Data Mining Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining 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 313 354 401
Rank change year-on-year +41 +47 +64
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 23 45 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.22% 0.25%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 1.73% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 33 39
10th Percentile £371 £275 £363
25th Percentile £448 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% - -13.46%
75th Percentile £631 £550 £544
90th Percentile £638 £573 £559
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £489
% change year-on-year +10.53% -2.86% -11.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £30.31 - -
25th Percentile £48.48 £70.50 £22.16
Median hourly rate £80.50 £71.00 £25.16
Median % change year-on-year +13.38% +182.19% -
75th Percentile £82.25 £71.50 £31.79
90th Percentile - - £32.30
UK median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year +61.00% +77.56% -34.51%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK excluding London

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,019 2,594 3,714
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.82% 12.49% 15.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,400 1,827 2,673
10th Percentile £315 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £594
90th Percentile £660 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 96 114
10th Percentile £18.74 £13.50 £21.96
25th Percentile £22.98 £18.03 £32.32
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%
75th Percentile £65.62 £58.61 £66.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £75.35
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mining in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK excluding London

Data Mining
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 Mining 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
North of England +17 10 £600 +26.32% 23
North West +20 8 £600 +26.32% 11
South West +47 4 £625 +38.89% 25
East of England +31 4 - - 16
Scotland +13 4 £463 -15.91% 13
Midlands +11 3 £475 +5.56% 24
West Midlands +3 2 £475 +5.56% 14
Yorkshire +3 2 £525 -5.23% 10
South East +39 1 £385 +46.67% 35
East Midlands +10 1 - - 9
Data Mining
UK

Data Mining
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 (8.70%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 7 (30.43%) AWS
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 5 (21.74%) GCP
4 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
5 2 (8.70%) dbt
6 1 (4.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (4.35%) IaaS
6 1 (4.35%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (17.39%) Metadata
2 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 3 (13.04%) Tableau
3 2 (8.70%) Big Data
3 2 (8.70%) Data Lake
3 2 (8.70%) Data Vault
3 2 (8.70%) Hadoop
3 2 (8.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (4.35%) MySQL
4 1 (4.35%) OLAP
4 1 (4.35%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Git
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
1 2 (8.70%) TestRail
2 1 (4.35%) PyCharm
General
1 10 (43.48%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (30.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.35%) Law
5 1 (4.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Architect
2 7 (30.43%) Data Architect
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Data Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) Data Scientist
5 3 (13.04%) Data Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Senior
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Architect
5 3 (13.04%) Senior Data Architect
6 2 (8.70%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 2 (8.70%) Developer
6 2 (8.70%) QA Analyst
7 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Azure Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Power BI Developer
7 1 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) D3.js
2 2 (8.70%) Kafka
2 2 (8.70%) PyTorch
2 2 (8.70%) TensorFlow
3 1 (4.35%) NumPy
3 1 (4.35%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Management Information System
2 7 (30.43%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (17.39%) Reference Data
4 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
5 1 (4.35%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (60.87%) Data Modelling
2 13 (56.52%) Visualisation
3 12 (52.17%) Data Science
4 11 (47.83%) Data Visualisation
5 9 (39.13%) Data Strategy
6 7 (30.43%) Conceptual Models
6 7 (30.43%) Data Architecture
6 7 (30.43%) Logical Data Model
6 7 (30.43%) Machine Learning
6 7 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (26.09%) Migration
8 5 (21.74%) Analytics
8 5 (21.74%) DevOps
9 4 (17.39%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (17.39%) Agile
9 4 (17.39%) Computer Science
9 4 (17.39%) Data Engineering
9 4 (17.39%) ETL
9 4 (17.39%) Metadata Management
9 4 (17.39%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (78.26%) SQL
2 8 (34.78%) Python
3 4 (17.39%) R
4 1 (4.35%) ANSI SQL
4 1 (4.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (4.35%) Scala
4 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) Degree
2 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (13.04%) Accessibility
2 3 (13.04%) QA
3 1 (4.35%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 4 (17.39%) Oracle
3 2 (8.70%) Databricks
4 1 (4.35%) Calypso
4 1 (4.35%) Cognos
4 1 (4.35%) SAP