Data Sharing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Sharing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Sharing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Sharing 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 288 332 448
Rank change year-on-year +44 +116 +150
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 16 13 29
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.085% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.096% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 22
10th Percentile £323 £516 £400
25th Percentile £403 £531 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £588
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -5.32% +9.30%
75th Percentile £595 £594 £670
90th Percentile £696 - £699
UK median daily rate £522 £563 £596
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.66% +19.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK median hourly rate £12.45 £35.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year -64.43% -16.17% +81.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Sharing 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 Sharing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Sharing
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 Sharing.

Data Sharing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Sharing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Sharing
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 Sharing.

Data Sharing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Sharing
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 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) WhatsApp
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (6.25%) Apache Iceberg
2 1 (6.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Parquet
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (6.25%) Star Schema
2 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Marketing
5 1 (6.25%) Automotive
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Lead Data Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Commercial Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Compliance Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Data Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Information Governance Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Information Officer
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Kafka
1 2 (12.50%) PySpark
1 2 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.25%) Plotly
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Reference Data
2 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information
2 1 (6.25%) Freedom of Information Act
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Data Management
2 6 (37.50%) ETL
3 5 (31.25%) Data Governance
4 4 (25.00%) Data Engineering
4 4 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 4 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (25.00%) Data Science
5 3 (18.75%) Agile
5 3 (18.75%) Artificial Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Data Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
5 3 (18.75%) Migration
5 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 2 (12.50%) Decision-Making
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven
6 2 (12.50%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) Reference Data Management
6 2 (12.50%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) Apex Code
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) SOQL
3 1 (6.25%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.25%) ISEB
1 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (18.75%) Data Quality
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) GDPR
3 1 (6.25%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (6.25%) iManage
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce