Data Mining Contracts

Data Mining
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 506 587
Rank change year-on-year +59 +81 +116
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 72 94 126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 1.29% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 65 81
10th Percentile £375 £285 £381
25th Percentile £431 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -2.86% -11.09%
75th Percentile £638 £560 £551
90th Percentile £768 £741 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -13.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £30.31 £44.75 -
25th Percentile £48.48 - £22.16
Median hourly rate £80.50 £50.00 £28.16
Median % change year-on-year +61.00% +77.56% -34.51%
75th Percentile £82.25 - £32.30
90th Percentile - £62.90 £40.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.50 £71.00 £25.16
% change year-on-year +13.38% +182.19% -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining 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 5,544 7,303 10,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.75% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,832 5,193 7,664
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% -1.78%
75th Percentile £638 £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 105 144 183
10th Percentile £20.09 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.25 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £33.11 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.23% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.55 £70.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £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 Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
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 Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +41 61 £525 +14.75% 187
London +35 42 £550 +15.79% 155
Work from Home +57 29 £475 -13.64% 47
UK excluding London +32 23 £525 +16.67% 40
North of England +26 10 £600 +26.32% 6
North West +14 8 £600 +26.32% 4
South West +46 4 £625 +38.89% 7
East of England +34 4 - - 4
Scotland +9 4 £463 -15.91% 9
Midlands +13 3 £475 +5.56% 8
Yorkshire +10 2 £525 -5.23% 2
West Midlands +5 2 £475 +5.56% 6
South East +36 1 £385 +46.67% 5
East Midlands +10 1 - - 2

Data Mining
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 13 (18.06%) Apache Spark
2 9 (12.50%) SAS
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
4 2 (2.78%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 17 (23.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 10 (13.89%) Azure
4 5 (6.94%) GCP
4 5 (6.94%) SaaS
5 3 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.17%) Collibra
5 3 (4.17%) dbt
6 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CodeCommit
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud9 IDE
7 1 (1.39%) IaaS
7 1 (1.39%) PaaS
7 1 (1.39%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.39%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (27.78%) Power BI
2 15 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.83%) Tableau
3 10 (13.89%) Big Data
3 10 (13.89%) Metadata
4 4 (5.56%) Data Lake
4 4 (5.56%) Data Vault
4 4 (5.56%) QlikView
5 3 (4.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 3 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 3 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 3 (4.17%) ThoughtSpot
6 2 (2.78%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.78%) Data Hub
6 2 (2.78%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.78%) MySQL
6 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.39%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 8 (11.11%) JIRA
2 5 (6.94%) Git
3 2 (2.78%) TestRail
4 1 (1.39%) PyCharm
General
1 23 (31.94%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.56%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (18.06%) Banking
4 8 (11.11%) Finance
5 6 (8.33%) Marketing
5 6 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Retail
7 2 (2.78%) Police
8 1 (1.39%) Back Office
8 1 (1.39%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.39%) Law
8 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.39%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Analyst
2 18 (25.00%) Data Scientist
3 16 (22.22%) Data Analyst
4 10 (13.89%) Architect
5 9 (12.50%) Data Architect
5 9 (12.50%) Senior
6 8 (11.11%) Data Engineer
7 7 (9.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Architect
8 5 (6.94%) Senior Data Architect
9 4 (5.56%) Banking Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Big Data Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Business Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Java Engineer
10 3 (4.17%) Python Engineer
11 2 (2.78%) Automation Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) Lead
11 2 (2.78%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.72%) Ray
2 4 (5.56%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) D3.js
3 3 (4.17%) NumPy
3 3 (4.17%) Pandas
3 3 (4.17%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.17%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.17%) XML
4 2 (2.78%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.39%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.39%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.39%) Plotly
5 1 (1.39%) pydantic
5 1 (1.39%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.89%) Algorithms
2 8 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 8 (11.11%) Reference Data
3 7 (9.72%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (9.72%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.56%) Multi-touch
4 4 (5.56%) Tandem
5 3 (4.17%) Market Risk
5 3 (4.17%) NHS
5 3 (4.17%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.78%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.39%) Credit Risk
7 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) Data Science
2 27 (37.50%) Visualisation
3 26 (36.11%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (36.11%) Data Modelling
3 26 (36.11%) Machine Learning
4 23 (31.94%) Analytics
5 21 (29.17%) Data Visualisation
5 21 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (27.78%) Data Analysis
7 18 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
8 15 (20.83%) Agile
9 13 (18.06%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (18.06%) Data Governance
9 13 (18.06%) Data Strategy
10 12 (16.67%) Computer Science
11 11 (15.28%) Decision-Making
11 11 (15.28%) Statistics
12 10 (13.89%) ETL
12 10 (13.89%) Metadata Management
12 10 (13.89%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (69.44%) SQL
2 38 (52.78%) Python
3 10 (13.89%) R
4 8 (11.11%) C
4 8 (11.11%) C++
4 8 (11.11%) Java
4 8 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.17%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.39%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.39%) Scala
6 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (19.44%) Degree
2 9 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.56%) PhD
5 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (19.44%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.33%) Actionable Recommendations
2 6 (8.33%) GDPR
3 5 (6.94%) QA
4 4 (5.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
5 3 (4.17%) Basel II
6 1 (1.39%) Basel III
6 1 (1.39%) COBIT
6 1 (1.39%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Oracle
2 7 (9.72%) Databricks
3 5 (6.94%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.56%) IBM
5 3 (4.17%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.17%) Informatica
5 3 (4.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.78%) Cognos
6 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.78%) Spotify
7 1 (1.39%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.39%) Calypso
7 1 (1.39%) Intel