Data Design Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Design
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 429 427
Rank change year-on-year +102 -2 -70
Contract jobs citing Data Design 66 30 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.32% 0.12% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.14% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 17 64
10th Percentile £425 £404 £446
25th Percentile £500 £406 £592
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £650
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -23.08% -10.34%
75th Percentile £694 £638 £745
90th Percentile £744 £669 £750
UK median daily rate £613 £600 £650
% change year-on-year +2.08% -7.69% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,621 21,550 27,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.74% 89.52% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,547 14,954 19,191
10th Percentile £246 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,041 1,307 1,363
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £46.10
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Design in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Design in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Contract 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 Data Design within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Midlands +47 21 £625 +11.11% 2
East of England +27 16 £525 +172.02% 7
West Midlands +38 12 £650 +15.56% 2
South West +23 12 £475 -13.64% 2
South East +17 11 £540 -10.00% 2
North of England +31 10 £704 +70.67% 2
East Midlands - 9 £525 -
North West +23 7 £700 +69.70% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £732 - 1
Scotland +35 2 £525 -16.00%
Data Design
UK

Data Design
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 2 (3.03%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.52%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 7 (10.61%) Power Platform
2 5 (7.58%) AWS
3 4 (6.06%) Azure
3 4 (6.06%) SaaS
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon Neptune
4 2 (3.03%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.03%) AWS Step Functions
4 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.03%) Google Analytics
4 2 (3.03%) IaaS
4 2 (3.03%) PaaS
4 2 (3.03%) Serverless
4 2 (3.03%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.52%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (25.76%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.64%) Metadata
3 8 (12.12%) RDBMS
3 8 (12.12%) Relational Database
4 7 (10.61%) Power BI
5 6 (9.09%) Metadata Repository
6 5 (7.58%) Tableau
7 4 (6.06%) Snowflake Schema
7 4 (6.06%) Star Schema
8 3 (4.55%) Big Data
8 3 (4.55%) Data Mining
8 3 (4.55%) QlikView
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (3.03%) Cloudera CDH
9 2 (3.03%) Data Lake
10 1 (1.52%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (1.52%) Data Hub
10 1 (1.52%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (6.06%) ERwin
2 3 (4.55%) JMeter
3 2 (3.03%) kappa
4 1 (1.52%) Terragrunt
General
1 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
2 12 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 11 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.15%) Finance
5 8 (12.12%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (12.12%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (9.09%) Banking
7 5 (7.58%) Retail
8 3 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (4.55%) General Ledger
9 2 (3.03%) Billing
10 1 (1.52%) Local Government
10 1 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (39.39%) Architect
2 24 (36.36%) Data Architect
3 6 (9.09%) Analyst
3 6 (9.09%) Lead
3 6 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
4 5 (7.58%) Business Analyst
4 5 (7.58%) Data Modeller
5 4 (6.06%) Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Data Consultant
6 3 (4.55%) Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Performance Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Performance Test Engineer
6 3 (4.55%) Qlik Developer
6 3 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 2 (3.03%) Data Designer
7 2 (3.03%) Designer
7 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Architect
8 1 (1.52%) Lead Data Architect
8 1 (1.52%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.52%) Senior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.03%) Java EE
1 2 (3.03%) JSON
1 2 (3.03%) Web Services
2 1 (1.52%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.52%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) Data Structures
2 8 (12.12%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (7.58%) Management Information System
5 4 (6.06%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.06%) CMDB
6 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (46.97%) Migration
2 23 (34.85%) Analytics
3 21 (31.82%) Data Migration
4 19 (28.79%) Data Architecture
5 17 (25.76%) Data Management
5 17 (25.76%) Data Modelling
6 16 (24.24%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (18.18%) Data Analysis
7 12 (18.18%) Data Governance
8 11 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 10 (15.15%) Architectural Patterns
9 10 (15.15%) CRM
9 10 (15.15%) Design Patterns
9 10 (15.15%) ETL
10 9 (13.64%) Record to Report
11 8 (12.12%) Architectural Design
11 8 (12.12%) Data Strategy
11 8 (12.12%) Open Source
11 8 (12.12%) SOA
11 8 (12.12%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (19.70%) SQL
2 2 (3.03%) Java
2 2 (3.03%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 8 (12.12%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 4 (6.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (4.55%) ISEB
5 3 (4.55%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.52%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (1.52%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.52%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (1.52%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) SAP
2 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow
3 7 (10.61%) Ariba
3 7 (10.61%) Microsoft
4 6 (9.09%) Remedy
5 5 (7.58%) Autodesk
5 5 (7.58%) Oracle
6 2 (3.03%) Google
7 1 (1.52%) Databricks
7 1 (1.52%) Liquidlogic