Alation Contracts

Alation
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Alation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Alation 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 509 575 698
Rank change year-on-year +66 +123 +143
Contract jobs citing Alation 11 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.038% 0.016% 0.034%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.100% 0.050% 0.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile £401 £675 £500
25th Percentile £403 £700 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £750 £725
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +3.45% +41.46%
75th Percentile £484 £788 £1,013
90th Percentile £494 £793 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £550

All Cloud Skills
UK

Alation falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11,005 14,070 22,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 37.59% 32.30% 36.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,639 9,993 15,919
10th Percentile £313 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 250 346 350
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.02 £18.50
Median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%
75th Percentile £47.58 £35.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £61.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £17.72 £24.62
% change year-on-year +21.11% -28.03% +31.31%

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Alation.

Daily rate trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the UK 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
Work from Home - 8 £425 - 8
England +57 7 £425 -43.33% 6
London +38 7 £425 -43.33% 3
Scotland - 3 - -
UK excluding London - 3 - - 3

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (36.36%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (27.27%) Confluence
2 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Collibra
1 4 (36.36%) dbt
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Purview
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) GitHub
2 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
3 1 (9.09%) Fivetran
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Metadata
2 3 (27.27%) Data Vault
2 3 (27.27%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) IBM InfoSphere
2 3 (27.27%) Power BI
2 3 (27.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (9.09%) BigQuery
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
1 3 (27.27%) Terragrunt
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Data Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Data Governance Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Data Governance Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Data Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Governance Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Governance Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Data Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Data Governance
2 6 (54.55%) Data Governance Strategy
2 6 (54.55%) Data Science
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
4 4 (36.36%) Analytics
4 4 (36.36%) Data Engineering
4 4 (36.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 4 (36.36%) Metadata Management
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (27.27%) DAMA
5 3 (27.27%) Data Lineage
5 3 (27.27%) Data Pipeline
5 3 (27.27%) Data Privacy
5 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
5 3 (27.27%) Generative AI
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
5 3 (27.27%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 1 (9.09%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) Data Quality
2 4 (36.36%) Accessibility
2 4 (36.36%) GDPR
3 3 (27.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Terraform
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Informatica
2 3 (27.27%) IBM
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) MicroStrategy
3 1 (9.09%) Google