Data Collection Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Data Collection
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Data Collection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 90 115
Rank change year-on-year -2 +25 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 4 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.40% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.48% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile £531 - £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 - £504
Median % change year-on-year - - +67.92%
75th Percentile £644 - £553
90th Percentile - - £577
England median daily rate £560 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +40.00% -11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.55 £14.05 £61.25
Median hourly rate £54.70 £14.60 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +274.66% -76.64% +411.04%
75th Percentile £55.85 £15.15 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.50 £17.02 £22.00
% change year-on-year +161.50% -22.65% -33.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Data Collection 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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,145 1,241 1,633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.24% 82.02% 87.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 454 892
10th Percentile £200 £202 £227
25th Percentile £375 £306 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £614
90th Percentile £676 £638 £725
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 297 407 353
10th Percentile £14.74 £14.73 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.45 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £27.53 £39.50 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -30.30% +99.39% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in the East of England

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the East of England region over the 6 months to 6 September 2025. 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
Cambridgeshire - 4 £588 - 5
Data Collection
England

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) Tableau
General
1 2 (50.00%) Multimedia
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Python Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) RESTful
2 2 (50.00%) FastAPI
2 2 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Inertial Measurement
2 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mapping
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Data Validation
3 1 (25.00%) ERP
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) IFRS
1 1 (25.00%) QA