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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 96 113 123
Rank change year-on-year +17 +10 +9
Contract jobs citing Data Analysis 331 517 951
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.26% 2.13% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 2.38% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 206 381 693
10th Percentile £319 £295 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +13.89%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £663 £660 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £514
% change year-on-year - -2.69% +8.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 14
10th Percentile £20.77 £18.22 £13.95
25th Percentile £21.14 £22.13 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.62 £34.08 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.94% +44.39% -9.23%
75th Percentile £35.11 £62.81 £34.38
90th Percentile £36.73 £65.25 £46.86
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £23.50 £33.80
% change year-on-year +13.45% -30.47% +37.96%

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 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £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 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 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 2 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 (3.93%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.32%) Confluence
3 9 (2.72%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.81%) ArcGIS
4 6 (1.81%) SAS
5 5 (1.51%) Jupyter
6 3 (0.91%) Appian
7 2 (0.60%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (0.60%) Apache
7 2 (0.60%) MTS
8 1 (0.30%) IIS
8 1 (0.30%) Jadu
8 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
8 1 (0.30%) Moodle
Applications
1 46 (13.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (5.74%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (5.14%) MS Visio
4 12 (3.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.60%) Gliffy
6 2 (0.60%) SPSS
7 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.30%) PlantUML
Business Applications
1 4 (1.21%) Oracle EBS
1 4 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.91%) Endur
2 3 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.60%) Aligne
3 2 (0.60%) EuroRunner
3 2 (0.60%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (0.60%) Primavera
3 2 (0.60%) Shopify
4 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.30%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 82 (24.77%) Power Platform
2 45 (13.60%) Azure
3 18 (5.44%) AWS
4 10 (3.02%) Power Automate
5 8 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
6 7 (2.11%) Collibra
6 7 (2.11%) OCI
6 7 (2.11%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (1.81%) GCP
7 6 (1.81%) Google Sheets
8 5 (1.51%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.51%) GitHub
8 5 (1.51%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.21%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.21%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 4 (1.21%) SaaS
9 4 (1.21%) Serverless
9 4 (1.21%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.51%) 4G
1 5 (1.51%) 5G
2 4 (1.21%) 2G
2 4 (1.21%) 3G
2 4 (1.21%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (0.60%) HTTP
3 2 (0.60%) SNA
4 1 (0.30%) Internet
4 1 (0.30%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.30%) LoRaWAN
4 1 (0.30%) SSL
4 1 (0.30%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (24.77%) Power BI
2 29 (8.76%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (8.76%) Tableau
3 21 (6.34%) SQL Server
4 19 (5.74%) Big Data
5 11 (3.32%) GIS
6 9 (2.72%) Metadata
7 8 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.11%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.11%) Power Query
8 7 (2.11%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.81%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.51%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.51%) Oracle BI EE
10 5 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.21%) Amazon QuickSight
11 4 (1.21%) QGIS
11 4 (1.21%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (1.21%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 26 (7.85%) JIRA
2 6 (1.81%) Git
3 5 (1.51%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.21%) JMeter
4 4 (1.21%) Selenium
4 4 (1.21%) SoapUI
5 3 (0.91%) ERwin
5 3 (0.91%) Maven
6 2 (0.60%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.60%) RStudio
6 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.30%) Deequ
7 1 (0.30%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.30%) PyCharm
General
1 111 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 97 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 90 (27.19%) Finance
4 39 (11.78%) Public Sector
5 26 (7.85%) Banking
6 16 (4.83%) Retail
7 12 (3.63%) Marketing
8 11 (3.32%) Back Office
9 10 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (2.42%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.81%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.81%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.81%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.81%) Military
12 6 (1.81%) Publishing
13 5 (1.51%) Front Office
13 5 (1.51%) Local Government
14 4 (1.21%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 135 (40.79%) Analyst
2 68 (20.54%) Data Analyst
3 53 (16.01%) Business Analyst
4 33 (9.97%) Senior
5 22 (6.65%) Developer
6 21 (6.34%) Data Scientist
7 15 (4.53%) Architect
7 15 (4.53%) Consultant
7 15 (4.53%) Data Engineer
8 12 (3.63%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (3.32%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 11 (3.32%) Data Business Analyst
9 11 (3.32%) Lead
10 9 (2.72%) Technical Analyst
11 8 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
11 8 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
11 8 (2.42%) Senior Data Analyst
12 7 (2.11%) Banking Analyst
12 7 (2.11%) Integration Engineer
12 7 (2.11%) Report Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.02%) .NET
2 9 (2.72%) Web Services
3 7 (2.11%) PySpark
4 6 (1.81%) Pandas
4 6 (1.81%) scikit-learn
4 6 (1.81%) XML
5 4 (1.21%) SOAP
6 3 (0.91%) AngularJS
6 3 (0.91%) EDI
6 3 (0.91%) jQuery
6 3 (0.91%) JSON
6 3 (0.91%) Kafka
6 3 (0.91%) Matplotlib
6 3 (0.91%) REST
6 3 (0.91%) Spring
6 3 (0.91%) TensorFlow
6 3 (0.91%) XGBoost
7 2 (0.60%) JSON Schema
7 2 (0.60%) pytest
7 2 (0.60%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (5.14%) Algorithms
2 16 (4.83%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.83%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.63%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.32%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.72%) NHS
7 6 (1.81%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.21%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.91%) Cyberattack
9 3 (0.91%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.91%) Social Media
10 2 (0.60%) FMCG
10 2 (0.60%) Genomics
10 2 (0.60%) Market Risk
10 2 (0.60%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.60%) Reference Data
10 2 (0.60%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.51%) Linux
2 4 (1.21%) Unix
2 4 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.30%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (29.91%) Business Intelligence
2 80 (24.17%) Data Modelling
3 78 (23.56%) Problem-Solving
4 70 (21.15%) Agile
5 65 (19.64%) Visualisation
6 59 (17.82%) Analytics
7 50 (15.11%) Decision-Making
8 49 (14.80%) Data Science
9 43 (12.99%) Data Visualisation
10 35 (10.57%) Stakeholder Management
11 33 (9.97%) Computer Science
11 33 (9.97%) ETL
12 32 (9.67%) Project Management
13 30 (9.06%) Business Analysis
14 29 (8.76%) Migration
15 28 (8.46%) Data Governance
15 28 (8.46%) Data Management
16 24 (7.25%) Actionable Insight
16 24 (7.25%) Machine Learning
16 24 (7.25%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 126 (38.07%) SQL
2 70 (21.15%) Python
3 13 (3.93%) C#
4 11 (3.32%) R
5 9 (2.72%) T-SQL
6 8 (2.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 8 (2.42%) PL/SQL
7 7 (2.11%) Java
7 7 (2.11%) VBA
8 6 (1.81%) C++
9 5 (1.51%) JavaScript
9 5 (1.51%) VB.NET
10 3 (0.91%) Bash
11 2 (0.60%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.60%) Perl
11 2 (0.60%) Scala
11 2 (0.60%) VB
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (16.62%) Degree
2 32 (9.67%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.37%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.32%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.11%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.11%) PMP
6 5 (1.51%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.21%) HNC
7 4 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (1.21%) PhD
8 3 (0.91%) CBAP
8 3 (0.91%) ISEB
9 2 (0.60%) CISM
9 2 (0.60%) CISSP
9 2 (0.60%) IIBA
9 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.60%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (0.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (0.60%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (12.69%) Data Quality
2 22 (6.65%) QA
3 9 (2.72%) GDPR
4 6 (1.81%) SLA
5 5 (1.51%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.51%) PMO
6 4 (1.21%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.60%) P3O
7 2 (0.60%) PSD2
8 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.30%) EMIR
8 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.30%) MiFID
8 1 (0.30%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.21%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.30%) Grafana
2 1 (0.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 50 (15.11%) Microsoft
2 27 (8.16%) Oracle
3 17 (5.14%) Salesforce
4 13 (3.93%) Google
5 12 (3.63%) SAP
6 11 (3.32%) ServiceNow
7 6 (1.81%) Databricks
8 4 (1.21%) BT
8 4 (1.21%) HP
9 3 (0.91%) Atlassian
9 3 (0.91%) Intel
9 3 (0.91%) Phenom
9 3 (0.91%) Splunk
9 3 (0.91%) Teradata
10 2 (0.60%) Adobe
10 2 (0.60%) Datix
10 2 (0.60%) Dell
10 2 (0.60%) FIS
10 2 (0.60%) IDERA
10 2 (0.60%) Sitecore