Data Analyst Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Analyst
UK > Work from Home

The median Data Analyst daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 163 184
Rank change year-on-year +25 +21 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Data Analyst 240 354 668
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.63% 1.48% 1.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.74% 1.56% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 240 506
10th Percentile £313 £298 £263
25th Percentile £363 £369 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +11.90%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £550
90th Percentile £640 £638 £639
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 14
10th Percentile £13.40 £16.40 £11.22
25th Percentile £13.50 £16.98 £12.28
Median hourly rate £24.26 £19.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.66% +35.71% -33.74%
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.06 £19.19
90th Percentile £50.00 £48.15 £24.79
UK median hourly rate £21.65 £20.24 £23.70
% change year-on-year +6.99% -14.62% +23.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Data Analyst
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Data Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Analyst trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
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 Analyst.

Data Analyst daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Data Analyst daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
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 Analyst.

Data Analyst hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Data Analyst over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Data Analyst hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Data Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Data Analyst in the job title.

1 104 (43.33%) SQL
2 81 (33.75%) Finance
3 78 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
4 71 (29.58%) Power BI
4 71 (29.58%) Power Platform
5 70 (29.17%) Social Skills
6 66 (27.50%) Data Analysis
7 65 (27.08%) Analytics
8 62 (25.83%) Analytical Skills
9 54 (22.50%) Visualisation
10 50 (20.83%) Python
11 43 (17.92%) Data Quality
12 39 (16.25%) Data Modelling
13 35 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
14 34 (14.17%) Tableau
15 32 (13.33%) Data Management
16 30 (12.50%) Migration
16 30 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
17 28 (11.67%) Banking
17 28 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
18 27 (11.25%) Data Governance
18 27 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
19 26 (10.83%) Data Cleansing
20 24 (10.00%) Data Analytics
20 24 (10.00%) Azure
21 23 (9.58%) Microsoft
22 22 (9.17%) Data Migration
23 21 (8.75%) Data Science
24 20 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
24 20 (8.33%) Change Management

Data Analyst Skill Set
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 6 (2.50%) SAS
2 4 (1.67%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.25%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (11.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.25%) SPSS
5 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.83%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.42%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) OPENHousing
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (29.58%) Power Platform
2 24 (10.00%) Azure
3 8 (3.33%) AWS
3 8 (3.33%) GCP
3 8 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 8 (3.33%) PowerApps
4 6 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
6 4 (1.67%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (1.25%) Collibra
7 3 (1.25%) GitHub
7 3 (1.25%) Google Analytics
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Pipelines
8 2 (0.83%) Fivetran
8 2 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.83%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.42%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.42%) dbt
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.42%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.42%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (29.58%) Power BI
2 34 (14.17%) Tableau
3 20 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (6.25%) SQL Server
5 9 (3.75%) BigQuery
5 9 (3.75%) Metadata
6 8 (3.33%) Hadoop
7 7 (2.92%) Big Data
7 7 (2.92%) Data Lake
7 7 (2.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.50%) Looker
8 6 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (1.67%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.67%) Impala
9 4 (1.67%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 3 (1.25%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.25%) DynamoDB
10 3 (1.25%) Presto
Development Applications
1 11 (4.58%) JIRA
2 2 (0.83%) ER Studio
2 2 (0.83%) ERwin
3 1 (0.42%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) PyCharm
3 1 (0.42%) RStudio
General
1 81 (33.75%) Finance
2 70 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 62 (25.83%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.67%) Banking
5 14 (5.83%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.58%) Telecoms
7 10 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.17%) Retail
8 8 (3.33%) Legal
9 4 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.67%) Marketing
10 3 (1.25%) General Ledger
10 3 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.83%) Automotive
11 2 (0.83%) Billing
11 2 (0.83%) Czech Language
11 2 (0.83%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.83%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.67%) PySpark
2 3 (1.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.42%) D3.js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (1.67%) NHS
6 3 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.25%) Reinsurance
6 3 (1.25%) Social Media
7 2 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.83%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.42%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.42%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.42%) FMCG
8 1 (0.42%) Life Science
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) Omics
8 1 (0.42%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.50%) Business Intelligence
2 66 (27.50%) Data Analysis
3 65 (27.08%) Analytics
4 54 (22.50%) Visualisation
5 39 (16.25%) Data Modelling
6 35 (14.58%) Data Visualisation
7 32 (13.33%) Data Management
8 30 (12.50%) Migration
8 30 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (11.25%) Data Governance
9 27 (11.25%) Problem-Solving
10 26 (10.83%) Data Cleansing
11 24 (10.00%) Data Analytics
12 22 (9.17%) Data Migration
13 21 (8.75%) Data Science
14 20 (8.33%) Change Management
15 19 (7.92%) ETL
16 18 (7.50%) Actionable Insight
17 17 (7.08%) Agile
18 16 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 104 (43.33%) SQL
2 50 (20.83%) Python
3 13 (5.42%) R
4 5 (2.08%) T-SQL
4 5 (2.08%) VBA
5 3 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.83%) VB
7 1 (0.42%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.42%) Scala
Qualifications
1 16 (6.67%) Degree
2 15 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.83%) SC Cleared
4 2 (0.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.42%) CISA
5 1 (0.42%) CRISC
5 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (0.42%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (17.92%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.17%) QA
3 8 (3.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (0.83%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.83%) PMO
4 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.42%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (9.58%) Microsoft
2 13 (5.42%) Oracle
3 11 (4.58%) Databricks
4 10 (4.17%) Alteryx
5 8 (3.33%) SAP
6 6 (2.50%) Google
6 6 (2.50%) Splunk
7 5 (2.08%) Adobe
7 5 (2.08%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.67%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.67%) Denodo
8 4 (1.67%) Refinitiv
9 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
9 3 (1.25%) Facebook
9 3 (1.25%) Informatica
9 3 (1.25%) Instagram
9 3 (1.25%) Teradata
9 3 (1.25%) Twitter
9 3 (1.25%) YouTube
10 2 (0.83%) ServiceNow