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 1 January 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 531 575
Rank change year-on-year -44 +44 +100
Contract jobs citing Teradata 13 11 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.035% 0.033% 0.047%
As % of the Vendors category 0.075% 0.072% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 6
10th Percentile £400 £288 £300
25th Percentile £406 £296 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £356 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -28.80% -13.04%
75th Percentile £440 £541 £634
90th Percentile £450 £588 £694
UK excluding London median daily rate £420 £303 £500
% change year-on-year +38.84% -39.50% -4.76%

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 17,375 15,197 19,164
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 46.83% 45.82% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,120 9,035 12,152
10th Percentile £300 £284 £252
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £716 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 823 448 662
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.58 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.97 £18.51 £19.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £45.94
Median % change year-on-year -12.53% -40.71% +76.69%
75th Percentile £44.94 £60.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.55 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -14.00% -45.86% +102.88%

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
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 8 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 1 January 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
UK excluding London -49 9 £420 +38.84%
England -42 7 £415 +33.01% 4
Scotland +14 6 £437 -
London -13 4 £426 +6.44% 4
Work from Home -4 3 £418 -14.36% 2
South East - 2 £400 -
East Midlands -22 1 £402 +37.20%
Midlands -41 1 £402 +32.89%

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 3 (23.08%) SAS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (46.15%) Snowflake
2 1 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (7.69%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) Metadata
2 6 (46.15%) BigQuery
3 5 (38.46%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (23.08%) PowerCenter
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Database
6 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (7.69%) Hadoop
6 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
6 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
6 1 (7.69%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (7.69%) Sqoop
General
1 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Banking
5 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Data Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Data Modeller
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Teradata Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Data Management Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Risk Management Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Data Governance
2 8 (61.54%) Metadata Management
3 7 (53.85%) Data Lineage
3 7 (53.85%) Data Modelling
3 7 (53.85%) Data Transformation
4 5 (38.46%) ETL
4 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) Analytics
5 4 (30.77%) Critical Thinking
5 4 (30.77%) Data Design
5 4 (30.77%) Data Integration
5 4 (30.77%) Data Mapping
5 4 (30.77%) ETL Development
6 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
7 2 (15.38%) Data Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Data Architecture
7 2 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
7 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
7 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) Python
3 2 (15.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
4 1 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle
2 5 (38.46%) Informatica
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Ab Initio
4 1 (7.69%) Google