Data Sharing Contracts

Data Sharing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Sharing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Sharing 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 474 538 644
Rank change year-on-year +64 +106 +144
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 46 44 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.10% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.12% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 25 48
10th Percentile £381 £470 £409
25th Percentile £421 £531 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £563 £596
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -5.66% +19.25%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £670
90th Percentile £616 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +8.57% -12.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - - £22.48
25th Percentile - - £29.56
Median hourly rate £12.45 £35.00 £41.75
Median % change year-on-year -64.43% -16.17% +81.52%
75th Percentile - - £53.56
90th Percentile - - £60.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate £12.45 - £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +182.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Sharing 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 Sharing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Sharing in the UK

Data Sharing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Sharing in the UK

Data Sharing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Sharing in the UK

Data Sharing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Sharing in the UK

Data Sharing
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Sharing 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 42 £520 -7.64% 39
UK excluding London +69 20 £475 +8.57% 22
London +28 18 £550 -2.22% 21
Work from Home +44 16 £500 -10.11% 27
South East +48 10 £529 -6.33% 6
Midlands +24 3 £388 +19.23% 8
North of England +21 3 £500 - 2
West Midlands - 3 £388 - 5
South West - 3 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 1
North West +17 1 £450 - 1
Scotland - 1 - - 3

Data Sharing
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 (6.52%) R Markdown
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.70%) Power Platform
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) Azure
3 2 (4.35%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) Power BI
2 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.52%) Tableau
3 2 (4.35%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (4.35%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (4.35%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.35%) Parquet
3 2 (4.35%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.35%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.17%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Git
General
1 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
1 12 (26.09%) Public Sector
1 12 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (19.57%) Finance
3 6 (13.04%) Law
4 5 (10.87%) Legal
5 4 (8.70%) Military
6 3 (6.52%) Marketing
7 1 (2.17%) Automotive
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Public Speaking
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
7 1 (2.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Data Engineer
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Senior
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Information Manager
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Analyst
5 3 (6.52%) Consultant
5 3 (6.52%) Data Architect
5 3 (6.52%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (6.52%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) DevOps Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) DevOps Developer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead
6 2 (4.35%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow Administrator
6 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.70%) PySpark
1 4 (8.70%) RESTful
2 3 (6.52%) Kafka
2 3 (6.52%) REST
2 3 (6.52%) Shiny
2 3 (6.52%) SOAP
3 2 (4.35%) FHIR
3 2 (4.35%) JSON
3 2 (4.35%) Plotly
3 2 (4.35%) XML
4 1 (2.17%) JDBC
4 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.17%) ODBC
4 1 (2.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) CMDB
2 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.35%) Freedom of Information
3 2 (4.35%) Freedom of Information Act
3 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.35%) PACS
3 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.17%) Clustering
4 1 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.17%) Replication
4 1 (2.17%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (23.91%) Data Protection
2 9 (19.57%) Agile
2 9 (19.57%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (19.57%) ETL
3 8 (17.39%) Data Management
4 7 (15.22%) Data Governance
4 7 (15.22%) Data Pipeline
4 7 (15.22%) Impact Assessments
5 6 (13.04%) Data Engineering
5 6 (13.04%) Data Science
5 6 (13.04%) Service Delivery
5 6 (13.04%) Visualisation
6 5 (10.87%) Change Management
6 5 (10.87%) CI/CD
6 5 (10.87%) Data Collection
6 5 (10.87%) ITIL
6 5 (10.87%) ITSM
6 5 (10.87%) Migration
6 5 (10.87%) Service Management
6 5 (10.87%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.09%) Python
2 10 (21.74%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) R
4 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.17%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.17%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.17%) SOQL
5 1 (2.17%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.87%) SC Cleared
1 5 (10.87%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.22%) GDPR
2 6 (13.04%) Accessibility
3 5 (10.87%) Data Quality
4 3 (6.52%) WCAG
5 2 (4.35%) DICOM
5 2 (4.35%) HL7
6 1 (2.17%) EU AI Act
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.52%) Databricks
3 2 (4.35%) Palantir
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) Foundry
4 1 (2.17%) iManage
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft