Data Analyst Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 118 162
Rank change year-on-year -17 +44 +9
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 189 283 404
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.91% 1.84% 1.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.03% 1.97% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 169 280
10th Percentile £210 £263 £270
25th Percentile £309 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +1.24% +1.45%
75th Percentile £538 £562 £552
90th Percentile £650 £628 £638
UK median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 13 22
10th Percentile £14.00 - -
25th Percentile £14.25 £13.50 £16.98
Median hourly rate £30.81 £35.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -13.23% +84.46% +4.03%
75th Percentile £34.84 £40.00 £22.16
90th Percentile £35.55 £46.00 £30.63
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £21.66 £20.47
% change year-on-year +25.23% +5.81% +4.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Data Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Analyst trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Analyst.

Data Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 83 (43.92%) SQL
2 75 (39.68%) Data Analysis
3 59 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (31.22%) Power BI
3 59 (31.22%) Power Platform
4 56 (29.63%) Social Skills
5 54 (28.57%) Finance
6 52 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
7 44 (23.28%) Data Governance
8 41 (21.69%) Data Quality
9 38 (20.11%) Analytics
10 37 (19.58%) Python
11 36 (19.05%) Migration
12 35 (18.52%) Visualisation
13 33 (17.46%) Data Warehouse
14 32 (16.93%) Microsoft Excel
14 32 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
15 31 (16.40%) Decision-Making
15 31 (16.40%) ETL
16 28 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
16 28 (14.81%) Banking
16 28 (14.81%) Data Migration
17 25 (13.23%) Data Modelling
17 25 (13.23%) Tableau
18 24 (12.70%) Validation
19 23 (12.17%) Security Cleared
20 22 (11.64%) Data Visualisation
20 22 (11.64%) Data Management
21 21 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
22 20 (10.58%) AWS

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 13 (6.88%) Confluence
2 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.59%) SAS
Applications
1 32 (16.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.17%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
5 3 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.53%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.06%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.53%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.53%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.53%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.53%) SAP MDM
2 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 59 (31.22%) Power Platform
2 20 (10.58%) AWS
3 12 (6.35%) Azure
3 12 (6.35%) GCP
4 9 (4.76%) Snowflake
5 6 (3.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (1.59%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (1.59%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.59%) dbt
6 3 (1.59%) Google Ads
6 3 (1.59%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.06%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.06%) Cloud Composer
7 2 (1.06%) Cloud Functions
7 2 (1.06%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.06%) OCI
8 1 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.53%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.53%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.53%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.53%) Firewall
1 1 (0.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (31.22%) Power BI
2 33 (17.46%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (13.23%) Tableau
4 12 (6.35%) Looker
5 9 (4.76%) SQL Server
6 8 (4.23%) BigQuery
6 8 (4.23%) Data Lake
7 4 (2.12%) Data Mining
7 4 (2.12%) Metadata
8 3 (1.59%) MS Access
8 3 (1.59%) Neo4j
8 3 (1.59%) Qlik Sense
9 2 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.06%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.53%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.53%) MySQL
10 1 (0.53%) QlikView
10 1 (0.53%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (7.94%) JIRA
2 4 (2.12%) Git
3 2 (1.06%) ERwin
3 2 (1.06%) GitLab
4 1 (0.53%) MagicDraw
4 1 (0.53%) XMLSpy
General
1 59 (31.22%) Analytical Skills
2 56 (29.63%) Social Skills
3 54 (28.57%) Finance
4 28 (14.81%) Banking
5 11 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 11 (5.82%) Public Sector
6 10 (5.29%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.70%) Retail
8 6 (3.17%) Marketing
8 6 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.59%) Front Office
10 3 (1.59%) Legal
10 3 (1.59%) Local Government
11 2 (1.06%) Billing
11 2 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.06%) Telecoms
12 1 (0.53%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.59%) Plotly
1 3 (1.59%) React
2 2 (1.06%) Pandas
3 1 (0.53%) CSS
3 1 (0.53%) FpML
3 1 (0.53%) HTML
3 1 (0.53%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (4.23%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.23%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.17%) Reference Data
4 4 (2.12%) Derivative
4 4 (2.12%) Hedge funds
4 4 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.59%) Pricing Data
6 2 (1.06%) CMDB
6 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.06%) Equities
6 2 (1.06%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.06%) IoT
6 2 (1.06%) NHS
6 2 (1.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.53%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.53%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.53%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.53%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.53%) Linux
1 1 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.68%) Data Analysis
2 52 (27.51%) Business Intelligence
3 44 (23.28%) Data Governance
4 38 (20.11%) Analytics
5 36 (19.05%) Migration
6 35 (18.52%) Visualisation
7 32 (16.93%) Problem-Solving
8 31 (16.40%) Decision-Making
8 31 (16.40%) ETL
9 28 (14.81%) Data Migration
9 28 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (13.23%) Data Modelling
11 24 (12.70%) Validation
12 22 (11.64%) Data Management
12 22 (11.64%) Data Visualisation
13 21 (11.11%) Actionable Insight
14 17 (8.99%) Data Cleansing
15 16 (8.47%) Agile
15 16 (8.47%) Data Integration
16 15 (7.94%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 83 (43.92%) SQL
2 37 (19.58%) Python
3 5 (2.65%) R
4 3 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.59%) VBA
5 1 (0.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.53%) MATLAB
5 1 (0.53%) PHP
5 1 (0.53%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 23 (12.17%) Security Cleared
2 19 (10.05%) SC Cleared
3 10 (5.29%) Degree
4 1 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.53%) CASP
4 1 (0.53%) CISA
4 1 (0.53%) CISM
4 1 (0.53%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (21.69%) Data Quality
2 18 (9.52%) QA
3 5 (2.65%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (2.12%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.06%) Dodd-Frank
6 2 (1.06%) EMIR
6 2 (1.06%) MiFID
7 1 (0.53%) GAAP
7 1 (0.53%) GDPR
7 1 (0.53%) GRC
7 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.53%) LOINC
7 1 (0.53%) SEPA
7 1 (0.53%) SNOMED CT
Vendors
1 17 (8.99%) Oracle
2 16 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 14 (7.41%) Google
4 10 (5.29%) Databricks
5 4 (2.12%) Alteryx
5 4 (2.12%) Informatica
6 3 (1.59%) Adobe
6 3 (1.59%) Bloomberg
6 3 (1.59%) Palantir
6 3 (1.59%) SAP
7 2 (1.06%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.06%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.06%) Sparx
7 2 (1.06%) Splunk
7 2 (1.06%) TikTok
7 2 (1.06%) Virgin Media
7 2 (1.06%) Workday
8 1 (0.53%) Denodo
8 1 (0.53%) dotdigital
8 1 (0.53%) OneTrust