Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Lineage
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 118 137
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 +59
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 22 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 0.24% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.26% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 4 3
10th Percentile £446 £562 £578
25th Percentile £518 £594 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £638 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.14% +2.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £700 £694 £700
90th Percentile £750 £728 £723
Central London median daily rate £618 £638 £613
% change year-on-year -3.14% +4.08% +2.08%

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 1,634 1,941 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.91% 91.69% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,137 1,189 1,764
10th Percentile £331 £375 £363
25th Percentile £420 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £583
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £695
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -35.15%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -41.33%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Lineage relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Lineage.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Lineage

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 8 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the City of London

Data Lineage
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 8 (36.36%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) Power Platform
3 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (18.18%) Collibra
4 1 (4.55%) Alation
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.55%) dbt
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) Metadata
2 5 (22.73%) Power BI
3 4 (18.18%) Data Lake
3 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
4 3 (13.64%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (9.09%) NoSQL
5 2 (9.09%) Tableau
6 1 (4.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (4.55%) Informix
6 1 (4.55%) MySQL
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
6 1 (4.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) ERwin
2 2 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (4.55%) Git
3 1 (4.55%) PowerDesigner
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Financial Institution
3 2 (9.09%) Legal
3 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Law
4 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Data Modeller
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Data Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Scrum Master
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.09%) Reinsurance
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Reference Data
2 1 (4.55%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Data Governance
2 12 (54.55%) Analytics
2 12 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Data Management
5 6 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (27.27%) Data Analysis
5 6 (27.27%) Decision-Making
5 6 (27.27%) Metadata Management
5 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (22.73%) ETL
7 4 (18.18%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (18.18%) Data Strategy
7 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (13.64%) Data Analytics
8 3 (13.64%) Data Pipeline
8 3 (13.64%) Data Science
8 3 (13.64%) Logical Data Model
8 3 (13.64%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (4.55%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (36.36%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
2 1 (4.55%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Databricks
2 3 (13.64%) Dataiku
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.55%) Ab Initio
4 1 (4.55%) Alteryx
4 1 (4.55%) Foundry
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica
4 1 (4.55%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Palantir
4 1 (4.55%) Sparx
4 1 (4.55%) Talend