Pricing Data Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Pricing Data
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Pricing Data in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pricing Data 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 288 341 475
Rank change year-on-year +53 +134 +156
Contract jobs citing Pricing Data 16 4 2
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.16% 0.026% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.49% 0.091% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 4 0
10th Percentile £650 - -
25th Percentile £669 £750 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £800 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% - -
75th Percentile £825 £850 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £750 £800 £425
% change year-on-year -6.25% +88.24% -19.05%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

Pricing Data falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,272 4,408 8,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 33.03% 28.73% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,222 2,974 5,725
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £431 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £680 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 199 151
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.48 £19.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate £41.75 £51.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.14% -11.30% +29.21%
75th Percentile £64.57 £65.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £78.13 £72.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Pricing Data
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Pricing Data trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Pricing Data
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Pricing Data daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Pricing Data
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Pricing Data daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Pricing Data
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 12 (75.00%) Apache
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 12 (75.00%) AWS
1 12 (75.00%) dbt
1 12 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) Amazon Athena
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Arrow
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Iceberg
1 12 (75.00%) Apache Ignite
1 12 (75.00%) Data Lake
1 12 (75.00%) Dremio
2 3 (18.75%) Power BI
General
1 12 (75.00%) Banking
1 12 (75.00%) Finance
1 12 (75.00%) Front Office
1 12 (75.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) AWS Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) AWS Software Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Java Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Java Software Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Python Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Python Software Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Senior
1 12 (75.00%) Senior Java Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Senior Java Software Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Senior Software Engineer
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Business Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Data Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (75.00%) gRPC
1 12 (75.00%) NumPy
1 12 (75.00%) Pandas
1 12 (75.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 12 (75.00%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Equities
2 12 (75.00%) Derivative
2 12 (75.00%) Fixed Income
2 12 (75.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 12 (75.00%) Hedge funds
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Agile
1 12 (75.00%) Asset Management
1 12 (75.00%) Investment Management
1 12 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 3 (18.75%) Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Data Analytics
2 3 (18.75%) Visualisation
3 1 (6.25%) Data Management
3 1 (6.25%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (6.25%) Test Management
3 1 (6.25%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
1 12 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 12 (75.00%) Python
1 12 (75.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Bloomberg