Data Development Contracts

Data Development
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 658 707
Rank change year-on-year +99 +49 -152
Contract jobs citing Data Development 35 58 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.081% 0.097% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.094% 0.11% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 109
10th Percentile £376 £445 £498
25th Percentile £414 £510 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -6.92% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £747 £775 £725
90th Percentile £790 £825 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £573 £525
% change year-on-year -18.12% +9.05% +14.13%
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 excluding London median hourly rate £17.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
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 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +100 35 £605 -6.92% 23
London +95 23 £725 - 9
Work from Home +110 11 £530 -18.46% 13
UK excluding London +60 11 £469 -18.12% 14
Midlands +28 6 £431 -31.00% 3
West Midlands +31 5 £431 -31.00%
South East +18 2 £750 +76.47% 6
South West - 2 £575 - 2
North of England +27 1 £388 -40.38% 3
North West +20 1 £388 -44.64% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 3

Data Development
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 9 (25.71%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 14 (40.00%) Serverless
3 13 (37.14%) AWS
4 11 (31.43%) Azure Functions
5 9 (25.71%) AWS Lambda
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (25.71%) Azure Storage
6 6 (17.14%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (17.14%) Power Platform
7 3 (8.57%) Cloud Run
7 3 (8.57%) GCP
7 3 (8.57%) GitHub
7 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (8.57%) Google Kubernetes Engine
8 2 (5.71%) Azure App Service
8 2 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (2.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (31.43%) MongoDB
2 9 (25.71%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (17.14%) Power BI
4 4 (11.43%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (8.57%) BigQuery
5 3 (8.57%) NoSQL
5 3 (8.57%) Relational Database
5 3 (8.57%) SQL Server
6 2 (5.71%) Big Data
6 2 (5.71%) Data Lake
6 2 (5.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (2.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata
7 1 (2.86%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (2.86%) Oracle ODI
7 1 (2.86%) Power Query
7 1 (2.86%) SAP HANA
7 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 10 (28.57%) Finance
1 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.43%) Banking
2 4 (11.43%) Marketing
3 3 (8.57%) Investment Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.71%) Electronics
4 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.86%) Front Office
5 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.86%) Law
Job Titles
1 17 (48.57%) Developer
2 7 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
4 3 (8.57%) Data Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Java Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Java Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Azure Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (5.71%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.71%) Data Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Lead
5 2 (5.71%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (2.86%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (2.86%) Manual Tester
6 1 (2.86%) Software Development Project Manager
6 1 (2.86%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (31.43%) .NET
2 9 (25.71%) .NET Core
3 8 (22.86%) Blazor
4 3 (8.57%) AngularJS
4 3 (8.57%) HTML
4 3 (8.57%) Kafka
5 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
5 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
5 2 (5.71%) GraphQL
5 2 (5.71%) Node.js
5 2 (5.71%) Swagger
5 2 (5.71%) YAML
6 1 (2.86%) ADO
6 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (40.00%) Cloud Native
2 11 (31.43%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (8.57%) Equities
3 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
3 3 (8.57%) Public Cloud
3 3 (8.57%) Reference Data
4 2 (5.71%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (5.71%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (5.71%) Solar Panel
5 1 (2.86%) FMCG
5 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) Agile
2 14 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (34.29%) Front End Development
3 12 (34.29%) Microservices
4 11 (31.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (31.43%) Software Engineering
5 10 (28.57%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (25.71%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (25.71%) DevOps
6 9 (25.71%) Multithreading
6 9 (25.71%) SDLC
7 7 (20.00%) Data Management
8 6 (17.14%) Data Strategy
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (14.29%) Data Engineering
9 5 (14.29%) Data Integration
9 5 (14.29%) Data Modelling
9 5 (14.29%) ETL
9 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (57.14%) SQL
2 13 (37.14%) Python
3 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
4 11 (31.43%) T-SQL
5 9 (25.71%) C++
5 9 (25.71%) Go
5 9 (25.71%) PL/SQL
6 3 (8.57%) C#
6 3 (8.57%) Java
7 2 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
2 2 (5.71%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.86%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) Data Quality
2 3 (8.57%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (34.29%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.71%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Oracle
2 9 (25.71%) MuleSoft
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.86%) Informatica
5 1 (2.86%) PeopleSoft