Alation Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Alation
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Alation skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 - 142
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Alation 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.089% - 0.037%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.24% - 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £507 - -
25th Percentile £507 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 - £450
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £526 - -
South East median daily rate £515 - £450

All Cloud Computing Skills
Thames Valley

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 819 599 834
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.38% 35.76% 30.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 589 400 559
10th Percentile £270 £262 £202
25th Percentile £400 £409 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% - -
75th Percentile £575 £630 £625
90th Percentile £650 £663 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 36
10th Percentile £18.87 £20.35 £16.25
25th Percentile £40.22 £26.94 £20.18
Median hourly rate £81.00 £45.25 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year +79.01% -17.01% +86.42%
75th Percentile £95.00 £64.73 £61.67
90th Percentile £100.00 £76.68 £75.89
South East median hourly rate £37.00 £35.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year +3.50% +19.17% +35.38%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Alation relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Alation job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Alation
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Buckinghamshire - 2 £515 -
Alation
South East

Alation
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Collibra
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 1 (50.00%) Culture Change
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Stewardship
2 1 (50.00%) Data Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Master Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Metadata Management
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Enablement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Informatica
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft