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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 383 563
Rank change year-on-year -29 +180 +70
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 63 157 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.26% 0.43% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.50% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 113 52
10th Percentile £397 £400 £500
25th Percentile £513 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £746 £688 £684
90th Percentile £779 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
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 22,321 31,446 43,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.20% 86.42% 90.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,602 20,588 30,513
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 2,245 1,538
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £15.92 £16.23
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +1.39% +44.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.27 £35.65
% change year-on-year -22.81% +1.75% +38.82%

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 17 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 17 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 -42 43 £570 +3.64% 39
North of England +12 8 £525 -4.55% 12
Yorkshire +13 5 £650 -18.70% 6
Midlands +14 4 £413 -8.22% 2
South East +42 3 £775 +72.22% 13
East Midlands +12 3 £413 -7.19% 1
North East -2 3 £525 - 1
East of England - 2 - - 1
West Midlands +2 1 - - 1
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 10 (15.87%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.52%) Apache
3 5 (7.94%) Confluence
4 4 (6.35%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.17%) Notepad++
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Maximo
1 2 (3.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.59%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 12 (19.05%) Azure
2 11 (17.46%) AWS
3 9 (14.29%) Collibra
4 8 (12.70%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (12.70%) GCP
5 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.76%) Alation
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (34.92%) Metadata
2 17 (26.98%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 9 (14.29%) Data Mining
4 7 (11.11%) NoSQL
4 7 (11.11%) Power BI
5 6 (9.52%) Flink
5 6 (9.52%) Tableau
6 4 (6.35%) QlikView
6 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.76%) Big Data
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (3.17%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
9 1 (1.59%) DbVisualizer
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
9 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (1.59%) Snowflake Schema
9 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (1.59%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 2 (3.17%) ERwin
2 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) MagicDraw
2 2 (3.17%) XMLSpy
3 1 (1.59%) Postman
3 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 23 (36.51%) Finance
3 15 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (22.22%) Banking
5 6 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Police
8 3 (4.76%) Legal
9 2 (3.17%) Retail
10 1 (1.59%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Analyst
2 16 (25.40%) Data Analyst
3 11 (17.46%) Lead
4 10 (15.87%) Data Engineer
5 8 (12.70%) Architect
5 8 (12.70%) Data Architect
6 7 (11.11%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Banking Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Governance Analyst
7 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 4 (6.35%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.17%) C# Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Data Quality Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) Developer
9 2 (3.17%) Insurance Business Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) SAS Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) SAS Data Analyst
9 2 (3.17%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) PySpark
2 6 (9.52%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) FpML
3 2 (3.17%) XML
4 1 (1.59%) LDAP
4 1 (1.59%) Pandas
4 1 (1.59%) Prophet
4 1 (1.59%) pytest
4 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
1 5 (7.94%) Reference Data
2 4 (6.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (4.76%) Derivative
3 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.76%) OTC Derivatives
3 3 (4.76%) Taxonomies
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) CMDB
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.59%) DTCC
5 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (60.32%) Data Governance
2 36 (57.14%) Data Modelling
3 27 (42.86%) Data Management
4 21 (33.33%) Agile
5 20 (31.75%) Visualisation
6 19 (30.16%) Analytics
6 19 (30.16%) ETL
6 19 (30.16%) Metadata Management
6 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (25.40%) Data Integration
8 15 (23.81%) Data Analysis
9 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (20.63%) Data Pipeline
10 12 (19.05%) Data Security
11 11 (17.46%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (15.87%) Data Architecture
12 10 (15.87%) Data Science
13 9 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 8 (12.70%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) SQL
2 27 (42.86%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.17%) Scala
5 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (49.21%) Data Quality
2 10 (15.87%) GDPR
3 7 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (6.35%) QA
5 3 (4.76%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.59%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.59%) EMIR
6 1 (1.59%) MiFID
6 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Kibana
2 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Informatica
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 5 (7.94%) Databricks
4 4 (6.35%) Ab Initio
4 4 (6.35%) IBM
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle
5 3 (4.76%) SAP
6 2 (3.17%) Microsoft
6 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.59%) Aderant
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe
7 1 (1.59%) Foundry
7 1 (1.59%) Palantir
7 1 (1.59%) Splunk
7 1 (1.59%) Talend
7 1 (1.59%) Workday