Data Collection Contracts in the South East

Data Collection
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection 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 127 190 200
Rank change year-on-year +63 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 32 15 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 0.27% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 15
10th Percentile £365 £278 £204
25th Percentile £406 £418 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +39.39%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £472 £475
% change year-on-year +11.25% -0.65% -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
10th Percentile £16.89 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £16.36 -
Median hourly rate £19.36 £21.45 £21.22
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +1.06% -55.33%
75th Percentile £20.82 £26.88 -
90th Percentile £21.59 £31.56 -
England median hourly rate £26.94 £17.64 £19.61
% change year-on-year +52.74% -10.05% -56.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Data Collection 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in the South East

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in the South East

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in the South East

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in the South East

Data Collection
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the South East 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
Thames Valley +48 13 £494 - 17
Berkshire +40 12 £413 - 10
Surrey +17 4 £365 -43.85% 4
East Sussex -3 2 - -
Hampshire - 2 £500 - 3
Buckinghamshire +14 1 £575 - 2
Middlesex - 1 - - 2
Home Counties - 1 - -
Data Collection
England

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (6.25%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.50%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (3.13%) GCP
3 1 (3.13%) Google Ads
3 1 (3.13%) Google Data Studio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) 802.11
1 3 (9.38%) VLAN
1 3 (9.38%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (9.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (15.63%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (15.63%) Power BI
1 5 (15.63%) Tableau
2 4 (12.50%) Qlik Sense
3 2 (6.25%) Apache Hive
3 2 (6.25%) Big Data
3 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
3 2 (6.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (6.25%) MySQL
3 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.25%) Spark SQL
4 1 (3.13%) Looker
4 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Selenium
General
1 13 (40.63%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
3 2 (6.25%) Marketing
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) FPGA Engineer
2 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 7 (21.88%) Data Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Senior
3 3 (9.38%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Big Data Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Hadoop Developer
4 2 (6.25%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Digital Marketing Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Master Data Consultant
5 1 (3.13%) Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Data Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Systems Test Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) 802.1X
2 2 (6.25%) Kafka
2 2 (6.25%) PySpark
3 1 (3.13%) Loki
3 1 (3.13%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (3.13%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) FPGA
1 9 (28.13%) Verilog
2 7 (21.88%) Algorithms
3 4 (12.50%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 9 (28.13%) Linux
1 9 (28.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (43.75%) Validation
2 9 (28.13%) FPGA Design
2 9 (28.13%) Software Engineering
2 9 (28.13%) Test Automation
3 8 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 8 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.88%) Exploratory Testing
4 7 (21.88%) Mathematics
4 7 (21.88%) Optimization Problems
4 7 (21.88%) Scenario Testing
5 6 (18.75%) Agile
6 5 (15.63%) Analytics
6 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (15.63%) Functional Testing
7 4 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
7 4 (12.50%) Data Analysis
7 4 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 4 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (9.38%) Computer Science
8 3 (9.38%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 19 (59.38%) Python
2 9 (28.13%) Shell Script
2 9 (28.13%) SystemVerilog
2 9 (28.13%) Tcl
3 7 (21.88%) SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Java
5 1 (3.13%) ABAP
5 1 (3.13%) R
Qualifications
1 10 (31.25%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) Master's Degree
3 3 (9.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Grafana
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Xilinx
2 4 (12.50%) Adobe
3 3 (9.38%) AirMagnet
3 3 (9.38%) Aruba
3 3 (9.38%) Cisco
3 3 (9.38%) Ekahau
3 3 (9.38%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (9.38%) Juniper
3 3 (9.38%) Meraki
4 1 (3.13%) Google
4 1 (3.13%) Informatica
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) SAP
4 1 (3.13%) TikTok