Hybrid/Remote Data Sharing Contract Job Trends

Data Sharing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Sharing 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 292 303 346
Rank change year-on-year +11 +43 +161
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 16 22 27
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.16% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.21% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 16
10th Percentile £475 £471 £415
25th Percentile £519 £522 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £531
Median % change year-on-year - +8.24% -7.61%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £563
90th Percentile £604 £650 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £56.50
UK median hourly rate £31.00 - £56.50
% change year-on-year - - +204.91%

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 9,254 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 Sharing
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Sharing and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Data Sharing job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Sharing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Sharing

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Sharing over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Data Sharing daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Data Sharing
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Sharing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Data Sharing

Data Sharing
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 3 (18.75%) CICS
2 2 (12.50%) SAS
3 1 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AI
4 1 (6.25%) Azure AKS
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (6.25%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub
4 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 1 (6.25%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) DB2
2 1 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (6.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) GCC
2 1 (6.25%) Liquibase
General
1 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Legal
3 1 (6.25%) Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Local Government
3 1 (6.25%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Java Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe Programmer
1 4 (25.00%) Programmer
1 4 (25.00%) Python Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Distributed Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Kafka Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Mainframe Systems Programmer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Manager
4 1 (6.25%) DB2 Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) DB2 Systems Programmer
4 1 (6.25%) Insight Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (6.25%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (18.75%) OAuth
3 2 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (12.50%) ISPF
3 2 (12.50%) OpenID
3 2 (12.50%) SAML
3 2 (12.50%) Spring
3 2 (12.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (6.25%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 3 (18.75%) Replication
3 2 (12.50%) BYOD
3 2 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (6.25%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) zOS
2 2 (12.50%) OS/2
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
2 4 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (25.00%) High Availability
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) AI
3 3 (18.75%) B2B
3 3 (18.75%) Change Data Capture
3 3 (18.75%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
3 3 (18.75%) Incident Response
3 3 (18.75%) Microservices
3 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
4 2 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 2 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (12.50%) DevOps
4 2 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 2 (12.50%) Runbook
4 2 (12.50%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) Java
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) JCL
5 2 (12.50%) Assembly Language
5 2 (12.50%) CLIST
5 2 (12.50%) COBOL
5 2 (12.50%) PL/1
5 2 (12.50%) REXX
5 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CISSP
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.25%) GDPR
2 1 (6.25%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) RACF
2 2 (12.50%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 2 (12.50%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) OMEGAMON
2 2 (12.50%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (6.25%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) IBM
3 1 (6.25%) OpenAI