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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 448 469 562
Rank change year-on-year +21 +93 +172
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 108 101 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.26% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.30% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 66 59
10th Percentile £402 £435 £473
25th Percentile £506 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.52% +3.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £644
90th Percentile £775 £775 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +2.70% -11.90% -12.50%
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 29,796 33,316 47,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.45% 85.54% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,622 21,342 32,327
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,663 1,858 1,529
10th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.20 £18.70
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.35%
75th Percentile £49.88 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.46 £77.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £41.25 £38.35
% change year-on-year -44.24% +7.56% +78.37%

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 8 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the UK over the 6 months to 8 August 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 +19 96 £600 +5.73% 67
London +9 66 £618 +2.92% 50
Work from Home +17 35 £600 +4.35% 25
UK excluding London +27 34 £475 +2.70% 29
South East +25 9 £475 -6.86% 11
Scotland +1 6 £425 -12.82% 6
North of England -5 6 £556 +1.14% 5
Yorkshire - 5 £650 - 2
Midlands -12 4 £413 -2.25% 1
East of England - 4 £575 - 2
South West +33 2 £563 +25.00% 3
East Midlands -6 2 £413 -7.19%
West Midlands -17 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 1
North East - 1 £463 - 3
Wales - 1 - - 1

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 11 (10.19%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (6.48%) Apache
3 3 (2.78%) SharePoint
4 2 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (1.85%) Confluence
5 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Payment Gateway
2 3 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.85%) Maximo
4 1 (0.93%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.93%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.93%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.93%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.00%) Azure
2 19 (17.59%) AWS
3 17 (15.74%) Power Platform
4 12 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
5 11 (10.19%) Collibra
6 10 (9.26%) GCP
7 7 (6.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon EMR
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon Kinesis
8 5 (4.63%) Amazon S3
8 5 (4.63%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (4.63%) Serverless
9 4 (3.70%) Alation
9 4 (3.70%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (3.70%) Snowflake
10 3 (2.78%) Entra ID
11 2 (1.85%) dbt
12 1 (0.93%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.93%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.85%) IPsec
1 2 (1.85%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.93%) FTP
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (39.81%) Metadata
2 26 (24.07%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (15.74%) Power BI
4 15 (13.89%) Data Lake
5 13 (12.04%) NoSQL
6 9 (8.33%) Relational Database
7 8 (7.41%) Tableau
8 7 (6.48%) Amazon Redshift
8 7 (6.48%) Big Data
9 6 (5.56%) Data Mining
9 6 (5.56%) Flink
10 5 (4.63%) Data Vault
10 5 (4.63%) SQL Server
11 3 (2.78%) Delta Lake
11 3 (2.78%) SAP BW
11 3 (2.78%) SAP Data Services
12 2 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (1.85%) BigQuery
12 2 (1.85%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.85%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (6.48%) ERwin
2 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
3 4 (3.70%) PowerDesigner
4 3 (2.78%) JIRA
5 2 (1.85%) ER Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Postman
6 1 (0.93%) Selenium
General
1 48 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 30 (27.78%) Finance
3 20 (18.52%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.67%) Banking
5 8 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (3.70%) Local Government
7 4 (3.70%) Police
7 4 (3.70%) Retail
8 3 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.78%) Legal
8 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.93%) Billing
10 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (0.93%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.93%) Front Office
10 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 34 (31.48%) Analyst
2 24 (22.22%) Architect
3 23 (21.30%) Data Analyst
4 17 (15.74%) Data Architect
5 14 (12.96%) Data Engineer
5 14 (12.96%) Lead
6 12 (11.11%) Senior
7 11 (10.19%) Business Analyst
8 8 (7.41%) Developer
9 7 (6.48%) Data Business Analyst
10 5 (4.63%) Consultant
10 5 (4.63%) Data Modeller
10 5 (4.63%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Technical Analyst
11 4 (3.70%) Cloud Engineer
11 4 (3.70%) Governance Analyst
12 3 (2.78%) Cloud Platform Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Senior Cloud Engineer
12 3 (2.78%) Senior Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.11%) Kafka
2 4 (3.70%) PySpark
3 2 (1.85%) REST
4 1 (0.93%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.93%) LDAP
4 1 (0.93%) Pandas
4 1 (0.93%) pytest
4 1 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.48%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 6 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.56%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (3.70%) Virtual Team
5 3 (2.78%) CMDB
5 3 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.78%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.85%) Data Fabric
6 2 (1.85%) Derivative
6 2 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.85%) Equities
6 2 (1.85%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.85%) SCADA
6 2 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.93%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.63%) Linux
2 2 (1.85%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (60.19%) Data Modelling
2 56 (51.85%) Data Governance
3 43 (39.81%) Analytics
4 37 (34.26%) ETL
5 35 (32.41%) Agile
6 33 (30.56%) Metadata Management
7 32 (29.63%) Data Management
8 29 (26.85%) Data Integration
9 28 (25.93%) Data Architecture
10 27 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
11 26 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (24.07%) Visualisation
12 23 (21.30%) Data Pipeline
13 20 (18.52%) Data Security
14 17 (15.74%) Data Science
15 16 (14.81%) Data Analysis
15 16 (14.81%) DevOps
16 15 (13.89%) Data Engineering
16 15 (13.89%) Data Visualisation
16 15 (13.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 56 (51.85%) SQL
2 35 (32.41%) Python
3 10 (9.26%) Java
4 6 (5.56%) Scala
5 3 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.93%) Bash
6 1 (0.93%) C#
6 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (11.11%) Degree
2 8 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (7.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.63%) AWS Certification
3 5 (4.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 4 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 19 (17.59%) GDPR
3 5 (4.63%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 4 (3.70%) QA
5 3 (2.78%) MiFID
6 2 (1.85%) FATCA
6 2 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.93%) Basel III
7 1 (0.93%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.93%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.93%) EMIR
7 1 (0.93%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS
7 1 (0.93%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 5 (4.63%) Docker
2 4 (3.70%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.93%) NFS
Systems Management
1 7 (6.48%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.93%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (10.19%) Microsoft
2 10 (9.26%) Informatica
3 9 (8.33%) Google
4 8 (7.41%) Databricks
5 7 (6.48%) Oracle
5 7 (6.48%) SAP
6 4 (3.70%) Ab Initio
6 4 (3.70%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.78%) Dataiku
7 3 (2.78%) IBM
8 2 (1.85%) Foundry
8 2 (1.85%) Palantir
8 2 (1.85%) Talend
9 1 (0.93%) Aderant
9 1 (0.93%) Adobe
9 1 (0.93%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.93%) Cognos
9 1 (0.93%) Sparx
9 1 (0.93%) Teradata
9 1 (0.93%) Workday