Data Matching Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 - 179
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.046% - 0.021%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.054% - 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
75th Percentile £475 - £475
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +30.00% -6.98% +26.47%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data Matching 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 5,554 2,985 3,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.33% 89.94% 84.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,422 1,922 2,416
10th Percentile £313 £265 £300
25th Percentile £400 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £588
90th Percentile £669 £645 £675
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 359 151 382
10th Percentile £16.14 £12.82 £11.07
25th Percentile £22.68 £17.99 £12.53
Median hourly rate £52.78 £25.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +109.84% +28.97% -29.60%
75th Percentile £71.50 £51.00 £45.88
90th Percentile £80.20 £76.25 £62.50
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
% change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%

Data Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Matching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data Matching job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data Matching
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Matching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Matching

Data Matching
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Matching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data Matching

Data Matching
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 Matching within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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 West - 2 - - 1
North East - 1 £450 -
Data Matching
England

Data Matching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Clean Code
1 2 (66.67%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven
1 2 (66.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) Low Latency
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Data Integration
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft