Data Strategy Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy 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 216 248 354
Rank change year-on-year +32 +106 +85
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 88 97 124
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.89% 0.63% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.72% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 58 85
10th Percentile £143 £463 £446
25th Percentile £400 £525 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £725
90th Percentile £726 £758 £825
UK median daily rate £575 £691 £600
% change year-on-year -16.82% +15.21% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Median hourly rate - £61.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.58% -
UK median hourly rate £72.75 £70.09 £49.00
% change year-on-year +3.80% +43.03% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Strategy 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 Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

Data Strategy
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 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 remote working options citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 remote working options 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 4 (4.55%) Apache Spark
1 4 (4.55%) Confluence
2 2 (2.27%) Apache
3 1 (1.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) iTrent
1 2 (2.27%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.14%) Eloqua
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.14%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.14%) SAP PM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 33 (37.50%) Azure
2 24 (27.27%) Power Platform
3 21 (23.86%) AWS
4 19 (21.59%) GCP
5 12 (13.64%) Snowflake
6 6 (6.82%) SaaS
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
8 3 (3.41%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.41%) Serverless
9 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.27%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.27%) Cloud Composer
9 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.27%) IaaS
9 2 (2.27%) PaaS
9 2 (2.27%) Route 53
10 1 (1.14%) Amazon EventBridge
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) DNS
1 4 (4.55%) Firewall
1 4 (4.55%) TCP/IP
1 4 (4.55%) VPN
2 2 (2.27%) LAN
2 2 (2.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 24 (27.27%) Power BI
3 16 (18.18%) Data Lake
4 13 (14.77%) Big Data
5 9 (10.23%) Metadata
5 9 (10.23%) Tableau
6 6 (6.82%) Hadoop
6 6 (6.82%) NoSQL
7 5 (5.68%) Looker
7 5 (5.68%) PostgreSQL
7 5 (5.68%) RDBMS
7 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
8 4 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (4.55%) SQL Server
8 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 4 (4.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (3.41%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (3.41%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 6 (6.82%) ERwin
2 4 (4.55%) ER Studio
2 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.55%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) MLflow
3 1 (1.14%) LSMW
3 1 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
General
1 24 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.73%) Finance
3 9 (10.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.95%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.41%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.41%) Marketing
9 3 (3.41%) Military
10 2 (2.27%) Law
10 2 (2.27%) Local Government
10 2 (2.27%) Retail
11 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.14%) Automotive
11 1 (1.14%) Aviation
11 1 (1.14%) Back Office
11 1 (1.14%) Banking
11 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.27%) Architect
2 21 (23.86%) Data Architect
3 16 (18.18%) Analyst
4 12 (13.64%) Senior
5 9 (10.23%) Data Analyst
6 8 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 8 (9.09%) Lead
7 5 (5.68%) Data Manager
7 5 (5.68%) Data Modeller
7 5 (5.68%) Junior
7 5 (5.68%) Junior Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) Junior Data Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.55%) Business Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Consultant
8 4 (4.55%) Head of Business Intelligence
8 4 (4.55%) Platform Architect
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.55%) REST
1 4 (4.55%) SOAP
2 3 (3.41%) Kafka
2 3 (3.41%) Plotly
2 3 (3.41%) PyTorch
2 3 (3.41%) React
2 3 (3.41%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.27%) Middleware
3 2 (2.27%) scikit-learn
4 1 (1.14%) BAPI
4 1 (1.14%) Node.js
4 1 (1.14%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.68%) Data Fabric
1 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.27%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.14%) Industrial Internet of Things
5 1 (1.14%) Life Science
5 1 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Data Governance
1 36 (40.91%) Data Modelling
2 28 (31.82%) ETL
3 27 (30.68%) Analytics
4 26 (29.55%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (28.41%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (27.27%) Data Architecture
6 24 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 20 (22.73%) Data Analysis
8 19 (21.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (20.45%) Data Management
10 17 (19.32%) Data Integration
10 17 (19.32%) Machine Learning
11 16 (18.18%) Data Engineering
11 16 (18.18%) Visualisation
12 15 (17.05%) Data Pipeline
13 14 (15.91%) Migration
14 13 (14.77%) Data Science
15 12 (13.64%) Data Visualisation
16 11 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 36 (40.91%) SQL
2 16 (18.18%) Python
3 5 (5.68%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.41%) Java
4 3 (3.41%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.41%) R
5 1 (1.14%) ABAP
5 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 13 (14.77%) Degree
2 8 (9.09%) Security Cleared
3 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.14%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (32.95%) Data Quality
2 9 (10.23%) GDPR
3 7 (7.95%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 6 (6.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Kubernetes
1 6 (6.82%) Terraform
2 2 (2.27%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 17 (19.32%) Databricks
2 11 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 9 (10.23%) Google
4 5 (5.68%) Oracle
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
5 4 (4.55%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.27%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.27%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.27%) Foundry
6 2 (2.27%) MuleSoft
6 2 (2.27%) Palantir
7 1 (1.14%) Ariba
7 1 (1.14%) AVEVA
7 1 (1.14%) IFS
7 1 (1.14%) ServiceNow