Alation Contracts in England

Alation
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alation 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 478 535 638
Rank change year-on-year +57 +103 +132
Contract jobs citing Alation 7 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.029% 0.019% 0.030%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.077% 0.059% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 12
10th Percentile - £675 £550
25th Percentile £413 £700 £653
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £750 £925
Median % change year-on-year -43.33% -18.92% +94.74%
75th Percentile £438 £788 £1,013
90th Percentile - £793 -
UK median daily rate £438 £750 £725
% change year-on-year -41.67% +3.45% +41.46%

All Cloud Skills
England

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 9,062 11,852 18,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.21% 31.87% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,341 8,544 13,518
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £669
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 194 321 311
10th Percentile £15.03 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.85 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%
75th Percentile £40.50 £32.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.38 £61.60 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in England

Alation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Alation in England.

Daily rate trend for Alation in England

Alation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +38 7 £425 -43.33% 4
Alation
UK

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) dbt
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Collibra
2 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 3 (42.86%) Power Platform
2 3 (42.86%) Snowflake
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (14.29%) Fivetran
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Data Vault
1 3 (42.86%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (42.86%) Metadata
1 3 (42.86%) Power BI
1 3 (42.86%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (14.29%) BigQuery
2 1 (14.29%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Governance
1 6 (85.71%) Data Science
2 5 (71.43%) Data Modelling
3 4 (57.14%) Analytics
3 4 (57.14%) Data Engineering
4 3 (42.86%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (42.86%) DAMA
4 3 (42.86%) Data Lineage
4 3 (42.86%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (42.86%) Data Privacy
4 3 (42.86%) Data Transformation
4 3 (42.86%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (42.86%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (42.86%) Metadata Management
4 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Regulatory Compliance
4 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (42.86%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) Data Quality
2 3 (42.86%) Accessibility
2 3 (42.86%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Informatica
1 3 (42.86%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (14.29%) Google