Data Development Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Development
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development 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 290 335 450
Rank change year-on-year +45 +115 +107
Contract jobs citing Data Development 14 10 27
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.14% 0.065% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.074% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 7 21
10th Percentile £423 £236 £436
25th Percentile £525 £388 £510
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -23.08% +18.18%
75th Percentile £685 £649 £775
90th Percentile - £773 £863
UK median daily rate £578 £560 £650
% change year-on-year +3.13% -13.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Development 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 Development
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Development
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 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 remote working options citing Data Development over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 1 (7.14%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (7.14%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 6 (42.86%) AWS
2 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) dbt
3 5 (35.71%) Snowflake
4 2 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (14.29%) Serverless
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon S3
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
5 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Power BI
2 6 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata
3 2 (14.29%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (7.14%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
4 1 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 6 (42.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Back Office
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) Snowflake Developer
3 5 (35.71%) Lead
4 4 (28.57%) Architect
4 4 (28.57%) Lead Architect
5 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
5 3 (21.43%) Lead Developer
5 3 (21.43%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Data Architect
6 1 (7.14%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Data Governance Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Governance Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Lead Data Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
6 1 (7.14%) Project Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Report Manager
6 1 (7.14%) Senior
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) .NET Core
1 1 (7.14%) Blazor
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) PySpark
1 1 (7.14%) REST
1 1 (7.14%) Spring
1 1 (7.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) TWAP
1 1 (7.14%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) Data Integration
2 6 (42.86%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (28.57%) Analytics
3 4 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 4 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
4 3 (21.43%) Agile
4 3 (21.43%) CI/CD
4 3 (21.43%) Data Analytics
4 3 (21.43%) Data Governance
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (21.43%) User Stories
5 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Data Science
5 2 (14.29%) Data Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) DevOps
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) Python
3 2 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) C++
4 1 (7.14%) Go
4 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
4 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Databricks
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudera
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) MuleSoft