Hybrid/Remote DAMA Contract Job Trends

DAMA International
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DAMA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 - 389
Rank change year-on-year - - +179
Contract jobs citing DAMA 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.039% - 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £397 - -
25th Percentile £449 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.08%
75th Percentile £591 - -
90th Percentile £619 - -
UK median daily rate £540 £675 £644
% change year-on-year -20.00% +4.85% -4.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

DAMA 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 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

DAMA
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

DAMA job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

DAMA
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

DAMA
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing DAMA over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

DAMA daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Metadata
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (25.00%) Big Data
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) ERwin
1 1 (25.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Life Science
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (25.00%) Reinsurance
1 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) Data Design
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Data Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Information Management
2 2 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
2 2 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Data Science
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Sparx