Data Matching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
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 Matching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Matching over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 440 507
Rank change year-on-year +56 +67 -
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 4 7 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.029% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.033% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £388 £355 £417
25th Percentile £400 £363 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £376 £444
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £541 £388 £461
90th Percentile £546 £448 £466
UK median daily rate £525 £385 £600
% change year-on-year +36.36% -35.83% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.89
Median hourly rate - - £13.58
75th Percentile - - £14.27
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £13.58

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Matching 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 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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
Wales - 2 £396 -
South East +18 1 £525 +22.09% 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SPSS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (25.00%) OLAP
2 1 (25.00%) Power BI
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Local Government
3 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SSRS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Credit Risk
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Data Science
1 2 (50.00%) ETL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Statistical Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Extraction
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 1 (25.00%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Statistics
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) R
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Liquidlogic