Data Technician Contracts in England

Data Technician
UK > England

The median Data Technician daily rate in England is £295, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 525 628 784
Rank change year-on-year +103 +156 -137
Contract jobs requiring a Data Technician 25 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.067% 0.017% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.018% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 2 3
10th Percentile £174 £201 £320
25th Percentile £263 £201 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £205 £350
Median % change year-on-year +43.90% -41.43% -
75th Percentile £325 £211 £369
90th Percentile £346 £214 £380
UK median daily rate £295 £200 £350
% change year-on-year +47.50% -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

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 17 June 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
South East +23 9 £295 +47.50% 5
London +88 8 £275 +30.95% 6
South West +8 7 - - 3
North of England +16 1 £320 - 4
Yorkshire - 1 £320 -
Data Technician
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 17 (68.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (32.00%) Linux
3 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
4 7 (28.00%) Police
4 7 (28.00%) Driving Licence
4 7 (28.00%) SLA
4 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (28.00%) Digital Forensics
4 7 (28.00%) CITP
5 5 (20.00%) Workflow
5 5 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
6 4 (16.00%) Tech Ops
6 4 (16.00%) Telnet
6 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (16.00%) Degree
6 4 (16.00%) SSH
6 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (12.00%) Junos
7 3 (12.00%) Hudson
7 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 3 (12.00%) Bash
7 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (12.00%) Python
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
7 3 (12.00%) Finance
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco
7 3 (12.00%) Juniper
7 3 (12.00%) Server Management

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 (16.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (4.00%) AutoCAD
3 1 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (4.00%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) SSH
1 4 (16.00%) Telnet
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (12.00%) Junos
3 2 (8.00%) LAN
3 2 (8.00%) SAN
3 2 (8.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (4.00%) DHCP
4 1 (4.00%) DNS
4 1 (4.00%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (4.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Power BI
1 1 (4.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Hudson
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Police
3 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.00%) Banking
4 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 17 (68.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (28.00%) Driving Licence
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (4.00%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Linux
2 2 (8.00%) Unix
3 1 (4.00%) Windows
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Digital Forensics
2 5 (20.00%) Data Centre Operations
2 5 (20.00%) Workflow
3 4 (16.00%) Process Improvement
3 4 (16.00%) Tech Ops
4 3 (12.00%) Computer Science
4 3 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (12.00%) Server Management
5 2 (8.00%) Capacity Management
5 2 (8.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (8.00%) Data Management
5 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL
5 2 (8.00%) Line Management
5 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (8.00%) Runbook
5 2 (8.00%) Ticket Management
6 1 (4.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (4.00%) Decision-Making
6 1 (4.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Bash
1 3 (12.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (28.00%) CITP
1 7 (28.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (8.00%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) A+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.00%) KVM
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) Cisco
2 3 (12.00%) Juniper
3 1 (4.00%) Dell
3 1 (4.00%) HP
3 1 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.00%) VMware