Alation Contracts in London

Alation
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alation over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 385 458
Rank change year-on-year +23 +73 +147
Contract jobs citing Alation 9 5 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.066% 0.030% 0.065%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.075% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 13
10th Percentile £436 £690 £578
25th Percentile £472 £713 £763
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £750 £925
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -18.92% +64.44%
75th Percentile £672 £781 £1,013
90th Percentile £719 £793 -
England median daily rate £575 £750 £925
% change year-on-year -23.33% -18.92% +68.18%

All Cloud Skills
London

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 5,826 6,659 9,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.84% 40.57% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,991 4,860 7,247
10th Percentile £340 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £788
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 50 69
10th Percentile £22.60 £20.45 £16.63
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -48.57% +26.51%
75th Percentile £45.63 £42.06 £72.50
90th Percentile £67.11 £66.10 £87.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in London

Alation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Alation in London.

Daily rate trend for Alation in London

Alation
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Alation in London over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Alation in London

Alation
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the London region over the 6 months to 30 July 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
Central London +9 2 £700 -12.50%
Alation
England

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (44.44%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Collibra
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
2 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) dbt
2 4 (44.44%) Snowflake
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
3 3 (33.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (22.22%) GCP
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (11.11%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 3 (33.33%) Data Vault
2 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (33.33%) Power BI
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (11.11%) BigQuery
3 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Terragrunt
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Data Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Lead
2 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Data Governance Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Governance Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Governance
2 7 (77.78%) Data Science
3 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 6 (66.67%) Data Modelling
4 5 (55.56%) Artificial Intelligence
4 5 (55.56%) Data Engineering
5 4 (44.44%) Data Lineage
5 4 (44.44%) Data Management
5 4 (44.44%) Data Privacy
5 4 (44.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 4 (44.44%) Quality Management
5 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (33.33%) Data Governance Strategy
6 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (33.33%) Data Security
6 3 (33.33%) ETL
6 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
6 3 (33.33%) Information Management
6 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
2 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) Data Quality
2 5 (55.56%) GDPR
3 4 (44.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Informatica
1 3 (33.33%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Google