Hybrid/Remote Data Categorisation Contract Job Trends

Data Categorization
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Categorisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 310 365
Rank change year-on-year -13 +55 +147
Contract jobs citing Data Categorisation 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% 0.009% 0.006%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.010% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £456
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.00%
UK median daily rate £600 - £452
% change year-on-year - - +12.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Categorisation 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 9,667 9,630 14,590
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 89.56% 90.27% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,310 6,202 9,777
10th Percentile £338 £328 £338
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £750 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 403 183 504
10th Percentile £16.31 £18.28 £15.19
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.75 £22.52
Median hourly rate £51.21 £38.00 £47.25
Median % change year-on-year +34.76% -19.58% -17.83%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.93 £66.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £75.00 £83.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%

Data Categorisation
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Categorisation and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Categorisation job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Categorisation
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Categorisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Categorisation

Data Categorisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA