Data Design Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Design
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design 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 283 301 427
Rank change year-on-year +18 +126 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Design 21 44 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.21% 0.29% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 35 29
10th Percentile £477 £433 £344
25th Percentile £556 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% - -11.54%
75th Percentile £688 £619 £750
90th Percentile £710 £725 £930
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Design 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 Design
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Design
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 Design.

Data Design daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Design daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Design
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 1 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 3 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (9.52%) SaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (4.76%) dbt
3 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
3 4 (19.05%) Data Lake
3 4 (19.05%) Oracle Database
3 4 (19.05%) RDBMS
4 3 (14.29%) Data Vault
4 3 (14.29%) SAP BW
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.52%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (9.52%) Big Data
5 2 (9.52%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 6 (28.57%) Retail
2 4 (19.05%) Back Office
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
2 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Architect
1 7 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Lead
2 4 (19.05%) Systems Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Data Modeller
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Data Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Data Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Database Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Migration Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Strategy Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) .NET
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
2 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (4.76%) Autofac
2 1 (4.76%) Dapper ORM
2 1 (4.76%) Entity Framework
2 1 (4.76%) StructureMap
2 1 (4.76%) WCF
2 1 (4.76%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Life Science
2 1 (4.76%) CMDB
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Data Modelling
2 7 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 6 (28.57%) Agile
3 6 (28.57%) ETL
3 6 (28.57%) Migration
4 4 (19.05%) Analytics
4 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
4 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
4 4 (19.05%) DevOps
4 4 (19.05%) Physical Data Model
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) Kimball Methodology
5 3 (14.29%) Logical Data Model
5 3 (14.29%) Record to Report
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (9.52%) Actionable Insight
6 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.76%) MCPD
2 1 (4.76%) MCSD
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) NIST
Vendors
1 7 (33.33%) SAP
2 5 (23.81%) Oracle
3 3 (14.29%) Databricks
4 1 (4.76%) Google
4 1 (4.76%) IBM
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Pega
4 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow