Kimball Methodology Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

The Kimball Lifecycle
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Kimball Methodology skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 363 406
Rank change year-on-year -9 +43 +74
Contract jobs citing Kimball Methodology 7 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.041% 0.056%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.049% 0.049% 0.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 11
10th Percentile £425 £376 £400
25th Percentile £513 £378 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -11.11% -13.25%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £550
90th Percentile £675 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Kimball Methodology 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 14,307 14,237 18,760
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.16% 83.65% 88.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,605 8,062 12,365
10th Percentile £225 £245 £250
25th Percentile £369 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,594 964 1,305
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.47 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.34% -5.88% +58.88%
75th Percentile £38.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.50 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%

Kimball Methodology
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Kimball Methodology relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Kimball Methodology job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Kimball Methodology
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kimball Methodology.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kimball Methodology

Kimball Methodology
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kimball Methodology in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kimball Methodology in the UK excluding London

Kimball Methodology
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kimball Methodology.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Kimball Methodology

Kimball Methodology
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 Kimball Methodology within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 October 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
Scotland - 3 £650 -
East of England - 2 £525 - 2
South East +6 1 £600 +54.84% 21
West Midlands - 1 £350 - 2
Midlands - 1 £350 - 5
Kimball Methodology
UK

Kimball Methodology
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Collibra
2 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Vault
2 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (28.57%) Data Lake
2 2 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) HDInsight
3 1 (14.29%) MySQL
3 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (14.29%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Automotive
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Data Modeller
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Data Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Snowflake Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) BBC
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Data Modelling
2 4 (57.14%) Data Validation
2 4 (57.14%) Validation
3 3 (42.86%) Analytics
3 3 (42.86%) Data Ingestion
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
4 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Inmon Methodology
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (14.29%) Data Security
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Log Analytics
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) OO
5 1 (14.29%) OOP
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Databricks
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft