Data Design Contracts in London

Data Design
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 337 437
Rank change year-on-year +17 +100 -18
Contract jobs citing Data Design 33 54 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.30% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.34% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 47 37
10th Percentile £460 £462 £433
25th Percentile £525 £563 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £800 £650
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +23.08% -2.99%
75th Percentile £675 £925 £850
90th Percentile £750 £935 £895
England median daily rate £600 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% -7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Design 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 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in London

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in London

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in London

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Design in London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in London

Data Design
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 Data Design within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West London - 3 £550 - 4
Central London - 2 - - 4
Data Design
England

Data Design
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 1 (3.03%) Apache
1 1 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (15.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (3.03%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 10 (30.30%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) AWS
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Data Factory
3 5 (15.15%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (12.12%) Amazon S3
4 4 (12.12%) SaaS
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.06%) Collibra
5 2 (6.06%) IaaS
5 2 (6.06%) PaaS
6 1 (3.03%) dbt
6 1 (3.03%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (27.27%) Data Vault
2 9 (27.27%) Relational Database
3 5 (15.15%) Amazon Redshift
3 5 (15.15%) Data Mart
3 5 (15.15%) Tableau
4 4 (12.12%) Data Lake
4 4 (12.12%) Metadata
4 4 (12.12%) RDBMS
4 4 (12.12%) SQL Server
5 3 (9.09%) SAP BW
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (6.06%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.06%) Data Mining
7 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
7 1 (3.03%) Big Data
7 1 (3.03%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Git
General
1 10 (30.30%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (24.24%) Retail
3 7 (21.21%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (18.18%) Finance
5 4 (12.12%) Banking
5 4 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (9.09%) Social Skills
7 2 (6.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Senior
2 8 (24.24%) Architect
3 7 (21.21%) Data Modeller
4 6 (18.18%) Data Architect
4 6 (18.18%) Lead
5 5 (15.15%) Data Engineer
5 5 (15.15%) Senior Data Engineer
6 4 (12.12%) Analyst
6 4 (12.12%) Data Analyst
7 3 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Data Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Azure Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Analyst
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Data Architect
8 2 (6.06%) Senior Developer
9 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
1 5 (15.15%) .NET Core
1 5 (15.15%) .NET Framework
1 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
1 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET Web API
1 5 (15.15%) Autofac
1 5 (15.15%) Dapper ORM
1 5 (15.15%) Entity Framework
1 5 (15.15%) REST
1 5 (15.15%) StructureMap
1 5 (15.15%) WCF
1 5 (15.15%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) N-Tier
2 3 (9.09%) Reference Data
3 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Cloud
3 2 (6.06%) Life Science
3 2 (6.06%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) Data Modelling
2 13 (39.39%) Data Governance
3 10 (30.30%) Design Patterns
4 8 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (24.24%) Data Management
4 8 (24.24%) Kimball Methodology
5 7 (21.21%) Agile
5 7 (21.21%) Analytics
5 7 (21.21%) Data Architecture
5 7 (21.21%) Data Strategy
6 6 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 6 (18.18%) Data Science
6 6 (18.18%) Migration
6 6 (18.18%) Scrum
7 5 (15.15%) CRM
7 5 (15.15%) MVC
7 5 (15.15%) OOP
7 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (15.15%) TDD
7 5 (15.15%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) C#
2 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (24.24%) Degree
2 5 (15.15%) MCPD
2 5 (15.15%) MCSD
2 5 (15.15%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.06%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.03%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.03%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 3 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (3.03%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) NIST
Vendors
1 9 (27.27%) SAP
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Pega
4 1 (3.03%) Sparx