Data Mining Contracts in England

Data Mining
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining 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 424 459 540
Rank change year-on-year +35 +81 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 61 83 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 1.33% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 56 74
10th Percentile £388 £275 £393
25th Percentile £444 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £458 £490
Median % change year-on-year +14.75% -6.54% -11.00%
75th Percentile £638 £561 £551
90th Percentile £820 £744 £619
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.86% -11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £30.31 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £48.48 - £22.16
Median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +61.00% +77.56% -34.51%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £32.30
90th Percentile - £62.90 £40.88
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year +61.00% +77.56% -34.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 4,625 6,230 9,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.99% 16.75% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,253 4,477 6,506
10th Percentile £360 £352 £375
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £659 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £788 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 130 166
10th Percentile £19.25 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.98 £33.05
Median hourly rate £32.05 £40.13 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -20.12% -30.87% +35.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.61 £70.19
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in England

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in England

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in England

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in England

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mining in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mining in England

Data Mining
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 Mining 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 +38 42 £550 +15.79% 153
North of England +17 10 £600 +26.32% 7
North West +20 8 £600 +26.32% 4
South West +47 4 £625 +38.89% 14
East of England +31 4 - - 4
Midlands +11 3 £475 +5.56% 9
West Midlands +3 2 £475 +5.56% 6
Yorkshire +3 2 £525 -5.23% 3
South East +39 1 £385 +46.67% 17
East Midlands +10 1 - - 3
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
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 13 (21.31%) Apache Spark
2 9 (14.75%) SAS
3 3 (4.92%) Confluence
4 2 (3.28%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 16 (26.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (27.87%) Power Platform
2 11 (18.03%) AWS
3 8 (13.11%) Azure
4 5 (8.20%) GCP
4 5 (8.20%) SaaS
5 3 (4.92%) Collibra
5 3 (4.92%) dbt
6 2 (3.28%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.28%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.64%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.64%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.64%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (1.64%) IaaS
7 1 (1.64%) PaaS
7 1 (1.64%) Serverless
7 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.64%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (27.87%) Power BI
2 13 (21.31%) Tableau
3 11 (18.03%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (16.39%) Big Data
4 10 (16.39%) Metadata
5 4 (6.56%) Data Vault
5 4 (6.56%) QlikView
6 3 (4.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.92%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.92%) ThoughtSpot
7 2 (3.28%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (3.28%) Data Hub
7 2 (3.28%) Hadoop
7 2 (3.28%) MySQL
7 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.64%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (13.11%) JIRA
2 4 (6.56%) Git
3 2 (3.28%) TestRail
4 1 (1.64%) PyCharm
General
1 18 (29.51%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (24.59%) Social Skills
3 12 (19.67%) Banking
4 6 (9.84%) Finance
5 5 (8.20%) Marketing
5 5 (8.20%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.28%) Police
8 1 (1.64%) Back Office
8 1 (1.64%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.64%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (24.59%) Analyst
2 13 (21.31%) Data Scientist
3 12 (19.67%) Data Analyst
4 9 (14.75%) Architect
4 9 (14.75%) Data Architect
4 9 (14.75%) Senior
5 8 (13.11%) Data Engineer
6 7 (11.48%) Machine Learning Engineer
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Architect
7 5 (8.20%) Senior Data Architect
8 4 (6.56%) Banking Analyst
8 4 (6.56%) Big Data Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.92%) Java Engineer
9 3 (4.92%) Python Engineer
10 2 (3.28%) Consultant
10 2 (3.28%) Developer
10 2 (3.28%) QA Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) SAS Data Analyst
10 2 (3.28%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) Ray
2 4 (6.56%) Kafka
3 3 (4.92%) D3.js
3 3 (4.92%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.92%) TensorFlow
4 2 (3.28%) NumPy
4 2 (3.28%) Pandas
5 1 (1.64%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.64%) pydantic
5 1 (1.64%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.64%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) Management Information System
1 8 (13.11%) Reference Data
2 7 (11.48%) Distributed Computing
2 7 (11.48%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (9.84%) Algorithms
4 4 (6.56%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (6.56%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.56%) Multi-touch
4 4 (6.56%) Tandem
5 3 (4.92%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.92%) Taxonomies
6 2 (3.28%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.28%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.64%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Data Science
2 23 (37.70%) Data Modelling
3 20 (32.79%) Machine Learning
4 19 (31.15%) Analytics
4 19 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (31.15%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (31.15%) Visualisation
5 18 (29.51%) Data Visualisation
6 15 (24.59%) Agile
6 15 (24.59%) Data Analysis
7 12 (19.67%) Actionable Insight
7 12 (19.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 12 (19.67%) Data Strategy
8 10 (16.39%) Computer Science
8 10 (16.39%) Conceptual Models
8 10 (16.39%) Metadata Management
9 9 (14.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (14.75%) Data Governance
9 9 (14.75%) Data Management
9 9 (14.75%) Deep Learning
Programming Languages
1 43 (70.49%) SQL
2 35 (57.38%) Python
3 9 (14.75%) R
4 8 (13.11%) C
4 8 (13.11%) C++
4 8 (13.11%) Java
4 8 (13.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.92%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.64%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.64%) Scala
6 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (19.67%) Degree
2 8 (13.11%) Security Cleared
3 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.56%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.56%) PhD
5 1 (1.64%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.67%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.84%) GDPR
3 4 (6.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 4 (6.56%) QA
4 3 (4.92%) Accessibility
4 3 (4.92%) Basel II
5 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.64%) Basel III
5 1 (1.64%) COBIT
5 1 (1.64%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle
2 7 (11.48%) Databricks
3 5 (8.20%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.56%) IBM
5 3 (4.92%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.92%) Informatica
5 3 (4.92%) SAP
6 2 (3.28%) Cognos
6 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.28%) Spotify
7 1 (1.64%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.64%) Intel