Data Matching Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.30% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
North East median daily rate £523 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 560 177 147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 83.21% 82.33% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 318 115 82
10th Percentile £313 £200 £327
25th Percentile £388 £411 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £560 £575 £547
90th Percentile £643 £638 £649
North East median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 11 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £17.83
25th Percentile £43.96 £13.56 £18.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +275.72% -19.53% +8.86%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £65.00
90th Percentile - £36.00 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £65.00 £17.30 £38.27
% change year-on-year +275.72% -54.79% +47.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Data Matching job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data Matching
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Matching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tyne and Wear citing Data Matching

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 2 £525 - 1
Data Matching
North East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) CRM
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Data Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft