Hybrid/Remote Data Discovery Contract Job Trends

Data Discovery
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Discovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 299 316 388
Rank change year-on-year +17 +72 +181
Contract jobs citing Data Discovery 13 21 28
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.13% 0.17% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.19% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 25
10th Percentile - £415 -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -7.41% -22.55%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £580
90th Percentile £488 £610 £627
UK median daily rate £494 £450 £534
% change year-on-year +9.72% -15.73% -14.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.50 - -
Median hourly rate £63.00 - -
75th Percentile £64.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £63.00 - £65.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Discovery 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 9,022 11,103 17,907
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 92.21% 88.01% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,003 7,038 12,625
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £745
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 279 424
10th Percentile £12.77 £19.53 £17.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £30.63 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -18.10% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £70.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £82.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Data Discovery
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Discovery
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Discovery.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Data Discovery

Data Discovery
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 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Azure
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) SaaS
3 3 (23.08%) ShareGate
4 2 (15.38%) AWS
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon ElastiCache
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon GuardDuty
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon Macie
5 1 (7.69%) Amazon SQS
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudTrail
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (7.69%) GitHub
5 1 (7.69%) Serverless
5 1 (7.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) Kerberos
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) NAS
2 1 (7.69%) Network Security
2 1 (7.69%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.69%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Metadata
2 5 (38.46%) Power BI
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (7.69%) DynamoDB
3 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
1 1 (7.69%) GitLab
1 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (38.46%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (38.46%) Welsh Language
2 3 (23.08%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (69.23%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Data Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Data Quality Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Data Quality Specialist
3 5 (38.46%) Quality Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
6 1 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Developer
6 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (7.69%) Lead DevOps
6 1 (7.69%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (7.69%) PowerShell Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Security Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Storage Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Security Specialist
6 1 (7.69%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) LDAP
1 3 (23.08%) OAuth
1 3 (23.08%) OpenID
1 3 (23.08%) SAML
2 1 (7.69%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (7.69%) Regular Expression
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Data Analysis
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Dashboard Development
3 5 (38.46%) Data Interpretation
3 5 (38.46%) Data Management
3 5 (38.46%) Metadata Management
3 5 (38.46%) Migration
3 5 (38.46%) Programme Delivery
4 4 (30.77%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) RBAC
5 3 (23.08%) Change Management
5 3 (23.08%) Data Transformation
5 3 (23.08%) Information Architecture
5 3 (23.08%) Remediation Plan
5 3 (23.08%) Runbook
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Discovery
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.69%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certification
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 1 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) Data Quality
2 4 (30.77%) GDPR
2 4 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (7.69%) NIST
3 1 (7.69%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Kustomize
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (7.69%) Puppet
2 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) NetApp
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) Qualys
2 1 (7.69%) SAP
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Varonis