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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 272 305 332
Rank change year-on-year +33 +27 +189
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 36 20 41
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.35% 0.17% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 8 34
10th Percentile £354 £400 £374
25th Percentile £461 £409 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £534
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% -13.39% -2.02%
75th Percentile £638 £528 £585
90th Percentile £755 £624 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £616 £505
% change year-on-year -14.70% +21.88% -11.40%

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 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £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 £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -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 14 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 (5.56%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Apache
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 6 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 5 (13.89%) Azure Data Factory
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 4 (11.11%) Snowflake
6 3 (8.33%) Collibra
7 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.78%) dbt
8 1 (2.78%) SaaS
8 1 (2.78%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) IPsec
1 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (2.78%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (50.00%) Metadata
2 15 (41.67%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (22.22%) Power BI
4 7 (19.44%) Data Lake
5 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 5 (13.89%) Big Data
7 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
8 3 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (8.33%) BigQuery
8 3 (8.33%) Data Vault
8 3 (8.33%) DataStage
8 3 (8.33%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (8.33%) Tableau
9 2 (5.56%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
9 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (5.56%) RDBMS
9 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (5.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) ERwin
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.78%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) PowerDesigner
General
1 15 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 14 (38.89%) Finance
3 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (16.67%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Back Office
6 2 (5.56%) Law
7 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (30.56%) Architect
2 10 (27.78%) Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Data Analyst
3 7 (19.44%) Data Architect
4 6 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
5 5 (13.89%) Data Engineer
5 5 (13.89%) Developer
6 4 (11.11%) Business Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Ab Initio Developer
7 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (8.33%) Data Modeller
7 3 (8.33%) Geospatial Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Security Architect
7 3 (8.33%) Security Solutions Architect
8 2 (5.56%) Asset Management Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Asset Management Business Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Investment Management Business Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Lead
9 1 (2.78%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) Kafka
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.78%) ADO
3 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.78%) PySpark
3 1 (2.78%) Spark Streaming
3 1 (2.78%) XBRL
3 1 (2.78%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 3 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.56%) Reinsurance
3 2 (5.56%) SCADA
3 2 (5.56%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) IoT
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Data Governance
1 19 (52.78%) Data Modelling
2 17 (47.22%) ETL
3 13 (36.11%) Analytics
4 12 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (30.56%) Metadata Management
6 9 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
7 8 (22.22%) Data Integration
7 8 (22.22%) Data Transformation
7 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (19.44%) Agile
9 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
9 6 (16.67%) Data Engineering
9 6 (16.67%) DevOps
9 6 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
9 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
9 6 (16.67%) Validation
10 5 (13.89%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 17 (47.22%) SQL
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (5.56%) Java
3 2 (5.56%) Scala
4 1 (2.78%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CBAP
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (52.78%) Data Quality
2 4 (11.11%) GDPR
3 2 (5.56%) QA
4 1 (2.78%) AIFMD
4 1 (2.78%) Basel II
4 1 (2.78%) Basel III
4 1 (2.78%) NCSC
4 1 (2.78%) NIST
4 1 (2.78%) NIST 800
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.11%) Databricks
2 4 (11.11%) Sparx
3 3 (8.33%) Ab Initio
3 3 (8.33%) Informatica
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (2.78%) Cognos
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) IBM
5 1 (2.78%) Sage
5 1 (2.78%) Talend
5 1 (2.78%) Teradata