Data Design Contracts

Data Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 468 621 554
Rank change year-on-year +153 -67 -76
Contract jobs citing Data Design 130 98 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.16% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.18% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 62 198
10th Percentile £433 £355 £471
25th Percentile £513 £453 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £825 £772 £738
90th Percentile £925 £875 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £650
% change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% -10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design 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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data Design as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +164 120 £625 +4.17% 24
UK excluding London +100 65 £525 +5.00% 13
London +98 54 £800 +23.08% 10
Work from Home +125 44 £575 - 6
Midlands +41 20 £625 +11.11% 2
East of England +31 16 £525 +172.02% 7
South West +33 12 £475 -13.64% 2
West Midlands +39 11 £663 +17.78% 2
South East +25 11 £540 -10.00% 1
North of England +35 10 £704 +70.67% 1
East Midlands - 9 £525 -
North West +15 7 £700 +69.70%
Yorkshire - 3 £732 - 1
Scotland +33 2 £525 -16.00%

Data Design
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (1.54%) CMS
2 1 (0.77%) Apache
2 1 (0.77%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (15.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.54%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.77%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.00%) Azure
2 11 (8.46%) Power Platform
3 9 (6.92%) SaaS
4 7 (5.38%) AWS
5 6 (4.62%) IaaS
5 6 (4.62%) PaaS
6 3 (2.31%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.31%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.31%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.31%) Serverless
6 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.54%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.54%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.54%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.54%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (30.00%) Metadata
2 34 (26.15%) Metadata Repository
3 28 (21.54%) Data Vault
3 28 (21.54%) NoSQL
4 20 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.46%) Power BI
6 8 (6.15%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.15%) Relational Database
7 5 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (3.85%) SQL Server
7 5 (3.85%) Tableau
8 4 (3.08%) Big Data
8 4 (3.08%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.08%) QlikView
8 4 (3.08%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.54%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.54%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.54%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.08%) ERwin
2 3 (2.31%) JMeter
3 2 (1.54%) kappa
4 1 (0.77%) Terragrunt
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 32 (24.62%) Finance
3 28 (21.54%) Public Sector
4 15 (11.54%) Telecoms
5 14 (10.77%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (10.77%) Electronics
5 14 (10.77%) Manufacturing
5 14 (10.77%) Marketing
6 13 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
6 13 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (6.92%) Banking
8 5 (3.85%) Retail
9 4 (3.08%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.31%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.54%) Billing
11 2 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.77%) Local Government
12 1 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.77%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 65 (50.00%) Architect
2 57 (43.85%) Data Architect
3 24 (18.46%) Chief Architect
3 24 (18.46%) Chief Data Architect
4 10 (7.69%) Enterprise Architect
5 9 (6.92%) Head of Architecture
5 9 (6.92%) Head of Data Architecture
5 9 (6.92%) Lead
6 8 (6.15%) Analyst
6 8 (6.15%) Data Modeller
7 7 (5.38%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.62%) Developer
8 6 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Business Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.08%) Consultant
10 4 (3.08%) Qlik Developer
10 4 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.31%) Azure Data Engineer
11 3 (2.31%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.31%) Kafka
1 3 (2.31%) PySpark
2 2 (1.54%) Java EE
2 2 (1.54%) JSON
2 2 (1.54%) Web Services
3 1 (0.77%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.77%) Middleware
3 1 (0.77%) Next.js
3 1 (0.77%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.46%) Reference Data
2 10 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 9 (6.92%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (5.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (5.38%) Onboarding
5 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Cloud
5 6 (4.62%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.08%) CMDB
8 3 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
8 3 (2.31%) Life Science
9 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
9 2 (1.54%) Social Media
10 1 (0.77%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (44.62%) Data Modelling
2 56 (43.08%) Data Architecture
3 42 (32.31%) Data Governance
4 36 (27.69%) Migration
5 35 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
6 32 (24.62%) Data Strategy
7 29 (22.31%) Analytics
8 28 (21.54%) Data Integration
8 28 (21.54%) UML
9 24 (18.46%) Data Management
10 23 (17.69%) Business Strategy
11 22 (16.92%) Data Migration
12 16 (12.31%) Data Analysis
12 16 (12.31%) ETL
12 16 (12.31%) Programme Management
13 15 (11.54%) Agile
14 14 (10.77%) Digital Marketing
15 13 (10.00%) Record to Report
15 13 (10.00%) Roadmaps
16 12 (9.23%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 25 (19.23%) SQL
2 7 (5.38%) Python
3 3 (2.31%) Java
4 2 (1.54%) Bash
4 2 (1.54%) MATLAB
4 2 (1.54%) R
5 1 (0.77%) C#
5 1 (0.77%) Scala
Qualifications
1 38 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.15%) Degree
3 8 (6.15%) DV Cleared
4 5 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.31%) ISEB
5 3 (2.31%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.77%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.77%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.08%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.31%) QA
3 2 (1.54%) GDPR
4 1 (0.77%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (28.46%) SAP
2 15 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.69%) Databricks
3 10 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 10 (7.69%) Sparx
4 7 (5.38%) Ariba
5 6 (4.62%) Oracle
5 6 (4.62%) Remedy
6 5 (3.85%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.54%) Google
7 2 (1.54%) Liquidlogic