Data Science Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 205 158
Rank change year-on-year +48 -47 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 219 310 777
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.42% 1.19% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.62% 1.33% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 195 526
10th Percentile £325 £388 £412
25th Percentile £385 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £748
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £578
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.76% +5.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 6
10th Percentile £21.65 £18.78 £22.71
25th Percentile £23.37 £19.00 £25.53
Median hourly rate £26.24 £19.50 £39.39
Median % change year-on-year +34.60% -50.50% +48.62%
75th Percentile £34.87 £22.16 £56.25
90th Percentile £40.05 - £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £28.58 £37.50
% change year-on-year +24.21% -23.79% +40.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,515 23,376 40,505
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.86% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,014 16,510 29,383
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.47%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 563 541 540
10th Percentile £15.03 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £30.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.78
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Data Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science.

Data Science daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Science over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Data Science daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science.

Data Science hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Science over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Data Science hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 16 (7.31%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.83%) Confluence
4 3 (1.37%) Apache
4 3 (1.37%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.37%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
Cloud Services
1 50 (22.83%) Power Platform
2 49 (22.37%) Azure
3 45 (20.55%) AWS
4 36 (16.44%) GCP
5 11 (5.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 10 (4.57%) Amazon S3
7 9 (4.11%) Serverless
8 8 (3.65%) GitHub
9 7 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.20%) Azure Data Factory
10 6 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
10 6 (2.74%) Snowflake
11 5 (2.28%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.28%) Amazon Kinesis
11 5 (2.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 5 (2.28%) Power Automate
12 4 (1.83%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.83%) SaaS
13 3 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
13 3 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.28%) LAN
1 5 (2.28%) WAN
2 3 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (21.46%) Power BI
2 38 (17.35%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (12.79%) Tableau
4 19 (8.68%) Big Data
5 18 (8.22%) Data Lake
6 12 (5.48%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (4.11%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.65%) Metadata
9 7 (3.20%) BusinessObjects
9 7 (3.20%) Looker
10 5 (2.28%) Data Mining
10 5 (2.28%) SQL Server
11 4 (1.83%) Presto
11 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (1.37%) Delta Lake
12 3 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
13 2 (0.91%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.91%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 12 (5.48%) Git
2 11 (5.02%) JIRA
3 8 (3.65%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.20%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) CMake
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.46%) RStudio
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 66 (30.14%) Social Skills
2 51 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (20.09%) Finance
4 24 (10.96%) Public Sector
5 19 (8.68%) Marketing
6 8 (3.65%) Banking
7 7 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.74%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.74%) Retail
9 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.83%) Health Technology
10 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.37%) Legal
12 2 (0.91%) Czech Language
12 2 (0.91%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.91%) Law
12 2 (0.91%) Publishing
13 1 (0.46%) Games
Job Titles
1 67 (30.59%) Data Scientist
2 32 (14.61%) Analyst
3 27 (12.33%) Data Engineer
4 26 (11.87%) Senior
5 25 (11.42%) Developer
6 23 (10.50%) Architect
6 23 (10.50%) Data Analyst
7 19 (8.68%) Lead
8 12 (5.48%) Senior Data Scientist
9 11 (5.02%) AWS Engineer
10 9 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Lead Developer
11 8 (3.65%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.20%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.20%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.74%) Asset Management Analyst
13 6 (2.74%) C# Developer
13 6 (2.74%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.85%) Pandas
2 13 (5.94%) PySpark
3 11 (5.02%) scikit-learn
4 8 (3.65%) .NET
4 8 (3.65%) Django
4 8 (3.65%) React
5 7 (3.20%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.20%) NumPy
6 6 (2.74%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.74%) CSS
6 6 (2.74%) HTML
6 6 (2.74%) Middleware
6 6 (2.74%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.74%) TensorFlow
7 4 (1.83%) Kafka
7 4 (1.83%) Shiny
8 3 (1.37%) Plotly
8 3 (1.37%) XGBoost
9 2 (0.91%) ggplot2
9 2 (0.91%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 38 (17.35%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.94%) Data Structures
2 13 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.65%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (2.74%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.28%) Distributed Computing
5 5 (2.28%) Multi-touch
5 5 (2.28%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.83%) FMCG
6 4 (1.83%) NHS
6 4 (1.83%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.37%) Genomics
7 3 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.91%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.91%) Social Media
8 2 (0.91%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Blog
9 1 (0.46%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.74%) Linux
1 6 (2.74%) Windows
2 1 (0.46%) Android
2 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (37.44%) Analytics
2 78 (35.62%) Machine Learning
3 60 (27.40%) Data Analysis
4 54 (24.66%) Visualisation
5 49 (22.37%) Business Intelligence
6 47 (21.46%) Agile
7 43 (19.63%) Computer Science
7 43 (19.63%) Data Modelling
8 39 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (17.35%) Data Visualisation
10 37 (16.89%) Data Engineering
10 37 (16.89%) Problem-Solving
11 34 (15.53%) Data Pipeline
11 34 (15.53%) ETL
12 33 (15.07%) DevOps
13 27 (12.33%) Mathematics
14 24 (10.96%) CI/CD
14 24 (10.96%) Statistics
15 23 (10.50%) Data Management
16 21 (9.59%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 122 (55.71%) Python
2 87 (39.73%) SQL
3 30 (13.70%) R
4 9 (4.11%) Java
5 7 (3.20%) C#
6 6 (2.74%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (2.28%) Scala
8 3 (1.37%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.91%) Bash
9 2 (0.91%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.46%) C++
10 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (15.98%) Security Cleared
2 34 (15.53%) Degree
3 26 (11.87%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.94%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (2.74%) PhD
8 4 (1.83%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.91%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.91%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.46%) CFA
10 1 (0.46%) MBA
10 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.46%) PMP
10 1 (0.46%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.22%) Data Quality
2 13 (5.94%) QA
3 6 (2.74%) NCSC
4 4 (1.83%) SLA
5 3 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.91%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (3.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (5.94%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.48%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (12.33%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.42%) Databricks
3 11 (5.02%) Google
4 7 (3.20%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.28%) Oracle
6 3 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.37%) SAP
6 3 (1.37%) Sparx
6 3 (1.37%) Splunk
6 3 (1.37%) Teradata
7 2 (0.91%) Foundry
7 2 (0.91%) Informatica
7 2 (0.91%) Palantir
7 2 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 2 (0.91%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.46%) IBM