Data Lineage Contracts in the City of London

Data Lineage
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 113 164
Rank change year-on-year -3 +51 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 7 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.40% 0.64% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.71% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 7
10th Percentile - £513 £613
25th Percentile - £594 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £850 £675
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +25.93% +17.39%
75th Percentile £573 £925 £769
90th Percentile £709 - £790
Central London median daily rate £550 £800 £675
% change year-on-year -31.25% +18.52% +17.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Lineage 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 1,638 1,985 3,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.56% 91.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,037 1,404 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £356 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 25
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.35
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -15.66%
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% -15.66%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the City of London

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the City of London

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the City of London

Data Lineage
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 3 (42.86%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) Collibra
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (57.14%) Metadata
3 3 (42.86%) Data Mining
3 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
4 2 (28.57%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (14.29%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
5 1 (14.29%) Power BI
5 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Postman
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Police
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
4 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Legal Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 1 (14.29%) Pandas
2 1 (14.29%) PySpark
2 1 (14.29%) pytest
2 1 (14.29%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (57.14%) Metadata Management
3 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (42.86%) Data Engineering
3 3 (42.86%) Data Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Data Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Science
3 3 (42.86%) Data Security
3 3 (42.86%) Data Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 3 (42.86%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Python
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) R
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Informatica
2 1 (14.29%) Aderant
2 1 (14.29%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) SAP