Data Mining Contracts

Data Mining
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 449 484 578
Rank change year-on-year +35 +94 +86
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 65 95 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.22% 0.19%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.19% 1.30% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 69 70
10th Percentile £400 £271 £363
25th Percentile £448 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £482
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -1.45% -12.36%
75th Percentile £838 £575 £588
90th Percentile £885 £745 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -14.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 8
10th Percentile £30.31 £45.63 -
25th Percentile £48.48 - £22.16
Median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £30.23
Median % change year-on-year +61.00% +65.40% -29.70%
75th Percentile £82.25 £66.13 £32.30
90th Percentile - £71.50 £38.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £71.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year +13.38% +152.13% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,448 7,302 9,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.90% 16.95% 17.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,729 5,237 7,079
10th Percentile £358 £350 £375
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £752 £775 £755
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 150 177
10th Percentile £19.56 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.38 £20.77 £32.40
Median hourly rate £33.50 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% -33.33% +34.91%
75th Percentile £65.62 £56.88 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.62 £72.75 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 £35.00 £58.59
% change year-on-year -9.60% -40.26% +67.40%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 3 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 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 +45 59 £550 +15.79% 167
London +43 40 £550 +10.00% 132
Work from Home +55 30 £755 +37.27% 56
UK excluding London +25 18 £525 +16.67% 47
North of England +12 6 £525 +7.69% 11
East of England +26 4 - - 8
North West +7 4 £600 +26.32% 6
South East +46 3 £480 +85.51% 8
Midlands -1 3 - - 2
West Midlands +8 2 - - 2
Yorkshire +8 2 £525 -5.75% 4
South West +35 1 - - 5
East Midlands +8 1 - -
Scotland +7 1 £525 -4.55% 9

Data Mining
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 11 (16.92%) Apache Spark
2 6 (9.23%) SAS
3 4 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (29.23%) Power Platform
2 15 (23.08%) AWS
3 11 (16.92%) SaaS
4 10 (15.38%) Azure
5 3 (4.62%) dbt
6 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.08%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.08%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.54%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.54%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (1.54%) OCI
7 1 (1.54%) Serverless
7 1 (1.54%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (29.23%) Power BI
2 14 (21.54%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (13.85%) Metadata
4 7 (10.77%) Big Data
4 7 (10.77%) Tableau
5 5 (7.69%) NoSQL
6 4 (6.15%) Data Vault
7 3 (4.62%) ThoughtSpot
8 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (3.08%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (3.08%) Data Hub
8 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
8 2 (3.08%) Hadoop
8 2 (3.08%) MySQL
8 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (1.54%) QlikView
9 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.62%) JIRA
2 2 (3.08%) TestRail
3 1 (1.54%) Git
3 1 (1.54%) PyCharm
General
1 25 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (18.46%) Banking
4 7 (10.77%) Investment Banking
5 5 (7.69%) Finance
6 4 (6.15%) Marketing
6 4 (6.15%) Police
6 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.62%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 18 (27.69%) Analyst
2 13 (20.00%) Data Scientist
3 12 (18.46%) Data Analyst
4 11 (16.92%) Senior
5 8 (12.31%) Data Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Data Architect
6 6 (9.23%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (9.23%) Risk Consultant
6 6 (9.23%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (4.62%) Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Business Intelligence Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Configuration Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Developer
8 2 (3.08%) Pensions Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) QA Analyst
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Architect
8 2 (3.08%) Senior Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.23%) Kafka
2 4 (6.15%) Ray
3 3 (4.62%) XML
4 2 (3.08%) Pandas
4 2 (3.08%) PyTorch
4 2 (3.08%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.54%) NumPy
5 1 (1.54%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.54%) pydantic
5 1 (1.54%) PySpark
5 1 (1.54%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.54%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Market Risk
2 6 (9.23%) Algorithms
2 6 (9.23%) Distributed Computing
3 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.69%) Reference Data
4 4 (6.15%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (6.15%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (4.62%) Credit Risk
5 3 (4.62%) NHS
6 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.08%) Multi-touch
6 2 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 2 (3.08%) Tandem
7 1 (1.54%) CCTV
7 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.54%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.54%) FMCG
7 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Analytics
2 23 (35.38%) Data Science
3 22 (33.85%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (29.23%) Data Modelling
5 19 (29.23%) Machine Learning
6 16 (24.62%) Visualisation
7 15 (23.08%) Agile
7 15 (23.08%) Data Analysis
8 14 (21.54%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (18.46%) Data Strategy
9 12 (18.46%) Data Visualisation
10 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
10 11 (16.92%) SDLC
11 10 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (15.38%) Data Governance
11 10 (15.38%) Scrum
12 9 (13.85%) Artificial Intelligence
12 9 (13.85%) Computer Science
12 9 (13.85%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 51 (78.46%) SQL
2 29 (44.62%) Python
3 8 (12.31%) R
4 6 (9.23%) C
4 6 (9.23%) C++
4 6 (9.23%) Java
5 4 (6.15%) Shell Script
6 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
6 3 (4.62%) MATLAB
7 1 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (20.00%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
3 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 4 (6.15%) PhD
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.85%) Basel II
2 8 (12.31%) Data Quality
3 5 (7.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (6.15%) QA
5 3 (4.62%) Basel III
6 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (1.54%) COBIT
7 1 (1.54%) GDPR
7 1 (1.54%) NIST
Vendors
1 4 (6.15%) Microsoft
1 4 (6.15%) Oracle
2 3 (4.62%) Databricks
2 3 (4.62%) SAP
3 2 (3.08%) Cognos
3 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.08%) Spotify
4 1 (1.54%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.54%) IBM
4 1 (1.54%) Intel