Data Development Contracts in London

Data Development
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development 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 330 367 458
Rank change year-on-year +37 +91 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Development 23 24 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.18% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.15% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 18
10th Percentile £510 £527 £501
25th Percentile £576 £600 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £670 £725 £725
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% - +3.57%
75th Percentile £775 £750 £819
90th Percentile £875 £785 £904
England median daily rate £670 £560 £650
% change year-on-year +19.64% -13.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
75th Percentile £67.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £17.25 -
% change year-on-year +276.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Data Development 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 Development
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in London

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Development in London

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in London

Data Development
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 Development 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
Central London +4 10 £670 +10.74% 3
Data Development
England

Data Development
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 6 (26.09%) BizTalk Server
Cloud Services
1 11 (47.83%) AWS
2 10 (43.48%) Azure
2 10 (43.48%) Power Platform
3 8 (34.78%) Azure Logic Apps
3 8 (34.78%) Serverless
4 7 (30.43%) Azure Functions
5 6 (26.09%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (26.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 6 (26.09%) dbt
6 5 (21.74%) Azure Storage
6 5 (21.74%) Snowflake
7 3 (13.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (8.70%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub
8 2 (8.70%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (43.48%) Power BI
2 7 (30.43%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (26.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (26.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (13.04%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (8.70%) NoSQL
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata
6 1 (4.35%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
1 3 (13.04%) Maven
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (17.39%) Back Office
3 4 (17.39%) Front Office
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Advertising
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Marketing
5 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Developer
2 7 (30.43%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Lead
3 6 (26.09%) Lead Architect
3 6 (26.09%) Snowflake Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Data Architect
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Data Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Lead Developer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Snowflake Architect
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Developer
6 2 (8.70%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Algorithmic Trading Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (39.13%) .NET
1 9 (39.13%) .NET Core
2 6 (26.09%) Blazor
3 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
3 3 (13.04%) JPA
3 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 3 (13.04%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.35%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Cloud Native
2 5 (21.74%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (21.74%) TWAP
2 5 (21.74%) VWAP
3 4 (17.39%) Algorithms
4 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.35%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (4.35%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 9 (39.13%) CI/CD
3 8 (34.78%) Full-Stack Development
4 7 (30.43%) Algorithmic Trading
4 7 (30.43%) Data Integration
4 7 (30.43%) Multithreading
5 6 (26.09%) Low Latency
5 6 (26.09%) Microservices
5 6 (26.09%) SDLC
5 6 (26.09%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (21.74%) Data Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Data Strategy
6 5 (21.74%) Front End Development
6 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 5 (21.74%) Software Engineering
7 4 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (17.39%) Data Architecture
7 4 (17.39%) ETRM
7 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) SQL
2 11 (47.83%) Python
3 7 (30.43%) C++
3 7 (30.43%) Go
4 6 (26.09%) JavaScript
4 6 (26.09%) PL/SQL
4 6 (26.09%) T-SQL
5 5 (21.74%) C#
6 1 (4.35%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
2 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (34.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) MuleSoft
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy