Data Strategy Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Strategy
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Strategy skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Strategy over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 265 338 448
Rank change year-on-year +73 +110 -36
Contract jobs citing Data Strategy 76 119 176
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.50% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.56% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 91 132
10th Percentile £463 £444 £463
25th Percentile £525 £525 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £738 £738 £714
90th Percentile £750 £825 £827
UK median daily rate £700 £600 £625
% change year-on-year +16.67% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - £44.48 -
25th Percentile £60.50 £58.31 -
Median hourly rate £61.00 £66.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -7.58% - -
75th Percentile £61.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £61.00 £35.25 -
% change year-on-year +73.05% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Strategy 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 12,871 21,399 39,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.23% 89.63% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,673 15,206 29,099
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% +5.42%
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 572 495 518
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.49 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.00 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.13 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.51% +30.33% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £74.95 £78.45 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 June 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 (3.95%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (1.32%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.32%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.32%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 29 (38.16%) Azure
2 7 (9.21%) Power Platform
3 6 (7.89%) Azure Stack
3 6 (7.89%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.95%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (3.95%) AWS
5 3 (3.95%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (3.95%) dbt
5 3 (3.95%) GCP
6 1 (1.32%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle CX
6 1 (1.32%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) Smartsheet
6 1 (1.32%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.53%) LAN
1 8 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.16%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (9.21%) NoSQL
3 6 (7.89%) Metadata
3 6 (7.89%) Power BI
3 6 (7.89%) Snowflake Schema
4 4 (5.26%) Big Data
4 4 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.95%) Airbyte
5 3 (3.95%) Flink
6 2 (2.63%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.63%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.32%) Delta Lake
7 1 (1.32%) OLAP
7 1 (1.32%) OLTP
7 1 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.32%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.32%) SAP BW
7 1 (1.32%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (10.53%) ERwin
2 2 (2.63%) ER Studio
2 2 (2.63%) RStudio
3 1 (1.32%) PowerDesigner
General
1 30 (39.47%) Finance
2 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.47%) Public Sector
4 10 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (9.21%) Manufacturing
6 7 (9.21%) Marketing
7 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (6.58%) Retail
7 5 (6.58%) Telecoms
8 4 (5.26%) Electronics
8 4 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (3.95%) Automotive
9 3 (3.95%) Banking
9 3 (3.95%) Legal
9 3 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.32%) Back Office
10 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.32%) Front Office
10 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 36 (47.37%) Architect
2 26 (34.21%) Data Architect
3 11 (14.47%) Analyst
4 9 (11.84%) Azure Architect
5 8 (10.53%) Data Analyst
5 8 (10.53%) Technical Architect
6 7 (9.21%) Cloud Architect
7 5 (6.58%) Lead
7 5 (6.58%) Project Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.26%) Data Migration Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Data Migration Project Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Data Modeller
8 4 (5.26%) Migration Manager
8 4 (5.26%) Migration Project Manager
9 3 (3.95%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Data Architect
10 2 (2.63%) Data Business Analyst
10 2 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (13.16%) JSON
2 8 (10.53%) Middleware
3 6 (7.89%) REST
3 6 (7.89%) XML
4 4 (5.26%) JSON Schema
5 2 (2.63%) PySpark
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Data Structures
2 8 (10.53%) Public Cloud
2 8 (10.53%) Reference Data
3 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
4 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (5.26%) Wiki
6 3 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (3.95%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (1.32%) Freedom of Information Act
7 1 (1.32%) IoT
7 1 (1.32%) Life Science
7 1 (1.32%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.53%) Linux
1 8 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (1.32%) Android
2 1 (1.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (51.32%) Data Modelling
2 35 (46.05%) Analytics
3 31 (40.79%) Data Governance
4 30 (39.47%) Agile
5 23 (30.26%) Data Architecture
5 23 (30.26%) Data Management
6 15 (19.74%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.11%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (17.11%) Business Strategy
8 12 (15.79%) Data Lineage
8 12 (15.79%) Data Protection
8 12 (15.79%) Data Science
8 12 (15.79%) Master Data Management
8 12 (15.79%) Physical Data Model
9 11 (14.47%) Data Mapping
10 10 (13.16%) Decision-Making
10 10 (13.16%) IT Strategy
10 10 (13.16%) Microservices
10 10 (13.16%) Technology Strategy
11 9 (11.84%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.79%) SQL
2 4 (5.26%) Python
3 1 (1.32%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (7.89%) Degree
2 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
2 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.32%) CISA
3 1 (1.32%) CISM
3 1 (1.32%) CISSP
3 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.32%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.32%) MBA
3 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (35.53%) Data Quality
2 11 (14.47%) QA
3 10 (13.16%) GDPR
4 2 (2.63%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Databricks
2 12 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 6 (7.89%) Informatica
3 6 (7.89%) Oracle
3 6 (7.89%) SAP
3 6 (7.89%) Sparx
4 3 (3.95%) Adobe
5 2 (2.63%) IDERA
5 2 (2.63%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.32%) Google
6 1 (1.32%) Hyperion
6 1 (1.32%) Splunk