Data Development Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Development over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 331 441 541
Rank change year-on-year +110 +100 -102
Contract jobs citing Data Development 10 26 78
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.067% 0.10% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.076% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 54
10th Percentile £236 £471 £462
25th Percentile £388 £587 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% +10.55%
75th Percentile £649 £778 £698
90th Percentile £773 £876 £784
UK median daily rate £560 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Development is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Development trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Development
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Development.

Data Development daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Development over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Data Development daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Development
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 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) Azure Functions
2 4 (40.00%) Serverless
3 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (20.00%) Azure App Service
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Event Grid
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (20.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Power BI
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (20.00%) Big Data
2 2 (20.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Git
General
1 4 (40.00%) Marketing
2 2 (20.00%) Electronics
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Software Development Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 3 (30.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (20.00%) GraphQL
3 2 (20.00%) Swagger
3 2 (20.00%) YAML
4 1 (10.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) FMCG
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (40.00%) Data Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
3 3 (30.00%) Data Science
3 3 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 2 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Go
3 2 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) MuleSoft
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Informatica