Data Analysis Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Analysis
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 Analysis skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 114 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 323 518 952
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.20% 2.17% 2.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.52% 2.42% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 382 695
10th Percentile £313 £300 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -6.86% +13.33%
75th Percentile £566 £588 £615
90th Percentile £645 £656 £719
UK median daily rate £497 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -0.65% -2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 15
10th Percentile - £18.50 £13.35
25th Percentile £20.77 £23.15 £17.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £28.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +21.28% -9.62%
75th Percentile £35.50 £62.50 £33.75
90th Percentile £36.90 £64.75 £45.90
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £23.30 £32.55
% change year-on-year +14.42% -28.42% +32.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Analysis 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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
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 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £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 Analysis
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Analysis trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 Analysis.

Data Analysis daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Data Analysis daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 Analysis.

Data Analysis hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analysis over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Data Analysis hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analysis
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 (4.02%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.41%) Confluence
3 10 (3.10%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.86%) ArcGIS
4 6 (1.86%) SAS
5 5 (1.55%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.93%) Appian
7 2 (0.62%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.62%) Apache
7 2 (0.62%) MTS
8 1 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.31%) Moodle
Applications
1 45 (13.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 13 (4.02%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.62%) Gliffy
5 2 (0.62%) SPSS
6 1 (0.31%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.31%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.24%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.62%) Aligne
3 2 (0.62%) Endur
3 2 (0.62%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (0.62%) Primavera
3 2 (0.62%) Shopify
4 1 (0.31%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.31%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.31%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 81 (25.08%) Power Platform
2 42 (13.00%) Azure
3 16 (4.95%) AWS
4 10 (3.10%) Power Automate
5 8 (2.48%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.17%) OCI
6 7 (2.17%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.86%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.86%) Collibra
7 6 (1.86%) GCP
7 6 (1.86%) Google Sheets
8 5 (1.55%) GitHub
8 5 (1.55%) Google Analytics
8 5 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.24%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (1.24%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.24%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 4 (1.24%) SaaS
9 4 (1.24%) Snowflake
10 3 (0.93%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.55%) 4G
1 5 (1.55%) 5G
2 4 (1.24%) 2G
2 4 (1.24%) 3G
2 4 (1.24%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.62%) HTTP
3 2 (0.62%) SNA
4 1 (0.31%) Internet
4 1 (0.31%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.31%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.31%) SSL
4 1 (0.31%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (25.08%) Power BI
2 29 (8.98%) Tableau
3 27 (8.36%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (6.19%) SQL Server
5 18 (5.57%) Big Data
6 11 (3.41%) GIS
7 9 (2.79%) Metadata
8 8 (2.48%) Hadoop
8 8 (2.48%) Oracle Reports
8 8 (2.48%) Relational Database
9 7 (2.17%) Power Query
10 6 (1.86%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.55%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (1.55%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.24%) Amazon QuickSight
12 4 (1.24%) Data Mining
12 4 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
12 4 (1.24%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (7.43%) JIRA
2 6 (1.86%) Git
3 5 (1.55%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.24%) JMeter
4 4 (1.24%) Selenium
4 4 (1.24%) SoapUI
5 3 (0.93%) ERwin
5 3 (0.93%) Maven
6 2 (0.62%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.31%) Deequ
7 1 (0.31%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.31%) PyCharm
7 1 (0.31%) RStudio
7 1 (0.31%) Visual Studio
General
1 113 (34.98%) Social Skills
2 97 (30.03%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (25.70%) Finance
4 36 (11.15%) Public Sector
5 24 (7.43%) Banking
6 15 (4.64%) Retail
7 14 (4.33%) Marketing
8 12 (3.72%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.41%) Back Office
10 8 (2.48%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (2.48%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.86%) Aerospace
11 6 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.86%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.86%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.86%) Military
11 6 (1.86%) Publishing
12 5 (1.55%) Front Office
13 4 (1.24%) Automotive
13 4 (1.24%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 132 (40.87%) Analyst
2 65 (20.12%) Data Analyst
3 53 (16.41%) Business Analyst
4 33 (10.22%) Senior
5 20 (6.19%) Data Scientist
6 18 (5.57%) Developer
7 17 (5.26%) Consultant
8 16 (4.95%) Data Engineer
9 14 (4.33%) Architect
10 12 (3.72%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 11 (3.41%) Lead
12 10 (3.10%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (3.10%) Technical Analyst
13 8 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
13 8 (2.48%) Senior Data Analyst
14 7 (2.17%) Banking Analyst
14 7 (2.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
14 7 (2.17%) Report Analyst
14 7 (2.17%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.10%) .NET
2 8 (2.48%) Web Services
3 7 (2.17%) PySpark
4 6 (1.86%) Pandas
4 6 (1.86%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.86%) XML
5 4 (1.24%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.24%) SOAP
6 3 (0.93%) CSS
6 3 (0.93%) EDI
6 3 (0.93%) jQuery
6 3 (0.93%) Kafka
6 3 (0.93%) Matplotlib
6 3 (0.93%) Spring
6 3 (0.93%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.93%) XGBoost
7 2 (0.62%) J2EE
7 2 (0.62%) JSON
7 2 (0.62%) Spring MVC
7 2 (0.62%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.57%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.95%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (3.41%) Product Ownership
5 10 (3.10%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.79%) NHS
7 7 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.24%) Social Media
9 3 (0.93%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.93%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 2 (0.62%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.62%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.62%) Multi-touch
10 2 (0.62%) Reinsurance
10 2 (0.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.55%) Linux
2 4 (1.24%) Unix
2 4 (1.24%) Windows
3 1 (0.31%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.31%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (30.34%) Business Intelligence
2 78 (24.15%) Data Modelling
3 77 (23.84%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (20.12%) Agile
5 62 (19.20%) Analytics
6 61 (18.89%) Visualisation
7 47 (14.55%) Data Science
8 46 (14.24%) Decision-Making
9 41 (12.69%) Data Visualisation
10 36 (11.15%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (9.91%) Computer Science
12 30 (9.29%) ETL
12 30 (9.29%) Project Management
13 28 (8.67%) Business Analysis
14 27 (8.36%) Data Governance
14 27 (8.36%) Migration
15 26 (8.05%) Data Management
16 24 (7.43%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (7.43%) Machine Learning
16 24 (7.43%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 125 (38.70%) SQL
2 66 (20.43%) Python
3 11 (3.41%) C#
3 11 (3.41%) R
4 8 (2.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (2.48%) T-SQL
5 7 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 7 (2.17%) VBA
6 6 (1.86%) JavaScript
7 5 (1.55%) C++
7 5 (1.55%) Java
7 5 (1.55%) VB.NET
8 3 (0.93%) Bash
9 2 (0.62%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.62%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.62%) Scala
9 2 (0.62%) VB
10 1 (0.31%) Perl
10 1 (0.31%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.31%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 54 (16.72%) Degree
2 30 (9.29%) Security Cleared
3 29 (8.98%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.72%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.48%) PMI Certification
5 8 (2.48%) PMP
6 5 (1.55%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.24%) CBAP
7 4 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.24%) HNC
7 4 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.24%) PhD
8 3 (0.93%) ISEB
9 2 (0.62%) CISM
9 2 (0.62%) CISSP
9 2 (0.62%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.62%) IIBA
9 2 (0.62%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.62%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.62%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 18 (5.57%) QA
3 8 (2.48%) GDPR
4 6 (1.86%) SLA
5 5 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.55%) PMO
6 3 (0.93%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.62%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.62%) P3O
7 2 (0.62%) PSD2
8 1 (0.31%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.31%) EMIR
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) MiFID
8 1 (0.31%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.24%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.31%) Grafana
2 1 (0.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.31%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 24 (7.43%) Oracle
3 16 (4.95%) Salesforce
4 14 (4.33%) Google
5 12 (3.72%) SAP
6 11 (3.41%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.86%) Databricks
8 4 (1.24%) BT
8 4 (1.24%) HP
9 3 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.93%) Intel
9 3 (0.93%) Phenom
9 3 (0.93%) Splunk
9 3 (0.93%) Teradata
10 2 (0.62%) Cadence
10 2 (0.62%) Datix
10 2 (0.62%) FIS
10 2 (0.62%) IDERA
10 2 (0.62%) Informatica
10 2 (0.62%) Sitecore