Data Science Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Science over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 152 206 170
Rank change year-on-year +54 -36 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Science 207 279 706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.40% 1.17% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 1.30% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 180 475
10th Percentile £317 £400 £413
25th Percentile £371 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £661
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £595
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.36% +8.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile £20.64 £18.80 £23.26
25th Percentile £20.84 £19.00 £37.13
Median hourly rate £21.43 £19.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -62.88% +94.73%
75th Percentile £21.77 £21.74 £72.50
90th Percentile £21.82 £26.32 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 12,905 21,393 39,952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.33% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,691 15,182 29,112
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 497 515
10th Percentile £14.93 £18.50 £14.93
25th Percentile £23.88 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.50
90th Percentile £74.30 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

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 10 June 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 16 (7.73%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.38%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.42%) Apache
4 4 (1.93%) Confluence
4 4 (1.93%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.97%) SAS
6 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.48%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.48%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 60 (28.99%) Azure
2 42 (20.29%) AWS
3 41 (19.81%) Power Platform
4 35 (16.91%) GCP
5 10 (4.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.86%) GitHub
7 8 (3.86%) Snowflake
8 6 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.42%) Amazon S3
9 5 (2.42%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (2.42%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.42%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (2.42%) Serverless
10 4 (1.93%) dbt
10 4 (1.93%) PaaS
10 4 (1.93%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.93%) SaaS
11 3 (1.45%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (1.45%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.86%) LAN
1 8 (3.86%) WAN
2 3 (1.45%) Network Security
3 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (18.36%) Power BI
2 36 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (12.08%) Tableau
4 22 (10.63%) Data Lake
5 18 (8.70%) Big Data
6 11 (5.31%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.35%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.86%) Amazon Redshift
8 8 (3.86%) Metadata
8 8 (3.86%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.38%) Data Mining
10 6 (2.90%) Relational Database
10 6 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (2.42%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (1.93%) Looker
12 4 (1.93%) MySQL
12 4 (1.93%) Presto
12 4 (1.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.45%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (9.18%) Git
2 12 (5.80%) JIRA
3 6 (2.90%) GitLab
3 6 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.48%) CMake
4 1 (0.48%) MLflow
4 1 (0.48%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.48%) RStudio
4 1 (0.48%) Selenium
General
1 70 (33.82%) Social Skills
2 46 (22.22%) Finance
3 44 (21.26%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.76%) Marketing
6 12 (5.80%) Retail
7 10 (4.83%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.38%) Banking
9 7 (3.38%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.90%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.42%) Czech Language
11 5 (2.42%) Legal
12 4 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.93%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.45%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.97%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.97%) Law
14 2 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.48%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 59 (28.50%) Data Scientist
2 31 (14.98%) Analyst
3 30 (14.49%) Senior
4 28 (13.53%) Data Engineer
5 22 (10.63%) Architect
5 22 (10.63%) Developer
6 21 (10.14%) Data Analyst
7 17 (8.21%) Lead
8 13 (6.28%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (4.83%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.86%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.38%) AWS Engineer
11 7 (3.38%) Cloud Architect
11 7 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.90%) Asset Management Analyst
12 6 (2.90%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
13 5 (2.42%) Consultant
13 5 (2.42%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.42%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.28%) PySpark
2 10 (4.83%) Pandas
2 10 (4.83%) scikit-learn
3 8 (3.86%) .NET
3 8 (3.86%) CSS
3 8 (3.86%) HTML
3 8 (3.86%) Middleware
3 8 (3.86%) PyTorch
3 8 (3.86%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.38%) AngularJS
4 7 (3.38%) Django
4 7 (3.38%) React
5 6 (2.90%) NumPy
6 4 (1.93%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.45%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.45%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.97%) Kafka
8 2 (0.97%) pytest
8 2 (0.97%) SciPy
8 2 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (17.87%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.31%) Data Structures
2 11 (5.31%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.86%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.42%) FMCG
5 5 (2.42%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.93%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.93%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.93%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.45%) NHS
8 2 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.97%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.97%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.97%) Genomics
8 2 (0.97%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.97%) Multi-touch
8 2 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.83%) Linux
2 9 (4.35%) Windows
3 2 (0.97%) Android
4 1 (0.48%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.10%) Machine Learning
2 81 (39.13%) Analytics
3 52 (25.12%) Agile
4 48 (23.19%) Data Analysis
5 44 (21.26%) Computer Science
6 43 (20.77%) Visualisation
7 42 (20.29%) Business Intelligence
8 41 (19.81%) Artificial Intelligence
9 39 (18.84%) Data Modelling
10 36 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
11 35 (16.91%) Data Visualisation
12 34 (16.43%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (14.98%) DevOps
14 29 (14.01%) Data Engineering
15 28 (13.53%) ETL
16 26 (12.56%) Mathematics
17 25 (12.08%) CI/CD
17 25 (12.08%) Statistics
18 22 (10.63%) Decision-Making
19 20 (9.66%) Actionable Insight
Programming Languages
1 108 (52.17%) Python
2 90 (43.48%) SQL
3 21 (10.14%) R
4 10 (4.83%) Java
5 8 (3.86%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.38%) Scala
7 6 (2.90%) C#
8 3 (1.45%) Bash
8 3 (1.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.97%) Bicep
9 2 (0.97%) C++
9 2 (0.97%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.97%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.48%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.48%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 36 (17.39%) Degree
2 25 (12.08%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 17 (8.21%) Master's Degree
5 13 (6.28%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.42%) PhD
7 4 (1.93%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.93%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (1.93%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.93%) PMP
8 3 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.45%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.97%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CBAP
10 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.48%) CISSP
10 1 (0.48%) IIBA
10 1 (0.48%) ISEB
10 1 (0.48%) MBA
10 1 (0.48%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.66%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.25%) QA
3 5 (2.42%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.42%) NCSC
4 4 (1.93%) SLA
5 2 (0.97%) GDPR
5 2 (0.97%) GxP
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.97%) Docker
1 2 (0.97%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.80%) Terraform
2 10 (4.83%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (16.43%) Databricks
2 26 (12.56%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.83%) Alteryx
3 10 (4.83%) Google
4 7 (3.38%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.90%) Oracle
6 3 (1.45%) SAP
6 3 (1.45%) Sparx
6 3 (1.45%) Splunk
6 3 (1.45%) Teradata
7 2 (0.97%) Foundry
7 2 (0.97%) IBM
7 2 (0.97%) Informatica
7 2 (0.97%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.97%) Palantir
7 2 (0.97%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.48%) Adobe
8 1 (0.48%) Sitecore