Exploratory Data Analysis Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Exploratory Data Analysis skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Data Analysis 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 297 337 474
Rank change year-on-year +40 +137 +142
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Data Analysis 7 8 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.052% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.078% 0.059% 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £440 £420 £458
25th Percentile £468 £434 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £484 £488
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -0.73% -11.36%
75th Percentile £500 £572 £519
90th Percentile £514 £594 -
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £481
% change year-on-year - +3.90% -7.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £21.25 - -
Median hourly rate £21.50 - -
75th Percentile £21.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £20.87 £50.00 -
% change year-on-year -58.27% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Exploratory Data Analysis 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%

Exploratory Data Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Exploratory Data Analysis trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Exploratory Data Analysis
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Exploratory Data Analysis.

Exploratory Data Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory Data Analysis
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 (28.57%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Power BI
2 2 (28.57%) Big Data
2 2 (28.57%) Hadoop
2 2 (28.57%) Tableau
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 4 (57.14%) Public Sector
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Scientist
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Power BI Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
1 2 (28.57%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Analysis
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 4 (57.14%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Collection
4 3 (42.86%) Data Science
4 3 (42.86%) Data Validation
4 3 (42.86%) Mathematics
4 3 (42.86%) Statistics
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
5 2 (28.57%) Data Governance
5 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
5 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Statistical Modelling
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) Python
3 2 (28.57%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Databricks
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft