Data Categorisation Contract Job Trends in England

Data Categorization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Categorisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 550 492 -
Rank change year-on-year -58 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Categorisation 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.004% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.004% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £600 - £452
% change year-on-year - - +12.88%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Categorisation 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,729 23,178 33,190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.40% 89.84% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,995 14,353 22,084
10th Percentile £310 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,873 724 1,981
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.29
25th Percentile £18.17 £21.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.18 £73.65
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -1.68%

Data Categorisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Categorisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Categorisation job vacancy trend in England

Data Categorisation
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Categorisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Categorisation

Data Categorisation
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 Data Categorisation within the England region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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 1 - - 2
South West - 1 £600 - 1
Data Categorisation
UK

Data Categorisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Data Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) NLTK
1 1 (50.00%) Pandas
1 1 (50.00%) SpaCy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (50.00%) QA