Data Collection Contracts

Data Collection
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Collection skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Collection over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 535 597
Rank change year-on-year +107 +62 -93
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 158 154 261
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.27% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.31% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 100 170
10th Percentile £260 £310 £313
25th Percentile £350 £417 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.94% +13.48%
75th Percentile £588 £589 £575
90th Percentile £675 £752 £664
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £455 £438
% change year-on-year -6.59% +4.00% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 3 4
10th Percentile £14.05 £18.64 £24.98
25th Percentile £15.36 £19.61 £29.81
Median hourly rate £16.72 £21.22 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% -46.95% +113.05%
75th Percentile £26.88 £42.49 £46.69
90th Percentile £58.38 £55.24 £47.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £21.22 £35.00
% change year-on-year -25.59% -39.37% +86.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Collection 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 36,703 50,479 79,939
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 89.71% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,654 34,954 56,109
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.04% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,498 1,668 1,904
10th Percentile £12.74 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.70 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 28 May 2024.

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 28 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Collection in the UK

Data Collection
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 Collection within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +113 138 £463 -2.63% 192
London +81 67 £500 +2.56% 80
UK excluding London +35 66 £425 -6.59% 115
Work from Home +81 45 £358 -28.50% 74
East of England +23 18 £465 +3.91% 10
Midlands +24 16 £355 -29.00% 26
South East +15 15 £650 +13.04% 24
North of England +23 9 £450 - 30
West Midlands +6 9 £450 -0.55% 11
South West -2 7 £490 +73.45% 15
East Midlands +17 6 £200 -60.00% 15
North West +17 6 £475 +5.56% 21
Scotland +41 5 £181 -59.72% 7
Yorkshire +16 3 £233 - 6

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 4 (2.53%) Apache Spark
1 4 (2.53%) Confluence
1 4 (2.53%) SAS
2 3 (1.90%) CMS
2 3 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) Apache
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (12.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.96%) Spreadsheet
3 8 (5.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (2.53%) AutoCAD
6 2 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.27%) Trello
7 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.90%) Workfront
2 2 (1.27%) Relativity
2 2 (1.27%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.63%) SmartPlant
3 1 (0.63%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 32 (20.25%) Power Platform
2 25 (15.82%) Azure
3 13 (8.23%) Google Analytics
4 12 (7.59%) GCP
5 11 (6.96%) Adobe Analytics
6 8 (5.06%) Google Data Studio
7 7 (4.43%) PaaS
8 6 (3.80%) SaaS
9 5 (3.16%) AWS
9 5 (3.16%) Google Sheets
10 4 (2.53%) Veeva
11 3 (1.90%) Adverity
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.90%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (1.90%) Azure Sentinel
11 3 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.90%) Google Tag Manager
11 3 (1.90%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.90%) Sprout Social
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.16%) DNS
1 5 (3.16%) HTTP
1 5 (3.16%) TCP/IP
2 4 (2.53%) Internet
2 4 (2.53%) VPN
3 3 (1.90%) SSH
4 2 (1.27%) SAN
5 1 (0.63%) DHCP
5 1 (0.63%) Firewall
5 1 (0.63%) Modbus
5 1 (0.63%) RFID
5 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (20.25%) Power BI
2 16 (10.13%) Tableau
3 9 (5.70%) BigQuery
4 6 (3.80%) Looker
4 6 (3.80%) Power Query
5 5 (3.16%) Big Data
6 3 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.90%) Data Mining
6 3 (1.90%) Metadata
7 2 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.27%) Electronic Patient Records
7 2 (1.27%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.27%) Tableau Server
8 1 (0.63%) Qlik Sense
8 1 (0.63%) QlikView
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (4.43%) JIRA
2 5 (3.16%) Postman
3 4 (2.53%) Git
3 4 (2.53%) Mercurial
4 3 (1.90%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.63%) Charles Proxy
5 1 (0.63%) RStudio
General
1 49 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 35 (22.15%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (20.89%) Finance
4 30 (18.99%) Public Sector
5 23 (14.56%) Marketing
6 13 (8.23%) Banking
7 12 (7.59%) Local Government
7 12 (7.59%) Retail
8 11 (6.96%) Presentation Skills
9 7 (4.43%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (3.16%) Advertising
11 4 (2.53%) Automotive
11 4 (2.53%) Multimedia
11 4 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.90%) Legal
12 3 (1.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.90%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.27%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 42 (26.58%) Analyst
2 17 (10.76%) Data Analyst
3 11 (6.96%) Senior
4 10 (6.33%) Architect
4 10 (6.33%) Data Engineer
4 10 (6.33%) Performance Analyst
5 7 (4.43%) Azure Engineer
5 7 (4.43%) Consultant
5 7 (4.43%) Lean Specialist
6 6 (3.80%) Data Architect
6 6 (3.80%) Project Manager
6 6 (3.80%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (3.16%) Forensic Manager
7 5 (3.16%) Process Improvement Specialist
7 5 (3.16%) Technical Manager
8 4 (2.53%) Administrator
8 4 (2.53%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (2.53%) Programmer
9 3 (1.90%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.96%) JSON
2 8 (5.06%) Pandas
3 7 (4.43%) jQuery
3 7 (4.43%) Node.js
4 5 (3.16%) CSS
4 5 (3.16%) DOM
4 5 (3.16%) HTML
4 5 (3.16%) NumPy
4 5 (3.16%) SciPy
4 5 (3.16%) Swagger
5 4 (2.53%) .NET
5 4 (2.53%) React
6 3 (1.90%) LDAP
7 2 (1.27%) PySpark
7 2 (1.27%) Regular Expression
8 1 (0.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 29 (18.35%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.96%) Social Media
3 8 (5.06%) Legacy Systems
3 8 (5.06%) Marketing Technology
3 8 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.80%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.16%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.53%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 4 (2.53%) Taxonomies
6 4 (2.53%) Wiki
7 3 (1.90%) CMDB
7 3 (1.90%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (1.90%) Multi-touch
7 3 (1.90%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.27%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.27%) NHS
8 2 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.43%) Windows
2 5 (3.16%) Linux
3 1 (0.63%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (27.85%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (27.22%) Analytics
3 31 (19.62%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (18.35%) Data Analysis
5 27 (17.09%) Decision-Making
6 26 (16.46%) Data Management
7 25 (15.82%) Computer Science
8 23 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 23 (14.56%) Visualisation
9 22 (13.92%) Agile
10 21 (13.29%) Statistics
11 19 (12.03%) Machine Learning
11 19 (12.03%) Process Improvement
11 19 (12.03%) Project Management
12 18 (11.39%) Data Visualisation
13 16 (10.13%) Actionable Insight
13 16 (10.13%) Data Analytics
13 16 (10.13%) Data Modelling
13 16 (10.13%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (10.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.09%) Python
2 25 (15.82%) SQL
3 20 (12.66%) JavaScript
4 12 (7.59%) C#
5 9 (5.70%) R
6 4 (2.53%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.53%) VB
7 3 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (1.90%) Java
7 3 (1.90%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.90%) VBA
8 1 (0.63%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (19.62%) Degree
2 22 (13.92%) Security Cleared
3 21 (13.29%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.96%) Master's Degree
5 10 (6.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (4.43%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 7 (4.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 6 (3.80%) DV Cleared
8 5 (3.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (2.53%) PhD
10 3 (1.90%) ACCA
11 2 (1.27%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.63%) DBS Check
12 1 (0.63%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.63%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (12.03%) QA
2 15 (9.49%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.96%) GDPR
4 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 17025
4 5 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (3.16%) ISO17020
5 4 (2.53%) CDISC
6 3 (1.90%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.90%) PMO
7 2 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (1.27%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.63%) Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment)
System Software
1 3 (1.90%) Hyper-V
1 3 (1.90%) NFS
2 2 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.63%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 25 (15.82%) Microsoft
2 18 (11.39%) Google
3 15 (9.49%) Adobe
4 10 (6.33%) Tealium
5 7 (4.43%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.80%) Ensighten
6 6 (3.80%) Monetate
6 6 (3.80%) Omniture
6 6 (3.80%) Optimizely
7 5 (3.16%) SAP
8 4 (2.53%) Databricks
8 4 (2.53%) Facebook
8 4 (2.53%) Oracle
8 4 (2.53%) YouTube
9 3 (1.90%) Brandwatch
9 3 (1.90%) Cloudera
9 3 (1.90%) Hootsuite
9 3 (1.90%) Instagram
9 3 (1.90%) Twitter
10 2 (1.27%) Anaplan