Data Collection Contracts

Data Collection
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 430 546
Rank change year-on-year +66 +116 +4
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 157 172 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.39% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.46% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 94 110
10th Percentile £310 £226 £278
25th Percentile £381 £331 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% -1.38% -5.47%
75th Percentile £600 £611 £594
90th Percentile £635 £675 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £390 £450
% change year-on-year +15.38% -13.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 26 2
10th Percentile £17.46 £14.85 £18.32
25th Percentile £20.21 £15.39 £18.81
Median hourly rate £23.79 £17.64 £19.61
Median % change year-on-year +34.84% -10.05% -56.42%
75th Percentile £28.17 £26.88 £20.42
90th Percentile £34.37 £66.25 £20.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.07 £15.79 £19.61
% change year-on-year +39.77% -19.48% -43.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Collection 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 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Collection over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +43 132 £525 +14.75% 288
UK excluding London +66 86 £450 +15.38% 148
Work from Home +50 55 £388 +6.16% 156
London +15 51 £550 - 151
South East +61 32 £600 -7.69% 40
Midlands +24 18 £388 -5.49% 21
West Midlands +22 17 £388 -13.89% 14
North of England +23 16 £463 +74.53% 43
North West +5 10 £450 - 27
Scotland +15 8 £400 +190.91% 6
Yorkshire +16 6 £469 +106.10% 13
South West +46 5 £450 - 27
Wales - 5 £161 - 2
East of England +15 2 £575 +19.17% 11
Northern Ireland - 2 £425 - 3
East Midlands +5 1 £625 +212.50% 7

Data Collection
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 (7.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.91%) R Markdown
3 2 (1.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (13.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (3.82%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.64%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.64%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.27%) Relativity
1 2 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.27%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.64%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 34 (21.66%) Power Platform
2 17 (10.83%) Azure
3 11 (7.01%) Adobe Analytics
4 8 (5.10%) GCP
5 5 (3.18%) AWS
5 5 (3.18%) Google Analytics
6 4 (2.55%) Google Data Studio
6 4 (2.55%) Snowflake
7 3 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.91%) Fivetran
7 3 (1.91%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.27%) Google Tag Manager
8 2 (1.27%) SaaS
9 1 (0.64%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.64%) Datadog
9 1 (0.64%) Figma
9 1 (0.64%) GitHub
9 1 (0.64%) Google Ads
9 1 (0.64%) PaaS
9 1 (0.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.55%) Wireless
2 3 (1.91%) 802.11
2 3 (1.91%) Firewall
2 3 (1.91%) VLAN
2 3 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.27%) Internet
4 1 (0.64%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.64%) LAN
4 1 (0.64%) MQTT
4 1 (0.64%) SNMP
4 1 (0.64%) VPN
4 1 (0.64%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (21.66%) Power BI
2 24 (15.29%) Tableau
3 12 (7.64%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (3.82%) Qlik Sense
5 4 (2.55%) SQL Server
6 3 (1.91%) Big Data
6 3 (1.91%) BigQuery
6 3 (1.91%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.91%) Looker
6 3 (1.91%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.27%) Apache Hive
7 2 (1.27%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (1.27%) EDRMS
7 2 (1.27%) Geospatial Data
7 2 (1.27%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.27%) MySQL
7 2 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.27%) QlikView
7 2 (1.27%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 12 (7.64%) JIRA
2 6 (3.82%) GitLab
3 5 (3.18%) Selenium
4 3 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 2 (1.27%) Liquibase
6 1 (0.64%) CANoe
6 1 (0.64%) Git
6 1 (0.64%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (41.40%) Social Skills
2 38 (24.20%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (17.20%) Marketing
4 25 (15.92%) Finance
5 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
6 6 (3.82%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.27%) Automotive
8 2 (1.27%) Legal
8 2 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.27%) Military
8 2 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.64%) Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.64%) Electronics
9 1 (0.64%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.64%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.64%) Local Government
9 1 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 41 (26.11%) Analyst
2 21 (13.38%) Data Analyst
3 14 (8.92%) Senior
4 12 (7.64%) Data Scientist
5 10 (6.37%) FPGA Engineer
5 10 (6.37%) Lead
6 9 (5.73%) Business Analyst
6 9 (5.73%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.73%) Senior Data Scientist
7 8 (5.10%) Consultant
7 8 (5.10%) Developer
8 6 (3.82%) Architect
8 6 (3.82%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (3.18%) Data Architect
10 4 (2.55%) Performance Analyst
10 4 (2.55%) Project Manager
10 4 (2.55%) Report Analyst
11 3 (1.91%) Risk Analyst
11 3 (1.91%) Test Engineer
11 3 (1.91%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.55%) CSS
1 4 (2.55%) HTML
1 4 (2.55%) jQuery
1 4 (2.55%) Pandas
2 3 (1.91%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.91%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (1.91%) PySpark
2 3 (1.91%) Shiny
3 2 (1.27%) Kafka
3 2 (1.27%) Loki
3 2 (1.27%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.64%) D3.js
4 1 (0.64%) Matplotlib
4 1 (0.64%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.64%) REST
4 1 (0.64%) RESTful
4 1 (0.64%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.64%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.64%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.37%) FPGA
1 10 (6.37%) Verilog
2 9 (5.73%) Multi-touch
3 8 (5.10%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.18%) Cloud Native
4 5 (3.18%) IoT
5 4 (2.55%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.55%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.55%) Social Media
6 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.91%) FMCG
6 3 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.91%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.91%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.27%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.64%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.64%) Marketing Technology
8 1 (0.64%) SCADA
8 1 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.01%) Linux
2 10 (6.37%) Unix
3 1 (0.64%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (26.75%) Analytics
2 41 (26.11%) Validation
3 39 (24.84%) Data Analysis
4 37 (23.57%) Business Intelligence
5 35 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (21.66%) Visualisation
7 24 (15.29%) Agile
7 24 (15.29%) Decision-Making
8 23 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (12.74%) Data Visualisation
10 18 (11.46%) Data Governance
10 18 (11.46%) Machine Learning
10 18 (11.46%) Mathematics
10 18 (11.46%) Project Management
11 17 (10.83%) Data Science
12 16 (10.19%) Actionable Insight
12 16 (10.19%) Process Improvement
12 16 (10.19%) Test Automation
13 15 (9.55%) Data Modelling
13 15 (9.55%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 44 (28.03%) Python
2 32 (20.38%) SQL
3 14 (8.92%) R
4 10 (6.37%) Shell Script
4 10 (6.37%) SystemVerilog
4 10 (6.37%) Tcl
5 7 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.18%) Java
7 3 (1.91%) Bash
8 2 (1.27%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.27%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.27%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.64%) ABAP
9 1 (0.64%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.64%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (19.11%) Degree
2 16 (10.19%) Security Cleared
3 15 (9.55%) SC Cleared
4 8 (5.10%) PhD
5 5 (3.18%) Master's Degree
6 4 (2.55%) CCNP
6 4 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.91%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.91%) CCNA
8 2 (1.27%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.27%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.64%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (15.92%) QA
2 19 (12.10%) Data Quality
3 12 (7.64%) GDPR
4 7 (4.46%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.91%) WCAG
7 1 (0.64%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.64%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.64%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (3.18%) Ansible
1 5 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.91%) Grafana
3 2 (1.27%) Terraform
4 1 (0.64%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 15 (9.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.64%) Adobe
3 10 (6.37%) Atlassian
3 10 (6.37%) Google
3 10 (6.37%) Xilinx
4 6 (3.82%) SAP
5 5 (3.18%) Cisco
6 4 (2.55%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.91%) AirMagnet
7 3 (1.91%) Aruba
7 3 (1.91%) Ekahau
7 3 (1.91%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (1.91%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.91%) Infoblox
7 3 (1.91%) Juniper
7 3 (1.91%) Meraki
7 3 (1.91%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.27%) Informatica
8 2 (1.27%) Qualys
8 2 (1.27%) YouTube