Data Development Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Development
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 387 446
Rank change year-on-year +62 +59 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Development 11 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.086% 0.058% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.095% 0.068% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 14
10th Percentile £210 £378 £420
25th Percentile £350 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £573
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -12.66% +9.05%
75th Percentile £400 £525 £669
90th Percentile £545 £685 £693
UK median daily rate £578 £560 £650
% change year-on-year +3.13% -13.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £17.25 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £17.25 -
% change year-on-year +276.81% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Development 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the UK excluding London

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Development in the UK excluding London

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in the UK excluding London

Data Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Development in the UK excluding London

Data Development
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 Development within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Midlands +20 5 £375 -14.29% 3
North of England +20 2 - - 1
West Midlands +10 2 £450 +2.86%
North East - 2 - - 1
Wales - 2 £206 -
South East +45 1 £400 -46.67% 8
Scotland - 1 £550 - 2
Data Development
UK

Data Development
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 (18.18%) Jupyter
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (90.91%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon S3
4 2 (18.18%) Amazon SQS
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (18.18%) GCP
4 2 (18.18%) PaaS
4 2 (18.18%) Serverless
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Metadata
2 4 (36.36%) Metadata Repository
3 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
3 3 (27.27%) Power BI
4 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (9.09%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Visual Studio
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) C# Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Lead Data Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Senior C# Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Data Governance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Data Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Governance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Governance Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Report Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
1 3 (27.27%) Blazor
1 3 (27.27%) PySpark
1 3 (27.27%) WPF
2 2 (18.18%) Kafka
2 2 (18.18%) Spring
2 2 (18.18%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) NHS
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Data Modelling
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Integration
3 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (36.36%) Software Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 3 (27.27%) Data Engineering
4 3 (27.27%) Data Governance
4 3 (27.27%) DevOps
4 3 (27.27%) Metadata Management
5 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Data Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Data Science
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) T-SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Databricks
2 2 (18.18%) Google
3 1 (9.09%) Cloudera
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft