Data Categorisation Contract Job Trends in London

Data Categorization
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Categorisation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 352 -
Rank change year-on-year -38 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Categorisation 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.007% 0.007% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.008% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £600 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data Categorisation 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,811 12,212 16,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.59% 90.65% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,208 7,805 11,726
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 344
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.03 £16.02
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.94 £19.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.04% +24.17% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.50 £55.38 £51.94
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.88 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Data Categorisation
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Categorisation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Categorisation job vacancy trend in London

Data Categorisation
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Categorisation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Categorisation

Data Categorisation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Retail
1 1 (100.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Engineering Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NLTK
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) SpaCy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA