Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data-Driven Decision Making
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making 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 230 267 436
Rank change year-on-year +37 +169 +80
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 74 78 41
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.75% 0.51% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 0.58% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 34
10th Percentile £265 £400 £406
25th Percentile £286 £425 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £575 £688
90th Percentile £659 £670 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £38.25 - -
25th Percentile £43.13 £35.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £42.40 -
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% - -
75th Percentile £63.13 £48.19 -
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.68 -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data-Driven Decision Making 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-Driven Decision Making
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data-Driven Decision Making trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data-Driven Decision Making
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-Driven Decision Making.

Data-Driven Decision Making daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data-Driven Decision Making daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data-Driven Decision Making
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-Driven Decision Making.

Data-Driven Decision Making hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data-Driven Decision Making
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data-Driven Decision Making over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Data-Driven Decision Making hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 2 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.41%) Trello
2 1 (1.35%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.35%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.22%) AWS
2 9 (12.16%) Azure
2 9 (12.16%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.81%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (10.81%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 5 (6.76%) Snowflake
5 3 (4.05%) Alation
5 3 (4.05%) Collibra
5 3 (4.05%) GCP
5 3 (4.05%) SaaS
6 2 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.35%) dbt
7 1 (1.35%) Google Analytics
7 1 (1.35%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (1.35%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.35%) Miro
7 1 (1.35%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.16%) Power BI
2 8 (10.81%) Tableau
3 3 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.05%) Metadata
3 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
4 2 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.70%) Big Data
4 2 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.35%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.35%) Looker
5 1 (1.35%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.35%) MySQL
5 1 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.76%) JIRA
2 2 (2.70%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.35%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.35%) ERwin
3 1 (1.35%) Gatling
3 1 (1.35%) Git
3 1 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.35%) JMeter
3 1 (1.35%) Maven
3 1 (1.35%) TestDirector
General
1 43 (58.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (32.43%) Finance
3 23 (31.08%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (24.32%) Marketing
5 15 (20.27%) Banking
6 14 (18.92%) Investment Banking
7 11 (14.86%) Retail
8 9 (12.16%) Public Sector
9 5 (6.76%) Corporate Banking
9 5 (6.76%) Retail Banking
10 4 (5.41%) Legal
11 3 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (4.05%) Telecoms
12 2 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (2.70%) Local Government
12 2 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (1.35%) Front Office
13 1 (1.35%) Law
13 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
13 1 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (14.86%) Python Engineer
2 8 (10.81%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
2 8 (10.81%) Data Engineer
2 8 (10.81%) JavaScript Engineer
3 7 (9.46%) Analyst
3 7 (9.46%) Digital Executive
3 7 (9.46%) E-Commerce Executive
3 7 (9.46%) Lead
4 5 (6.76%) IT Manager
4 5 (6.76%) Product Manager
4 5 (6.76%) Senior
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Data Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) AWS Engineer
5 4 (5.41%) Data Analyst
5 4 (5.41%) Data Modeller
5 4 (5.41%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (5.41%) Developer
6 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.05%) Python Data Engineer
6 3 (4.05%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.05%) PySpark
2 1 (1.35%) Jinja
2 1 (1.35%) JSON
2 1 (1.35%) Kafka
2 1 (1.35%) Next.js
2 1 (1.35%) React
2 1 (1.35%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (8.11%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.76%) Data Structures
5 4 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (4.05%) IoT
7 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
7 2 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.35%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.35%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.35%) Data Centre
8 1 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.35%) NHS
8 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.35%) Smart City
8 1 (1.35%) Social Media
8 1 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (72.97%) Decision-Making
2 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (32.43%) Analytics
4 18 (24.32%) Data Analysis
5 15 (20.27%) Data Science
6 14 (18.92%) Agile
6 14 (18.92%) Data Modelling
6 14 (18.92%) Data Security
6 14 (18.92%) Machine Learning
6 14 (18.92%) Risk Management
7 13 (17.57%) Artificial Intelligence
7 13 (17.57%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (14.86%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (13.51%) Data Governance
9 10 (13.51%) E-Commerce
9 10 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (13.51%) User Experience
10 9 (12.16%) CRM
10 9 (12.16%) Task Automation
10 9 (12.16%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.03%) Python
2 16 (21.62%) SQL
3 9 (12.16%) Java
3 9 (12.16%) TypeScript
4 8 (10.81%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.35%) Bash
6 1 (1.35%) Go
6 1 (1.35%) Groovy
6 1 (1.35%) Perl
6 1 (1.35%) PHP
6 1 (1.35%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) Degree
2 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.05%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.70%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.35%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.35%) CSPO
5 1 (1.35%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.35%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) Accessibility
1 7 (9.46%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.76%) GDPR
3 3 (4.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (2.70%) QA
5 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.70%) Ansible
1 2 (2.70%) Terraform
2 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 3 (4.05%) Informatica
1 3 (4.05%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.70%) Adobe
2 2 (2.70%) Google
3 1 (1.35%) Foundry
3 1 (1.35%) Mercator
3 1 (1.35%) Oracle
3 1 (1.35%) Palantir
3 1 (1.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.35%) ServiceNow