CRISP-DM Contract Job Trends

Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring CRISP-DM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 564 552 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing CRISP-DM 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.003% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.003% 0.003% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

CRISP-DM 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 31,132 31,236 41,416
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.15% 86.03% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,460 18,783 27,966
10th Percentile £295 £310 £311
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,011 1,107 1,584
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.02 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.41 £20.00 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.36 £44.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.87% -20.09% +26.43%
75th Percentile £43.21 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.58 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -35.50% -21.35% +53.93%

CRISP-DM
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CRISP-DM relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CRISP-DM job vacancy trend in the UK

CRISP-DM
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRISP-DM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CRISP-DM

CRISP-DM
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CRISP-DM within the UK over the 6 months to 4 November 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 +5 1 - - 1
UK excluding London - 1 - - 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
England - 1 - - 1

CRISP-DM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) A/B Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Experimental Design
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Service Management
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Statistics
1 1 (100.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Time Series Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft