Data Technician Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
UK > UK excluding London

The median Data Technician daily rate in the UK excluding London is £305 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 372 446 506
Rank change year-on-year +74 +60 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Data Technician 19 10 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.092% 0.042% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.044% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 3
10th Percentile £213 £166 £275
25th Percentile £280 £172 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £188 £350
Median % change year-on-year +62.67% -46.43% +75.00%
75th Percentile £345 £197 -
90th Percentile £357 £199 -
UK median daily rate £298 £200 £350
% change year-on-year +48.75% -42.86% +75.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile - £14.40 -
25th Percentile £13.69 £14.63 -
Median hourly rate £14.46 £19.13 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.39% - -
75th Percentile £15.23 £24.06 -
90th Percentile £19.21 £24.63 -
UK median hourly rate £14.46 £19.13 -
% change year-on-year -24.39% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,146 22,670 29,649
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,707 15,894 20,753
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £595 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,224 1,166 1,488
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.46 £12.04
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.75 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +117.95% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Data Technician
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Data Technician in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Technician in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Technician in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Technician in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Technician in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Technician in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Technician in the UK excluding London

Data Technician
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 Technician within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
South East +28 9 £295 +47.50% 9
South West +21 7 - - 9
North of England +33 3 £338 - 8
Yorkshire - 3 £338 - 2
Data Technician
UK

Data Technician Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Data Technician contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Data Technician in the job title.

1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
1 12 (63.16%) Data Centre
2 7 (36.84%) Digital Forensics
2 7 (36.84%) Driving Licence
2 7 (36.84%) Police
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (36.84%) CITP
3 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre Operations
4 4 (21.05%) Runbook
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
5 3 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
5 3 (15.79%) Remote Desktop
5 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (15.79%) KVM
5 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (15.79%) Junos
5 3 (15.79%) Hudson
5 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
5 3 (15.79%) Bash
5 3 (15.79%) Degree
5 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) QA
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS

Data Technician Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (15.79%) DHCP
1 3 (15.79%) DNS
1 3 (15.79%) Junos
1 3 (15.79%) Remote Desktop
1 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (10.53%) SAN
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Hudson
General
1 7 (36.84%) Police
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Banking
3 3 (15.79%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 12 (63.16%) Data Centre
2 7 (36.84%) Driving Licence
3 3 (15.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (10.53%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
1 3 (15.79%) Windows 10
1 3 (15.79%) Windows 7
2 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Digital Forensics
2 5 (26.32%) Data Centre Operations
3 4 (21.05%) Runbook
4 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
4 3 (15.79%) Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (15.79%) Server Management
5 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
5 2 (10.53%) ITIL
5 2 (10.53%) Line Management
5 2 (10.53%) Ticket Management
6 1 (5.26%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.26%) Break/Fix
6 1 (5.26%) Data Management
6 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.26%) Issue Tracking
6 1 (5.26%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (5.26%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Bash
1 3 (15.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) CITP
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (15.79%) A+ Certification
2 3 (15.79%) CCNA
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) Network+ Certification
2 3 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (10.53%) Server+ Certification
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
1 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
1 3 (15.79%) KVM
1 3 (15.79%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (15.79%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 3 (15.79%) Juniper
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) Dell
3 1 (5.26%) HP