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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 532 625
Rank change year-on-year +67 +93 +150
Contract jobs citing Data Sharing 44 39 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.092% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.11% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 39
10th Percentile £381 £450 £410
25th Percentile £450 £531 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% +6.02%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £670
90th Percentile £616 - £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +16.51% -12.50% -
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 26,620 36,673 51,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.98% 86.13% 89.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,067 23,631 35,432
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 2,440 1,683
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.99 £16.01
Median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%

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 19 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 19 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 +56 41 £525 -6.67% 69
London +41 20 £550 -2.22% 37
UK excluding London +55 18 £510 +16.51% 34
Work from Home +55 15 £525 -6.67% 37
South East +37 8 £529 -3.77% 16
Midlands +20 3 £388 +19.23% 4
South West - 3 £500 - 4
West Midlands - 3 £388 - 3
North of England +18 2 £550 - 6
Yorkshire - 2 £550 - 4
East of England +20 1 - - 4
Scotland - 1 - -

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 (6.82%) R Markdown
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (4.55%) Apache Spark
3 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Misys Midas
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.36%) AWS
2 4 (9.09%) Amazon S3
2 4 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon SageMaker
4 1 (2.27%) dbt
4 1 (2.27%) Matillion
4 1 (2.27%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (9.09%) Tableau
2 3 (6.82%) Amazon Athena
2 3 (6.82%) Power BI
2 3 (6.82%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.55%) Apache Iceberg
3 2 (4.55%) Delta Lake
3 2 (4.55%) Metadata
3 2 (4.55%) Parquet
3 2 (4.55%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.27%) Data Vault
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Git
General
1 12 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 11 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Finance
5 6 (13.64%) Law
6 3 (6.82%) Legal
6 3 (6.82%) Marketing
6 3 (6.82%) Military
7 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Automotive
8 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Architect
2 6 (13.64%) Senior
3 5 (11.36%) Developer
4 4 (9.09%) Information Manager
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
5 3 (6.82%) Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) DevOps Developer
5 3 (6.82%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
6 2 (4.55%) DBA
6 2 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Principal Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.09%) PySpark
1 4 (9.09%) REST
1 4 (9.09%) SOAP
2 3 (6.82%) Kafka
2 3 (6.82%) RESTful
2 3 (6.82%) Shiny
3 2 (4.55%) FHIR
3 2 (4.55%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) Plotly
3 2 (4.55%) XML
4 1 (2.27%) JDBC
4 1 (2.27%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.27%) ODBC
4 1 (2.27%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.64%) CMDB
2 3 (6.82%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.55%) PACS
3 2 (4.55%) Replication
4 1 (2.27%) Clustering
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) FMCG
4 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (2.27%) Freedom of Information Act
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.27%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Data Protection
2 9 (20.45%) Agile
2 9 (20.45%) ETL
3 7 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (15.91%) Data Engineering
3 7 (15.91%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (13.64%) Change Management
4 6 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
4 6 (13.64%) ITIL
4 6 (13.64%) ITSM
4 6 (13.64%) Service Delivery
4 6 (13.64%) Service Management
5 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.36%) Data Collection
5 5 (11.36%) Data Governance
5 5 (11.36%) Data Management
5 5 (11.36%) Data Science
5 5 (11.36%) DevOps
5 5 (11.36%) Validation
5 5 (11.36%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) Python
2 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 5 (11.36%) R
4 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.27%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.27%) SOQL
5 1 (2.27%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
2 1 (2.27%) ISEB
2 1 (2.27%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) GDPR
2 5 (11.36%) Accessibility
2 5 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.82%) WCAG
4 2 (4.55%) DICOM
4 2 (4.55%) HL7
5 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
Systems Management
1 1 (2.27%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (15.91%) ServiceNow
2 4 (9.09%) Databricks
3 3 (6.82%) Palantir
3 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) Foundry
4 1 (2.27%) iManage
4 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Teradata