IDERA Contract Job Trends in England

IDERA
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of IDERA products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited IDERA over the 6 months leading up to 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within IDERA, Inc.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 551 473 -
Rank change year-on-year -78 - -
Contract jobs citing IDERA 3 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.016% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.019% 0.034% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £508 -
25th Percentile - £519 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -
75th Percentile £600 £556 -
90th Percentile £630 £568 -
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -4.35%

All Vendors
England

IDERA falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 15,438 11,918 16,394
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.02% 46.49% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,080 7,250 10,526
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £706 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 791 336 853
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.89
25th Percentile £18.02 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £26.78
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +15.35% -20.06%
75th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.63 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £26.78
% change year-on-year -20.58% +12.02% -18.85%

IDERA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing IDERA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

IDERA job vacancy trend in England

IDERA
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IDERA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing IDERA

IDERA
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 IDERA within the England region over the 6 months to 17 February 2026. 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 -29 2 £550 +10.00%
North West -30 1 £650 +13.04% 1
North of England -62 1 £650 +13.04% 1
IDERA
UK

IDERA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Collibra
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
1 1 (33.33%) Semaphore
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Metadata
2 1 (33.33%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) RStudio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Architect
1 2 (66.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Reference Data
2 1 (33.33%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Data Mapping
2 2 (66.67%) ETL
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) LLM
3 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
3 1 (33.33%) RDF
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Databricks
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft