Data Hub Contracts

Data Hub
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Hub skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Hub 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 510 569 682
Rank change year-on-year +59 +113 +95
Contract jobs citing Data Hub 10 13 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.030% 0.060%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.18% 0.18% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 22
10th Percentile £469 £408 £405
25th Percentile £478 £455 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £661 £581
90th Percentile £591 £733 £819
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +15.07%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Hub falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
10th Percentile £356 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £660
90th Percentile £763 £763 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £489 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.88% -4.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £58.05
% change year-on-year -25.00% -31.09% +65.84%

Data Hub
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Hub in the UK

Data Hub
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Hub in the UK

Data Hub
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Hub in the UK

Data Hub
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Hub in the UK

Data Hub
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Hub 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 +58 10 £508 -11.74% 25
London +38 6 £508 -16.46% 15
UK excluding London +62 2 £475 -9.52% 12
Work from Home +39 2 £475 -22.45% 20
South East +46 1 £475 - 2
North of England +19 1 - - 4
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Data Hub
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 3 (30.00%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (10.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (10.00%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Power BI
2 2 (20.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (20.00%) SAP HANA
2 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (20.00%) ThoughtSpot
3 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (10.00%) DB2
3 1 (10.00%) Metadata
3 1 (10.00%) MS Access
3 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (10.00%) Power Query
3 1 (10.00%) SAP BW
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) LSMW
General
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) BAPI
1 1 (10.00%) RESTful
1 1 (10.00%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (10.00%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Low-Code
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Data Mapping
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Analytics
3 3 (30.00%) Data Management
4 2 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Data Extraction
4 2 (20.00%) Data Governance
4 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
4 2 (20.00%) ETL
4 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) Data Science
5 1 (10.00%) Data Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (10.00%) Release Train
5 1 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (10.00%) Murex