Hybrid/Remote DuckDB Contract Job Trends

DuckDB
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DuckDB skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DuckDB 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.037% - -
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate - - -

All Database & BI Skills
Work from Home

DuckDB falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,430 2,067 2,796
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 18.01% 20.40% 20.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,666 1,439 2,027
10th Percentile £363 £356 £341
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £513
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.38%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £663
90th Percentile £700 £825 £850
UK median daily rate £500 £507 £525
% change year-on-year -1.28% -3.52% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 23
10th Percentile £16.42 £21.02 £17.30
25th Percentile £24.99 £25.67 £22.80
Median hourly rate £50.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -6.67% -33.97%
75th Percentile £76.00 £75.00 £60.25
90th Percentile £83.45 £87.50 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £41.36 £36.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year +14.08% -3.33% -31.82%

DuckDB
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) SaaS
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithm Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Algorithm Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Dask
1 5 (100.00%) NumPy
1 5 (100.00%) Pandas
1 5 (100.00%) Polars
1 5 (100.00%) PySpark
2 4 (80.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 5 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
1 5 (100.00%) IoT
2 2 (40.00%) Distributed Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) B2B
1 5 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
2 4 (80.00%) Business Forecasting
2 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (60.00%) Use Case
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Optimization Problems
5 1 (20.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (20.00%) Data Science
5 1 (20.00%) Generative AI
5 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks