Data Lineage Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 314 346 405
Rank change year-on-year +32 +59 +71
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 21 39 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.23% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 28 20
10th Percentile £370 - £463
25th Percentile £409 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £488 £518
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -5.80% -11.23%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £556
90th Percentile £796 £623 £593
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
UK median hourly rate £31.64 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Lineage 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 11,711 17,111 20,579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.54% 84.30% 89.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,219 14,183
10th Percentile £235 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 850 2,064 1,254
10th Percentile £14.02 £12.35 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.40 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.74
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the UK excluding London

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
North of England +10 8 £525 -4.55% 19
Yorkshire +12 5 £650 -18.70% 7
Midlands +14 4 £413 -8.22% 5
South East +34 3 £775 +72.22% 28
East Midlands +13 3 £413 -7.19% 2
North East -4 3 £525 - 2
Scotland +1 2 £325 -43.48% 9
East of England - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 1
West Midlands 0 1 - - 3
Data Lineage
UK

Data Lineage
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 5 (23.81%) Apache
1 5 (23.81%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (4.76%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (28.57%) GCP
3 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) Power Platform
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon S3
4 2 (9.52%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (9.52%) Azure
4 2 (9.52%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) Flink
2 4 (19.05%) Metadata
3 3 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (14.29%) NoSQL
3 3 (14.29%) Power BI
4 2 (9.52%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (4.76%) Big Data
5 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (4.76%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
5 1 (4.76%) Star Schema
5 1 (4.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) ERwin
General
1 12 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Digital Health
5 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Analyst
1 9 (42.86%) Data Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Data Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Data Architect
3 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Data Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Data Modeller
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Governance Manager
4 1 (4.76%) Market Risk Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Principal Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Risk Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Senior
4 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Service Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Cloud Native
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Data Modelling
2 12 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 10 (47.62%) Data Governance
3 10 (47.62%) ETL
4 8 (38.10%) Agile
5 7 (33.33%) Data Management
5 7 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
5 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (28.57%) Analytics
6 6 (28.57%) Data Visualisation
7 5 (23.81%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (23.81%) Data Integration
7 5 (23.81%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (23.81%) Workflow
7 5 (23.81%) Workflow Management
8 4 (19.05%) Data Analysis
8 4 (19.05%) Data Architecture
9 3 (14.29%) Metadata Management
9 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) SQL
2 7 (33.33%) Python
3 2 (9.52%) Java
3 2 (9.52%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certification
2 2 (9.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (52.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (14.29%) GDPR
3 1 (4.76%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) IBM
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) SAP
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow