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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 339 446
Rank change year-on-year +75 +107 -31
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 85 121 184
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.58% 0.50% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.56% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 89 140
10th Percentile £463 £444 £463
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £716
90th Percentile £750 £825 £829
UK median daily rate £675 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £44.48 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £58.31 -
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 £35.25 -
% change year-on-year +98.82% - -

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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 (3.53%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.18%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.18%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.18%) Shopify
2 1 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (35.29%) Azure
2 7 (8.24%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.06%) Azure Stack
3 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (4.71%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.53%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (3.53%) AWS
5 3 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.53%) dbt
6 2 (2.35%) GCP
7 1 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.18%) Oracle CX
7 1 (1.18%) SaaS
7 1 (1.18%) Serverless
7 1 (1.18%) Smartsheet
7 1 (1.18%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (9.41%) LAN
1 8 (9.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (11.76%) Metadata
3 8 (9.41%) NoSQL
4 7 (8.24%) Power BI
5 6 (7.06%) Snowflake Schema
6 4 (4.71%) OLAP
6 4 (4.71%) OLTP
6 4 (4.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (3.53%) Airbyte
7 3 (3.53%) Big Data
7 3 (3.53%) Flink
8 2 (2.35%) Data Lake
8 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
8 2 (2.35%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 1 (1.18%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.18%) Oracle BI EE
9 1 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.18%) SAP BW
9 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.59%) ERwin
2 2 (2.35%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.35%) RStudio
3 1 (1.18%) kappa
3 1 (1.18%) PowerDesigner
General
1 32 (37.65%) Finance
2 29 (34.12%) Social Skills
3 16 (18.82%) Public Sector
4 12 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.59%) Manufacturing
5 9 (10.59%) Marketing
6 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (8.24%) Legal
7 7 (8.24%) Retail
7 7 (8.24%) Telecoms
8 6 (7.06%) Electronics
9 5 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (4.71%) Law
11 3 (3.53%) Automotive
11 3 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (2.35%) Banking
13 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
13 1 (1.18%) Front Office
13 1 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 40 (47.06%) Architect
2 31 (36.47%) Data Architect
3 11 (12.94%) Analyst
4 9 (10.59%) Azure Architect
5 8 (9.41%) Data Analyst
5 8 (9.41%) Lead
5 8 (9.41%) Technical Architect
6 7 (8.24%) Cloud Architect
6 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Architect
6 7 (8.24%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 5 (5.88%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Data Migration Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Data Migration Project Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Data Modeller
8 4 (4.71%) Migration Manager
8 4 (4.71%) Migration Project Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Data Strategist
10 2 (2.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.76%) JSON
2 8 (9.41%) Middleware
3 6 (7.06%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) XML
4 4 (4.71%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.35%) PySpark
6 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.47%) Data Structures
2 8 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.41%) Public Cloud
2 8 (9.41%) Reference Data
3 7 (8.24%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (7.06%) Wiki
5 3 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.18%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.18%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.18%) IoT
7 1 (1.18%) Life Science
7 1 (1.18%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.18%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Linux
1 8 (9.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.59%) Data Modelling
2 38 (44.71%) Analytics
3 33 (38.82%) Data Governance
4 30 (35.29%) Agile
5 29 (34.12%) Data Management
6 26 (30.59%) Data Architecture
7 18 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (21.18%) Data Protection
8 16 (18.82%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (17.65%) Business Strategy
9 15 (17.65%) Master Data Management
10 14 (16.47%) Data Lineage
10 14 (16.47%) Data Science
10 14 (16.47%) Physical Data Model
11 12 (14.12%) IT Strategy
12 11 (12.94%) Data Mapping
12 11 (12.94%) Roadmaps
13 10 (11.76%) Decision-Making
13 10 (11.76%) Microservices
13 10 (11.76%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.12%) SQL
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.18%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (9.41%) SC Cleared
1 8 (9.41%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.06%) Degree
3 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CISA
4 1 (1.18%) CISM
4 1 (1.18%) CISSP
4 1 (1.18%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.18%) MBA
4 1 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (32.94%) Data Quality
2 16 (18.82%) GDPR
3 11 (12.94%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 14 (16.47%) Databricks
2 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 8 (9.41%) SAP
4 7 (8.24%) Sparx
5 6 (7.06%) Oracle
6 5 (5.88%) Informatica
7 3 (3.53%) Adobe
8 2 (2.35%) IDERA
8 2 (2.35%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.18%) Hyperion
9 1 (1.18%) Splunk