Data Matching Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Data Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 - 129
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.041% - 0.094%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% - 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £712 - £638
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £786 - £675
75th Percentile £861 - £713
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £786 - £675

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Data Matching 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 2,101 1,749 1,952
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.53% 93.93% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,131 1,338
10th Percentile £369 £338 £363
25th Percentile £455 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 21 19
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £19.63
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.36
Median hourly rate £20.25 £31.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.68% +14.81% -22.86%
75th Percentile £42.56 £56.75 £55.75
90th Percentile £60.25 £63.75 £101.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -28.74% +16.86% -20.54%

Data Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Data Matching job vacancy trend in the City of London

Data Matching
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Data Matching
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Matching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Data Matching

Data Matching
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon Neptune
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Data Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Graph Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Cypher
1 1 (100.00%) Gremlin
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL