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Data & Analytics Freelancers: Demand and Trends

Market data for Data & Analytics freelancers – calculated from 384 real project and job postings of the last 90 days. No survey, no guesswork without data.

As of: week 42/2026 · updated weekly
Listings (90 days)
384
IT job postings of the category in 90 days
Share of the IT market
3 %
Share of all IT job postings, 90 days
Demand share vs. previous quarter
▼ 21 %
Share of the IT market, 90 days versus the 90 days before
Remote possible
91 %
of which 36 % fully remote · stated in 81 % of the postings

Share of the IT market: share of the category's job postings in all IT job postings, last 90 days versus the 90 days before (not growth in number)

Data & Analytics: 384 projects in 90 days, 76 % as freelance engagements

The Data & Analytics category encompasses the design, implementation, and management of data infrastructures as well as the analysis of large data volumes for business decisions. Organizations in finance, e-commerce, insurance, and manufacturing regularly seek specialists in this field. Freelance engagements dominate with 76 % of all contracts, while permanent positions account for 19 % and temp agency work for 5 %. Demand concentrates on specialized roles that build data architectures and ensure data quality.

Data Modeling leads the requested skills with 322 postings, followed by Power BI with 210 mentions and Data Governance with 130 postings. Professionals work with Databricks, ETL processes, and Data Warehouse solutions to realize data integration and architecture. Data Modeling combined with SQL is particularly often requested together (118 postings), as is Power BI with SQL (73 postings). Data Architecture shows the strongest growth among sought competencies at 73 %, while Data Governance increases by 45 %.

Over 90 days, 384 IT job postings in Data & Analytics were registered, representing a 3 % market share. The trend indicates a decline of 21 % compared to the previous quarter. Remote work is standard in this category at 91 %, with 36 % performed fully remote and this information stated in 81 % of postings. The combination of high remote share and freelance focus distinctly shapes the working model in the field.

Work location and contract types

Work location

Remote possible
91 %
of which fully remote
36 %
Stated in 81 % of the listings

Contract types

Freelance76 %
Permanent19 %
Temp agency5 %
Stated in 96 % of the listings

Most in-demand skills

Skills in this category: 25

  1. 1Data Modeling322 listings▲ 10 %
  2. 2Power BI210 listings▼ 17 %
  3. 3Data Governance130 listings▲ 45 %
  4. 4Databricks105 listings▼ 8 %
  5. 5ETL99 listings▼ 3 %
  6. 6Data Engineering97 listings▼ 5 %
  7. 7Data Architecture80 listings▲ 73 %
  8. 8Data Quality79 listings▲ 21 %
  9. 9Data Warehouse76 listings▲ 5 %
  10. 10Data Integration72 listings▲ 17 %

Biggest risers

Data Architecture▲ 73 %Data Governance▲ 45 %Data Pipelines▲ 31 %Data Quality▲ 21 %Apache Spark▲ 20 %

Often requested together

Job postings of the last 90 days that name both skills.

Most active recruiters

Market data comes from Nexus. Links marked ↗ open the public view in Nexus (new tab) – read-only.

Darwin Recruitmentopens Nexus in a new tab38 listings
Westhouse Consulting GmbHopens Nexus in a new tab36 listings
FERCHAU GmbHopens Nexus in a new tab20 listings
mund consulting AGopens Nexus in a new tab19 listings
iPAXX AGopens Nexus in a new tab17 listings

Methodology: Calculated from the IT job postings of the last 90 days; the category is the one of the posting. Hourly rates only from real hourly figures and only from 30 rates, shares only with enough data.

Basis: 11,175 IT listings in the window

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