Data Modelling Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Modelling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling 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 48 43 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +28 -9
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 430 635 830
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.34% 4.14% 3.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 4.71% 3.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 479 592
10th Percentile £340 £413 £406
25th Percentile £413 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year -7.95% -1.17% -3.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 12
10th Percentile £31.78 - -
25th Percentile £57.28 £35.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £67.50 £41.75 £19.98
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% +108.96% -69.51%
75th Percentile £99.42 £60.96 £66.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £66.64 -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £48.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.25% +38.57% -27.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Modelling 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 Modelling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Modelling
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 Modelling.

Data Modelling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Modelling daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
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 Modelling.

Data Modelling hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data Modelling hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
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 18 (4.19%) Confluence
2 17 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.79%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.56%) SharePoint
5 10 (2.33%) Apache
6 3 (0.70%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.47%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) SAS
Applications
1 17 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.47%) Trello
5 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.23%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 11 (2.56%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.70%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.70%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.47%) Endur
5 2 (0.47%) Misys Midas
5 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.47%) SAP EHS
5 2 (0.47%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.23%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.23%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.23%) Maximo
6 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.23%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.23%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.23%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 143 (33.26%) Azure
2 108 (25.12%) Power Platform
3 82 (19.07%) AWS
4 37 (8.60%) dbt
5 34 (7.91%) GCP
6 33 (7.67%) Snowflake
7 30 (6.98%) Azure Data Factory
7 30 (6.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 25 (5.81%) GitHub
9 20 (4.65%) PowerApps
10 16 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 16 (3.72%) Serverless
11 15 (3.49%) SaaS
12 14 (3.26%) Amazon S3
12 14 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (2.79%) Azure DevOps
13 12 (2.79%) OCI
14 11 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.56%) Power Automate
15 10 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.47%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (0.23%) Internet
2 1 (0.23%) SMS
2 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (21.86%) Power BI
2 88 (20.47%) Data Warehouse
3 51 (11.86%) Data Lake
4 47 (10.93%) Metadata
5 31 (7.21%) SQL Server
6 29 (6.74%) Relational Database
7 27 (6.28%) Tableau
8 24 (5.58%) Big Data
9 22 (5.12%) NoSQL
10 18 (4.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 17 (3.95%) Snowflake Schema
12 16 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
13 15 (3.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 15 (3.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (3.02%) RDBMS
15 10 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
15 10 (2.33%) Power Query
16 9 (2.09%) BigQuery
16 9 (2.09%) Metadata Repository
16 9 (2.09%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (5.58%) JIRA
2 21 (4.88%) ERwin
3 13 (3.02%) Git
4 9 (2.09%) ER Studio
5 4 (0.93%) GitLab
5 4 (0.93%) Jenkins
5 4 (0.93%) MLflow
5 4 (0.93%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (0.93%) PVCS
5 4 (0.93%) Subversion
6 3 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.47%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.47%) Postman
7 2 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.47%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.23%) Hudson
8 1 (0.23%) Liquibase
8 1 (0.23%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.23%) Terragrunt
General
1 119 (27.67%) Social Skills
2 84 (19.53%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (17.91%) Finance
4 64 (14.88%) Public Sector
5 24 (5.58%) Banking
6 20 (4.65%) Retail
7 12 (2.79%) Marketing
7 12 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 6 (1.40%) Automotive
10 6 (1.40%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (1.40%) Military
10 6 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (1.16%) Back Office
11 5 (1.16%) Local Government
12 4 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (0.93%) Telecoms
13 3 (0.70%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 91 (21.16%) Architect
2 79 (18.37%) Data Engineer
3 63 (14.65%) Analyst
3 63 (14.65%) Data Architect
4 58 (13.49%) Developer
5 45 (10.47%) Senior
6 37 (8.60%) Data Modeller
7 36 (8.37%) Lead
8 25 (5.81%) Consultant
8 25 (5.81%) Data Analyst
9 24 (5.58%) Business Analyst
10 15 (3.49%) Senior Data Engineer
11 12 (2.79%) Azure Data Engineer
11 12 (2.79%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (2.56%) Business Intelligence Analyst
13 10 (2.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
13 10 (2.33%) Data Business Analyst
13 10 (2.33%) Oracle Developer
13 10 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
14 9 (2.09%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.65%) PySpark
2 17 (3.95%) Jinja
3 12 (2.79%) React
3 12 (2.79%) REST
4 11 (2.56%) Kafka
5 9 (2.09%) JSON
6 7 (1.63%) Node.js
6 7 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.40%) OAuth
7 6 (1.40%) XML
8 5 (1.16%) AngularJS
8 5 (1.16%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.16%) Plotly
8 5 (1.16%) scikit-learn
9 4 (0.93%) Java EE
9 4 (0.93%) RESTful
9 4 (0.93%) TensorFlow
10 3 (0.70%) Django
10 3 (0.70%) Matplotlib
10 3 (0.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.21%) Data Structures
2 20 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
3 15 (3.49%) Product Ownership
4 9 (2.09%) Algorithms
4 9 (2.09%) Cloud Native
5 6 (1.40%) CMDB
5 6 (1.40%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.16%) Clustering
6 5 (1.16%) Data Fabric
6 5 (1.16%) Reference Data
7 4 (0.93%) FMCG
8 3 (0.70%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.70%) Derivative
8 3 (0.70%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.70%) Industry 4.0
8 3 (0.70%) Life Science
8 3 (0.70%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 3 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.70%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.70%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.70%) Linux
2 1 (0.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (30.93%) Analytics
2 121 (28.14%) ETL
3 120 (27.91%) Business Intelligence
4 89 (20.70%) Problem-Solving
5 81 (18.84%) Agile
6 76 (17.67%) Data Governance
7 74 (17.21%) Data Architecture
8 67 (15.58%) Data Pipeline
9 65 (15.12%) Data Integration
10 60 (13.95%) Migration
11 54 (12.56%) Visualisation
12 52 (12.09%) CI/CD
13 51 (11.86%) Data Engineering
13 51 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (10.47%) Logical Data Model
15 44 (10.23%) Data Analysis
15 44 (10.23%) Decision-Making
16 42 (9.77%) Data Migration
16 42 (9.77%) DevOps
17 39 (9.07%) Physical Data Model
Programming Languages
1 213 (49.53%) SQL
2 95 (22.09%) Python
3 22 (5.12%) Java
4 18 (4.19%) PL/SQL
5 16 (3.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (3.72%) JavaScript
6 12 (2.79%) R
7 11 (2.56%) Scala
7 11 (2.56%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.16%) ABAP
8 5 (1.16%) Apex Code
9 4 (0.93%) C
9 4 (0.93%) ProC
9 4 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 4 (0.93%) VB
10 3 (0.70%) C++
11 2 (0.47%) C#
11 2 (0.47%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.23%) Bash
12 1 (0.23%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 67 (15.58%) Security Cleared
2 59 (13.72%) SC Cleared
3 42 (9.77%) Degree
4 20 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.79%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.79%) Master's Degree
6 10 (2.33%) AWS Certification
6 10 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.47%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.23%) ACCA
11 1 (0.23%) CIMA
11 1 (0.23%) CITP
11 1 (0.23%) PhD
11 1 (0.23%) Siebel Certification
11 1 (0.23%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.81%) Data Quality
2 20 (4.65%) QA
3 14 (3.26%) GDPR
4 12 (2.79%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (1.16%) NIST
7 3 (0.70%) HL7
8 2 (0.47%) IFRS
8 2 (0.47%) MISRA
8 2 (0.47%) MISRA C
9 1 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.23%) Basel III
9 1 (0.23%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.23%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 10 (2.33%) Docker
2 4 (0.93%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (3.26%) Terraform
2 9 (2.09%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.70%) MOM
4 2 (0.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.47%) Grafana
4 2 (0.47%) Kubeflow
4 2 (0.47%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 57 (13.26%) Databricks
3 51 (11.86%) Oracle
4 34 (7.91%) SAP
5 21 (4.88%) Google
6 19 (4.42%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.56%) Informatica
8 10 (2.33%) Sparx
9 7 (1.63%) ServiceNow
10 6 (1.40%) Ariba
10 6 (1.40%) IBM
11 5 (1.16%) Cloudera
12 4 (0.93%) Alteryx
12 4 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.70%) Rockwell
13 3 (0.70%) Siemens
13 3 (0.70%) Talend
14 2 (0.47%) Sage
14 2 (0.47%) TIBCO