Data Modelling Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data Modelling
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data Modelling skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Modelling over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 49 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 +1
Contract jobs citing Data Modelling 413 567 755
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 4.24% 3.87% 3.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 4.44% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 419 534
10th Percentile £340 £387 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £626 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £558
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.43% -2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £26.65 - -
25th Percentile £27.14 - £19.00
Median hourly rate £29.27 £35.00 £19.98
Median % change year-on-year -16.37% +75.18% -69.51%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.25 £59.63
90th Percentile £88.13 £61.35 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £45.73 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.60% +21.43% -42.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data Modelling 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 8,917 12,784 21,360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.48% 87.14% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,048 8,601 15,167
10th Percentile £325 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £506 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 573 494
10th Percentile £13.50 £15.03 £17.80
25th Percentile £18.29 £24.00 £25.75
Median hourly rate £35.45 £43.00 £52.32
Median % change year-on-year -17.57% -17.81% +24.56%
75th Percentile £65.25 £60.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £74.90 £78.53
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £37.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.69% +6.23% +34.62%

Data Modelling
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Modelling as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Data Modelling trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Modelling.

Data Modelling daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Data Modelling daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Data Modelling.

Data Modelling hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Data Modelling over the 6 months to 16 June 2025.

Data Modelling hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Data Modelling
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 20 (4.84%) Apache Airflow
2 17 (4.12%) Confluence
3 16 (3.87%) Apache Spark
4 13 (3.15%) SharePoint
5 12 (2.91%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) SAS
7 1 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.24%) IIS
7 1 (0.24%) Luigi
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 21 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.73%) Oracle Smart View
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.48%) Trello
5 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.24%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 10 (2.42%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.73%) Endur
4 3 (0.73%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.73%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.73%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.48%) SAP EHS
5 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.24%) HFM
6 1 (0.24%) Maximo
6 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.24%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.24%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 142 (34.38%) Azure
2 113 (27.36%) Power Platform
3 81 (19.61%) AWS
4 42 (10.17%) GCP
5 37 (8.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 35 (8.47%) dbt
6 35 (8.47%) Snowflake
7 31 (7.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 15 (3.63%) Amazon S3
8 15 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.39%) GitHub
9 14 (3.39%) Serverless
10 13 (3.15%) PowerApps
10 13 (3.15%) SaaS
11 12 (2.91%) OCI
12 11 (2.66%) Collibra
12 11 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (2.66%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (2.42%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (0.48%) SAN
1 2 (0.48%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.24%) DNS
2 1 (0.24%) Firewall
2 1 (0.24%) HTTP
2 1 (0.24%) SSL
2 1 (0.24%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (24.46%) Power BI
2 89 (21.55%) Data Warehouse
3 55 (13.32%) Data Lake
4 44 (10.65%) Metadata
5 39 (9.44%) SQL Server
6 28 (6.78%) Big Data
7 25 (6.05%) Relational Database
8 24 (5.81%) NoSQL
9 23 (5.57%) Tableau
10 21 (5.08%) PostgreSQL
11 16 (3.87%) Azure SQL Database
12 15 (3.63%) Amazon Redshift
12 15 (3.63%) Snowflake Schema
12 15 (3.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 14 (3.39%) BigQuery
14 13 (3.15%) Delta Lake
14 13 (3.15%) Power Query
14 13 (3.15%) RDBMS
15 12 (2.91%) Star Schema
16 10 (2.42%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (6.05%) JIRA
2 22 (5.33%) ERwin
3 12 (2.91%) Git
4 10 (2.42%) ER Studio
5 9 (2.18%) Jenkins
6 4 (0.97%) GitLab
6 4 (0.97%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (0.97%) PVCS
6 4 (0.97%) Subversion
7 3 (0.73%) CircleCI
7 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.48%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.48%) MLflow
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.24%) Hudson
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
9 1 (0.24%) Selenium
9 1 (0.24%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.24%) Terragrunt
General
1 142 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 98 (23.73%) Finance
3 81 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (11.38%) Public Sector
5 33 (7.99%) Banking
6 21 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (4.60%) Retail
8 13 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.18%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.94%) Marketing
12 8 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.45%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.21%) Corporate Banking
14 5 (1.21%) Local Government
15 4 (0.97%) Law
15 4 (0.97%) Manufacturing
15 4 (0.97%) Military
15 4 (0.97%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (20.82%) Architect
2 78 (18.89%) Data Engineer
3 74 (17.92%) Analyst
4 59 (14.29%) Data Architect
5 58 (14.04%) Developer
6 42 (10.17%) Senior
7 35 (8.47%) Data Analyst
8 33 (7.99%) Data Modeller
9 29 (7.02%) Lead
10 27 (6.54%) Business Analyst
11 26 (6.30%) Consultant
12 18 (4.36%) Azure Data Engineer
12 18 (4.36%) Azure Engineer
13 11 (2.66%) Senior Data Engineer
14 10 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 9 (2.18%) Business Intelligence Analyst
15 9 (2.18%) Oracle Developer
15 9 (2.18%) Solutions Architect
16 8 (1.94%) Senior Analyst
16 8 (1.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (5.57%) PySpark
2 15 (3.63%) Kafka
3 12 (2.91%) React
4 11 (2.66%) JSON
4 11 (2.66%) REST
5 10 (2.42%) Jinja
6 8 (1.94%) OAuth
6 8 (1.94%) Oracle Fusion
7 6 (1.45%) HTML
7 6 (1.45%) Node.js
8 5 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
8 5 (1.21%) RESTful
8 5 (1.21%) SOAP
9 4 (0.97%) CSS
9 4 (0.97%) FastAPI
9 4 (0.97%) FHIR
9 4 (0.97%) Flask
9 4 (0.97%) GraphQL
9 4 (0.97%) Middleware
9 4 (0.97%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.78%) Data Structures
2 21 (5.08%) Legacy Systems
3 18 (4.36%) Product Ownership
4 15 (3.63%) Cloud Native
5 11 (2.66%) Management Information System
6 8 (1.94%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.21%) Clustering
7 5 (1.21%) Data Fabric
8 4 (0.97%) NHS
9 3 (0.73%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.73%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.73%) Life Science
9 3 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.73%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.73%) Smart Meter
9 3 (0.73%) Swaptions
10 2 (0.48%) Omics
10 2 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 7 (1.69%) Linux
2 4 (0.97%) Windows
3 2 (0.48%) Debian
3 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
3 2 (0.48%) Unix
3 2 (0.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (32.20%) ETL
2 131 (31.72%) Business Intelligence
3 121 (29.30%) Analytics
4 92 (22.28%) Data Governance
5 89 (21.55%) Agile
6 77 (18.64%) Problem-Solving
7 76 (18.40%) Data Architecture
8 75 (18.16%) Data Pipeline
9 68 (16.46%) Data Integration
10 59 (14.29%) Data Engineering
11 56 (13.56%) Visualisation
12 55 (13.32%) Stakeholder Management
13 51 (12.35%) Migration
14 50 (12.11%) Data Transformation
15 45 (10.90%) DevOps
16 44 (10.65%) Data Analysis
16 44 (10.65%) Data Management
17 43 (10.41%) Decision-Making
18 41 (9.93%) CI/CD
19 36 (8.72%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 225 (54.48%) SQL
2 100 (24.21%) Python
3 29 (7.02%) Java
4 18 (4.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 16 (3.87%) PL/SQL
5 16 (3.87%) Scala
6 13 (3.15%) JavaScript
7 12 (2.91%) T-SQL
8 11 (2.66%) R
9 5 (1.21%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.21%) VB
10 4 (0.97%) ABAP
10 4 (0.97%) Bash
10 4 (0.97%) C
10 4 (0.97%) ProC
10 4 (0.97%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.73%) C#
11 3 (0.73%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.48%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (15.01%) Security Cleared
2 54 (13.08%) SC Cleared
3 39 (9.44%) Degree
4 17 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (2.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (2.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (1.69%) AWS Certification
8 6 (1.45%) Azure Certification
8 6 (1.45%) Master's Degree
9 4 (0.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 3 (0.73%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.48%) Numerate Degree
11 2 (0.48%) SnowPro
12 1 (0.24%) ACCA
12 1 (0.24%) CIMA
12 1 (0.24%) CITP
12 1 (0.24%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.24%) Oracle Certification
12 1 (0.24%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (17.92%) Data Quality
2 23 (5.57%) GDPR
3 20 (4.84%) QA
4 12 (2.91%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.94%) NIST
6 6 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (0.97%) HL7
7 4 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.73%) IFRS
9 2 (0.48%) Basel III
9 2 (0.48%) COBIT
9 2 (0.48%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.48%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.24%) COSHH
10 1 (0.24%) GxP
10 1 (0.24%) NCSC
10 1 (0.24%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (2.91%) Docker
2 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (4.12%) Terraform
2 13 (3.15%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.48%) Grafana
3 2 (0.48%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.24%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.24%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 64 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 59 (14.29%) Oracle
3 58 (14.04%) Databricks
4 26 (6.30%) SAP
5 25 (6.05%) Google
6 21 (5.08%) Informatica
7 12 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.45%) IBM
8 6 (1.45%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.97%) Ariba
9 4 (0.97%) Foundry
9 4 (0.97%) Palantir
9 4 (0.97%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.97%) Sparx
9 4 (0.97%) Talend
9 4 (0.97%) Teradata
10 3 (0.73%) OpenLink
10 3 (0.73%) Sybase
10 3 (0.73%) TIBCO
11 2 (0.48%) VMware
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