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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 301 375
Rank change year-on-year +38 +74 +114
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 51 46 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.50% 0.32% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.36% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 52
10th Percentile £217 £190 £389
25th Percentile £311 £209 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £350 £494
Median % change year-on-year +17.86% -29.11% -3.66%
75th Percentile £553 £395 £588
90th Percentile £672 £444 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £473
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.05% -7.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £16.03 - -
25th Percentile £17.56 £12.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £20.25 £26.25 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -58.00% +51.52%
75th Percentile £23.06 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £24.68 £74.00 -
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £15.79 £21.61
% change year-on-year +76.95% -26.93% -47.61%

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 9,339 12,721 21,711
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,324 8,559 15,315
10th Percentile £325 £325 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 263 553 523
10th Percentile £12.70 £15.03 £18.49
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £34.65 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.42% -18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.18
% change year-on-year -32.93% -1.77% +46.83%

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 6 July 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 7 (13.73%) Apache Spark
2 2 (3.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (7.84%) MS Visio
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.96%) Chatbot
4 1 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) Power Platform
3 3 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.88%) GCP
4 2 (3.92%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.96%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.96%) AWS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.96%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.96%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.96%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.96%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
5 1 (1.96%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.96%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.92%) LAN
2 1 (1.96%) DNS
2 1 (1.96%) Firewall
2 1 (1.96%) Internet
2 1 (1.96%) SMS
2 1 (1.96%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.96%) Wireless
2 1 (1.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (17.65%) Power BI
2 6 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.84%) Tableau
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.96%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.96%) Big Data
4 1 (1.96%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.96%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.96%) Looker
4 1 (1.96%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.96%) MySQL
4 1 (1.96%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.96%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.96%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (1.96%) Git
General
1 17 (33.33%) Marketing
2 13 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (25.49%) Social Skills
3 11 (21.57%) Finance
4 7 (13.73%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.88%) Local Government
6 2 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.96%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.96%) General Ledger
7 1 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (27.45%) Analyst
2 10 (19.61%) Data Scientist
3 7 (13.73%) Senior
4 6 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 6 (11.76%) Data Analyst
5 5 (9.80%) Senior Data Scientist
6 4 (7.84%) Consultant
6 4 (7.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (5.88%) Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Azure Developer
8 2 (3.92%) Data Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Data Governance Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Governance Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Lead
8 2 (3.92%) Management Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Marketing Analyst
8 2 (3.92%) Master Data Consultant
8 2 (3.92%) Product Owner
8 2 (3.92%) Programme Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.76%) Pandas
2 2 (3.92%) REST
3 1 (1.96%) .NET
3 1 (1.96%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.96%) CSS
3 1 (1.96%) Express.js
3 1 (1.96%) FastAPI
3 1 (1.96%) FHIR
3 1 (1.96%) GraphQL
3 1 (1.96%) HTML
3 1 (1.96%) Kafka
3 1 (1.96%) LangChain
3 1 (1.96%) PySpark
3 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Multi-touch
2 3 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.92%) IoT
3 2 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.96%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.96%) FMCG
4 1 (1.96%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.96%) Linux
1 1 (1.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Validation
2 16 (31.37%) Data Analysis
3 14 (27.45%) Analytics
4 12 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 11 (21.57%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (21.57%) Data Science
6 10 (19.61%) Marketing Mix
6 10 (19.61%) Statistics
7 9 (17.65%) Bayesian Methods
7 9 (17.65%) Mathematics
7 9 (17.65%) Statistical Modelling
8 7 (13.73%) Applied Mathematics
8 7 (13.73%) Computer Science
8 7 (13.73%) Data Extraction
8 7 (13.73%) Data Governance
8 7 (13.73%) Data Management
8 7 (13.73%) Model Validation
8 7 (13.73%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (13.73%) Visualisation
9 6 (11.76%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 16 (31.37%) Python
1 16 (31.37%) SQL
2 9 (17.65%) R
3 2 (3.92%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
4 1 (1.96%) C#
Qualifications
1 11 (21.57%) Degree
2 6 (11.76%) PhD
3 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.96%) CCNP
3 1 (1.96%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.96%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.96%) HNC
3 1 (1.96%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) Data Quality
2 5 (9.80%) QA
3 2 (3.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.96%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.96%) HL7
4 1 (1.96%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.96%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
1 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.96%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 2 (3.92%) Adobe
3 2 (3.92%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Informatica
4 1 (1.96%) Cisco
4 1 (1.96%) Oracle
4 1 (1.96%) Qualys
4 1 (1.96%) SAP
4 1 (1.96%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.96%) TikTok