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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 438 498
Rank change year-on-year +37 +60 +138
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 150 157 184
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.47% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.42% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 78 115
10th Percentile £273 £209 £238
25th Percentile £381 £323 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £470
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -9.57% -8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £588
90th Percentile £601 £679 £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £300 £455
% change year-on-year +56.25% -34.07% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 4
10th Percentile £16.32 £14.05 £18.90
25th Percentile £23.64 £14.31 £20.25
Median hourly rate £27.94 £15.79 £21.61
Median % change year-on-year +76.95% -26.93% -47.61%
75th Percentile £40.11 £26.88 £33.19
90th Percentile £45.75 £65.13 £51.53
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 £15.79 £21.22
% change year-on-year +67.83% -25.59% -27.45%

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 28,676 37,017 50,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.74% 85.22% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,067 23,615 34,636
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,409 2,525 1,716
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.35 £16.06 £16.59
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +0.21% +43.92%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

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 4 July 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 4 July 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 4 July 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 +54 127 £525 +23.53% 931
UK excluding London +47 81 £469 +56.25% 462
London +25 53 £550 +30.56% 517
Work from Home +50 52 £413 +17.86% 315
South East +57 33 £600 -7.69% 101
North of England +19 19 £456 +143.94% 145
Midlands +7 11 £350 +16.75% 75
West Midlands +16 10 £313 +4.33% 45
Yorkshire +9 10 £463 +147.28% 58
Scotland +5 10 £246 +35.79% 34
North West +11 9 £450 - 84
South West +36 6 £375 -23.47% 53
East of England +5 2 £575 +29.21% 42
East Midlands -1 1 £625 +212.50% 30
Northern Ireland -9 1 £425 - 5
Wales - 1 - - 14

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 13 (8.67%) Apache Spark
2 7 (4.67%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.33%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.67%) CICS
4 1 (0.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (15.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (2.67%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.00%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.33%) CANalyzer
6 2 (1.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.33%) Relativity
2 1 (0.67%) iTrent
2 1 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (17.33%) Power Platform
2 17 (11.33%) Azure
3 5 (3.33%) GCP
3 5 (3.33%) Google Analytics
4 4 (2.67%) AWS
4 4 (2.67%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.00%) Fivetran
5 3 (2.00%) SaaS
6 2 (1.33%) Adobe Analytics
6 2 (1.33%) Commercetools
6 2 (1.33%) Contentful
6 2 (1.33%) Figma
6 2 (1.33%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.33%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.33%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.67%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.67%) Azure App Service
7 1 (0.67%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.67%) Firewall
1 4 (2.67%) Wireless
2 3 (2.00%) 802.11
2 3 (2.00%) VLAN
2 3 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (1.33%) LAN
4 1 (0.67%) DNS
4 1 (0.67%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.67%) Internet
4 1 (0.67%) J1939
4 1 (0.67%) SMS
4 1 (0.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.67%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (17.33%) Power BI
2 14 (9.33%) Tableau
3 7 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.00%) Big Data
5 3 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
5 3 (2.00%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.00%) Power Query
5 3 (2.00%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (2.00%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.33%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.33%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.33%) DB2
6 2 (1.33%) EDRMS
6 2 (1.33%) Looker
6 2 (1.33%) Metadata
6 2 (1.33%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.33%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.33%) QlikView
6 2 (1.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.67%) GitLab
1 7 (4.67%) JIRA
2 5 (3.33%) Selenium
3 3 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.00%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.67%) CANoe
4 1 (0.67%) Git
4 1 (0.67%) Jaeger
General
1 58 (38.67%) Social Skills
2 33 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (19.33%) Marketing
4 24 (16.00%) Finance
5 20 (13.33%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.00%) Local Government
8 2 (1.33%) Banking
8 2 (1.33%) Legal
8 2 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.67%) Automotive
9 1 (0.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.67%) Electronics
9 1 (0.67%) General Ledger
9 1 (0.67%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (26.00%) Analyst
2 19 (12.67%) Data Analyst
3 16 (10.67%) Senior
4 15 (10.00%) Data Scientist
4 15 (10.00%) FPGA Engineer
5 10 (6.67%) Senior Data Scientist
6 9 (6.00%) Business Analyst
7 8 (5.33%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 7 (4.67%) Consultant
8 7 (4.67%) Developer
9 6 (4.00%) Architect
10 5 (3.33%) Data Architect
10 5 (3.33%) Performance Analyst
11 4 (2.67%) Lead
11 4 (2.67%) Project Manager
12 3 (2.00%) Automation Developer
12 3 (2.00%) Power BI Analyst
12 3 (2.00%) Product Owner
12 3 (2.00%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.00%) Pandas
2 3 (2.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (2.00%) PySpark
3 2 (1.33%) Kafka
3 2 (1.33%) Loki
3 2 (1.33%) REST
3 2 (1.33%) scikit-learn
3 2 (1.33%) Shiny
4 1 (0.67%) .NET
4 1 (0.67%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.67%) CSS
4 1 (0.67%) D3.js
4 1 (0.67%) Express.js
4 1 (0.67%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.67%) HTML
4 1 (0.67%) jQuery
4 1 (0.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.67%) RESTful
4 1 (0.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.00%) FPGA
1 15 (10.00%) Verilog
2 11 (7.33%) Multi-touch
3 7 (4.67%) Algorithms
3 7 (4.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (2.67%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.67%) IoT
5 4 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.00%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.00%) FMCG
6 3 (2.00%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.00%) SCADA
6 3 (2.00%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.33%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.33%) Replication
7 2 (1.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 16 (10.67%) Linux
2 15 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (0.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (32.00%) Validation
2 38 (25.33%) Data Analysis
3 32 (21.33%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (21.33%) Visualisation
4 29 (19.33%) Analytics
5 28 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (14.00%) Machine Learning
7 19 (12.67%) Agile
7 19 (12.67%) Data Science
7 19 (12.67%) Mathematics
8 17 (11.33%) Data Governance
9 16 (10.67%) Software Engineering
10 15 (10.00%) Data Modelling
10 15 (10.00%) FPGA Design
10 15 (10.00%) Project Management
10 15 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
11 14 (9.33%) Decision-Making
11 14 (9.33%) Migration
11 14 (9.33%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 53 (35.33%) Python
2 34 (22.67%) SQL
3 15 (10.00%) R
3 15 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 15 (10.00%) SystemVerilog
3 15 (10.00%) Tcl
4 5 (3.33%) Java
5 4 (2.67%) Bash
6 3 (2.00%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.33%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.33%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.67%) Bicep
8 1 (0.67%) C
8 1 (0.67%) CLIST
8 1 (0.67%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.67%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.67%) Go
8 1 (0.67%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.67%) REXX
Qualifications
1 26 (17.33%) Degree
2 11 (7.33%) PhD
3 9 (6.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.67%) CCNP
5 4 (2.67%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.67%) Master's Degree
6 3 (2.00%) CCNA
6 3 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.33%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.67%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.67%) DBS Check
8 1 (0.67%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (11.33%) Data Quality
2 14 (9.33%) QA
3 9 (6.00%) GDPR
4 6 (4.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.33%) NIST
5 2 (1.33%) WCAG
6 1 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.67%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.67%) HL7
6 1 (0.67%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.67%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.33%) Ansible
3 3 (2.00%) Grafana
3 3 (2.00%) Terraform
4 2 (1.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.67%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 15 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 15 (10.00%) Xilinx
2 7 (4.67%) Google
2 7 (4.67%) SAP
3 5 (3.33%) Atlassian
3 5 (3.33%) ServiceNow
4 4 (2.67%) Cisco
5 3 (2.00%) Adobe
5 3 (2.00%) AirMagnet
5 3 (2.00%) Aruba
5 3 (2.00%) Ekahau
5 3 (2.00%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (2.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (2.00%) Infoblox
5 3 (2.00%) Juniper
5 3 (2.00%) Meraki
5 3 (2.00%) Optimizely
5 3 (2.00%) Qualys
5 3 (2.00%) Talend
6 2 (1.33%) OneTrust