Data Sharing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Sharing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Data Sharing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Sharing 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 316 385 438
Rank change year-on-year +69 +53 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 20 14 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.067% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.080% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 18
10th Percentile £363 £343 £244
25th Percentile £381 £388 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £537 £487 £619
90th Percentile £596 £553 £673
UK median daily rate £522 £563 £596
% change year-on-year -7.16% -5.66% +19.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £12.45 - £65.00
UK median hourly rate £12.45 £35.00 £41.75
% change year-on-year -64.43% -16.17% +81.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Sharing 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
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 £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Data Sharing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Sharing in the UK excluding London

Data Sharing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Sharing in the UK excluding London

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Sharing in the UK excluding London

Data Sharing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Sharing in the UK excluding London

Data Sharing
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 Sharing 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
South East +48 10 £529 -6.33% 6
Midlands +24 3 £388 +19.23% 9
North of England +21 3 £500 - 3
South West - 3 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £388 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 2
North West +17 1 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 3
Data Sharing
UK

Data Sharing
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 3 (15.00%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Data Lake
General
1 9 (45.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (25.00%) Law
2 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Legal
4 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Speaking
5 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Information Manager
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
2 4 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Architect
4 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Administration Assistant
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Information Governance Officer
5 1 (5.00%) Information Officer
5 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Shiny
2 2 (10.00%) Kafka
2 2 (10.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) CMDB
1 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (10.00%) Freedom of Information
1 2 (10.00%) Freedom of Information Act
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (10.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Data Protection
2 6 (30.00%) Impact Assessments
3 4 (20.00%) Data Management
3 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
4 3 (15.00%) Actionable Insight
4 3 (15.00%) Agile
4 3 (15.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Data Collection
4 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 3 (15.00%) Visualisation
5 2 (10.00%) Analytics
5 2 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven
5 2 (10.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
5 2 (10.00%) Master Data Management
5 2 (10.00%) Reference Data Management
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Register
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) R
2 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ISEB
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) GDPR
2 4 (20.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (15.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (5.00%) Foundry
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Palantir