Data Sharing Contracts in England

Data Sharing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Sharing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Sharing 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 443 501 591
Rank change year-on-year +58 +90 +145
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 42 41 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 23 39
10th Percentile £381 £460 £425
25th Percentile £413 £531 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% -10.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £671
90th Percentile £624 - £690
UK median daily rate £522 £563 £596
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.66% +19.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £22.48
25th Percentile - - £29.56
Median hourly rate £12.45 £35.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.43% -16.17% +81.52%
75th Percentile - - £53.56
90th Percentile - - £60.43
UK median hourly rate £12.45 £35.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year -64.43% -16.17% +81.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Sharing 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 Sharing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Sharing in England

Data Sharing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Sharing in England

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Sharing in England

Data Sharing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Sharing in England

Data Sharing
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 Sharing 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 +28 18 £550 -2.22% 21
South East +48 10 £529 -6.33% 6
Midlands +24 3 £388 +19.23% 8
North of England +21 3 £500 - 2
South West - 3 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £388 - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 1
North West +17 1 £450 - 1
Data Sharing
UK

Data Sharing
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 3 (7.14%) R Markdown
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 4 (9.52%) Power Platform
2 3 (7.14%) Amazon S3
2 3 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) Azure
3 2 (4.76%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.38%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.52%) Power BI
2 3 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.14%) Tableau
3 2 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.76%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (4.76%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.76%) Parquet
3 2 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.76%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.38%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Git
General
1 11 (26.19%) Public Sector
1 11 (26.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (19.05%) Finance
4 5 (11.90%) Law
5 4 (9.52%) Legal
5 4 (9.52%) Military
6 3 (7.14%) Marketing
7 1 (2.38%) Automotive
7 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.38%) Public Speaking
7 1 (2.38%) Retail
7 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) Data Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Architect
2 6 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (11.90%) Developer
4 4 (9.52%) Information Manager
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Manager
5 3 (7.14%) Analyst
5 3 (7.14%) Consultant
5 3 (7.14%) Data Architect
5 3 (7.14%) ServiceNow Developer
6 2 (4.76%) Administrator
6 2 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Lead Data Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.76%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) RESTful
2 3 (7.14%) Kafka
2 3 (7.14%) PySpark
2 3 (7.14%) REST
2 3 (7.14%) Shiny
2 3 (7.14%) SOAP
3 2 (4.76%) FHIR
3 2 (4.76%) JSON
3 2 (4.76%) Plotly
3 2 (4.76%) XML
4 1 (2.38%) JDBC
4 1 (2.38%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.38%) ODBC
4 1 (2.38%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.90%) CMDB
2 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (4.76%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (4.76%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.76%) PACS
2 2 (4.76%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.38%) Clustering
3 1 (2.38%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.38%) NHS
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.38%) Replication
3 1 (2.38%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (23.81%) Data Protection
2 9 (21.43%) Agile
2 9 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (19.05%) ETL
4 7 (16.67%) Data Management
5 6 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 6 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 6 (14.29%) Data Pipeline
5 6 (14.29%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 6 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.90%) Change Management
6 5 (11.90%) CI/CD
6 5 (11.90%) Data Collection
6 5 (11.90%) Data Science
6 5 (11.90%) ITIL
6 5 (11.90%) ITSM
6 5 (11.90%) Service Management
6 5 (11.90%) Validation
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (26.19%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 5 (11.90%) R
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.38%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.38%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.38%) SOQL
5 1 (2.38%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.38%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.67%) GDPR
2 6 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 4 (9.52%) Data Quality
4 3 (7.14%) WCAG
5 2 (4.76%) DICOM
5 2 (4.76%) HL7
6 1 (2.38%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 6 (14.29%) ServiceNow
2 2 (4.76%) Databricks
2 2 (4.76%) Palantir
2 2 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.38%) Foundry
3 1 (2.38%) iManage
3 1 (2.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.38%) MuleSoft