Alation Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Alation
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alation over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 - 464
Rank change year-on-year - - +160
Contract jobs citing Alation 8 0 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.081% - 0.050%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.20% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £505
25th Percentile £413 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £925
Median % change year-on-year - - +80.49%
75th Percentile £438 - £1,013
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -41.67% +3.45% +41.46%

All Cloud Skills
Work from Home

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 3,940 5,557 10,236
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 39.78% 36.21% 39.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,887 3,982 7,514
10th Percentile £351 £350 £373
25th Percentile £425 £430 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £738 £743
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 89 125
10th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £16.43
25th Percentile £25.25 £17.00 £21.31
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% -52.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £70.63 £50.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £64.37 £78.40
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Alation
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Alation trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Alation
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Alation.

Alation daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Alation
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 (37.50%) Confluence
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Collibra
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) dbt
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) IBM InfoSphere
1 3 (37.50%) Metadata
2 2 (25.00%) Data Vault
2 2 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Terragrunt
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Data Governance Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Data Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Governance Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
1 3 (37.50%) Project Governance Manager
1 3 (37.50%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) Data Science
4 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
5 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (37.50%) DAMA
5 3 (37.50%) Data Lineage
5 3 (37.50%) Data Management
5 3 (37.50%) Data Privacy
5 3 (37.50%) Data Security
5 3 (37.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 3 (37.50%) Information Management
5 3 (37.50%) Metadata Management
5 3 (37.50%) Project Management
5 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (37.50%) SDLC
6 2 (25.00%) Analytics
6 2 (25.00%) Data Engineering
6 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
6 2 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 3 (37.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (37.50%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Informatica
2 3 (37.50%) IBM
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (25.00%) MicroStrategy