Hybrid/Remote Data Lineage Contract Job Trends

Data Lineage
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 283 294 350
Rank change year-on-year +11 +56 +176
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 35 22 41
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.34% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 34
10th Percentile £389 £400 £374
25th Percentile £480 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £475 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% -11.05% -2.02%
75th Percentile £647 £580 £585
90th Percentile £775 £665 £711
UK median daily rate £536 £616 £510
% change year-on-year -12.92% +20.69% -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Lineage 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 9,282 10,741 15,802
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.14% 88.53% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,142 6,773 10,840
10th Percentile £325 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £724 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 222 384
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.58 £19.99
25th Percentile £20.25 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £41.59 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.91% -28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lineage and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lineage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lineage

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Lineage over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Data Lineage daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.71%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.86%) Apache
2 1 (2.86%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.86%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Power Platform
3 7 (20.00%) AWS
4 5 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (14.29%) GCP
5 4 (11.43%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (11.43%) Collibra
5 4 (11.43%) Snowflake
6 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
6 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.86%) dbt
8 1 (2.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) IPsec
1 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (54.29%) Metadata
2 14 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (22.86%) Data Lake
3 8 (22.86%) Power BI
4 6 (17.14%) SQL Server
5 5 (14.29%) Big Data
6 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
7 3 (8.57%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
7 3 (8.57%) Data Vault
7 3 (8.57%) DataStage
7 3 (8.57%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (8.57%) Tableau
8 2 (5.71%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (5.71%) NoSQL
8 2 (5.71%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (2.86%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) ERwin
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.86%) PowerDesigner
General
1 15 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (37.14%) Finance
3 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.71%) Back Office
6 2 (5.71%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (28.57%) Analyst
2 9 (25.71%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Data Architect
4 6 (17.14%) Data Analyst
5 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Developer
6 4 (11.43%) Business Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (8.57%) Ab Initio Developer
7 3 (8.57%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Data Modeller
7 3 (8.57%) Geospatial Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Asset Management Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Asset Management Business Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Consultant
8 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Investment Management Business Analyst
8 2 (5.71%) Lead
8 2 (5.71%) Security Architect
8 2 (5.71%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Kafka
2 2 (5.71%) REST
2 2 (5.71%) SOAP
3 1 (2.86%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.86%) XBRL
3 1 (2.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Structures
1 4 (11.43%) Reference Data
2 3 (8.57%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.57%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.71%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.71%) SCADA
3 2 (5.71%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) IoT
4 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.86%) PMI
4 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 19 (54.29%) Data Modelling
3 17 (48.57%) ETL
4 12 (34.29%) Analytics
4 12 (34.29%) Metadata Management
5 11 (31.43%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (25.71%) Data Integration
6 9 (25.71%) Data Transformation
7 8 (22.86%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (17.14%) Agile
9 6 (17.14%) Data Architecture
9 6 (17.14%) Data Engineering
9 6 (17.14%) Logical Data Model
9 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (17.14%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (17.14%) Validation
10 5 (14.29%) DevOps
10 5 (14.29%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 17 (48.57%) SQL
2 10 (28.57%) Python
3 2 (5.71%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Scala
4 1 (2.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CBAP
4 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (48.57%) Data Quality
2 5 (14.29%) GDPR
3 2 (5.71%) QA
4 1 (2.86%) AIFMD
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Sparx
3 3 (8.57%) Ab Initio
3 3 (8.57%) Databricks
3 3 (8.57%) Informatica
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Cognos
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Sage
5 1 (2.86%) Talend
5 1 (2.86%) Teradata