RDF Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Resource Description Framework (RDF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring RDF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited RDF 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 302 - 466
Rank change year-on-year - - +136
Contract jobs citing RDF 2 0 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% - 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £470
25th Percentile - - £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -11.11%
75th Percentile - - £630
90th Percentile - - £668
UK median daily rate £463 - £597
% change year-on-year - - -11.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

RDF 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%

RDF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RDF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

RDF
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

RDF daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

RDF
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) ERwin
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modeller
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (50.00%) FpML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
1 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
1 1 (50.00%) Taxonomies
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Conceptual Models
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Logical Data Model
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Ontologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sparx