Physical Data Model Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Physical Data Model
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Physical Data Model skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Physical Data Model 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 265 279 442
Rank change year-on-year +14 +163 +65
Contract jobs citing Physical Data Model 39 66 35
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.39% 0.43% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.49% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 50 32
10th Percentile £350 £496 £482
25th Percentile £436 £531 £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £638 £725 £763
90th Percentile £644 £739 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £600 £650
% change year-on-year -16.67% -7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £67.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £67.50 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Physical Data Model 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%

Physical Data Model
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Physical Data Model trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Physical Data Model daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Physical Data Model
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Physical Data Model over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Physical Data Model daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Physical Data Model
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 3 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (12.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (33.33%) dbt
2 12 (30.77%) AWS
3 7 (17.95%) Azure
3 7 (17.95%) Snowflake
4 4 (10.26%) OCI
4 4 (10.26%) SaaS
5 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub
6 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.56%) Collibra
7 1 (2.56%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (43.59%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (25.64%) Data Lake
3 8 (20.51%) Metadata
3 8 (20.51%) NoSQL
3 8 (20.51%) Relational Database
4 7 (17.95%) Big Data
5 6 (15.38%) RDBMS
6 4 (10.26%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 4 (10.26%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (7.69%) Power BI
7 3 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 3 (7.69%) Tableau
8 2 (5.13%) Data Vault
9 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
9 1 (2.56%) MySQL
9 1 (2.56%) OLTP
9 1 (2.56%) SAP BW
9 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (33.33%) ERwin
2 7 (17.95%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.56%) Git
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.56%) Liquibase
3 1 (2.56%) PowerDesigner
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.95%) Finance
2 7 (17.95%) Public Sector
3 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (12.82%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (10.26%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.56%) Banking
6 1 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Data Modeller
2 8 (20.51%) Architect
2 8 (20.51%) Data Architect
3 7 (17.95%) Senior
4 4 (10.26%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Lead
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Oracle Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) SQL Data Analyst
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Big Data Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Principal Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.95%) Jinja
2 4 (10.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (10.26%) XML
3 1 (2.56%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Data Fabric
2 3 (7.69%) Data Structures
2 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.69%) Reference Data
3 2 (5.13%) FMCG
4 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 36 (92.31%) Logical Data Model
3 18 (46.15%) Analytics
4 14 (35.90%) ETL
5 12 (30.77%) Data Architecture
6 10 (25.64%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (25.64%) Data Governance
7 9 (23.08%) Data Integration
8 7 (17.95%) Metadata Management
9 6 (15.38%) Data Strategy
10 5 (12.82%) Actionable Insight
10 5 (12.82%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (12.82%) Dimensional Modelling
10 5 (12.82%) ERP
10 5 (12.82%) Machine Learning
10 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
11 4 (10.26%) Data Design
11 4 (10.26%) Data Pipeline
11 4 (10.26%) Ontologies
11 4 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (53.85%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) PL/SQL
2 4 (10.26%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.56%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 2 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (20.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.56%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.56%) ISO 20022
Vendors
1 10 (25.64%) Oracle
2 5 (12.82%) Sparx
3 4 (10.26%) SAP
4 3 (7.69%) Databricks
4 3 (7.69%) Microsoft
5 2 (5.13%) IBM
5 2 (5.13%) Workday
6 1 (2.56%) Ariba
6 1 (2.56%) Google