Teradata Contract Job Trends

Teradata
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Teradata products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Teradata over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Teradata.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 622 500 565
Rank change year-on-year -122 +65 +79
Contract jobs citing Teradata 26 24 22
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.083% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.13% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 16
10th Percentile £325 £411 £488
25th Percentile £365 £425 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £468 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -15.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £561 £500 £575
90th Percentile £780 £537 £628
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -21.05% -13.64% +25.00%

All Vendors
UK

Teradata falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 20,121 13,782 18,134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 40.94% 47.73% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,686 8,561 11,320
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% -1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £625
90th Percentile £700 £715 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £493 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +0.97% -2.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 585 1,119
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.84 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.30 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.67%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £76.06 £69.50 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £29.75 £22.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year +32.22% +4.65% -45.67%

Teradata
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Teradata relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Teradata job vacancy trend in the UK

Teradata
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Teradata.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Teradata

Teradata
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Teradata over the 6 months to 30 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Teradata in the UK

Teradata
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Teradata.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Teradata

Teradata
Top 11 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Teradata within the UK over the 6 months to 30 May 2026. 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 -122 22 £470 +0.53% 1
UK excluding London -99 13 £375 -21.05% 2
London -63 9 £444 -5.08%
Work from Home -66 9 £476 -2.31%
Midlands -56 5 £780 +90.24%
South East -60 5 £525 -
West Midlands - 5 £780 -
North West - 5 £780 - 1
North of England - 5 £780 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £780 -
Scotland -7 1 £375 -23.78% 1

Teradata
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (30.77%) SAS
2 6 (23.08%) Apache Spark
3 1 (3.85%) Apache
3 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 15 (57.69%) AWS
2 11 (42.31%) Amazon S3
3 9 (34.62%) Snowflake
4 8 (30.77%) Azure
5 7 (26.92%) dbt
6 6 (23.08%) GCP
7 5 (19.23%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (19.23%) OpenShift
7 5 (19.23%) Serverless
8 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
9 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (46.15%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (30.77%) NoSQL
3 7 (26.92%) Relational Database
4 6 (23.08%) Metadata
5 5 (19.23%) Big Data
5 5 (19.23%) DynamoDB
5 5 (19.23%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (7.69%) DataStage
6 2 (7.69%) DB2
6 2 (7.69%) Power BI
6 2 (7.69%) PowerCenter
6 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
7 1 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (3.85%) Apache Iceberg
7 1 (3.85%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (3.85%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (3.85%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
7 1 (3.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.85%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Git
General
1 16 (61.54%) Finance
2 11 (42.31%) Banking
2 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 7 (26.92%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Investment Banking
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (3.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Data Analyst
2 6 (23.08%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Lead
3 3 (11.54%) Architect
3 3 (11.54%) Insight Analyst
3 3 (11.54%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.69%) AWS Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Business Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) DataStage Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Architect
4 2 (7.69%) Lead Data Analyst
4 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Data Visualisation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Kafka
1 5 (19.23%) Spring
1 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 1 (3.85%) Jinja
2 1 (3.85%) PySpark
2 1 (3.85%) React
2 1 (3.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Legacy Code
2 3 (11.54%) Credit Risk
2 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.85%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (53.85%) Migration
2 11 (42.31%) ETL
3 10 (38.46%) Analytics
4 9 (34.62%) CI/CD
5 8 (30.77%) Data Pipeline
6 6 (23.08%) Agile
6 6 (23.08%) Data Integration
6 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
6 6 (23.08%) Data Transformation
6 6 (23.08%) Validation
7 5 (19.23%) Containerisation
7 5 (19.23%) Data Engineering
7 5 (19.23%) Data Migration
7 5 (19.23%) High Availability
7 5 (19.23%) QA Automation
7 5 (19.23%) Software Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Monitoring
8 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (11.54%) Regulatory Compliance
Programming Languages
1 18 (69.23%) SQL
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 6 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (7.69%) PL/SQL
4 2 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.85%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.85%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.85%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) Data Quality
2 5 (19.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Ab Initio
2 4 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (11.54%) Informatica
4 2 (7.69%) Databricks
4 2 (7.69%) Google
4 2 (7.69%) IBM
5 1 (3.85%) Greenplum
5 1 (3.85%) Hitachi
5 1 (3.85%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (3.85%) Netezza
5 1 (3.85%) Talend