Hybrid/Remote Data Analytics Engineer Contract Job Trends

Data Analytics Engineer
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Analytics Engineer daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 September 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
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 308 329 418
Rank change year-on-year +21 +89 +191
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analytics Engineer 2 6 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.021% 0.048% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.052% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £326 £434
25th Percentile £563 £425 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +21.05% -2.56% -39.06%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £522
90th Percentile - £680 £531
UK median daily rate £513 £630 £575
% change year-on-year -18.65% +9.57% -18.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £40.00
UK median hourly rate - - £40.00

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 9,093 11,612 19,151
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 93.49% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,996 7,424 13,542
10th Percentile £325 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 282 431
10th Percentile £13.25 £20.75 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £34.20 £25.71
Median hourly rate £39.10 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.11% -10.00% +3.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.38 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote Data Analytics Engineer job vacancies

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

For the 6 months to 23 September 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 hybrid or remote work options featuring Data Analytics Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management

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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Privileged Identity Management
2 1 (50.00%) RBAC
2 1 (50.00%) Server Patching
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft