Data Development Contracts

Data Development
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Development skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Development over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 623 733
Rank change year-on-year +59 +110 -119
Contract jobs citing Data Development 30 74 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.069% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.081% 0.15% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 42 100
10th Percentile £374 £426 £462
25th Percentile £413 £503 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £600
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £738 £788 £740
90th Percentile £780 £825 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £625 £525
% change year-on-year -25.00% +19.05% +14.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.13 - -
Median hourly rate £17.25 - -
75th Percentile £17.38 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.25 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Development 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 37,161 49,793 79,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.16% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,765 34,463 55,606
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,583 1,678 1,849
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.66 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £33.14 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.02% +57.82% -

Data Development
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Development over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Development in the UK

Data Development
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Development within the UK over the 6 months to 11 June 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 +62 30 £525 -19.23% 19
London +49 19 £688 -5.17% 9
UK excluding London +40 10 £469 -25.00% 10
Work from Home +82 8 £500 -23.08% 9
Midlands +17 6 £438 -30.00% 1
West Midlands +12 5 £438 -30.00%
South East +15 2 £750 +76.47% 3
North of England +25 1 £388 -40.38% 3
North West +12 1 £388 -44.64% 1
East Midlands - 1 - - 1
South West - 1 £500 - 1

Data Development
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 5 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) AWS
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 8 (26.67%) Serverless
3 6 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Functions
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
4 5 (16.67%) Azure Storage
5 4 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (13.33%) Cloud Run
5 4 (13.33%) GCP
5 4 (13.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub
6 3 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (3.33%) Amazon S3
8 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) MongoDB
2 6 (20.00%) Power BI
3 5 (16.67%) Azure SQL Database
4 4 (13.33%) BigQuery
4 4 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (13.33%) Relational Database
5 3 (10.00%) Big Data
5 3 (10.00%) NoSQL
6 2 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
7 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (3.33%) Metadata
7 1 (3.33%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (3.33%) Power Query
7 1 (3.33%) SAP HANA
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 5 (16.67%) Banking
4 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (6.67%) Marketing
5 2 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Front Office
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Developer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Full Stack Developer
3 4 (13.33%) Java Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Java Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Power BI Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Apache Spark Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Data Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Head of Engineering
6 1 (3.33%) MongoDB Developer
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (3.33%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
1 5 (16.67%) .NET Core
2 4 (13.33%) Blazor
2 4 (13.33%) Kafka
3 3 (10.00%) HTML
4 2 (6.67%) Node.js
5 1 (3.33%) ADO
5 1 (3.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Cloud Native
2 7 (23.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (13.33%) Equities
3 4 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 4 (13.33%) Reference Data
4 3 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) FMCG
5 1 (3.33%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.33%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.33%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Agile
2 9 (30.00%) Microservices
3 8 (26.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (26.67%) DevOps
3 8 (26.67%) Front End Development
4 7 (23.33%) Data Management
4 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
6 5 (16.67%) Data Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) Data Strategy
6 5 (16.67%) ETL
6 5 (16.67%) Multithreading
6 5 (16.67%) SDLC
6 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 5 (16.67%) User Stories
7 4 (13.33%) Analytics
7 4 (13.33%) Data Cleansing
7 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) Python
3 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (23.33%) T-SQL
5 5 (16.67%) C++
5 5 (16.67%) Go
5 5 (16.67%) PL/SQL
6 4 (13.33%) Java
7 2 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.33%) C#
8 1 (3.33%) Scala
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
2 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (13.33%) QA
3 1 (3.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.33%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.33%) Informatica
3 1 (3.33%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (3.33%) SAP