DAMA International
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for DAMA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited DAMA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 691 817
Rank change year-on-year +122 +126 -121
Contract jobs citing DAMA 14 5 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.009% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.010% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £469 £518 £413
25th Percentile £488 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +8.33%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £676
90th Percentile £755 £823 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £725 £525 £650
% change year-on-year +38.10% -19.23% +13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DAMA is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,868 52,242 79,883
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.23% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,721 36,208 56,080
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,718 1,919
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for DAMA in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for DAMA in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DAMA over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for DAMA in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing DAMA.

Hourly rate trend for DAMA in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA within the UK over the 6 months to 13 May 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
England +116 14 £525 -25.00% 7
London +96 9 £513 -41.43% 5
Work from Home +119 5 £725 +31.82% 1
UK excluding London +74 5 £725 +38.10% 2
North of England - 3 £520 -
North West - 3 £520 -
South West - 2 £725 -

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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 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 1 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (21.43%) Hadoop
1 3 (21.43%) HBase
1 3 (21.43%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) Big Data
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Consultant
1 6 (42.86%) Data Consultant
2 5 (35.71%) Architect
2 5 (35.71%) Management Consultant
3 3 (21.43%) Data Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Business Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Information Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Technical Architect
5 1 (7.14%) Cassandra Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Data Governance Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Governance Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Data Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Hadoop Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) FMCG
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Data Management
2 8 (57.14%) Master Data Management
2 8 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (50.00%) Data Lineage
3 7 (50.00%) Observability
4 6 (42.86%) TOGAF
5 5 (35.71%) Data Modelling
6 4 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 3 (21.43%) Data Engineering
7 3 (21.43%) Data Ingestion
7 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (21.43%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 3 (21.43%) Design Patterns
7 3 (21.43%) Physical Data Model
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Analytics
8 2 (14.29%) ArchiMate
8 2 (14.29%) Architecture Governance
8 2 (14.29%) Data Transformation
8 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) Scala
2 2 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Adobe