Data Lineage Contracts

Data Lineage
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage 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 457 418 624
Rank change year-on-year -39 +206 +65
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 63 165 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.38% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.44% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 120 54
10th Percentile £362 £400 £500
25th Percentile £458 £425 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £746 £678 £703
90th Percentile £838 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £518
% change year-on-year +3.95% -8.21% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £31.64 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £31.64 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Lineage 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 Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
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 Lineage 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 -37 58 £560 +4.19% 49
London -40 38 £560 +1.82% 35
UK excluding London +43 19 £494 +3.95% 26
Work from Home -12 17 £442 -20.54% 33
North of England +12 8 £525 -4.55% 2
Yorkshire +7 5 £650 -18.70% 2
Midlands +20 4 £413 -19.02% 3
North East +1 3 £525 -
East Midlands - 3 £413 - 1
South East +40 2 £800 +77.78% 17
Scotland +8 2 £325 -43.48% 1
East of England - 2 - -
West Midlands +9 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £425 -

Data Lineage
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 8 (12.70%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (9.52%) Apache
3 5 (7.94%) Confluence
4 4 (6.35%) SAS
5 1 (1.59%) Camunda
5 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (15.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (12.70%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.17%) Notepad++
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.17%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.59%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.81%) Azure
2 10 (15.87%) Collibra
3 9 (14.29%) AWS
4 8 (12.70%) Cloud Computing
4 8 (12.70%) GCP
5 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.76%) Alation
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.59%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub
8 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.57%) Metadata
2 15 (23.81%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 7 (11.11%) Data Mining
3 7 (11.11%) Power BI
4 6 (9.52%) Flink
4 6 (9.52%) NoSQL
5 5 (7.94%) Tableau
6 4 (6.35%) QlikView
6 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (3.17%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (3.17%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.59%) Big Data
8 1 (1.59%) DbVisualizer
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.59%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) ERwin
3 2 (3.17%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.17%) MagicDraw
3 2 (3.17%) XMLSpy
4 1 (1.59%) Postman
4 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 31 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 21 (33.33%) Finance
3 16 (25.40%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (22.22%) Banking
5 6 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Legal
7 2 (3.17%) Police
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
7 2 (3.17%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (33.33%) Analyst
2 15 (23.81%) Data Analyst
3 10 (15.87%) Lead
4 8 (12.70%) Data Engineer
5 7 (11.11%) Architect
5 7 (11.11%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 4 (6.35%) Banking Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Data Business Analyst
6 4 (6.35%) Data Modeller
7 3 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Head of Data Management
7 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (4.76%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) C# Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Developer
8 2 (3.17%) Insurance Business Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) SAS Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) SAS Data Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.70%) PySpark
2 5 (7.94%) Kafka
3 2 (3.17%) FpML
3 2 (3.17%) XML
4 1 (1.59%) LDAP
4 1 (1.59%) Pandas
4 1 (1.59%) Prophet
4 1 (1.59%) pytest
4 1 (1.59%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (7.94%) Reference Data
2 3 (4.76%) Derivative
2 3 (4.76%) OTC Derivatives
2 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.76%) Taxonomies
3 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.17%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.17%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.59%) CMDB
4 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.59%) DTCC
4 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.59%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.17%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (55.56%) Data Governance
2 33 (52.38%) Data Modelling
3 29 (46.03%) Data Management
4 21 (33.33%) Visualisation
5 20 (31.75%) Agile
6 19 (30.16%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (28.57%) ETL
8 16 (25.40%) Analytics
8 16 (25.40%) Metadata Management
9 14 (22.22%) Data Analysis
10 13 (20.63%) Business Intelligence
11 11 (17.46%) Data Architecture
11 11 (17.46%) Data Integration
11 11 (17.46%) Data Pipeline
11 11 (17.46%) Data Visualisation
11 11 (17.46%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (15.87%) Data Security
13 8 (12.70%) Data Science
13 8 (12.70%) Workflow
14 7 (11.11%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 31 (49.21%) SQL
2 23 (36.51%) Python
3 3 (4.76%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) Java
4 2 (3.17%) MATLAB
4 2 (3.17%) Scala
5 1 (1.59%) R
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certification
3 2 (3.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.59%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (57.14%) Data Quality
2 9 (14.29%) GDPR
3 7 (11.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
4 4 (6.35%) QA
5 1 (1.59%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.59%) EMIR
5 1 (1.59%) MiFID
5 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.59%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Kibana
2 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 10 (15.87%) Informatica
2 7 (11.11%) Databricks
2 7 (11.11%) Google
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.35%) Ab Initio
4 4 (6.35%) IBM
5 3 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (3.17%) SAP
7 1 (1.59%) Aderant
7 1 (1.59%) Adobe
7 1 (1.59%) Foundry
7 1 (1.59%) Palantir
7 1 (1.59%) Pega
7 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.59%) Splunk
7 1 (1.59%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.59%) Talend