Data Design Contracts in England

Data Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 418 576 519
Rank change year-on-year +158 -57 -64
Contract jobs citing Data Design 119 78 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.32% 0.16% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.17% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 45 181
10th Percentile £433 £422 £463
25th Percentile £513 £500 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £600 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -7.69% -8.77%
75th Percentile £825 £813 £738
90th Percentile £925 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £625 £613 £650
% change year-on-year +2.04% -5.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

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 2 May 2024.

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 2 May 2024. 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 +102 52 £800 +18.52% 7
Midlands +46 21 £625 +11.11% 1
East of England +29 16 £525 +172.02% 6
South West +38 12 £475 -13.64% 2
West Midlands +30 12 £650 +15.56% 1
South East +24 11 £540 -10.00% 3
North of England +40 10 £704 +67.62% 2
East Midlands - 9 £525 -
North West +24 7 £700 +66.67% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £732 - 1
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 2 (1.68%) CMS
2 1 (0.84%) Apache
2 1 (0.84%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (4.20%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 16 (13.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (8.40%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.84%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.84%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 11 (9.24%) Azure
1 11 (9.24%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.56%) SaaS
3 7 (5.88%) AWS
4 6 (5.04%) IaaS
4 6 (5.04%) PaaS
5 4 (3.36%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.52%) Amazon S3
6 3 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.52%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.52%) Serverless
6 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
7 2 (1.68%) Amazon Neptune
7 2 (1.68%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.68%) Azure Storage
7 2 (1.68%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (1.68%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.68%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (32.77%) Metadata
2 34 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
3 28 (23.53%) Data Vault
3 28 (23.53%) NoSQL
4 20 (16.81%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (9.24%) Power BI
6 8 (6.72%) RDBMS
6 8 (6.72%) Relational Database
7 5 (4.20%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.20%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.20%) Tableau
8 4 (3.36%) Big Data
8 4 (3.36%) Data Mining
8 4 (3.36%) QlikView
8 4 (3.36%) Star Schema
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (1.68%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (1.68%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (1.68%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (3.36%) ERwin
2 3 (2.52%) JMeter
3 2 (1.68%) kappa
4 1 (0.84%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.89%) Finance
3 27 (22.69%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.76%) Electronics
4 14 (11.76%) Manufacturing
4 14 (11.76%) Marketing
4 14 (11.76%) Telecoms
5 12 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (10.08%) Influencing Skills
6 10 (8.40%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (7.56%) Banking
8 5 (4.20%) Retail
9 4 (3.36%) General Ledger
10 3 (2.52%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.68%) Billing
11 2 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.84%) Local Government
12 1 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.84%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 61 (51.26%) Architect
2 54 (45.38%) Data Architect
3 24 (20.17%) Chief Architect
3 24 (20.17%) Chief Data Architect
4 9 (7.56%) Enterprise Architect
4 9 (7.56%) Head of Architecture
4 9 (7.56%) Head of Data Architecture
5 8 (6.72%) Analyst
5 8 (6.72%) Data Modeller
6 7 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 7 (5.88%) Lead
7 6 (5.04%) Developer
7 6 (5.04%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (4.20%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.36%) Business Architect
9 4 (3.36%) Consultant
9 4 (3.36%) Qlik Developer
9 4 (3.36%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (2.52%) Azure Data Engineer
10 3 (2.52%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.52%) Kafka
1 3 (2.52%) PySpark
2 2 (1.68%) Web Services
3 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.84%) Middleware
3 1 (0.84%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.17%) Reference Data
2 10 (8.40%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Cloud
4 6 (5.04%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (5.04%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.20%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.36%) CMDB
7 3 (2.52%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.84%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (44.54%) Data Architecture
1 53 (44.54%) Data Modelling
2 40 (33.61%) Data Governance
3 35 (29.41%) Business Intelligence
3 35 (29.41%) Migration
4 33 (27.73%) Data Strategy
5 28 (23.53%) UML
6 27 (22.69%) Analytics
6 27 (22.69%) Data Integration
7 23 (19.33%) Business Strategy
8 22 (18.49%) Data Migration
9 21 (17.65%) Data Management
10 16 (13.45%) Programme Management
11 15 (12.61%) ETL
12 14 (11.76%) Agile
12 14 (11.76%) Data Analysis
12 14 (11.76%) Digital Marketing
13 13 (10.92%) Roadmaps
14 12 (10.08%) Record to Report
14 12 (10.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (19.33%) SQL
2 5 (4.20%) Python
3 2 (1.68%) Bash
3 2 (1.68%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.84%) C#
4 1 (0.84%) Java
4 1 (0.84%) Scala
Qualifications
1 35 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 23 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (6.72%) Degree
3 8 (6.72%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.36%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.52%) ISEB
5 3 (2.52%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) BC Cleared
7 1 (0.84%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.52%) QA
3 2 (1.68%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) Terraform
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) SAP
2 14 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.40%) Databricks
3 10 (8.40%) ServiceNow
3 10 (8.40%) Sparx
4 7 (5.88%) Ariba
5 6 (5.04%) Oracle
5 6 (5.04%) Remedy
6 5 (4.20%) Autodesk
7 2 (1.68%) Google
7 2 (1.68%) Liquidlogic