Data Design Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Data Design
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 337 342
Rank change year-on-year -26 +5 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Design 26 17 64
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.13% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 44
10th Percentile £449 £408 £466
25th Percentile £489 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £568 £625
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -9.20% +7.76%
75th Percentile £591 £725 £663
90th Percentile £630 £738 £729
UK median daily rate £591 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +2.78% -8.00% +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £46.18
UK median hourly rate - - £46.18

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Design 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,635 13,009 17,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.98% 87.13% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,537 7,651 11,208
10th Percentile £220 £238 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,774 755 1,215
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.02 £31.52 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.98% -29.17% +42.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £71.25 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.29% +24.29%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Design relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Data Design job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the UK excluding London

Data Design
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Design.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Data Design

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 20 December 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
Midlands -29 8 £567 +51.13%
West Midlands - 8 £567 -
Scotland - 5 £449 - 1
South East -16 4 £591 +39.06% 6
East of England -23 4 £600 -17.24% 1
South West -5 3 £720 +44.00% 2
North West -27 2 £550 -1.79% 3
North of England -53 2 £550 -4.35% 10
Data Design
UK

Data Design
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (11.54%) NetWeaver
1 3 (11.54%) SAS
Business Applications
1 8 (30.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (11.54%) SAP MDG
2 3 (11.54%) SAP MDG-F
2 3 (11.54%) SAP MDG-M
2 3 (11.54%) SAP MDG-S
3 2 (7.69%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Snowflake
2 3 (11.54%) Azure
3 2 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (3.85%) AWS
4 1 (3.85%) Collibra
4 1 (3.85%) dbt
4 1 (3.85%) PaaS
4 1 (3.85%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (50.00%) Metadata
2 6 (23.08%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (23.08%) Metadata Repository
3 4 (15.38%) BigQuery
4 3 (11.54%) Data Lake
4 3 (11.54%) SAP Data Services
5 2 (7.69%) Oracle Database
5 2 (7.69%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) ERwin
General
1 12 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Legal
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (46.15%) Architect
2 7 (26.92%) Data Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Data Modeller
4 3 (11.54%) Functional Consultant
4 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 2 (7.69%) Business Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Maximo Consultant
5 2 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Information Architect
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Financial Leader
6 1 (3.85%) SAP Functional Consultant
6 1 (3.85%) SAS Architect
6 1 (3.85%) Teradata Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (11.54%) Life Science
2 1 (3.85%) Data Fabric
2 1 (3.85%) FMCG
2 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.85%) Private Cloud
2 1 (3.85%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (61.54%) Data Modelling
2 15 (57.69%) Data Governance
3 12 (46.15%) Metadata Management
4 8 (30.77%) Strategic Thinking
5 7 (26.92%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (26.92%) Data Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Enterprise Architecture
6 6 (23.08%) Reverse Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Data Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Data Lineage
7 5 (19.23%) Impact Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Problem Management
8 4 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
8 4 (15.38%) Analytics
8 4 (15.38%) Critical Thinking
8 4 (15.38%) Data Mapping
8 4 (15.38%) Data Transformation
8 4 (15.38%) Strategic Planning
9 3 (11.54%) Translating Business Requirements
9 3 (11.54%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (26.92%) SQL
2 3 (11.54%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 5 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (46.15%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.85%) GDPR
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) SAP
2 6 (23.08%) Oracle
3 5 (19.23%) Microsoft
4 4 (15.38%) Remedy
4 4 (15.38%) Teradata
5 2 (7.69%) Ariba
5 2 (7.69%) Databricks
6 1 (3.85%) Concur
6 1 (3.85%) Informatica
6 1 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 1 (3.85%) Salesforce
6 1 (3.85%) Talend
6 1 (3.85%) Workday