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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 426 588 694
Rank change year-on-year +162 +106 -49
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 160 101 161
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 61 104
10th Percentile £400 £475 £454
25th Percentile £427 £505 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £693
90th Percentile £796 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £505 £583
% change year-on-year -5.94% -13.38% +37.18%

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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 28 May 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 28 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
England +164 148 £525 -12.50% 49
London +136 112 £550 -15.38% 33
Work from Home +131 68 £563 -2.17% 17
UK excluding London +40 38 £475 -5.94% 28
North of England +30 15 £550 +10.00% 2
North West +25 11 £550 +10.00% 1
Midlands +26 9 £450 -10.00% 6
West Midlands +10 7 £450 -10.00% 5
Scotland +38 6 £575 +15.00% 2
South East +17 6 £450 -16.28% 14
Yorkshire +17 6 £800 +47.37% 1
South West +7 6 £500 -4.76% 3
East Midlands - 2 £445 -
North East - 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 14 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.63%) Apache
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.63%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 11 (6.88%) MS Visio
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (8.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (28.13%) Azure
2 30 (18.75%) Collibra
3 27 (16.88%) AWS
4 21 (13.13%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.75%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (6.88%) Azure Stack
7 9 (5.63%) GCP
8 5 (3.13%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (2.50%) Alation
9 4 (2.50%) Serverless
10 3 (1.88%) Amazon Kinesis
10 3 (1.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 3 (1.88%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.88%) Matillion
11 2 (1.25%) Amazon S3
11 2 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.63%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.63%) Datadog
12 1 (0.63%) PaaS
12 1 (0.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.63%) DNS
1 1 (0.63%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (37.50%) Metadata
2 40 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (18.13%) NoSQL
4 21 (13.13%) Power BI
4 21 (13.13%) SQL Server
5 14 (8.75%) Data Vault
6 11 (6.88%) Snowflake Schema
7 10 (6.25%) Qlik Sense
7 10 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 9 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (5.63%) Relational Database
9 8 (5.00%) Pentaho
9 8 (5.00%) QlikView
9 8 (5.00%) RDBMS
10 6 (3.75%) Data Lake
10 6 (3.75%) Tableau
11 5 (3.13%) OLTP
12 4 (2.50%) Big Data
12 4 (2.50%) Data Mining
12 4 (2.50%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (3.13%) Git
2 3 (1.88%) ERwin
2 3 (1.88%) JIRA
3 2 (1.25%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.25%) kappa
General
1 49 (30.63%) Finance
2 42 (26.25%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (13.13%) Public Sector
4 14 (8.75%) Publishing
5 11 (6.88%) Banking
6 10 (6.25%) Front Office
6 10 (6.25%) Marketing
7 7 (4.38%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.75%) Electronics
8 6 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.25%) Legal
10 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.63%) Automotive
11 1 (0.63%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 51 (31.88%) Architect
2 44 (27.50%) Data Architect
3 22 (13.75%) Analyst
4 20 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 19 (11.88%) Consultant
6 17 (10.63%) Senior
7 14 (8.75%) Data Consultant
7 14 (8.75%) Data Engineer
7 14 (8.75%) Integration Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Lead
9 10 (6.25%) Developer
10 8 (5.00%) Data Governance Consultant
10 8 (5.00%) Data Modeller
10 8 (5.00%) Governance Consultant
11 7 (4.38%) Governance Analyst
12 6 (3.75%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.75%) Senior Data Architect
13 5 (3.13%) Business Analyst
13 5 (3.13%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.13%) JSON
2 12 (7.50%) REST
2 12 (7.50%) XML
3 10 (6.25%) JSON Schema
4 4 (2.50%) .NET
5 2 (1.25%) PySpark
6 1 (0.63%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.63%) ODBC
6 1 (0.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.63%) Reference Data
2 21 (13.13%) Data Structures
3 20 (12.50%) Product Ownership
4 10 (6.25%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.75%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.13%) Taxonomies
7 4 (2.50%) Equities
7 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.88%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.25%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.63%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.63%) Life Science
10 1 (0.63%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.00%) Data Governance
2 90 (56.25%) Data Modelling
3 46 (28.75%) Data Architecture
3 46 (28.75%) Data Management
4 45 (28.13%) ETL
5 44 (27.50%) Agile
6 38 (23.75%) Metadata Management
7 36 (22.50%) Business Intelligence
8 34 (21.25%) Decision-Making
9 33 (20.63%) Analytics
10 31 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
11 30 (18.75%) Data Strategy
12 28 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
13 26 (16.25%) Data Integration
14 25 (15.63%) Data Mapping
15 22 (13.75%) Use Case
16 21 (13.13%) Project Delivery
17 20 (12.50%) Computer Science
18 18 (11.25%) Data-Driven Decision Making
19 17 (10.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 52 (32.50%) SQL
2 16 (10.00%) Python
3 12 (7.50%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.00%) Java
5 5 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.88%) Bash
6 3 (1.88%) C#
7 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.25%) R
7 2 (1.25%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (15.63%) SC Cleared
1 25 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.38%) Degree
3 11 (6.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.63%) PhD
5 2 (1.25%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.25%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (43.13%) Data Quality
2 10 (6.25%) GDPR
3 5 (3.13%) MiFID
4 4 (2.50%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.63%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.63%) PMO
5 1 (0.63%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.38%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.25%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (18.13%) Informatica
2 26 (16.25%) Microsoft
3 20 (12.50%) Sparx
4 14 (8.75%) Oracle
5 10 (6.25%) ServiceNow
6 8 (5.00%) Facebook
6 8 (5.00%) Instagram
7 7 (4.38%) Nexthink
7 7 (4.38%) SAP
8 5 (3.13%) Foundry
8 5 (3.13%) IBM
8 5 (3.13%) Palantir
8 5 (3.13%) Snow
9 4 (2.50%) Databricks
10 3 (1.88%) Okta
10 3 (1.88%) Symantec
10 3 (1.88%) Talend
10 3 (1.88%) Varonis
11 2 (1.25%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.63%) Splunk