Hybrid/Remote DAMA DMBOK Contract Job Trends

DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DAMA DMBOK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 - 408
Rank change year-on-year - - +178
Contract jobs citing DAMA DMBOK 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% - 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £588 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.04%
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £625 £900 £644
% change year-on-year -30.56% +39.81% -16.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DAMA DMBOK falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,005 10,808 17,015
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 88.06% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,988 6,794 11,934
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 227 401
10th Percentile £14.78 £18.50 £18.49
25th Percentile £20.50 £26.25 £26.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.82% -10.59% +26.87%

DAMA DMBOK
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DAMA DMBOK and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DAMA DMBOK job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DAMA DMBOK
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DAMA DMBOK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DAMA DMBOK

DAMA DMBOK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) GraphQL
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Management
1 2 (100.00%) Information Security
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle