Data Science Contracts with Work from Home Options

Data Science
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 Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Science 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 157 208 172
Rank change year-on-year +51 -36 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Science 203 280 709
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.38% 1.17% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.31% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 181 477
10th Percentile £314 £400 £413
25th Percentile £366 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +7.27%
75th Percentile £676 £713 £663
90th Percentile £750 £788 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £596
% change year-on-year -8.70% -3.56% +8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 7
10th Percentile £20.64 £18.80 £23.26
25th Percentile £20.84 £19.00 £37.13
Median hourly rate £21.43 £19.49 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.95% -62.88% +94.73%
75th Percentile £21.77 £21.74 £72.50
90th Percentile £21.82 £26.32 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -24.14% -30.95% +31.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Science 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 Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data Science daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 Science.

Data Science hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Science
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 15 (7.39%) Apache Spark
2 7 (3.45%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.46%) Apache
4 4 (1.97%) Confluence
4 4 (1.97%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.99%) SAS
6 1 (0.49%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.96%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.49%) CPLEX
4 1 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.48%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.49%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.49%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 58 (28.57%) Azure
2 40 (19.70%) AWS
3 39 (19.21%) Power Platform
4 34 (16.75%) GCP
5 10 (4.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 9 (4.43%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (3.94%) GitHub
8 7 (3.45%) Snowflake
9 6 (2.96%) GitHub Actions
10 5 (2.46%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.46%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 4 (1.97%) Amazon S3
11 4 (1.97%) Power Automate
11 4 (1.97%) SaaS
11 4 (1.97%) Serverless
12 3 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
12 3 (1.48%) dbt
12 3 (1.48%) Matillion
12 3 (1.48%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.94%) LAN
1 8 (3.94%) WAN
2 3 (1.48%) Network Security
3 1 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (17.73%) Power BI
2 35 (17.24%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (11.82%) Tableau
4 21 (10.34%) Data Lake
5 17 (8.37%) Big Data
6 11 (5.42%) BigQuery
7 9 (4.43%) Hadoop
8 8 (3.94%) Metadata
8 8 (3.94%) SQL Server
9 7 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (2.96%) Data Mining
11 5 (2.46%) Relational Database
11 5 (2.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.97%) Looker
12 4 (1.97%) Presto
12 4 (1.97%) Qlik Sense
12 4 (1.97%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (1.48%) Amazon QuickSight
13 3 (1.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
13 3 (1.48%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (9.36%) Git
2 12 (5.91%) JIRA
3 6 (2.96%) GitLab
3 6 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.49%) CMake
4 1 (0.49%) MLflow
4 1 (0.49%) Robot Framework
4 1 (0.49%) RStudio
4 1 (0.49%) Selenium
General
1 69 (33.99%) Social Skills
2 45 (22.17%) Finance
3 44 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.36%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.90%) Marketing
6 12 (5.91%) Retail
7 10 (4.93%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.45%) Banking
9 7 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.96%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (2.46%) Legal
12 4 (1.97%) Czech Language
12 4 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.97%) Health Technology
13 3 (1.48%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.99%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.99%) Law
14 2 (0.99%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (28.57%) Data Scientist
2 31 (15.27%) Analyst
3 30 (14.78%) Senior
4 26 (12.81%) Data Engineer
5 22 (10.84%) Developer
6 21 (10.34%) Architect
6 21 (10.34%) Data Analyst
7 17 (8.37%) Lead
8 13 (6.40%) Senior Data Scientist
9 10 (4.93%) Azure Architect
10 8 (3.94%) Technical Architect
11 7 (3.45%) Cloud Architect
12 6 (2.96%) Asset Management Analyst
12 6 (2.96%) AWS Engineer
12 6 (2.96%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.96%) Senior Analyst
12 6 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.46%) Consultant
13 5 (2.46%) Data Architect
13 5 (2.46%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.40%) PySpark
2 10 (4.93%) Pandas
2 10 (4.93%) scikit-learn
3 8 (3.94%) .NET
3 8 (3.94%) Middleware
3 8 (3.94%) PyTorch
3 8 (3.94%) TensorFlow
4 7 (3.45%) CSS
4 7 (3.45%) Django
4 7 (3.45%) HTML
4 7 (3.45%) React
5 6 (2.96%) AngularJS
5 6 (2.96%) NumPy
6 4 (1.97%) XGBoost
7 3 (1.48%) ASP.NET
7 3 (1.48%) Matplotlib
8 2 (0.99%) Kafka
8 2 (0.99%) pytest
8 2 (0.99%) SciPy
8 2 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 36 (17.73%) Algorithms
2 11 (5.42%) Data Structures
2 11 (5.42%) Management Information System
3 9 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (3.94%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.46%) FMCG
5 5 (2.46%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.97%) Distributed Computing
6 4 (1.97%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.97%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.48%) NHS
8 2 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.99%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.99%) Genomics
8 2 (0.99%) Grid Computing
8 2 (0.99%) Multi-touch
8 2 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.93%) Linux
2 9 (4.43%) Windows
3 2 (0.99%) Android
4 1 (0.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (39.90%) Machine Learning
2 80 (39.41%) Analytics
3 51 (25.12%) Agile
4 47 (23.15%) Data Analysis
5 43 (21.18%) Computer Science
6 42 (20.69%) Visualisation
7 40 (19.70%) Artificial Intelligence
7 40 (19.70%) Business Intelligence
8 38 (18.72%) Data Modelling
9 36 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
10 34 (16.75%) Data Visualisation
11 33 (16.26%) Data Pipeline
12 31 (15.27%) DevOps
13 28 (13.79%) Data Engineering
14 27 (13.30%) ETL
15 26 (12.81%) Mathematics
16 25 (12.32%) CI/CD
16 25 (12.32%) Statistics
17 22 (10.84%) Decision-Making
18 20 (9.85%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (52.22%) Python
2 87 (42.86%) SQL
3 21 (10.34%) R
4 9 (4.43%) Java
5 7 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 6 (2.96%) C#
6 6 (2.96%) Scala
7 3 (1.48%) Bash
7 3 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.99%) Bicep
8 2 (0.99%) C++
8 2 (0.99%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.99%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.49%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.49%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.49%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.49%) VBA
Qualifications
1 35 (17.24%) Degree
2 25 (12.32%) Security Cleared
3 18 (8.87%) SC Cleared
4 16 (7.88%) Master's Degree
5 12 (5.91%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.97%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.97%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (1.97%) PhD
7 3 (1.48%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.48%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.48%) PMP
8 2 (0.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 1 (0.49%) CFA
9 1 (0.49%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.49%) CISSP
9 1 (0.49%) ISEB
9 1 (0.49%) MBA
9 1 (0.49%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.85%) Data Quality
2 15 (7.39%) QA
3 5 (2.46%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.46%) NCSC
4 4 (1.97%) SLA
5 2 (0.99%) GDPR
5 2 (0.99%) GxP
6 1 (0.49%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.99%) Docker
1 2 (0.99%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 12 (5.91%) Terraform
2 10 (4.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.49%) Argo
Vendors
1 34 (16.75%) Databricks
2 26 (12.81%) Microsoft
3 10 (4.93%) Alteryx
4 9 (4.43%) Google
5 6 (2.96%) Oracle
5 6 (2.96%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.48%) SAP
6 3 (1.48%) Sparx
6 3 (1.48%) Splunk
6 3 (1.48%) Teradata
7 2 (0.99%) Foundry
7 2 (0.99%) IBM
7 2 (0.99%) Informatica
7 2 (0.99%) OpenAI
7 2 (0.99%) Palantir
7 2 (0.99%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.49%) Adobe
8 1 (0.49%) Sitecore