Data Lineage Contracts

Data Lineage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lineage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lineage over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 605 692
Rank change year-on-year +185 +87 -87
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 161 95 168
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.16% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.18% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 54 108
10th Percentile £400 £500 £463
25th Percentile £425 £513 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £681 £703 £722
90th Percentile £800 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £518 £575
% change year-on-year -8.21% -10.00% +35.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Lineage 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 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
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 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +172 148 £525 -12.50% 28
London +162 109 £570 -12.31% 21
Work from Home +152 69 £556 -7.29% 13
UK excluding London +81 42 £475 -8.21% 7
North of England +27 17 £550 +7.84% 1
North West +18 11 £550 +10.00%
South East +31 8 £450 -14.29% 1
Yorkshire +24 8 £625 +15.16% 1
Scotland +39 7 £575 - 1
South West +25 7 £500 -4.76%
West Midlands +32 6 £510 +2.00%
Midlands +29 6 £510 +2.00% 2
North East - 2 - -
East of England - 1 £300 - 2

Data Lineage
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 15 (9.32%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.62%) Apache
3 1 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.62%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (7.45%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.86%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (8.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 49 (30.43%) Azure
2 29 (18.01%) Collibra
3 27 (16.77%) AWS
4 16 (9.94%) Microsoft Purview
5 14 (8.70%) Power Platform
6 11 (6.83%) Azure Stack
7 10 (6.21%) GCP
8 5 (3.11%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (3.11%) Serverless
9 4 (2.48%) Alation
9 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.86%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
10 3 (1.86%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (1.24%) Matillion
12 1 (0.62%) Datadog
12 1 (0.62%) PaaS
12 1 (0.62%) SaaS
12 1 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.62%) DNS
1 1 (0.62%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (40.37%) Metadata
2 31 (19.25%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (19.25%) NoSQL
3 18 (11.18%) SQL Server
4 15 (9.32%) Data Vault
5 14 (8.70%) Power BI
6 11 (6.83%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (6.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (4.97%) Pentaho
9 8 (4.97%) Qlik Sense
9 8 (4.97%) QlikView
10 7 (4.35%) Relational Database
11 6 (3.73%) Big Data
11 6 (3.73%) RDBMS
12 5 (3.11%) Data Lake
13 4 (2.48%) OLAP
13 4 (2.48%) OLTP
13 4 (2.48%) Tableau
14 3 (1.86%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (1.86%) ERwin
2 2 (1.24%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.24%) Git
2 2 (1.24%) kappa
3 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 50 (31.06%) Finance
2 42 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 23 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 19 (11.80%) Analytical Skills
5 15 (9.32%) Publishing
6 10 (6.21%) Banking
6 10 (6.21%) Marketing
7 9 (5.59%) Front Office
8 7 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.73%) Electronics
9 6 (3.73%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.73%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.86%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.24%) Legal
12 1 (0.62%) Automotive
12 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (32.92%) Architect
2 44 (27.33%) Data Architect
3 21 (13.04%) Analyst
4 20 (12.42%) Data Analyst
5 19 (11.80%) Integration Engineer
6 17 (10.56%) Consultant
7 16 (9.94%) Senior
8 12 (7.45%) Data Consultant
8 12 (7.45%) Lead
9 11 (6.83%) Data Engineer
9 11 (6.83%) Developer
10 7 (4.35%) Data Governance Consultant
10 7 (4.35%) Governance Consultant
10 7 (4.35%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.73%) Data Modeller
11 6 (3.73%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Governance Analyst
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Architect
11 6 (3.73%) Senior Data Architect
12 5 (3.11%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.04%) JSON
2 12 (7.45%) REST
2 12 (7.45%) XML
3 10 (6.21%) JSON Schema
4 3 (1.86%) .NET
4 3 (1.86%) Middleware
5 2 (1.24%) PySpark
6 1 (0.62%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.62%) Kafka
6 1 (0.62%) ODBC
6 1 (0.62%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.15%) Reference Data
2 20 (12.42%) Product Ownership
3 19 (11.80%) Data Structures
4 10 (6.21%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.11%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.86%) Equities
7 3 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.24%) Blockchain
8 2 (1.24%) CMDB
8 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.62%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.62%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.62%) Life Science
9 1 (0.62%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.24%) Windows
2 1 (0.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (61.49%) Data Governance
2 85 (52.80%) Data Modelling
3 49 (30.43%) Data Management
4 46 (28.57%) Agile
4 46 (28.57%) Data Architecture
5 41 (25.47%) ETL
6 39 (24.22%) Metadata Management
7 34 (21.12%) Decision-Making
8 33 (20.50%) Data Strategy
9 31 (19.25%) Analytics
10 29 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (18.01%) Stakeholder Management
11 28 (17.39%) Business Intelligence
12 27 (16.77%) Data Integration
13 24 (14.91%) Data Mapping
13 24 (14.91%) Use Case
14 22 (13.66%) Project Delivery
15 20 (12.42%) Computer Science
16 18 (11.18%) Data Analysis
17 17 (10.56%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (34.78%) SQL
2 15 (9.32%) Python
3 14 (8.70%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.59%) Java
5 5 (3.11%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.48%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.86%) Scala
8 2 (1.24%) Bash
8 2 (1.24%) C#
8 2 (1.24%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (18.01%) SC Cleared
1 29 (18.01%) Security Cleared
2 26 (16.15%) Degree
3 11 (6.83%) Master's Degree
3 11 (6.83%) PhD
4 9 (5.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.24%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.62%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (44.72%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.21%) GDPR
3 5 (3.11%) MiFID
4 4 (2.48%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.62%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.62%) PMO
5 1 (0.62%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.62%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 32 (19.88%) Informatica
2 24 (14.91%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.80%) Sparx
4 17 (10.56%) Oracle
5 13 (8.07%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.97%) Facebook
6 8 (4.97%) Instagram
7 7 (4.35%) SAP
8 6 (3.73%) IBM
9 5 (3.11%) Databricks
9 5 (3.11%) Foundry
9 5 (3.11%) Palantir
10 4 (2.48%) Okta
10 4 (2.48%) Symantec
10 4 (2.48%) Talend
10 4 (2.48%) Varonis
11 1 (0.62%) Cognos
11 1 (0.62%) Hortonworks
11 1 (0.62%) Splunk
11 1 (0.62%) Teradata