Data Development Contracts in the North of England

Data Development
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 164 184 214
Rank change year-on-year +20 +30 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Development 2 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.061% 0.021% 0.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.067% 0.024% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £381 £625
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £388 £650
Median % change year-on-year - -40.38% +26.21%
75th Percentile - £394 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £670 £560 £650
% change year-on-year +19.64% -13.85% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing Data Development as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the North of England

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Development in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Development in the North of England

Data Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Development in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Development in the North of England

Data Development
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North East - 2 - - 1
Data Development
England

Data Development
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (100.00%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (100.00%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Kafka
1 2 (100.00%) PySpark
1 2 (100.00%) Spring
1 2 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Databricks