Data Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Strategy
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 Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 247 351 426
Rank change year-on-year +104 +75 -34
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 97 124 204
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.48% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.53% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 85 156
10th Percentile £463 £446 £461
25th Percentile £525 £538 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £703
90th Percentile £758 £825 £813
UK median daily rate £683 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +13.75% -4.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Strategy 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 13,424 23,302 40,603
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.87% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,958 16,466 29,448
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 £714
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 564 535 543
10th Percentile £15.05 £19.00 £13.55
25th Percentile £24.19 £30.88 £20.12
Median hourly rate £40.13 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.05% +57.14% +35.92%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Data Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Data Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 3 (3.09%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) JBoss
Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.03%) NEC Housing
2 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.03%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.03%) Shopify
2 1 (1.03%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.90%) Azure
2 10 (10.31%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.19%) AWS
3 6 (6.19%) Azure Stack
3 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Purview
4 5 (5.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (4.12%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (4.12%) dbt
5 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.09%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.09%) GCP
7 2 (2.06%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.03%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.03%) Collibra
8 1 (1.03%) Oracle CX
8 1 (1.03%) SaaS
8 1 (1.03%) Serverless
8 1 (1.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) LAN
1 5 (5.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.53%) Metadata
2 13 (13.40%) Data Warehouse
3 10 (10.31%) Power BI
4 8 (8.25%) NoSQL
5 6 (6.19%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.12%) Big Data
7 4 (4.12%) OLAP
7 4 (4.12%) OLTP
8 3 (3.09%) Airbyte
8 3 (3.09%) Flink
9 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.06%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.06%) Oracle ODI
10 1 (1.03%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.03%) SAP BW
10 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (15.46%) ERwin
2 2 (2.06%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.06%) JIRA
3 1 (1.03%) kappa
3 1 (1.03%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.03%) RStudio
General
1 34 (35.05%) Finance
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 24 (24.74%) Public Sector
4 16 (16.49%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.49%) Manufacturing
5 13 (13.40%) Marketing
6 12 (12.37%) Retail
7 11 (11.34%) Electronics
7 11 (11.34%) Telecoms
8 8 (8.25%) Legal
9 6 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (4.12%) Law
12 3 (3.09%) Automotive
13 2 (2.06%) Banking
13 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
14 1 (1.03%) Front Office
14 1 (1.03%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 46 (47.42%) Architect
2 40 (41.24%) Data Architect
3 12 (12.37%) Enterprise Architect
3 12 (12.37%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 11 (11.34%) Analyst
5 8 (8.25%) Data Analyst
6 7 (7.22%) Data Engineer
7 6 (6.19%) Azure Architect
7 6 (6.19%) Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.15%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Cloud Architect
9 4 (4.12%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Data Migration Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Data Migration Project Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Data Modeller
9 4 (4.12%) Data Strategist
9 4 (4.12%) Migration Manager
9 4 (4.12%) Migration Project Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.31%) JSON
2 6 (6.19%) REST
2 6 (6.19%) XML
3 5 (5.15%) Middleware
4 4 (4.12%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.06%) PySpark
6 1 (1.03%) Drools
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.43%) Data Structures
2 12 (12.37%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (11.34%) Wiki
4 9 (9.28%) Product Ownership
5 8 (8.25%) Reference Data
6 5 (5.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (3.09%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
8 2 (2.06%) Taxonomies
9 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (1.03%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.03%) Housing Association
9 1 (1.03%) IoT
9 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (1.03%) Life Science
9 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
9 1 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Linux
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (54.64%) Data Modelling
2 39 (40.21%) Analytics
2 39 (40.21%) Data Management
3 38 (39.18%) Data Governance
4 32 (32.99%) Data Architecture
5 28 (28.87%) Agile
5 28 (28.87%) Business Intelligence
6 23 (23.71%) Data Protection
7 20 (20.62%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (19.59%) Physical Data Model
9 17 (17.53%) Master Data Management
10 15 (15.46%) Data Lineage
11 14 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 14 (14.43%) Data Science
12 13 (13.40%) Business Strategy
13 12 (12.37%) Programme Management
14 11 (11.34%) Data Mapping
14 11 (11.34%) Digital Marketing
14 11 (11.34%) Domain Models
14 11 (11.34%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.40%) SQL
2 6 (6.19%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 17 (17.53%) SC Cleared
1 17 (17.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.19%) Degree
3 3 (3.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.03%) CISA
4 1 (1.03%) CISM
4 1 (1.03%) CISSP
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.03%) MBA
4 1 (1.03%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (36.08%) Data Quality
2 21 (21.65%) GDPR
3 8 (8.25%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) SAP
2 13 (13.40%) Microsoft
3 12 (12.37%) Sparx
4 11 (11.34%) Databricks
5 8 (8.25%) Oracle
6 3 (3.09%) Adobe
6 3 (3.09%) Informatica
7 2 (2.06%) IDERA
7 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.03%) Hyperion
8 1 (1.03%) IBM
8 1 (1.03%) NEC
8 1 (1.03%) Splunk