Data Matching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Matching skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Matching over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 395 440
Rank change year-on-year +59 +45 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 3 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.019% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.026% 0.023% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £521 £388 £355
25th Percentile £552 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £469 £376
Median % change year-on-year +29.51% +24.77% -15.38%
75th Percentile £665 £541 £388
90th Percentile £698 £546 £448
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £380
% change year-on-year -4.76% +38.07% -36.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Matching 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 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
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 £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Data Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Matching in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
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 Matching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
East of England +31 3 £607 +10.32% 1
Data Matching
UK

Data Matching
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Conceptual Models
1 3 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Logical Data Model
1 3 (100.00%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Cognizant