Change Data Capture Contracts

Change Data Capture (CDC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Change Data Capture skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Change Data Capture 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 510 568 672
Rank change year-on-year +58 +104 +113
Contract jobs citing Change Data Capture 10 14 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.032% 0.077%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.037% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 37
10th Percentile £470 £495 £450
25th Percentile £488 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £577 £650 £590
90th Percentile £623 £656 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Change Data Capture 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Change Data Capture
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Change Data Capture as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Change Data Capture in the UK

Change Data Capture
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Change Data Capture.

Daily rate trend for Change Data Capture in the UK

Change Data Capture
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Change Data Capture over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Change Data Capture in the UK

Change Data Capture
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 Change Data Capture 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
England +52 7 £500 -13.04% 12
London +34 7 £500 -16.67% 9
Scotland - 3 £600 -
UK excluding London - 3 £600 - 6
Work from Home +39 2 £619 +37.50% 11

Change Data Capture
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 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Azure
3 4 (40.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (20.00%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (10.00%) Amazon Cognito
6 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (10.00%) Dagster
6 1 (10.00%) GCP
6 1 (10.00%) IaaS
6 1 (10.00%) PaaS
6 1 (10.00%) SaaS
6 1 (10.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) FTP
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (30.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (20.00%) Apache Hive
3 2 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (20.00%) MongoDB
3 2 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (10.00%) DB2
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Mockito
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) Toad
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Police
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Data Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Environment Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (50.00%) REST
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
2 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 4 (40.00%) Autofac
2 4 (40.00%) Dapper ORM
2 4 (40.00%) Entity Framework
2 4 (40.00%) StructureMap
2 4 (40.00%) WCF
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (20.00%) PySpark
4 1 (10.00%) Apache Camel
4 1 (10.00%) Kafka
4 1 (10.00%) OpenID
4 1 (10.00%) Spring
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Batch
4 1 (10.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Batch Processing
2 5 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) BDD
3 4 (40.00%) CRM
3 4 (40.00%) Data Design
3 4 (40.00%) Inversion of Control
3 4 (40.00%) MVC
3 4 (40.00%) OOP
3 4 (40.00%) TDD
3 4 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Web Development
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) ETL
4 3 (30.00%) Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
5 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
5 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) MCPD
1 4 (40.00%) MCSD
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
2 2 (20.00%) Informatica
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) StreamSets
3 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
3 1 (10.00%) Confluent
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
3 1 (10.00%) Okta
3 1 (10.00%) Talend