Data Analysis Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Analysis
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 Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 121 115
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 +24
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 385 517 994
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.52% 1.99% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 2.22% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 389 731
10th Percentile £345 £316 £350
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £613
90th Percentile £681 £650 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 20
10th Percentile - £18.91 £16.35
25th Percentile £20.77 £20.08 £21.63
Median hourly rate £24.26 £23.15 £36.39
Median % change year-on-year +4.77% -36.38% +32.32%
75th Percentile £31.13 £32.04 £49.56
90th Percentile £35.50 £48.75 £50.78
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £33.65 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.82% -3.86% +42.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Analysis 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 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analysis trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 Analysis.

Data Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 Analysis.

Data Analysis hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Analysis hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 18 (4.68%) Confluence
2 13 (3.38%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.86%) SharePoint
4 6 (1.56%) ArcGIS
5 5 (1.30%) SAS
6 4 (1.04%) Jupyter
7 3 (0.78%) Appian
7 3 (0.78%) MTS
8 2 (0.52%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.52%) Apache
9 1 (0.26%) CMS
9 1 (0.26%) IIS
9 1 (0.26%) Jadu
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 1 (0.26%) Moodle
Applications
1 51 (13.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (6.23%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (1.56%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.26%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.26%) Gliffy
6 1 (0.26%) PlantUML
6 1 (0.26%) SPSS
6 1 (0.26%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 6 (1.56%) Endur
2 5 (1.30%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.04%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.78%) Aligne
4 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.78%) EuroRunner
5 2 (0.52%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.52%) Primavera
5 2 (0.52%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.52%) Shopify
5 2 (0.52%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.26%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.26%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.26%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 93 (24.16%) Power Platform
2 50 (12.99%) Azure
3 23 (5.97%) AWS
4 11 (2.86%) Collibra
4 11 (2.86%) Power Automate
5 9 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (2.34%) OCI
6 7 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (1.82%) GCP
6 7 (1.82%) PowerApps
6 7 (1.82%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.56%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.30%) GitHub
8 5 (1.30%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.30%) Google Sheets
8 5 (1.30%) SaaS
8 5 (1.30%) Serverless
9 4 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.04%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.04%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.04%) 2G
1 4 (1.04%) 3G
1 4 (1.04%) 4G
1 4 (1.04%) 5G
1 4 (1.04%) Radio Access Network
1 4 (1.04%) SNA
2 2 (0.52%) HTTP
3 1 (0.26%) Internet
3 1 (0.26%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.26%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (24.16%) Power BI
2 35 (9.09%) Tableau
3 32 (8.31%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (6.75%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.19%) Big Data
6 14 (3.64%) Metadata
7 12 (3.12%) GIS
8 11 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.08%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.82%) BusinessObjects
10 7 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.82%) Power Query
10 7 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 5 (1.30%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.30%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.30%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (1.30%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 5 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.04%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.04%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 34 (8.83%) JIRA
2 6 (1.56%) Eclipse
2 6 (1.56%) Git
3 4 (1.04%) JMeter
3 4 (1.04%) Selenium
3 4 (1.04%) SoapUI
4 3 (0.78%) ERwin
4 3 (0.78%) Maven
5 2 (0.52%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.52%) RStudio
5 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.26%) Deequ
6 1 (0.26%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.26%) PyCharm
General
1 131 (34.03%) Social Skills
2 119 (30.91%) Analytical Skills
3 104 (27.01%) Finance
4 39 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 29 (7.53%) Banking
6 16 (4.16%) Retail
7 15 (3.90%) Marketing
8 10 (2.60%) Back Office
8 10 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.34%) Military
9 9 (2.34%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.08%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.82%) Publishing
12 6 (1.56%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.56%) Front Office
12 6 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.56%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 161 (41.82%) Analyst
2 80 (20.78%) Data Analyst
3 63 (16.36%) Business Analyst
4 40 (10.39%) Senior
5 32 (8.31%) Data Scientist
6 24 (6.23%) Data Engineer
7 23 (5.97%) Developer
8 18 (4.68%) Architect
9 16 (4.16%) Senior Analyst
10 15 (3.90%) Consultant
11 14 (3.64%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (3.38%) Senior Data Analyst
13 11 (2.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 11 (2.86%) Integration Engineer
13 11 (2.86%) Lead
14 10 (2.60%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.60%) Technical Analyst
15 9 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
15 9 (2.34%) Project Manager
16 8 (2.08%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.34%) .NET
1 9 (2.34%) Web Services
2 8 (2.08%) Pandas
3 7 (1.82%) XML
4 6 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.56%) PySpark
5 5 (1.30%) scikit-learn
6 4 (1.04%) AngularJS
6 4 (1.04%) SOAP
6 4 (1.04%) Spring
6 4 (1.04%) TensorFlow
7 3 (0.78%) EDI
7 3 (0.78%) jQuery
7 3 (0.78%) JSON
7 3 (0.78%) REST
8 2 (0.52%) Kafka
8 2 (0.52%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.52%) Sass
8 2 (0.52%) Spring MVC
8 2 (0.52%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 22 (5.71%) Management Information System
2 20 (5.19%) Algorithms
3 15 (3.90%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 14 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.60%) Data Structures
6 7 (1.82%) NHS
7 6 (1.56%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.30%) Multi-touch
9 4 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
9 4 (1.04%) Social Media
10 3 (0.78%) Cyberattack
10 3 (0.78%) Educational Technology
10 3 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 3 (0.78%) Genomics
10 3 (0.78%) Market Risk
10 3 (0.78%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.52%) Distributed Computing
11 2 (0.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.30%) Linux
1 5 (1.30%) Unix
2 4 (1.04%) Windows
3 1 (0.26%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.83%) Business Intelligence
2 94 (24.42%) Agile
2 94 (24.42%) Data Modelling
2 94 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (21.30%) Visualisation
4 68 (17.66%) Analytics
5 60 (15.58%) Data Science
6 59 (15.32%) Decision-Making
7 51 (13.25%) ETL
8 46 (11.95%) Data Visualisation
9 39 (10.13%) Project Management
10 38 (9.87%) Data Management
11 37 (9.61%) Migration
12 35 (9.09%) Business Analysis
13 34 (8.83%) Data Governance
13 34 (8.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 32 (8.31%) Computer Science
15 29 (7.53%) Machine Learning
16 28 (7.27%) Project Delivery
17 26 (6.75%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 142 (36.88%) SQL
2 78 (20.26%) Python
3 22 (5.71%) R
4 14 (3.64%) C#
5 13 (3.38%) T-SQL
6 12 (3.12%) PL/SQL
7 10 (2.60%) Java
8 8 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (1.82%) VBA
10 6 (1.56%) JavaScript
11 5 (1.30%) C++
11 5 (1.30%) VB.NET
12 3 (0.78%) Scala
13 2 (0.52%) Bash
13 2 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.52%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.52%) Perl
13 2 (0.52%) VB
14 1 (0.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 58 (15.06%) Degree
2 49 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 45 (11.69%) SC Cleared
4 11 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 10 (2.60%) PMI Certification
6 9 (2.34%) PMP
7 7 (1.82%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.04%) HNC
9 4 (1.04%) ISEB
9 4 (1.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.78%) CBAP
10 3 (0.78%) PhD
11 2 (0.52%) CISSP
11 2 (0.52%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (0.52%) CSPO
11 2 (0.52%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (0.52%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (12.21%) Data Quality
2 26 (6.75%) QA
3 10 (2.60%) GDPR
4 7 (1.82%) PMO
5 5 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 5 (1.30%) SLA
6 3 (0.78%) Accessibility
6 3 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.52%) P3O
7 2 (0.52%) PSD2
8 1 (0.26%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.26%) EMIR
8 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.26%) MiFID
8 1 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (1.04%) Docker
2 1 (0.26%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (1.04%) HP ALM
2 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.26%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.26%) Enterprise Manager Cloud Control
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 54 (14.03%) Microsoft
2 39 (10.13%) Oracle
3 18 (4.68%) SAP
4 15 (3.90%) Google
4 15 (3.90%) Salesforce
5 12 (3.12%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.56%) Databricks
7 4 (1.04%) BT
7 4 (1.04%) HP
8 3 (0.78%) Atlassian
8 3 (0.78%) Cadence
8 3 (0.78%) Informatica
8 3 (0.78%) Intel
8 3 (0.78%) Phenom
8 3 (0.78%) Splunk
8 3 (0.78%) Teradata
9 2 (0.52%) Datix
9 2 (0.52%) FIS
9 2 (0.52%) IDERA
9 2 (0.52%) Sparx