Data Collection Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Collection
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 130 144
Rank change year-on-year +41 +14 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 13 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.87% 0.31% 0.071%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.35% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £401 - £159
25th Percentile £403 - £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £236
Median % change year-on-year - - -52.80%
75th Percentile £516 - £284
90th Percentile £574 - £313
South East median daily rate £600 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.04% +39.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £15.07 -
South East median hourly rate £19.36 £21.45 £21.22
% change year-on-year -9.73% +1.06% -55.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,391 2,265 2,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.80% 87.01% 90.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 1,261 1,763
10th Percentile £294 £213 £319
25th Percentile £405 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £601
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £509
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.67% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 167 63
10th Percentile - £14.17 £18.50
25th Percentile £14.20 £19.25 £23.75
Median hourly rate £31.50 £45.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -10.00% +194.12%
75th Percentile £62.50 £63.75 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.31 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £27.76 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.56% -5.00% +132.56%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in the Thames Valley

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in the Thames Valley

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in the Thames Valley

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in the Thames Valley

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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 Data Collection within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 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
Berkshire +39 12 £406 - 6
Buckinghamshire +12 1 £575 - 9
Data Collection
South East

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (15.38%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Azure AKS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure App Service
1 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.69%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.69%) Twilio
1 1 (7.69%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) 802.11
1 3 (23.08%) VLAN
1 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (23.08%) Wireless
2 1 (7.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Apache Hive
1 2 (15.38%) Big Data
1 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
1 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
1 2 (15.38%) Spark SQL
2 1 (7.69%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Finance
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Developer
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Wireless Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Data Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) 802.1X
2 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 2 (15.38%) PySpark
3 1 (7.69%) Express.js
3 1 (7.69%) FastAPI
3 1 (7.69%) FHIR
3 1 (7.69%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.69%) LangChain
3 1 (7.69%) REST
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Algorithms
2 4 (30.77%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
1 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
2 6 (46.15%) Exploratory Testing
2 6 (46.15%) Mathematics
2 6 (46.15%) Optimization Problems
2 6 (46.15%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Functional Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Network Design
6 2 (15.38%) Data Pipeline
6 2 (15.38%) ETL
6 2 (15.38%) Storage Management
6 2 (15.38%) Test Scripting
7 1 (7.69%) Conversational UI
7 1 (7.69%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
7 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
7 1 (7.69%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 10 (76.92%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 1 (7.69%) ABAP
4 1 (7.69%) Bicep
4 1 (7.69%) R
4 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) Master's Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
2 1 (7.69%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) AirMagnet
1 3 (23.08%) Aruba
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) Ekahau
1 3 (23.08%) Extreme Networks
1 3 (23.08%) Juniper
1 3 (23.08%) Meraki
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) SAP