Data Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Strategy
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 Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 351 436
Rank change year-on-year +103 +85 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 99 115 193
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.46% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.51% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 82 149
10th Percentile £463 £444 £463
25th Percentile £525 £528 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £725
90th Percentile £775 £821 £830
UK median daily rate £679 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +13.21% -4.00% +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Strategy 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 13,242 22,482 39,977
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.03% 89.72% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,878 15,879 28,991
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 571 516 542
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.66 £13.78
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.29
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Data Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Data Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 3 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.01%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.01%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.01%) Shopify
2 1 (1.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.29%) Azure
2 8 (8.08%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.06%) AWS
3 6 (6.06%) Azure Stack
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (4.04%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.03%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.03%) dbt
6 3 (3.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.01%) Collibra
7 1 (1.01%) SaaS
7 1 (1.01%) Serverless
7 1 (1.01%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.01%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.01%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) LAN
1 5 (5.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.18%) Metadata
2 12 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.08%) NoSQL
3 8 (8.08%) Power BI
4 6 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
5 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
6 4 (4.04%) Big Data
6 4 (4.04%) OLAP
6 4 (4.04%) OLTP
7 3 (3.03%) Airbyte
7 3 (3.03%) Flink
8 2 (2.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.02%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.02%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (1.01%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.01%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.16%) ERwin
2 2 (2.02%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.01%) kappa
3 1 (1.01%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.01%) RStudio
General
1 36 (36.36%) Finance
2 32 (32.32%) Social Skills
3 25 (25.25%) Public Sector
4 17 (17.17%) Manufacturing
5 15 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (15.15%) Marketing
6 13 (13.13%) Retail
6 13 (13.13%) Telecoms
7 12 (12.12%) Electronics
8 8 (8.08%) Legal
9 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (5.05%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (4.04%) Law
11 3 (3.03%) Automotive
12 2 (2.02%) Banking
12 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (1.01%) Back Office
13 1 (1.01%) Front Office
13 1 (1.01%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 47 (47.47%) Architect
2 41 (41.41%) Data Architect
3 13 (13.13%) Enterprise Architect
3 13 (13.13%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 11 (11.11%) Analyst
5 9 (9.09%) Lead
6 8 (8.08%) Data Analyst
7 6 (6.06%) Azure Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Data Engineer
8 5 (5.05%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.05%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.04%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Data Migration Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Data Migration Project Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Data Modeller
9 4 (4.04%) Data Strategist
9 4 (4.04%) Migration Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Migration Project Manager
10 3 (3.03%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.10%) JSON
2 6 (6.06%) REST
2 6 (6.06%) XML
3 5 (5.05%) Middleware
4 4 (4.04%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.02%) PySpark
6 1 (1.01%) Drools
6 1 (1.01%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.14%) Data Structures
2 13 (13.13%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (12.12%) Wiki
4 9 (9.09%) Product Ownership
5 8 (8.08%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.05%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.02%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.01%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.01%) IoT
9 1 (1.01%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.01%) Life Science
9 1 (1.01%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
1 5 (5.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (52.53%) Data Modelling
2 42 (42.42%) Data Governance
3 41 (41.41%) Data Management
4 37 (37.37%) Analytics
4 37 (37.37%) Data Architecture
5 29 (29.29%) Agile
6 26 (26.26%) Business Intelligence
7 24 (24.24%) Data Protection
8 21 (21.21%) Master Data Management
9 20 (20.20%) Physical Data Model
10 19 (19.19%) Problem-Solving
11 15 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (15.15%) Data Lineage
12 14 (14.14%) Data Science
13 13 (13.13%) Business Strategy
13 13 (13.13%) Programme Management
13 13 (13.13%) Roadmaps
14 12 (12.12%) Data Flow Diagram
14 12 (12.12%) Digital Marketing
14 12 (12.12%) Domain Models
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.13%) SQL
2 6 (6.06%) Python
3 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (15.15%) SC Cleared
1 15 (15.15%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.06%) Degree
3 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.01%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.01%) CISA
4 1 (1.01%) CISM
4 1 (1.01%) CISSP
4 1 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.01%) MBA
4 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (35.35%) Data Quality
2 22 (22.22%) GDPR
3 8 (8.08%) QA
4 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (15.15%) SAP
2 13 (13.13%) Microsoft
2 13 (13.13%) Sparx
3 11 (11.11%) Databricks
4 7 (7.07%) Oracle
5 5 (5.05%) Informatica
6 3 (3.03%) Adobe
7 2 (2.02%) IDERA
7 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.01%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.01%) IBM
8 1 (1.01%) Splunk