Data Science Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Data Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 204 158
Rank change year-on-year +54 -46 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Science 216 293 729
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.46% 1.19% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.66% 1.33% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 147 182 483
10th Percentile £325 £382 £412
25th Percentile £385 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £684 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
UK median daily rate £540 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -6.09% -2.54% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 8
10th Percentile £21.07 £18.78 £23.82
25th Percentile £21.94 £19.00 £25.60
Median hourly rate £23.62 £19.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.16% -62.87% +105.88%
75th Percentile £25.06 £22.16 £72.50
90th Percentile £25.77 - £74.38
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £35.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -12.86% -16.67% +55.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,973 22,093 40,138
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.88% 89.67% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,721 15,633 29,139
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +3.71% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 507 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.25 £20.56
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science.

Data Science daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Science over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Data Science daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Data Science.

Data Science hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 13 (6.02%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.24%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.31%) Confluence
4 4 (1.85%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.93%) Apache
6 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.78%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.46%) CPLEX
5 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.39%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.46%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 51 (23.61%) Azure
2 48 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 40 (18.52%) AWS
4 34 (15.74%) GCP
5 11 (5.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.70%) GitHub
8 6 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 6 (2.78%) Serverless
8 6 (2.78%) Snowflake
9 5 (2.31%) Amazon SageMaker
9 5 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.31%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 4 (1.85%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.85%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.85%) SaaS
11 3 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.31%) LAN
1 5 (2.31%) WAN
2 3 (1.39%) Network Security
3 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (20.83%) Power BI
2 39 (18.06%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (12.04%) Tableau
4 19 (8.80%) Data Lake
5 18 (8.33%) Big Data
6 11 (5.09%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.17%) SQL Server
8 8 (3.70%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.70%) Metadata
9 7 (3.24%) BusinessObjects
10 6 (2.78%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (2.31%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.31%) Looker
11 5 (2.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.85%) Presto
12 4 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.39%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.93%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 15 (6.94%) Git
2 14 (6.48%) JIRA
3 9 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 7 (3.24%) GitLab
5 1 (0.46%) CMake
5 1 (0.46%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.46%) RStudio
5 1 (0.46%) Selenium
5 1 (0.46%) Visual Studio
General
1 72 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.15%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (20.37%) Finance
4 23 (10.65%) Public Sector
5 16 (7.41%) Marketing
6 10 (4.63%) Retail
7 8 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.24%) Banking
8 7 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (1.85%) Czech Language
10 4 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.85%) Health Technology
11 3 (1.39%) Law
11 3 (1.39%) Legal
12 2 (0.93%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.93%) Publishing
13 1 (0.46%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (30.09%) Data Scientist
2 35 (16.20%) Analyst
3 28 (12.96%) Senior
4 26 (12.04%) Data Engineer
5 25 (11.57%) Architect
5 25 (11.57%) Data Analyst
6 22 (10.19%) Developer
7 17 (7.87%) Lead
8 13 (6.02%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
11 8 (3.70%) Data Architect
12 7 (3.24%) Azure Architect
12 7 (3.24%) Python Developer
12 7 (3.24%) Technical Architect
13 6 (2.78%) Asset Management Analyst
13 6 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
13 6 (2.78%) Lead Developer
14 5 (2.31%) DevOps Engineer
14 5 (2.31%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.48%) PySpark
2 11 (5.09%) Pandas
3 10 (4.63%) scikit-learn
4 8 (3.70%) .NET
4 8 (3.70%) React
5 7 (3.24%) Django
6 6 (2.78%) CSS
6 6 (2.78%) HTML
6 6 (2.78%) Middleware
6 6 (2.78%) NumPy
6 6 (2.78%) PyTorch
6 6 (2.78%) TensorFlow
7 5 (2.31%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.85%) ASP.NET
8 4 (1.85%) Shiny
8 4 (1.85%) XGBoost
9 3 (1.39%) Matplotlib
9 3 (1.39%) YAML
10 2 (0.93%) JSON
10 2 (0.93%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 36 (16.67%) Algorithms
2 14 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 13 (6.02%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
5 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.31%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.31%) Reference Data
6 4 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.85%) FMCG
6 4 (1.85%) NHS
7 3 (1.39%) Genomics
7 3 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.39%) Multi-touch
8 2 (0.93%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.93%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.93%) Social Media
8 2 (0.93%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.46%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.24%) Linux
2 6 (2.78%) Windows
3 2 (0.93%) Android
4 1 (0.46%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (37.50%) Machine Learning
2 80 (37.04%) Analytics
3 60 (27.78%) Data Analysis
4 53 (24.54%) Visualisation
5 51 (23.61%) Agile
6 47 (21.76%) Business Intelligence
7 42 (19.44%) Computer Science
7 42 (19.44%) Data Modelling
8 41 (18.98%) Artificial Intelligence
9 39 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 36 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
11 35 (16.20%) DevOps
12 32 (14.81%) ETL
13 31 (14.35%) Data Pipeline
14 30 (13.89%) CI/CD
14 30 (13.89%) Data Engineering
15 24 (11.11%) Statistics
16 23 (10.65%) Data Management
16 23 (10.65%) Mathematics
17 19 (8.80%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 116 (53.70%) Python
2 84 (38.89%) SQL
3 25 (11.57%) R
4 8 (3.70%) Java
5 7 (3.24%) C#
6 6 (2.78%) JavaScript
7 5 (2.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.85%) Scala
9 3 (1.39%) Bash
9 3 (1.39%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.93%) Bicep
10 2 (0.93%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.93%) TypeScript
11 1 (0.46%) C++
11 1 (0.46%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.46%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.46%) VBA
Qualifications
1 34 (15.74%) Security Cleared
2 32 (14.81%) Degree
3 25 (11.57%) SC Cleared
4 12 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (4.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.85%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.85%) PhD
7 3 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.93%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (0.46%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.46%) CFA
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CISSP
9 1 (0.46%) ISEB
9 1 (0.46%) MBA
9 1 (0.46%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 15 (6.94%) QA
3 6 (2.78%) NCSC
4 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.85%) SLA
5 2 (0.93%) GDPR
5 2 (0.93%) GxP
6 1 (0.46%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (5.56%) Kubernetes
1 12 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (0.46%) Argo
Vendors
1 28 (12.96%) Databricks
1 28 (12.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.63%) Google
3 7 (3.24%) Alteryx
4 6 (2.78%) Oracle
5 3 (1.39%) SAP
5 3 (1.39%) Sparx
5 3 (1.39%) Splunk
5 3 (1.39%) Teradata
6 2 (0.93%) Foundry
6 2 (0.93%) IBM
6 2 (0.93%) Informatica
6 2 (0.93%) OpenAI
6 2 (0.93%) Palantir
6 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Adobe
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.46%) Sitecore