Data Design Contracts in England

Data Design
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design 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 419 421 570
Rank change year-on-year +2 +149 -52
Contract jobs citing Data Design 66 121 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.33% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.38% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 97 51
10th Percentile £500 £433 £406
25th Percentile £550 £513 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%
75th Percentile £678 £825 £788
90th Percentile £744 £925 £875
UK median daily rate £600 £613 £600
% change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Design 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 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in England

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Design in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
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 Design 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 +17 33 £600 -25.00% 23
East of England +31 17 £600 +14.29% 30
North of England +22 13 £625 -11.22% 39
North West +22 12 £575 -17.86% 21
South West +36 2 £530 +11.58% 21
Yorkshire +6 1 £700 -4.37% 14
West Midlands +3 1 - - 19
Midlands +2 1 - - 33
Data Design
UK

Data Design
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 1 (1.52%) Apache
1 1 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (36.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.52%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.76%) Azure
2 8 (12.12%) AWS
2 8 (12.12%) Azure Data Factory
3 6 (9.09%) SaaS
4 5 (7.58%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (6.06%) Amazon S3
5 4 (6.06%) IaaS
5 4 (6.06%) PaaS
6 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.55%) GCP
7 2 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (3.03%) Collibra
8 1 (1.52%) dbt
8 1 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.52%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (18.18%) Data Vault
3 9 (13.64%) Relational Database
4 5 (7.58%) Amazon Redshift
4 5 (7.58%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.58%) Data Mart
4 5 (7.58%) Metadata
4 5 (7.58%) SQL Server
4 5 (7.58%) Tableau
5 4 (6.06%) RDBMS
6 3 (4.55%) Bigtable
6 3 (4.55%) SAP BW
7 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 2 (3.03%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.03%) Big Data
7 2 (3.03%) Data Mining
8 1 (1.52%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.52%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) ERwin
2 3 (4.55%) ER Studio
3 1 (1.52%) Git
General
1 21 (31.82%) Pharmaceutical
2 17 (25.76%) Finance
3 16 (24.24%) Social Skills
4 15 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (13.64%) Banking
6 8 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (12.12%) Retail
7 4 (6.06%) Legal
7 4 (6.06%) Manufacturing
7 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Lead
2 14 (21.21%) Architect
3 11 (16.67%) Senior
4 10 (15.15%) Data Architect
4 10 (15.15%) Data Modeller
5 6 (9.09%) Data Engineer
6 5 (7.58%) Senior Data Engineer
7 4 (6.06%) Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Data Analyst
7 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (4.55%) Data Migration Expert
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Data Engineer
9 2 (3.03%) Azure Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.03%) Developer
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (3.03%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.58%) .NET
1 5 (7.58%) .NET Core
1 5 (7.58%) .NET Framework
1 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET
1 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (7.58%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (7.58%) Autofac
1 5 (7.58%) Dapper ORM
1 5 (7.58%) Entity Framework
1 5 (7.58%) REST
1 5 (7.58%) StructureMap
1 5 (7.58%) WCF
1 5 (7.58%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (24.24%) Life Science
2 7 (10.61%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.58%) N-Tier
4 4 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (6.06%) EPoS
4 4 (6.06%) Reference Data
5 2 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (51.52%) Data Governance
2 30 (45.45%) Migration
3 25 (37.88%) Data Modelling
4 23 (34.85%) Analytics
5 15 (22.73%) Data Migration
5 15 (22.73%) ETL
6 14 (21.21%) Data Management
7 12 (18.18%) Agile
8 11 (16.67%) Data Architecture
8 11 (16.67%) Data Strategy
8 11 (16.67%) Record to Report
9 10 (15.15%) Design Patterns
10 9 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (13.64%) Data Integration
10 9 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (12.12%) Data Mapping
11 8 (12.12%) Kimball Methodology
12 7 (10.61%) Use Case
13 6 (9.09%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.67%) SQL
2 5 (7.58%) C#
2 5 (7.58%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Degree
2 5 (7.58%) MCPD
2 5 (7.58%) MCSD
2 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (30.30%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
3 1 (1.52%) NIST
Vendors
1 33 (50.00%) SAP
2 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
3 6 (9.09%) Databricks
4 5 (7.58%) Ariba
5 3 (4.55%) IDERA
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) IBM
6 1 (1.52%) Oracle
6 1 (1.52%) Pega
6 1 (1.52%) Sparx
6 1 (1.52%) Workday