Data Analytics Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Analytics skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Analytics over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 192 216
Rank change year-on-year +5 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 117 159 300
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.18% 1.04% 1.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.18% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 105 229
10th Percentile £270 £357 £397
25th Percentile £406 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -4.26% +0.23%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £613
90th Percentile £738 £638 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 2
10th Percentile - - £13.90
25th Percentile - £13.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +157.06%
75th Percentile - £35.50 £32.75
90th Percentile - £37.30 £37.10
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £30.25 £40.25
% change year-on-year -7.44% -24.84% +22.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Analytics falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Analytics
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Analytics as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

Data Analytics
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.

Data Analytics daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analytics
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analytics
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 Analytics.

Data Analytics hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analytics
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 9 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (3.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.71%) Apache
3 2 (1.71%) CMS
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.85%) SAS
4 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.85%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.85%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.56%) Aladdin
2 2 (1.71%) Maximo
2 2 (1.71%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.85%) Demantra
3 1 (0.85%) SAP IBP
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (26.50%) Power Platform
2 29 (24.79%) AWS
2 29 (24.79%) Azure
3 14 (11.97%) GCP
4 9 (7.69%) Amazon S3
5 7 (5.98%) AWS Lambda
5 7 (5.98%) SaaS
5 7 (5.98%) Serverless
6 6 (5.13%) Snowflake
7 5 (4.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.42%) dbt
8 4 (3.42%) GitHub
8 4 (3.42%) PaaS
9 3 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (1.71%) Amazon Kinesis
10 2 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) DHCP
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) HTTP
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) SSL
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (24.79%) Power BI
2 16 (13.68%) Data Warehouse
3 13 (11.11%) Tableau
4 7 (5.98%) Metadata
4 7 (5.98%) Relational Database
5 6 (5.13%) Amazon RDS
5 6 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (4.27%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (4.27%) BusinessObjects
6 5 (4.27%) Data Lake
6 5 (4.27%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (4.27%) MongoDB
7 4 (3.42%) Big Data
7 4 (3.42%) MS Access
7 4 (3.42%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
8 3 (2.56%) Hadoop
8 3 (2.56%) KDB
8 3 (2.56%) Kdb+
8 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (9.40%) JIRA
2 5 (4.27%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.56%) GitLab
4 2 (1.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.71%) MLflow
4 2 (1.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Appium
5 1 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
5 1 (0.85%) Git
5 1 (0.85%) Selenium
5 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.85%) Vite
5 1 (0.85%) webpack
General
1 36 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 34 (29.06%) Finance
3 33 (28.21%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (13.68%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.55%) Banking
6 5 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.42%) Marketing
8 3 (2.56%) Retail
9 2 (1.71%) Electronics
9 2 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.71%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.71%) Military
9 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.71%) Publishing
9 2 (1.71%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Advertising
10 1 (0.85%) Legal
10 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 24 (20.51%) Analyst
2 21 (17.95%) Data Engineer
3 16 (13.68%) Architect
4 14 (11.97%) Business Analyst
5 12 (10.26%) Data Analyst
5 12 (10.26%) Developer
6 11 (9.40%) Lead
7 8 (6.84%) Senior
8 7 (5.98%) Data Business Analyst
9 6 (5.13%) Project Manager
10 5 (4.27%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Data Analytics Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Data Manager
11 4 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (3.42%) Technical Architect
12 3 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 3 (2.56%) KDB Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Programme Manager
12 3 (2.56%) Python Developer
12 3 (2.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.98%) Kafka
1 7 (5.98%) PySpark
2 4 (3.42%) NumPy
2 4 (3.42%) React
3 3 (2.56%) AngularJS
3 3 (2.56%) Pandas
4 2 (1.71%) .NET
4 2 (1.71%) Django
4 2 (1.71%) FastAPI
4 2 (1.71%) Flask
4 2 (1.71%) JSON
4 2 (1.71%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.71%) Node.js
4 2 (1.71%) PyTorch
4 2 (1.71%) scikit-learn
4 2 (1.71%) TensorFlow
5 1 (0.85%) AWS CDK
5 1 (0.85%) GatsbyJS
5 1 (0.85%) Next.js
5 1 (0.85%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.27%) Cloud Native
2 5 (4.27%) Equities
2 5 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.42%) Algorithms
3 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (3.42%) Virtual Team
4 3 (2.56%) FMCG
4 3 (2.56%) IoT
4 3 (2.56%) NHS
4 3 (2.56%) Pricing Data
5 2 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.71%) Derivative
5 2 (1.71%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.71%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.98%) Linux
2 2 (1.71%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) CentOS
3 1 (0.85%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (100.00%) Analytics
2 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (24.79%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (23.08%) Agile
5 26 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 25 (21.37%) Data Engineering
7 23 (19.66%) ETL
7 23 (19.66%) Visualisation
8 21 (17.95%) Data Science
9 18 (15.38%) DevOps
9 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (14.53%) Computer Science
11 16 (13.68%) Migration
12 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
13 14 (11.97%) Data Analysis
13 14 (11.97%) Data Governance
13 14 (11.97%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (11.97%) Roadmaps
14 13 (11.11%) CI/CD
14 13 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.62%) SQL
2 31 (26.50%) Python
3 9 (7.69%) Java
4 4 (3.42%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.56%) Bash
6 2 (1.71%) C#
6 2 (1.71%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.71%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.71%) R
6 2 (1.71%) Scala
7 1 (0.85%) F#
7 1 (0.85%) HiveQL
7 1 (0.85%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (22.22%) Degree
2 14 (11.97%) AWS Certification
2 14 (11.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 11 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 9 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 9 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 8 (6.84%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.42%) PMI Certification
8 4 (3.42%) PMP
9 3 (2.56%) CISSP
10 2 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.85%) CISM
11 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (0.85%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
11 1 (0.85%) MBA
11 1 (0.85%) PgMP
11 1 (0.85%) PhD
11 1 (0.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.26%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.42%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.42%) GDPR
3 3 (2.56%) MiFID
4 2 (1.71%) COBIT
4 2 (1.71%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.71%) Dodd-Frank
4 2 (1.71%) EMIR
4 2 (1.71%) NIST
4 2 (1.71%) PMO
5 1 (0.85%) COSO
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.85%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.42%) Docker
1 4 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.85%) HDFS
2 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (3.42%) Kubernetes
1 4 (3.42%) Terraform
2 3 (2.56%) Ansible
2 3 (2.56%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.85%) CASB
3 1 (0.85%) Grafana
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 19 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.68%) Databricks
3 12 (10.26%) Google
4 9 (7.69%) SAP
5 8 (6.84%) Oracle
6 6 (5.13%) VMware
7 5 (4.27%) Cloudera
8 3 (2.56%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.56%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.71%) Splunk
10 1 (0.85%) Amplitude
10 1 (0.85%) Anaplan
10 1 (0.85%) Denodo
10 1 (0.85%) Forcepoint
10 1 (0.85%) GoldenSource
10 1 (0.85%) Informatica
10 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
10 1 (0.85%) Remedy
10 1 (0.85%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.85%) Talend