Data Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Strategy
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 Strategy skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Strategy over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 337 435
Rank change year-on-year +89 +98 -27
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 93 118 189
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.63% 0.48% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.53% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 84 146
10th Percentile £463 £444 £463
25th Percentile £525 £523 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% +2.08% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £725 £709
90th Percentile £750 £814 £833
UK median daily rate £676 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +12.67% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.50 - -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.09 £49.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.03% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Strategy 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 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
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 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
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 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Data Strategy
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Strategy trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Strategy over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Data Strategy daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 Strategy.

Data Strategy hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Strategy
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 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.08%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.08%) Shopify
2 1 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) Azure
2 7 (7.53%) Power Platform
3 6 (6.45%) Azure Stack
3 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (4.30%) AWS
4 4 (4.30%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 4 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.23%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.23%) dbt
5 3 (3.23%) GCP
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.08%) Collibra
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.08%) SaaS
6 1 (1.08%) Serverless
6 1 (1.08%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.08%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.53%) LAN
1 7 (7.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.20%) Metadata
2 12 (12.90%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (8.60%) NoSQL
4 7 (7.53%) Power BI
5 6 (6.45%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (5.38%) SQL Server
7 4 (4.30%) Big Data
7 4 (4.30%) OLAP
7 4 (4.30%) OLTP
8 3 (3.23%) Airbyte
8 3 (3.23%) Flink
9 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
9 2 (2.15%) Data Mining
9 2 (2.15%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
10 1 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
10 1 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (1.08%) SAP BW
10 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (1.08%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (15.05%) ERwin
2 2 (2.15%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.08%) kappa
3 1 (1.08%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (1.08%) RStudio
General
1 35 (37.63%) Finance
2 30 (32.26%) Social Skills
3 21 (22.58%) Public Sector
4 15 (16.13%) Manufacturing
5 14 (15.05%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (13.98%) Marketing
7 11 (11.83%) Retail
7 11 (11.83%) Telecoms
8 10 (10.75%) Electronics
9 8 (8.60%) Legal
10 7 (7.53%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (4.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (4.30%) Law
13 3 (3.23%) Automotive
14 2 (2.15%) Banking
14 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
15 1 (1.08%) Front Office
15 1 (1.08%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (47.31%) Architect
2 36 (38.71%) Data Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Analyst
3 11 (11.83%) Enterprise Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Enterprise Data Architect
4 9 (9.68%) Lead
5 8 (8.60%) Azure Architect
5 8 (8.60%) Data Analyst
6 7 (7.53%) Technical Architect
7 6 (6.45%) Cloud Architect
8 5 (5.38%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Data Engineer
9 4 (4.30%) Data Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Data Migration Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Data Migration Project Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Data Modeller
9 4 (4.30%) Data Strategist
9 4 (4.30%) Migration Manager
9 4 (4.30%) Migration Project Manager
10 3 (3.23%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.75%) JSON
2 7 (7.53%) Middleware
3 6 (6.45%) REST
3 6 (6.45%) XML
4 4 (4.30%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.15%) PySpark
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.05%) Data Structures
2 11 (11.83%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (10.75%) Wiki
4 8 (8.60%) Product Ownership
4 8 (8.60%) Reference Data
5 7 (7.53%) Public Cloud
6 3 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.23%) Management Information System
7 2 (2.15%) Taxonomies
8 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (1.08%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.08%) IoT
8 1 (1.08%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.08%) Life Science
8 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (1.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.53%) Linux
1 7 (7.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) Data Modelling
2 40 (43.01%) Data Governance
3 38 (40.86%) Analytics
4 36 (38.71%) Data Management
5 32 (34.41%) Data Architecture
6 29 (31.18%) Agile
7 23 (24.73%) Business Intelligence
8 22 (23.66%) Data Protection
9 19 (20.43%) Master Data Management
10 18 (19.35%) Physical Data Model
11 15 (16.13%) Business Strategy
11 15 (16.13%) Data Lineage
11 15 (16.13%) Data Science
11 15 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (13.98%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (13.98%) Roadmaps
13 11 (11.83%) Data Mapping
13 11 (11.83%) IT Strategy
13 11 (11.83%) Programme Management
14 10 (10.75%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.98%) SQL
2 4 (4.30%) Python
3 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (11.83%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.83%) Security Cleared
2 6 (6.45%) Degree
3 2 (2.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (1.08%) CISA
4 1 (1.08%) CISM
4 1 (1.08%) CISSP
4 1 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.08%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.08%) MBA
4 1 (1.08%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (35.48%) Data Quality
2 20 (21.51%) GDPR
3 10 (10.75%) QA
4 2 (2.15%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Databricks
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
1 13 (13.98%) SAP
2 11 (11.83%) Sparx
3 7 (7.53%) Oracle
4 5 (5.38%) Informatica
5 3 (3.23%) Adobe
6 2 (2.15%) IDERA
6 2 (2.15%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.08%) Hyperion
7 1 (1.08%) IBM
7 1 (1.08%) Splunk