Hybrid/Remote Data Analytics Contract Job Trends

Data Analytics
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Analytics skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 189 226
Rank change year-on-year -16 +37 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Analytics 107 157 206
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.09% 1.22% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.40% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 100 159
10th Percentile £291 £314 £363
25th Percentile £386 £358 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £498 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -7.30% +2.38%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £613
90th Percentile £762 £726 £675
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £34.70 - £23.40
25th Percentile £62.00 - £24.75
Median hourly rate £70.16 £35.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.63% -11.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile - - £44.54
90th Percentile - - £61.01
UK median hourly rate £34.50 £29.00 £72.00
% change year-on-year +18.97% -59.72% +105.71%

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 9,025 11,205 18,618
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.09% 87.40% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,024 7,354 13,126
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 333 454
10th Percentile £12.62 £17.65 £17.50
25th Percentile £18.94 £30.12 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -14.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.61 £68.75
90th Percentile £68.25 £75.00 £79.76
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% +2.41% +49.66%

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 Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Analytics.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Analytics

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 September 2025.

Data Analytics daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Analytics.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Analytics

Data Analytics
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analytics hourly rate histogram 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 10 (9.35%) Apache Spark
2 4 (3.74%) Apache
3 3 (2.80%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (2.80%) Confluence
3 3 (2.80%) SAS
4 2 (1.87%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.93%) Apache Superset
5 1 (0.93%) nginx
Applications
1 19 (17.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.87%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.93%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.30%) Power Platform
2 25 (23.36%) AWS
3 24 (22.43%) Azure
4 5 (4.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (4.67%) GCP
4 5 (4.67%) GitHub
4 5 (4.67%) GitHub Actions
4 5 (4.67%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.74%) dbt
6 3 (2.80%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.80%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (2.80%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.80%) SaaS
6 3 (2.80%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (1.87%) Amazon S3
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (1.87%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) DNS
1 5 (4.67%) HTTP
2 3 (2.80%) Network Security
3 2 (1.87%) LAN
3 2 (1.87%) WAN
4 1 (0.93%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) Power BI
2 14 (13.08%) Tableau
3 10 (9.35%) Hadoop
4 8 (7.48%) Big Data
5 7 (6.54%) Data Warehouse
5 7 (6.54%) Relational Database
6 6 (5.61%) Data Lake
6 6 (5.61%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (4.67%) Apache Hive
8 4 (3.74%) BusinessObjects
8 4 (3.74%) Looker
8 4 (3.74%) Metadata
8 4 (3.74%) MS Access
9 3 (2.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 3 (2.80%) HBase
9 3 (2.80%) KDB
9 3 (2.80%) Kdb+
9 3 (2.80%) Pentaho
10 2 (1.87%) MongoDB
10 2 (1.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (9.35%) Jenkins
2 9 (8.41%) Git
2 9 (8.41%) JIRA
3 5 (4.67%) Browser DevTools
3 5 (4.67%) Vite
3 5 (4.67%) webpack
4 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.93%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (38.32%) Analytical Skills
2 40 (37.38%) Social Skills
3 33 (30.84%) Finance
4 17 (15.89%) Banking
5 8 (7.48%) Marketing
6 5 (4.67%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.74%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.80%) Local Government
9 2 (1.87%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.87%) Retail
10 1 (0.93%) Advertising
10 1 (0.93%) Electronics
10 1 (0.93%) Environmental Health
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (21.50%) Analyst
2 15 (14.02%) Developer
3 14 (13.08%) Data Engineer
4 13 (12.15%) Data Analyst
5 10 (9.35%) Senior
6 8 (7.48%) Business Analyst
7 6 (5.61%) Architect
7 6 (5.61%) Lead
8 5 (4.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
8 5 (4.67%) Web Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Data Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (3.74%) Data Science Developer
9 4 (3.74%) Programme Manager
9 4 (3.74%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.80%) Analytics Developer
10 3 (2.80%) Hadoop Engineer
10 3 (2.80%) Head of Digital
10 3 (2.80%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.48%) React
2 7 (6.54%) CSS
2 7 (6.54%) HTML
3 6 (5.61%) Next.js
3 6 (5.61%) Sass
4 5 (4.67%) AngularJS
4 5 (4.67%) GatsbyJS
4 5 (4.67%) HTML5
4 5 (4.67%) Jest
4 5 (4.67%) Parceljs
4 5 (4.67%) React Native
4 5 (4.67%) Vue
5 4 (3.74%) Matplotlib
5 4 (3.74%) NumPy
5 4 (3.74%) Pandas
5 4 (3.74%) PyTorch
5 4 (3.74%) scikit-learn
5 4 (3.74%) Seaborn
5 4 (3.74%) TensorFlow
6 3 (2.80%) Spark Streaming
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) Virtual Team
2 6 (5.61%) Marketing Technology
3 5 (4.67%) Algorithms
3 5 (4.67%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.67%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.67%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.74%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.80%) Equities
5 3 (2.80%) Reinsurance
5 3 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.87%) FMCG
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.87%) Mobile Banking
6 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (100.00%) Analytics
2 36 (33.64%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (32.71%) Business Intelligence
4 34 (31.78%) Agile
5 27 (25.23%) Data Modelling
6 21 (19.63%) CI/CD
6 21 (19.63%) Visualisation
7 19 (17.76%) Data Science
8 18 (16.82%) Data Analysis
8 18 (16.82%) Data Engineering
8 18 (16.82%) DevOps
9 17 (15.89%) Data Pipeline
10 16 (14.95%) Computer Science
11 15 (14.02%) Decision-Making
11 15 (14.02%) Roadmaps
12 14 (13.08%) ETL
13 12 (11.21%) Actionable Insight
13 12 (11.21%) Dashboard Development
13 12 (11.21%) Data Governance
13 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (34.58%) SQL
2 28 (26.17%) Python
3 9 (8.41%) JavaScript
4 8 (7.48%) Java
5 7 (6.54%) TypeScript
6 6 (5.61%) R
7 3 (2.80%) Go
7 3 (2.80%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (1.87%) Scala
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) LookML
9 1 (0.93%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.93%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (17.76%) Degree
2 13 (12.15%) Security Cleared
3 11 (10.28%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.74%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.74%) PhD
6 3 (2.80%) AWS Certification
7 2 (1.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.93%) ACCA
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) CBAP
8 1 (0.93%) CIMA
8 1 (0.93%) CIPFA
8 1 (0.93%) CISA
8 1 (0.93%) CISM
8 1 (0.93%) CISSP
8 1 (0.93%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.93%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (18.69%) Data Quality
2 8 (7.48%) GDPR
3 6 (5.61%) Accessibility
4 5 (4.67%) WCAG
5 3 (2.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (2.80%) COBIT
5 3 (2.80%) PMO
6 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.87%) NIST
7 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.93%) COSHH
7 1 (0.93%) COSO
7 1 (0.93%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.93%) GxP
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS 17
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.93%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.93%) SLA
7 1 (0.93%) Solvency II
System Software
1 6 (5.61%) Docker
2 3 (2.80%) HDFS
3 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 11 (10.28%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Ansible
2 3 (2.80%) Hadoop YARN
2 3 (2.80%) Puppet
3 2 (1.87%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Kibana
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.87%) RSA Archer
3 2 (1.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.35%) Databricks
3 8 (7.48%) Google
4 6 (5.61%) SAP
5 5 (4.67%) Amplitude
6 4 (3.74%) Oracle
7 3 (2.80%) Ab Initio
7 3 (2.80%) Denodo
7 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.80%) Talend
8 2 (1.87%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.93%) Foundry
9 1 (0.93%) Okta
9 1 (0.93%) Palantir
9 1 (0.93%) VMware