Data Development Contracts in England

Data Development
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Development skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Development over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 590 656
Rank change year-on-year +85 +66 -142
Contract jobs citing Data Development 37 55 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.11% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.12% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 33 97
10th Percentile £378 £459 £498
25th Percentile £416 £563 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £650 £638
Median % change year-on-year -13.85% +1.96% +10.87%
75th Percentile £744 £788 £775
90th Percentile £785 £825 £825
UK median daily rate £560 £650 £625
% change year-on-year -13.85% +4.00% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.13 - -
Median hourly rate £17.25 - -
75th Percentile £17.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £17.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Development 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,661 44,294 64,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.54% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,752 31,074 45,519
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £674 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,569 1,736
10th Percentile £12.87 £10.73 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in England

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Development in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Development in England

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in England

Data Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Development in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Development in England

Data Development
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +74 24 £725 - 6
Midlands +35 7 £438 -30.00% 5
West Midlands +26 6 £438 -30.00% 1
South East +18 2 £750 +76.47% 3
South West - 2 £575 - 3
North of England +20 1 £388 -40.38% 2
North West +20 1 £388 -44.64% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 4
Data Development
UK

Data Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (24.32%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.70%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 14 (37.84%) AWS
2 14 (37.84%) Serverless
3 11 (29.73%) Azure Functions
4 9 (24.32%) AWS Lambda
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (24.32%) Azure Storage
5 6 (16.22%) Azure DevOps
5 6 (16.22%) Power Platform
6 4 (10.81%) Cloud Run
6 4 (10.81%) GCP
6 4 (10.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub
7 3 (8.11%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (5.41%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.41%) Azure Event Grid
8 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
9 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.41%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (29.73%) MongoDB
2 9 (24.32%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (16.22%) Power BI
4 5 (13.51%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (10.81%) BigQuery
5 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
6 3 (8.11%) Big Data
6 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (8.11%) NoSQL
6 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
7 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata
8 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
8 1 (2.70%) Power Query
8 1 (2.70%) SAP HANA
8 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Git
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
1 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.81%) Marketing
4 3 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.41%) Electronics
5 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Front Office
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Developer
2 7 (18.92%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Java Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Java Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) .NET Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Azure Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (5.41%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (5.41%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Lead
6 2 (5.41%) Power BI Analyst
7 1 (2.70%) Data Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (2.70%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (2.70%) Python Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (29.73%) .NET
2 9 (24.32%) .NET Core
3 8 (21.62%) Blazor
4 4 (10.81%) Kafka
5 3 (8.11%) AngularJS
5 3 (8.11%) HTML
6 2 (5.41%) .NET Framework
6 2 (5.41%) Entity Framework
6 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 2 (5.41%) Node.js
6 2 (5.41%) Swagger
6 2 (5.41%) YAML
7 1 (2.70%) ADO
7 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 14 (37.84%) Cloud Native
2 11 (29.73%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Equities
3 4 (10.81%) Public Cloud
3 4 (10.81%) Reference Data
4 3 (8.11%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 2 (5.41%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (5.41%) Solar Panel
6 1 (2.70%) FMCG
6 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (24.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Agile
2 14 (37.84%) CI/CD
3 13 (35.14%) Microservices
4 12 (32.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (32.43%) Front End Development
5 11 (29.73%) Software Engineering
6 10 (27.03%) DevOps
6 10 (27.03%) Full Stack Development
7 9 (24.32%) Multithreading
7 9 (24.32%) SDLC
8 8 (21.62%) Business Intelligence
9 7 (18.92%) Data Management
9 7 (18.92%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (16.22%) Data Strategy
11 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
11 5 (13.51%) ETL
11 5 (13.51%) Unit Testing
11 5 (13.51%) User Stories
12 4 (10.81%) Analytics
12 4 (10.81%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 14 (37.84%) Python
3 12 (32.43%) JavaScript
4 11 (29.73%) T-SQL
5 9 (24.32%) C++
5 9 (24.32%) Go
5 9 (24.32%) PL/SQL
6 4 (10.81%) Java
7 3 (8.11%) C#
8 2 (5.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (2.70%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (8.11%) Degree
2 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.41%) Terraform
3 1 (2.70%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (24.32%) MuleSoft
1 9 (24.32%) Oracle
2 3 (8.11%) SAP
3 2 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) PeopleSoft