Data Mining Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Mining
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 317 389
Rank change year-on-year +25 +72 +146
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 23 24 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.23% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.12% 0.88% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 15 26
10th Percentile £396 £363 £309
25th Percentile £584 £381 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £755 £475 £419
Median % change year-on-year +58.95% +13.43% -23.86%
75th Percentile £838 £552 £534
90th Percentile £900 £569 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £475
% change year-on-year +2.33% +13.16% -13.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,058 2,734 4,165
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 20.31% 20.71% 18.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 1,962 2,971
10th Percentile £356 £335 £376
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £825 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 22 74
10th Percentile £21.02 £17.15 £21.59
25th Percentile £25.67 £20.88 £39.60
Median hourly rate £56.00 £35.50 £56.80
Median % change year-on-year +57.75% -37.49% +13.59%
75th Percentile £75.00 £56.88 £70.19
90th Percentile £87.50 £72.13 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £35.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -1.41% -35.45% +35.04%

Data Mining
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Mining
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 Mining.

Data Mining daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Data Mining daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Mining.

Data Mining hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Mining
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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (47.83%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 13 (56.52%) Power Platform
2 12 (52.17%) SaaS
3 3 (13.04%) Azure
4 2 (8.70%) AWS
4 2 (8.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) Tableau
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
3 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Big Data
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Git
General
1 14 (60.87%) Social Skills
2 12 (52.17%) Banking
3 8 (34.78%) Investment Banking
4 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.04%) Finance
5 2 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.70%) Retail
6 1 (4.35%) Marketing
6 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Senior
2 7 (30.43%) Consultant
2 7 (30.43%) Risk Consultant
2 7 (30.43%) Senior Consultant
3 6 (26.09%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Automation Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Configuration Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Data Scientist
5 2 (8.70%) Pensions Analyst
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Data Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Big Data Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.35%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) Gensim
1 1 (4.35%) NLTK
1 1 (4.35%) Pandas
1 1 (4.35%) PyTorch
1 1 (4.35%) Ray
1 1 (4.35%) scikit-learn
1 1 (4.35%) SpaCy
1 1 (4.35%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Market Risk
2 3 (13.04%) Credit Risk
3 1 (4.35%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.35%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (4.35%) FMCG
3 1 (4.35%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.35%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Agile
1 12 (52.17%) Analytics
1 12 (52.17%) Business Intelligence
2 11 (47.83%) Scrum
2 11 (47.83%) SDLC
3 10 (43.48%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (34.78%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (34.78%) Scenario Testing
4 8 (34.78%) Service Delivery
4 8 (34.78%) Stress Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Data Analysis
5 4 (17.39%) Statistical Modelling
6 3 (13.04%) Data Governance
6 3 (13.04%) Data Visualisation
6 3 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 3 (13.04%) Machine Learning
6 3 (13.04%) Mathematics
6 3 (13.04%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (13.04%) Statistics
6 3 (13.04%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 20 (86.96%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 2 (8.70%) R
4 1 (4.35%) C
4 1 (4.35%) C++
4 1 (4.35%) Java
4 1 (4.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (43.48%) Basel II
2 3 (13.04%) Basel III
3 2 (8.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
4 1 (4.35%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft