4 20 (6.87%) Sparx
5 11 (3.78%) Informatica
6 9 (3.09%) Databricks
7 6 (2.06%) Alteryx
7 6 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.37%) Adobe
8 4 (1.37%) Genesys
9 3 (1.03%) Ariba
9 3 (1.03%) Brio
9 3 (1.03%) NEC
9 3 (1.03%) NetApp
9 3 (1.03%) Splunk
10 2 (0.69%) Cisco
10 2 (0.69%) Google
10 2 (0.69%) Guidewire
10 2 (0.69%) Marketo
10 2 (0.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud