Data Development Contracts in the City of London

Data Development
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 118 171
Rank change year-on-year +3 +53 -
Contract jobs citing Data Development 4 9 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.23% 0.41% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.45% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £493 - £830
25th Percentile £500 - £894
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £560 £1,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.02% -44.00% -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile £603 - -
Central London median daily rate £670 £605 £1,000
% change year-on-year +10.74% -39.50% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Development falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the City of London

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Development in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Development in the City of London

Data Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Maven
General
1 2 (50.00%) Back Office
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Advertising
2 1 (25.00%) Front Office
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Algorithm Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Core
1 2 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 2 (50.00%) JPA
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (25.00%) TWAP
1 1 (25.00%) VWAP
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Algorithmic Trading
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) ETRM
2 1 (25.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (25.00%) Market Making
2 1 (25.00%) Microservices
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Go
2 2 (50.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle