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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 326 383 413
Rank change year-on-year +57 +30 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 17 14 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.068% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.081% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 13
10th Percentile £346 £353 £283
25th Percentile £381 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £566 £550 £500
90th Percentile £596 - £622
UK median daily rate £520 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -7.64% +7.14% -
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% +111.39%

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 11,812 17,287 20,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.62% 83.43% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,347 10,277 13,944
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 855 2,126 1,244
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.41 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.21
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.43
UK median hourly rate £27.85 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -23.70% -0.73% +43.19%

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 31 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 31 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 +43 7 £520 -5.55% 7
Midlands +15 3 £388 +19.23% 3
West Midlands - 3 £388 - 1
East of England +23 2 £450 +2.86%
North of England +19 2 £550 - 5
South West - 2 - - 5
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 3
Scotland - 1 - -
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 2 (11.76%) R Markdown
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
1 2 (11.76%) Power Platform
1 2 (11.76%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (11.76%) Power BI
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.88%) Snowflake Schema
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 4 (23.53%) Law
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Military
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Architect
1 3 (17.65%) Information Manager
1 3 (17.65%) Senior
1 3 (17.65%) Senior Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) DBA
2 2 (11.76%) Developer
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) DevOps Developer
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Administrator
2 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow Developer
2 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (5.88%) Administration Assistant
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Specialist
3 1 (5.88%) Information Officer
3 1 (5.88%) Report Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) REST
1 2 (11.76%) Shiny
1 2 (11.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) CMDB
2 2 (11.76%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.88%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.88%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
2 4 (23.53%) Impact Assessments
3 3 (17.65%) Actionable Insight
3 3 (17.65%) Agile
4 2 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Data Security
4 2 (11.76%) Decision-Making
4 2 (11.76%) DevOps
4 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.76%) Information Governance
4 2 (11.76%) Information Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Operations Management
4 2 (11.76%) Risk Management
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
4 2 (11.76%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) R
3 1 (5.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
1 2 (11.76%) Teradata
2 1 (5.88%) Foundry
2 1 (5.88%) Palantir