Hybrid/Remote Information Scientist Contract Job Trends

Information Scientist
UK > Work from Home

As of 5 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Information Scientist daily rate in Work from Home.

 6 months to
5 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Information Scientist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.008% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £298 £408 -
% change year-on-year -26.99% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work options. 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 12,384 9,505 13,668
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 93.92% 93.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,856 6,410 9,204
10th Percentile £350 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -2.38% -2.33%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £638
90th Percentile £725 £760 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 648 272 543
10th Percentile £17.01 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £31.25 £18.12 £22.50
Median hourly rate £57.50 £34.57 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +66.35% -19.62% -14.00%
75th Percentile £71.91 £65.00 £64.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £38.50
% change year-on-year +62.57% -31.30% -10.47%

Information Scientist Skill Set
Top 19 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 5 July 2026, Information Scientist contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Information Scientist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation

Information Scientist Skill Set
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Content Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Information Retrieval
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) LLM
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Text Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Trend Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python