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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 488 582
Rank change year-on-year +35 +94 +108
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 73 95 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.22% 0.21%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 1.30% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 65 78
10th Percentile £399 £285 £381
25th Percentile £447 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.16% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £641 £560 £584
90th Percentile £838 £741 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £455
% change year-on-year +16.67% -1.10% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
10th Percentile £30.31 £45.63 -
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 £66.13 £32.30
90th Percentile - £71.50 £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 5,551 7,303 10,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.94% 16.82% 17.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,833 5,212 7,593
10th Percentile £357 £350 £375
25th Percentile £420 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £663
90th Percentile £763 £767 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 144 185
10th Percentile £19.84 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £23.88 £20.98 £32.40
Median hourly rate £32.81 £40.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.98% -30.43% +35.29%
75th Percentile £65.31 £58.81 £70.25
90th Percentile £75.50 £72.50 £79.19
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +57.14%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 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 +48 64 £550 +20.22% 188
London +48 45 £550 +15.79% 153
Work from Home +51 30 £675 +22.73% 50
UK excluding London +35 21 £525 +16.67% 56
North of England +9 10 £600 +26.32% 6
North West +13 8 £600 +26.32% 3
East of England +39 4 - - 3
South West +30 4 £625 +38.89% 8
Midlands +7 3 £475 +5.56% 9
Scotland +9 2 £575 +4.55% 10
Yorkshire +3 2 £525 -5.23% 3
West Midlands +2 2 £475 +5.56% 6
South East +29 1 £385 +46.67% 18
East Midlands +14 1 - - 3

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 (17.81%) Apache Spark
2 9 (12.33%) SAS
3 3 (4.11%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (24.66%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.77%) Power Platform
2 14 (19.18%) AWS
3 10 (13.70%) Azure
4 7 (9.59%) SaaS
5 5 (6.85%) GCP
6 3 (4.11%) Collibra
6 3 (4.11%) dbt
7 2 (2.74%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (2.74%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.37%) AWS CodeCommit
8 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.37%) Cloud9 IDE
8 1 (1.37%) IaaS
8 1 (1.37%) PaaS
8 1 (1.37%) Serverless
8 1 (1.37%) Textract
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (28.77%) Power BI
2 15 (20.55%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (20.55%) Tableau
3 11 (15.07%) Metadata
4 10 (13.70%) Big Data
5 4 (5.48%) Data Vault
5 4 (5.48%) NoSQL
5 4 (5.48%) QlikView
6 3 (4.11%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 3 (4.11%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.11%) SQL Server
6 3 (4.11%) ThoughtSpot
7 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (2.74%) Data Hub
7 2 (2.74%) Hadoop
7 2 (2.74%) MySQL
7 2 (2.74%) Relational Database
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 8 (10.96%) JIRA
2 5 (6.85%) Git
3 2 (2.74%) TestRail
4 1 (1.37%) PyCharm
General
1 24 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 22 (30.14%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.55%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Finance
5 6 (8.22%) Marketing
5 6 (8.22%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.11%) Police
7 3 (4.11%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.11%) Retail
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.37%) Law
8 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Analyst
1 18 (24.66%) Data Scientist
2 15 (20.55%) Data Analyst
3 10 (13.70%) Architect
3 10 (13.70%) Senior
4 9 (12.33%) Data Architect
4 9 (12.33%) Data Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Architect
6 5 (6.85%) Senior Data Architect
7 4 (5.48%) Banking Analyst
7 4 (5.48%) Big Data Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.11%) Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Java Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Python Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Risk Consultant
8 3 (4.11%) Senior Consultant
9 2 (2.74%) Governance Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) SAS Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.59%) Ray
2 5 (6.85%) Kafka
3 3 (4.11%) D3.js
3 3 (4.11%) NumPy
3 3 (4.11%) Pandas
3 3 (4.11%) PyTorch
3 3 (4.11%) TensorFlow
3 3 (4.11%) XML
4 2 (2.74%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.37%) Matplotlib
5 1 (1.37%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.37%) Plotly
5 1 (1.37%) pydantic
5 1 (1.37%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.70%) Algorithms
2 8 (10.96%) Management Information System
2 8 (10.96%) Reference Data
3 7 (9.59%) Distributed Computing
3 7 (9.59%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 4 (5.48%) Market Risk
4 4 (5.48%) Multi-touch
4 4 (5.48%) Tandem
5 3 (4.11%) NHS
5 3 (4.11%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.74%) Credit Risk
6 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.74%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.37%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Data Science
2 27 (36.99%) Business Intelligence
3 26 (35.62%) Analytics
3 26 (35.62%) Data Modelling
3 26 (35.62%) Visualisation
4 25 (34.25%) Machine Learning
5 22 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (28.77%) Data Visualisation
7 20 (27.40%) Data Analysis
8 18 (24.66%) Actionable Insight
9 17 (23.29%) Agile
10 14 (19.18%) Data Strategy
11 13 (17.81%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (17.81%) Data Governance
12 12 (16.44%) Computer Science
12 12 (16.44%) Decision-Making
13 11 (15.07%) Metadata Management
13 11 (15.07%) Statistics
14 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (13.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 53 (72.60%) SQL
2 39 (53.42%) Python
3 10 (13.70%) R
4 8 (10.96%) C
4 8 (10.96%) C++
4 8 (10.96%) Java
4 8 (10.96%) Shell Script
5 3 (4.11%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.11%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.37%) ANSI SQL
6 1 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.37%) Scala
6 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (19.18%) Degree
2 9 (12.33%) Security Cleared
3 8 (10.96%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.48%) PhD
5 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) Data Quality
2 6 (8.22%) GDPR
3 5 (6.85%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (6.85%) Basel II
3 5 (6.85%) QA
4 4 (5.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 3 (4.11%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.74%) Basel III
7 1 (1.37%) COBIT
7 1 (1.37%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (10.96%) Oracle
2 7 (9.59%) Databricks
3 5 (6.85%) Microsoft
4 4 (5.48%) IBM
5 3 (4.11%) Ab Initio
5 3 (4.11%) Informatica
5 3 (4.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.74%) Cognos
6 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.74%) Spotify
7 1 (1.37%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (1.37%) Calypso
7 1 (1.37%) Intel