DAMA Contracts with Work from Home Options

DAMA International
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 DAMA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DAMA over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 463 615
Rank change year-on-year +125 +152 -129
Contract jobs citing DAMA 5 3 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.034% 0.012% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.014% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 14
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile £713 £525 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 £550 £638
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -13.73% +10.87%
75th Percentile £738 £613 £676
90th Percentile - £635 -
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £650
% change year-on-year -8.70% -11.54% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DAMA 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 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +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% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

DAMA trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 DAMA.

DAMA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 1 (20.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (20.00%) HBase
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Business Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Information Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) ArchiMate
3 2 (40.00%) Architecture Governance
3 2 (40.00%) BPMN
3 2 (40.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Information Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Information Management
3 2 (40.00%) Master Data Management
3 2 (40.00%) Observability
3 2 (40.00%) Process Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Perl
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality