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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 354 401
Rank change year-on-year +5 +47 +65
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 15 33 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.10% 0.16% 0.16%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.66% 1.26% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 19
10th Percentile £364 £243 £293
25th Percentile £428 £363 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £544
90th Percentile £591 £578 £690
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £473
% change year-on-year +2.33% +13.76% -14.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 5
10th Percentile - - £23.73
25th Percentile - £70.50 £26.08
Median hourly rate £18.20 £71.00 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year -74.37% +119.81% -
75th Percentile - £71.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £32.30
% change year-on-year -25.00% +54.80% -24.88%

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 2,279 2,622 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.34% 12.85% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,522 1,804 2,364
10th Percentile £306 £313 £338
25th Percentile £393 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £512 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 96 111
10th Percentile £18.60 £13.84 £21.05
25th Percentile £21.23 £17.88 £26.17
Median hourly rate £31.64 £32.75 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.39% -37.62% +50.00%
75th Percentile £64.75 £48.32 £68.13
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £36.25 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.84% -30.00% +35.04%

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 17 July 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
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 17 July 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 -1 5 £525 +7.69% 67
Midlands +3 4 - - 45
South East +30 3 £480 +85.51% 45
North West +2 3 £528 +11.05% 38
East Midlands +2 2 - - 17
Scotland -1 2 £444 -4.05% 18
West Midlands -2 2 - - 28
Yorkshire -11 2 £525 -5.75% 21
South West +44 1 - - 13
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 (13.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) dbt
4 2 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Power BI
2 3 (20.00%) Big Data
2 3 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (13.33%) Data Vault
3 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.67%) MySQL
4 1 (6.67%) OLAP
4 1 (6.67%) RDBMS
4 1 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
1 2 (13.33%) TestRail
2 1 (6.67%) Git
2 1 (6.67%) PyCharm
General
1 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Data Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Data Scientist
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Pensions Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) QA Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Database Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
2 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (6.67%) CCTV
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (33.33%) Visualisation
3 4 (26.67%) Analytics
3 4 (26.67%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (26.67%) Machine Learning
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (20.00%) Agile
4 3 (20.00%) Data Mapping
4 3 (20.00%) Data Science
4 3 (20.00%) Data Visualisation
4 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) ETL
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Engineering
5 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) Python
3 3 (20.00%) R
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (20.00%) QA
3 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Cognos
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP