Data Technician Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Technician
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Technician daily rate in Work from Home is £310 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 - 632
Rank change year-on-year - - -154
Contract jobs requiring a Data Technician 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% - 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £190 - -
25th Percentile £233 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -35.19%
75th Percentile £338 - -
90th Percentile £351 - -
UK median daily rate £298 £200 £350
% change year-on-year +48.75% -42.86% +55.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Data Technician
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Technician trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Technician
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 Technician.

Data Technician daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Technician
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Technician over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Data Technician daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Data Technician contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Technician in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Tableau
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) KVM
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
2 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
2 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Runbook
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

Data Technician Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) 3D Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Break/Fix
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CAD
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Runbook
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
1 1 (33.33%) Ticket Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) A+ Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Network+ Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Server+ Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dell
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) VMware