Data Science Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science
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 Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 211 163
Rank change year-on-year +59 -48 0
Contract jobs citing Data Science 219 294 737
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.17% 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.65% 1.31% 1.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 185 494
10th Percentile £325 £388 £412
25th Percentile £380 £475 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £563 £589
% change year-on-year -4.44% -4.46% +7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 8
10th Percentile £21.07 £18.80 £23.82
25th Percentile £21.94 £19.00 £25.60
Median hourly rate £23.62 £19.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.13% -62.86% +105.88%
75th Percentile £25.06 £22.16 £72.50
90th Percentile £25.77 £33.23 £74.38
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -5.71% -16.67% +57.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 13,243 22,460 40,020
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.02% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,870 29,041
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
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 £631
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 571 519 537
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.63 £13.90
25th Percentile £25.50 £29.31 £20.40
Median hourly rate £43.00 £53.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +52.43% +42.86%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Data Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Science over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Data Science daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 14 (6.39%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.83%) Confluence
3 4 (1.83%) Jupyter
4 2 (0.91%) Apache
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.46%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 54 (24.66%) Azure
2 48 (21.92%) Power Platform
3 41 (18.72%) AWS
4 34 (15.53%) GCP
5 10 (4.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 8 (3.65%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (3.65%) GitHub
7 6 (2.74%) Amazon S3
7 6 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.74%) Serverless
7 6 (2.74%) Snowflake
8 5 (2.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
9 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.83%) SaaS
10 3 (1.37%) Amazon EMR
10 3 (1.37%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) LAN
1 5 (2.28%) WAN
2 3 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.55%) Power BI
2 38 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (11.87%) Tableau
4 19 (8.68%) Data Lake
5 18 (8.22%) Big Data
6 10 (4.57%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.11%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.65%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.65%) Metadata
9 7 (3.20%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (3.20%) BusinessObjects
10 5 (2.28%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.28%) Looker
10 5 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.83%) Presto
11 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 3 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
13 2 (0.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (5.48%) JIRA
2 11 (5.02%) Git
3 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) CMake
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.46%) RStudio
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 71 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (20.09%) Finance
4 23 (10.50%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.76%) Marketing
6 9 (4.11%) Retail
7 7 (3.20%) Banking
7 7 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (1.83%) Czech Language
9 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 3 (1.37%) Legal
11 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.91%) Law
11 2 (0.91%) Publishing
12 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (30.14%) Data Scientist
2 35 (15.98%) Analyst
3 27 (12.33%) Senior
4 25 (11.42%) Architect
4 25 (11.42%) Data Analyst
4 25 (11.42%) Data Engineer
4 25 (11.42%) Developer
5 18 (8.22%) Lead
6 13 (5.94%) Senior Data Scientist
7 10 (4.57%) AWS Engineer
7 10 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
8 9 (4.11%) Full Stack Developer
9 8 (3.65%) Data Architect
10 7 (3.20%) Azure Architect
10 7 (3.20%) Lead Developer
10 7 (3.20%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.20%) Technical Architect
11 6 (2.74%) Asset Management Analyst
12 5 (2.28%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 5 (2.28%) Lead Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.85%) PySpark
2 14 (6.39%) Pandas
3 10 (4.57%) React
3 10 (4.57%) scikit-learn
4 9 (4.11%) .NET
5 7 (3.20%) Django
6 6 (2.74%) AngularJS
6 6 (2.74%) CSS
6 6 (2.74%) HTML
6 6 (2.74%) Middleware
6 6 (2.74%) NumPy
6 6 (2.74%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.74%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.28%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.83%) Shiny
8 4 (1.83%) XGBoost
9 3 (1.37%) Kafka
9 3 (1.37%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.37%) YAML
10 2 (0.91%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.89%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 13 (5.94%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.28%) Multi-touch
5 5 (2.28%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.28%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.83%) FMCG
6 4 (1.83%) NHS
7 3 (1.37%) Genomics
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.91%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.91%) Social Media
8 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Linux
1 6 (2.74%) Windows
2 2 (0.91%) Android
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.44%) Machine Learning
2 79 (36.07%) Analytics
3 61 (27.85%) Data Analysis
4 53 (24.20%) Visualisation
5 50 (22.83%) Agile
6 46 (21.00%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (19.18%) Computer Science
8 41 (18.72%) Artificial Intelligence
9 40 (18.26%) Data Modelling
10 39 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (16.89%) Data Visualisation
12 34 (15.53%) DevOps
13 32 (14.61%) Data Engineering
13 32 (14.61%) ETL
14 31 (14.16%) Data Pipeline
15 28 (12.79%) CI/CD
16 25 (11.42%) Mathematics
17 24 (10.96%) Statistics
18 23 (10.50%) Data Management
19 19 (8.68%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 118 (53.88%) Python
2 83 (37.90%) SQL
3 27 (12.33%) R
4 8 (3.65%) C#
4 8 (3.65%) Java
5 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (1.83%) Scala
8 2 (0.91%) Bash
8 2 (0.91%) Bicep
8 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.91%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.46%) C++
9 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (15.53%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.61%) Degree
3 25 (11.42%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.57%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.28%) PhD
8 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.37%) AWS Certification
9 3 (1.37%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.46%) CFA
11 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.46%) CISSP
11 1 (0.46%) ISEB
11 1 (0.46%) MBA
11 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.76%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.85%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) NCSC
4 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.83%) SLA
5 2 (0.91%) GDPR
5 2 (0.91%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 7 (3.20%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (5.94%) Terraform
2 12 (5.48%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 28 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 27 (12.33%) Databricks
3 9 (4.11%) Google
4 7 (3.20%) Alteryx
5 6 (2.74%) Oracle
6 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.37%) Sparx
6 3 (1.37%) Splunk
6 3 (1.37%) Teradata
7 2 (0.91%) Foundry
7 2 (0.91%) IBM
7 2 (0.91%) Informatica
7 2 (0.91%) Palantir
7 2 (0.91%) SAP
7 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow