Data Lineage Contracts in England

Data Lineage
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage 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 427 390 566
Rank change year-on-year -37 +176 +73
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 58 152 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.41% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.47% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 112 50
10th Percentile £384 £400 £498
25th Percentile £513 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% -10.42% -
75th Percentile £752 £695 £722
90th Percentile £838 £800 £776
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Lineage 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 Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in England

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in England

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in England

Data Lineage
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 Lineage 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 -40 38 £560 +1.82% 41
North of England +12 8 £525 -4.55% 18
Yorkshire +7 5 £650 -18.70% 9
Midlands +20 4 £413 -19.02% 18
North East +1 3 £525 - 2
East Midlands - 3 £413 - 7
South East +40 2 £800 +77.78% 34
East of England - 2 - - 12
West Midlands +9 1 - - 10
Data Lineage
UK

Data Lineage
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 8 (13.79%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (10.34%) Apache
3 5 (8.62%) Confluence
4 4 (6.90%) SAS
5 1 (1.72%) Camunda
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (10.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.45%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.72%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 12 (20.69%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) Collibra
3 9 (15.52%) AWS
4 8 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (13.79%) GCP
5 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.17%) Alation
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.45%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub
8 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (31.03%) Metadata
2 15 (25.86%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (12.07%) Data Lake
3 7 (12.07%) Data Mining
3 7 (12.07%) Power BI
4 6 (10.34%) Flink
4 6 (10.34%) NoSQL
5 5 (8.62%) Tableau
6 4 (6.90%) QlikView
6 4 (6.90%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.45%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (3.45%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.72%) Big Data
8 1 (1.72%) DbVisualizer
8 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) ERwin
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) MagicDraw
2 2 (3.45%) XMLSpy
3 1 (1.72%) Postman
3 1 (1.72%) Selenium
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 13 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (22.41%) Banking
4 6 (10.34%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.62%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Legal
6 2 (3.45%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
7 1 (1.72%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (32.76%) Analyst
2 13 (22.41%) Data Analyst
3 10 (17.24%) Lead
4 8 (13.79%) Data Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Architect
5 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (6.90%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Data Modeller
8 2 (3.45%) Data Quality Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Developer
8 2 (3.45%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) SAS Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) SAS Data Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) PySpark
2 5 (8.62%) Kafka
3 2 (3.45%) FpML
3 2 (3.45%) XML
4 1 (1.72%) LDAP
4 1 (1.72%) Pandas
4 1 (1.72%) Prophet
4 1 (1.72%) pytest
4 1 (1.72%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (8.62%) Reference Data
2 3 (5.17%) Derivative
2 3 (5.17%) OTC Derivatives
2 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.17%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.45%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.72%) CMDB
4 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.72%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.72%) DTCC
4 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.72%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (55.17%) Data Governance
2 31 (53.45%) Data Modelling
3 25 (43.10%) Data Management
4 20 (34.48%) Agile
4 20 (34.48%) Visualisation
5 19 (32.76%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (29.31%) ETL
7 16 (27.59%) Analytics
7 16 (27.59%) Metadata Management
8 14 (24.14%) Data Analysis
9 13 (22.41%) Business Intelligence
10 11 (18.97%) Data Integration
10 11 (18.97%) Data Pipeline
10 11 (18.97%) Data Visualisation
11 10 (17.24%) Data Security
12 9 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (13.79%) Data Architecture
13 8 (13.79%) Data Science
13 8 (13.79%) Workflow
14 7 (12.07%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 28 (48.28%) SQL
2 23 (39.66%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) C#
4 2 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (3.45%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.45%) Scala
5 1 (1.72%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (12.07%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (56.90%) Data Quality
2 8 (13.79%) GDPR
3 7 (12.07%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (6.90%) Accessibility
4 4 (6.90%) QA
5 1 (1.72%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.72%) EMIR
5 1 (1.72%) MiFID
5 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.72%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.72%) Kibana
2 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (17.24%) Informatica
2 7 (12.07%) Google
3 5 (8.62%) Databricks
4 4 (6.90%) Ab Initio
4 4 (6.90%) IBM
5 3 (5.17%) Oracle
6 2 (3.45%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.45%) SAP
7 1 (1.72%) Aderant
7 1 (1.72%) Adobe
7 1 (1.72%) Foundry
7 1 (1.72%) Palantir
7 1 (1.72%) Pega
7 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.72%) Splunk
7 1 (1.72%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.72%) Talend