Data Vault Contracts

Data Vault
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data Vault skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Vault 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 488 521 668
Rank change year-on-year +33 +147 +82
Contract jobs citing Data Vault 32 61 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.14% 0.084%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.58% 0.83% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 51 39
10th Percentile £404 £525 £510
25th Percentile £456 £650 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £870 £700
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +24.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile £623 £925 £775
90th Percentile £668 - £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £588 £575 £575
% change year-on-year +2.17% - -4.17%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Vault 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 5,552 7,317 10,769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 18.96% 16.80% 18.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,834 5,210 7,665
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% -1.64%
75th Percentile £640 £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 104 143 183
10th Percentile £19.97 £14.00 £21.24
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.98 £35.00
Median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £65.15 £58.62 £70.88
90th Percentile £75.13 £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%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Vault in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Vault in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Vault in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Vault 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 +32 32 £563 -35.71% 21
London +17 26 £550 -38.89% 16
Work from Home +40 9 £600 -7.69% 13
UK excluding London +61 6 £588 +2.17% 11
North of England +22 6 £588 +193.75% 3
North West +19 5 £588 +193.75% 3
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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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 7 (21.88%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (9.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.13%) Apache
3 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (50.00%) AWS
2 14 (43.75%) Azure
3 11 (34.38%) dbt
4 8 (25.00%) Snowflake
5 7 (21.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (18.75%) GitHub
7 4 (12.50%) Amazon S3
8 3 (9.38%) Alation
8 3 (9.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (9.38%) GCP
8 3 (9.38%) SaaS
9 2 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (3.13%) Fivetran
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (71.88%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (28.13%) Snowflake Schema
3 7 (21.88%) Data Mart
3 7 (21.88%) Power BI
3 7 (21.88%) Relational Database
4 6 (18.75%) Tableau
5 5 (15.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 5 (15.63%) Data Lake
5 5 (15.63%) RDBMS
6 4 (12.50%) Data Mining
6 4 (12.50%) Star Schema
7 3 (9.38%) Big Data
7 3 (9.38%) Bigtable
8 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (6.25%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (6.25%) Delta Lake
8 2 (6.25%) Hadoop
8 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
9 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (18.75%) ERwin
2 4 (12.50%) ER Studio
2 4 (12.50%) Terragrunt
General
1 15 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (18.75%) Retail
5 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Data Engineer
2 10 (31.25%) Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Data Architect
2 10 (31.25%) Data Modeller
3 7 (21.88%) Senior
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Architect
5 2 (6.25%) Senior Data Modeller
6 1 (3.13%) Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Architect
6 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.13%) Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Data Consultant
6 1 (3.13%) Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Project Engineer
6 1 (3.13%) SQL Developer
6 1 (3.13%) Strategy Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) Kafka
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (9.38%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.13%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Data Modelling
2 13 (40.63%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (37.50%) Data Design
3 12 (37.50%) Data Governance
3 12 (37.50%) Data Pipeline
4 11 (34.38%) Analytics
4 11 (34.38%) Data Science
4 11 (34.38%) ETL
5 10 (31.25%) Data Strategy
5 10 (31.25%) Data Visualisation
5 10 (31.25%) Kimball Methodology
5 10 (31.25%) Visualisation
6 9 (28.13%) Data Architecture
7 7 (21.88%) Agile
7 7 (21.88%) Data Engineering
7 7 (21.88%) Machine Learning
7 7 (21.88%) Translating Business Requirements
8 6 (18.75%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (18.75%) Physical Data Model
8 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 17 (53.13%) SQL
2 10 (31.25%) Python
3 3 (9.38%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) Degree
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Databricks
2 4 (12.50%) MicroStrategy
3 3 (9.38%) IDERA
4 2 (6.25%) Sparx
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.13%) Oracle
5 1 (3.13%) SAP