Alation Contracts in the UK excluding London

Alation
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alation over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 378 425
Rank change year-on-year +16 +47 +100
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Alation 7 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.046% 0.011% 0.009%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.15% 0.041% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £507 £621 £570
25th Percentile £508 £634 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £662 £650
Median % change year-on-year -17.52% +1.88% +23.81%
75th Percentile £609 £684 £700
90th Percentile £649 £694 £730
UK median daily rate £546 £625 £675
% change year-on-year -12.53% -7.48% +20.00%

All Cloud Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 4,728 4,876 6,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 30.78% 26.85% 31.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,157 3,310 5,011
10th Percentile £250 £240 £225
25th Percentile £380 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £644 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 182 162 239
10th Percentile £14.77 £13.88 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £16.35 £17.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.25 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% -17.59% +42.11%
75th Percentile £37.13 £59.18 £61.21
90th Percentile £67.23 £70.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £27.86 £35.25
% change year-on-year +0.50% -20.96% +67.46%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in the UK excluding London

Alation
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Alation.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Alation

Alation
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Alation in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Alation in the UK excluding London

Alation
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Scotland - 3 - -
South East - 2 £515 - 4
Midlands -11 1 £575 -13.17%
Yorkshire - 1 £650 -
West Midlands - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £650 - 1
North of England - 1 £650 -
Alation
UK

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (42.86%) Confluence
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Collibra
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Metadata
2 3 (42.86%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Ataccama
3 1 (14.29%) Delta Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) MLflow
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Data Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Governance Manager
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Data Steward
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Great Expectations
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 4 (57.14%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) Data Governance Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Analytics
4 2 (28.57%) Change Management
4 2 (28.57%) Master Data Management
4 2 (28.57%) Metadata Management
4 2 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Data Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Stewardship
5 1 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 1 (14.29%) Monte Carlo Method
5 1 (14.29%) Predictive Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) GDPR
2 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
3 2 (28.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (14.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Informatica
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (42.86%) IBM
4 2 (28.57%) Databricks