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 £443, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 147 131 170
Rank change year-on-year -16 +39 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 180 243 348
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.85% 1.66% 1.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.97% 1.77% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 159 234
10th Percentile £263 £313 £286
25th Percentile £357 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.67% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £550 £538
90th Percentile £650 £640 £638
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 24
10th Percentile £14.10 £13.40 £16.47
25th Percentile £21.02 £13.50 £16.98
Median hourly rate £26.50 £24.26 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.26% +26.03% +32.72%
75th Percentile £34.68 £40.00 £26.56
90th Percentile £35.00 £50.00 £58.75
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £21.65 £20.47
% change year-on-year +22.40% +5.76% -12.89%

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 9,150 13,741 22,645
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.60% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,158 9,240 16,067
10th Percentile £331 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £632 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 241 566 528
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £16.98
25th Percentile £16.00 £22.59 £25.00
Median hourly rate £33.99 £43.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% -13.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.25 £65.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £76.15
UK median hourly rate £27.40 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.93% -16.67% +80.00%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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 85 (47.22%) SQL
2 64 (35.56%) Data Analysis
2 64 (35.56%) Social Skills
3 60 (33.33%) Power BI
3 60 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 59 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
5 50 (27.78%) Finance
6 47 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
7 40 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
8 37 (20.56%) Data Quality
9 35 (19.44%) Python
9 35 (19.44%) Data Modelling
10 34 (18.89%) Data Governance
11 32 (17.78%) Analytics
11 32 (17.78%) Visualisation
11 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
12 31 (17.22%) Migration
13 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
13 27 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
14 25 (13.89%) Banking
15 24 (13.33%) Tableau
16 23 (12.78%) Data Migration
17 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
17 21 (11.67%) Validation
17 21 (11.67%) Decision-Making
18 19 (10.56%) ETL
18 19 (10.56%) Data Visualisation
19 18 (10.00%) AWS
19 18 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
20 17 (9.44%) Oracle

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 12 (6.67%) Confluence
2 7 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.67%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.33%) MS Visio
4 5 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (2.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.56%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.56%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.56%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDG
3 1 (0.56%) SAP MDM
3 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 18 (10.00%) AWS
3 12 (6.67%) Azure
4 7 (3.89%) dbt
4 7 (3.89%) GCP
5 6 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
5 6 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 4 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 3 (1.67%) Google Ads
7 3 (1.67%) Google Data Studio
7 3 (1.67%) OCI
8 2 (1.11%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.11%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.11%) Cloud Composer
8 2 (1.11%) Google Analytics
9 1 (0.56%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.56%) Cloud Functions
9 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.56%) SaaS
9 1 (0.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.56%) Firewall
1 1 (0.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (33.33%) Power BI
2 27 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (13.33%) Tableau
4 10 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 10 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 9 (5.00%) Looker
6 4 (2.22%) Power Query
7 3 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.67%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.67%) Metadata
8 2 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (1.11%) MS Access
8 2 (1.11%) Neo4j
8 2 (1.11%) Qlik Sense
8 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.56%) Big Data
9 1 (0.56%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.56%) Geospatial Data
9 1 (0.56%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 14 (7.78%) JIRA
2 2 (1.11%) ERwin
2 2 (1.11%) Git
2 2 (1.11%) GitLab
General
1 64 (35.56%) Social Skills
2 50 (27.78%) Finance
3 47 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (13.89%) Banking
5 13 (7.22%) Public Sector
6 9 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.89%) Local Government
7 7 (3.89%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.33%) Marketing
8 6 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.78%) Retail
10 3 (1.67%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.11%) Front Office
11 2 (1.11%) Legal
11 2 (1.11%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.56%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (0.56%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.56%) Environmental Health
12 1 (0.56%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.11%) Pandas
1 2 (1.11%) Plotly
1 2 (1.11%) React
2 1 (0.56%) Altair
2 1 (0.56%) CSS
2 1 (0.56%) HTML
2 1 (0.56%) JSON
2 1 (0.56%) Matplotlib
2 1 (0.56%) NumPy
2 1 (0.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (4.44%) Data Structures
2 8 (4.44%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 7 (3.89%) Reference Data
4 6 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.22%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.67%) IoT
6 3 (1.67%) NHS
6 3 (1.67%) Smart Meter
7 2 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.11%) CMDB
7 2 (1.11%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.11%) Derivative
7 2 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.11%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.56%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.56%) Linux
1 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (35.56%) Data Analysis
2 59 (32.78%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (19.44%) Data Modelling
4 34 (18.89%) Data Governance
5 32 (17.78%) Analytics
5 32 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (17.78%) Visualisation
6 31 (17.22%) Migration
7 27 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 23 (12.78%) Data Migration
9 21 (11.67%) Decision-Making
9 21 (11.67%) Validation
10 19 (10.56%) Data Visualisation
10 19 (10.56%) ETL
11 18 (10.00%) Actionable Insight
12 16 (8.89%) Data Cleansing
13 15 (8.33%) Agile
13 15 (8.33%) Data Management
14 12 (6.67%) Data Analytics
15 11 (6.11%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 85 (47.22%) SQL
2 35 (19.44%) Python
3 5 (2.78%) R
4 4 (2.22%) VBA
5 3 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (1.11%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.56%) LookML
7 1 (0.56%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.56%) PHP
7 1 (0.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (11.67%) Security Cleared
2 16 (8.89%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (0.56%) CASP
4 1 (0.56%) CIPD
4 1 (0.56%) CISA
4 1 (0.56%) CISM
4 1 (0.56%) CISSP
4 1 (0.56%) PMI Certification
4 1 (0.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (20.56%) Data Quality
2 14 (7.78%) QA
3 5 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.67%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.11%) GDPR
6 1 (0.56%) COSHH
6 1 (0.56%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.56%) EMIR
6 1 (0.56%) GAAP
6 1 (0.56%) GRC
6 1 (0.56%) GxP
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS
6 1 (0.56%) IFRS 17
6 1 (0.56%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.56%) LOINC
6 1 (0.56%) MiFID
6 1 (0.56%) PMO
6 1 (0.56%) SEPA
6 1 (0.56%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.56%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 17 (9.44%) Oracle
2 16 (8.89%) Microsoft
3 9 (5.00%) Databricks
4 8 (4.44%) Google
5 4 (2.22%) SAP
6 3 (1.67%) Alteryx
6 3 (1.67%) Palantir
6 3 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.67%) Workday
7 2 (1.11%) Adobe
7 2 (1.11%) Informatica
7 2 (1.11%) Sparx
7 2 (1.11%) TikTok
7 2 (1.11%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.56%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.56%) BMC
8 1 (0.56%) Progress
8 1 (0.56%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.56%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.56%) Talend