Data Analytics Engineer Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Analytics Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £428, 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 299 342 468
Rank change year-on-year +43 +126 +150
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 5 3 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.050% 0.020% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.021% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
10th Percentile £405 £655 £475
25th Percentile £413 £663 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £675 £545
Median % change year-on-year -36.59% +23.85% -16.15%
75th Percentile £488 £688 £548
90th Percentile £510 £695 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -34.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - £65.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +62.50% -

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 Analytics Engineer
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analytics Engineer trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Analytics Engineer
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 Analytics Engineer.

Data Analytics Engineer daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Data Analytics Engineer 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 Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) Databricks
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Power BI
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Google
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Scala
5 1 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
5 1 (20.00%) Tableau
5 1 (20.00%) Data Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (20.00%) SLA
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (20.00%) Data Security
5 1 (20.00%) SQL

Data Analytics Engineer 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Stack
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) dbt
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Dremio
2 1 (20.00%) Looker
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (20.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Analytics
2 4 (80.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (20.00%) Data Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Security
4 1 (20.00%) DataOps
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (20.00%) MLOps
4 1 (20.00%) Product Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
4 1 (20.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) Scala
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Databricks
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Google