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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 492 538 603
Rank change year-on-year +46 +65 +182
Contract jobs citing Alation 10 5 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.015% 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.098% 0.044% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile £443 £690 £578
25th Percentile £488 £713 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £750 £925
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% -18.92% +68.18%
75th Percentile £669 £781 £1,013
90th Percentile £718 £793 -
UK median daily rate £513 £750 £925
% change year-on-year -31.67% -18.92% +60.87%

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 10,252 11,453 16,811
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 37.30% 33.35% 36.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,943 8,156 12,369
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £407 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £663
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 267 258 303
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £15.04
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.06 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%
75th Percentile £43.39 £49.69 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £22.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +24.32% -37.14% +56.25%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Alation in England over the 6 months to 29 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 29 July 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 +16 9 £563 -25.00% 2
Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £575 - 1
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 (40.00%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Collibra
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (50.00%) dbt
3 4 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 3 (30.00%) GitHub
4 3 (30.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (10.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (10.00%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (10.00%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Metadata
2 3 (30.00%) Data Vault
2 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Power BI
2 3 (30.00%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (10.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Terragrunt
2 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Data Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Governance Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Data Governance
2 7 (70.00%) Analytics
2 7 (70.00%) Data Modelling
2 7 (70.00%) Data Science
3 5 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) Data Privacy
4 4 (40.00%) Data Lineage
4 4 (40.00%) Data Management
4 4 (40.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (40.00%) Quality Management
4 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (30.00%) Actionable Insight
5 3 (30.00%) DAMA
5 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
5 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (30.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 3 (30.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (70.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (60.00%) GDPR
3 5 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubeflow
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Informatica
2 3 (30.00%) MicroStrategy
3 2 (20.00%) Databricks
4 1 (10.00%) Google