Data Collection Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Collection
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection 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 248 293 410
Rank change year-on-year +45 +117 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 56 52 67
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.34% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 48
10th Percentile £209 £199 £410
25th Percentile £311 £227 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £370 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.73% -26.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £500 £409 £588
90th Percentile £606 £539 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile £16.65 - -
25th Percentile £19.13 £12.50 -
Median hourly rate £21.25 £19.37 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% - -
75th Percentile £22.75 £30.31 -
90th Percentile £24.55 £37.62 -
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £17.64 £19.61
% change year-on-year +34.84% -10.05% -56.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Collection 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 Collection
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Collection
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 Collection.

Data Collection daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Collection daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Collection
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 Collection.

Data Collection hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Collection
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 2 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.14%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.79%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Power Platform
2 7 (12.50%) Azure
3 5 (8.93%) GCP
4 4 (7.14%) Adobe Analytics
5 2 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.57%) Google Data Studio
5 2 (3.57%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.79%) AWS
6 1 (1.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.79%) GitHub
6 1 (1.79%) Google Ads
6 1 (1.79%) Google Analytics
6 1 (1.79%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.79%) Google Tag Manager
6 1 (1.79%) PaaS
6 1 (1.79%) Serverless
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.57%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) LAN
2 1 (1.79%) MQTT
2 1 (1.79%) Wireless
2 1 (1.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.43%) Power BI
2 8 (14.29%) Tableau
3 7 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.57%) Qlik Sense
5 1 (1.79%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.79%) Big Data
5 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.79%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.79%) Looker
5 1 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.79%) MySQL
5 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) Power Query
5 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.79%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.71%) JIRA
2 1 (1.79%) Git
2 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 17 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (23.21%) Marketing
4 9 (16.07%) Finance
5 8 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.79%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.79%) General Ledger
6 1 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.79%) Local Government
6 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.79%) Military
6 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.79%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Analyst
2 8 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.93%) Lead
5 4 (7.14%) Data Scientist
5 4 (7.14%) Developer
6 3 (5.36%) Consultant
6 3 (5.36%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.36%) Product Owner
6 3 (5.36%) Senior
7 2 (3.57%) Azure Developer
7 2 (3.57%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Digital Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Governance Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Management Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Master Data Consultant
7 2 (3.57%) Programme Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
7 2 (3.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.57%) CSS
1 2 (3.57%) HTML
2 1 (1.79%) .NET
2 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.79%) jQuery
2 1 (1.79%) JSON
2 1 (1.79%) Kafka
2 1 (1.79%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.79%) Pandas
2 1 (1.79%) PySpark
2 1 (1.79%) REST
2 1 (1.79%) RESTful
2 1 (1.79%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.36%) IoT
3 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.57%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.57%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.57%) Multi-touch
4 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.79%) FMCG
4 1 (1.79%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.79%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.57%) Analytics
2 13 (23.21%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (21.43%) Validation
4 11 (19.64%) Data Analysis
5 10 (17.86%) Agile
5 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (16.07%) Data Management
6 9 (16.07%) Decision-Making
7 7 (12.50%) Business Case
7 7 (12.50%) ETL
7 7 (12.50%) Machine Learning
7 7 (12.50%) Workflow
8 6 (10.71%) Change Management
8 6 (10.71%) Data Governance
8 6 (10.71%) Mathematics
8 6 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.71%) Statistics
8 6 (10.71%) Visualisation
9 5 (8.93%) Demand Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (21.43%) Python
2 9 (16.07%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) R
4 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.79%) Apex Code
5 1 (1.79%) C#
5 1 (1.79%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.36%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.57%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.79%) CCNP
5 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.79%) HNC
5 1 (1.79%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (16.07%) QA
2 7 (12.50%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.57%) GDPR
4 1 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.79%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Adobe
2 5 (8.93%) Atlassian
2 5 (8.93%) Google
3 2 (3.57%) Informatica
4 1 (1.79%) Cisco
4 1 (1.79%) Mercator
4 1 (1.79%) Qualys
4 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.79%) TikTok