Data Design Contracts

Data Design
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Design skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Design over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 441 451 621
Rank change year-on-year +10 +170 -67
Contract jobs citing Data Design 79 131 97
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.30% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.35% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 100 62
10th Percentile £403 £433 £355
25th Percentile £521 £513 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +2.08% -7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £825 £772
90th Percentile £736 £925 £875
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +14.29% +5.00% -23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Design 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 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Design within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +2 66 £600 -4.00% 40
UK excluding London +40 43 £600 +14.29% 30
London +17 33 £600 -25.00% 17
Work from Home +18 21 £625 +8.70% 19
East of England +31 17 £600 +14.29% 7
North of England +22 13 £625 -11.22% 7
Scotland +23 12 £400 -23.81% 7
North West +22 12 £575 -17.86% 7
South West +36 2 £530 +11.58% 3
Yorkshire +6 1 £700 -4.37%
West Midlands +3 1 - - 3
Midlands +2 1 - - 3

Data Design
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 1 (1.27%) Apache
1 1 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (30.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.27%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.27%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 23 (29.11%) Azure
2 9 (11.39%) Azure Data Factory
3 8 (10.13%) AWS
4 6 (7.59%) SaaS
5 5 (6.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 4 (5.06%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.06%) IaaS
6 4 (5.06%) PaaS
7 3 (3.80%) GCP
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 2 (2.53%) Collibra
9 1 (1.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.27%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.27%) dbt
9 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Internet
1 1 (1.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (22.78%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (21.52%) Relational Database
3 12 (15.19%) Data Vault
4 11 (13.92%) RDBMS
5 6 (7.59%) Data Lake
5 6 (7.59%) Oracle Database
6 5 (6.33%) Amazon Redshift
6 5 (6.33%) Data Mart
6 5 (6.33%) Metadata
6 5 (6.33%) SQL Server
6 5 (6.33%) Tableau
7 3 (3.80%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (3.80%) Bigtable
7 3 (3.80%) SAP BW
8 2 (2.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (2.53%) Big Data
8 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
9 1 (1.27%) Apache Hive
9 1 (1.27%) Metadata Repository
9 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Git
2 4 (5.06%) ERwin
3 3 (3.80%) ER Studio
3 3 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
General
1 22 (27.85%) Finance
2 21 (26.58%) Pharmaceutical
2 21 (26.58%) Social Skills
3 20 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (15.19%) Banking
5 10 (12.66%) Public Sector
6 8 (10.13%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (10.13%) Retail
7 7 (8.86%) Back Office
8 4 (5.06%) Legal
8 4 (5.06%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.53%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.53%) Publishing
10 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (24.05%) Architect
2 16 (20.25%) Lead
3 15 (18.99%) Data Architect
4 11 (13.92%) Analyst
4 11 (13.92%) Senior
5 10 (12.66%) Data Modeller
6 7 (8.86%) Data Engineer
6 7 (8.86%) Systems Analyst
7 5 (6.33%) Senior Data Engineer
8 4 (5.06%) Data Analyst
8 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Azure Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Data Migration Expert
9 3 (3.80%) ServiceNow Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Engineer
10 2 (2.53%) Azure Developer
10 2 (2.53%) Consultant
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Senior Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.13%) REST
2 5 (6.33%) .NET
2 5 (6.33%) .NET Core
2 5 (6.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET
2 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (6.33%) ASP.NET Web API
2 5 (6.33%) Autofac
2 5 (6.33%) Dapper ORM
2 5 (6.33%) Entity Framework
2 5 (6.33%) StructureMap
2 5 (6.33%) WCF
2 5 (6.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.25%) Life Science
2 7 (8.86%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.33%) N-Tier
4 4 (5.06%) CMDB
4 4 (5.06%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.06%) Enterprise Cloud
4 4 (5.06%) EPoS
4 4 (5.06%) Reference Data
4 4 (5.06%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.53%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.27%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.27%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (44.30%) Data Governance
1 35 (44.30%) Data Modelling
2 30 (37.97%) Migration
3 24 (30.38%) Agile
3 24 (30.38%) Analytics
4 18 (22.78%) Data Management
5 16 (20.25%) ETL
6 15 (18.99%) Data Architecture
6 15 (18.99%) Data Migration
7 14 (17.72%) DevOps
8 13 (16.46%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (15.19%) Data Strategy
10 11 (13.92%) CI/CD
10 11 (13.92%) Design Patterns
10 11 (13.92%) Record to Report
11 10 (12.66%) Data Integration
12 9 (11.39%) Business Intelligence
12 9 (11.39%) Enterprise Architecture
12 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (10.13%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 19 (24.05%) SQL
2 7 (8.86%) PL/SQL
3 5 (6.33%) C#
3 5 (6.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (11.39%) Degree
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (6.33%) MCPD
3 5 (6.33%) MCSD
4 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (31.65%) Data Quality
2 4 (5.06%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (3.80%) QA
4 1 (1.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.27%) GDPR
4 1 (1.27%) NIST
Vendors
1 33 (41.77%) SAP
2 8 (10.13%) Microsoft
3 7 (8.86%) Databricks
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Ariba
5 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.80%) IDERA
7 1 (1.27%) Google
7 1 (1.27%) IBM
7 1 (1.27%) Pega
7 1 (1.27%) Sparx
7 1 (1.27%) Workday