Data Technician Contracts in England

Data Technician
UK > England

The median Data Technician daily rate in England is £298 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 522 658 781
Rank change year-on-year +136 +123 -173
Contract jobs requiring a Data Technician 28 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.075% 0.014% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.015% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 3
10th Percentile £162 £201 £275
25th Percentile £252 £201 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £205 £350
Median % change year-on-year +45.12% -41.43% +40.00%
75th Percentile £335 £211 -
90th Percentile £353 £214 -
UK median daily rate £298 £200 £350
% change year-on-year +48.75% -42.86% +75.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile - £14.35 -
25th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 -
Median hourly rate £14.46 £15.75 -
Median % change year-on-year -8.19% - -
75th Percentile £15.23 £20.25 -
90th Percentile £19.21 £22.35 -
UK median hourly rate £14.46 £19.13 -
% change year-on-year -24.39% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Data Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Data Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Technician in England

Data Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Technician in England

Data Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Technician in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Technician in England

Data Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Technician in England

Data Technician
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Technician in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Technician in England

Data Technician
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 Technician within the England region over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +109 9 £275 +30.95% 2
South East +27 9 £295 +47.50% 9
South West +27 7 - - 7
North of England +32 3 £338 - 6
Yorkshire - 3 £338 - 1
Data Technician
UK

Data Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Data Technician contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Data Technician in the job title.

1 20 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
3 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
4 8 (28.57%) Linux
5 7 (25.00%) SLA
5 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
5 7 (25.00%) Degree
5 7 (25.00%) CITP
5 7 (25.00%) Police
5 7 (25.00%) Driving Licence
6 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (17.86%) Data Centre Operations
6 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
6 5 (17.86%) Workflow
6 5 (17.86%) Finance
7 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
7 4 (14.29%) A+ Certification
7 4 (14.29%) Telnet
7 4 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (14.29%) SSH
7 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
7 4 (14.29%) Runbook
7 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (14.29%) Tech Ops
8 3 (10.71%) Server Management
8 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
8 3 (10.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (10.71%) Windows 10

Data Technician Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) AutoCAD
3 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.57%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) SSH
1 4 (14.29%) Telnet
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (10.71%) DHCP
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Junos
2 3 (10.71%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (7.14%) LAN
3 2 (7.14%) SAN
3 2 (7.14%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.57%) Power BI
1 1 (3.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Hudson
General
1 10 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.00%) Police
3 5 (17.86%) Finance
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
5 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 20 (71.43%) Data Centre
2 7 (25.00%) Driving Licence
3 3 (10.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 10
2 3 (10.71%) Windows 7
3 2 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (25.00%) Digital Forensics
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science
2 5 (17.86%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (17.86%) Workflow
3 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 4 (14.29%) Runbook
3 4 (14.29%) Tech Ops
4 3 (10.71%) Data Management
4 3 (10.71%) Migration
4 3 (10.71%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (10.71%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (10.71%) Server Management
5 2 (7.14%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (7.14%) Data Protection
5 2 (7.14%) Incident Management
5 2 (7.14%) Issue Tracking
5 2 (7.14%) ITIL
5 2 (7.14%) Line Management
5 2 (7.14%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Bash
1 3 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (25.00%) CITP
1 7 (25.00%) Degree
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 4 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (10.71%) CCNA
4 3 (10.71%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (10.71%) Server+ Certification
4 3 (10.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) SLA
2 3 (10.71%) QA
3 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.71%) Hyper-V
1 3 (10.71%) KVM
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (10.71%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 13 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco
2 3 (10.71%) Juniper
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
3 1 (3.57%) Dell
3 1 (3.57%) HP
3 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow