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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 638 536 544
Rank change year-on-year -102 +8 +66
Contract jobs citing Teradata 47 24 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.087% 0.073% 0.034%
As % of the Vendors category 0.21% 0.15% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 13 10
10th Percentile £306 £407 £453
25th Percentile £369 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £592 £500 £575
90th Percentile £694 £501 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £449 £525
% change year-on-year +0.33% -14.57% +13.51%

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 22,533 15,547 16,927
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.81% 47.19% 43.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,888 9,521 10,392
10th Percentile £313 £275 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £700 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,169 793 745
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.69 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -11.75% -33.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.75 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.39 £67.90 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £21.24 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.83% -22.76% -31.25%

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 29 August 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 12 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 29 August 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 -91 42 £525 +10.53% 22
London -65 21 £500 +5.26% 12
UK excluding London -87 21 £450 +0.33% 13
North of England - 12 £432 - 7
North West - 12 £432 - 5
Work from Home -60 11 £550 +15.79% 8
Midlands -41 7 £550 +34.15%
West Midlands - 6 £690 -
South East -63 4 £575 +43.75% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £830 - 2
East Midlands -14 1 £375 -8.54%
Scotland -25 1 £375 -23.78% 3

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 (17.02%) SAS
2 6 (12.77%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (8.51%) Apache
3 4 (8.51%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 22 (46.81%) AWS
2 13 (27.66%) dbt
3 12 (25.53%) Amazon S3
3 12 (25.53%) Power Platform
3 12 (25.53%) Snowflake
4 8 (17.02%) Azure
5 4 (8.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon Bedrock
6 3 (6.38%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.38%) Datadog
6 3 (6.38%) GCP
6 3 (6.38%) Serverless
7 2 (4.26%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (4.26%) Collibra
7 2 (4.26%) GitHub
7 2 (4.26%) OpenShift
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon EMR
8 1 (2.13%) Fivetran
8 1 (2.13%) Google Analytics
8 1 (2.13%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (25.53%) Power BI
3 11 (23.40%) Metadata
4 8 (17.02%) Relational Database
5 7 (14.89%) DataStage
6 6 (12.77%) Data Lake
6 6 (12.77%) Db2
6 6 (12.77%) NoSQL
6 6 (12.77%) Tableau
7 4 (8.51%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (8.51%) Hadoop
7 4 (8.51%) SQL Server
8 3 (6.38%) Amazon QuickSight
8 3 (6.38%) Apache Iceberg
8 3 (6.38%) Big Data
8 3 (6.38%) Data Vault
8 3 (6.38%) Delta Lake
9 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (4.26%) DynamoDB
9 2 (4.26%) SSDT
Development Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Git
2 2 (4.26%) Claude Code
3 1 (2.13%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.13%) ERwin
General
1 21 (44.68%) Finance
2 19 (40.43%) Banking
2 19 (40.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (25.53%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Retail
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
5 4 (8.51%) Marketing
6 2 (4.26%) Aviation
6 2 (4.26%) Retail Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Architect
2 8 (17.02%) Data Analyst
2 8 (17.02%) Lead
3 7 (14.89%) Developer
4 6 (12.77%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Data Architect
5 5 (10.64%) DataStage Developer
6 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
6 4 (8.51%) Project Manager
7 3 (6.38%) Agentic Artificial Intelligence Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Data Insight Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Insight Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Insight Data Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Lead Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Lead Data Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 3 (6.38%) Kafka
2 3 (6.38%) PySpark
3 2 (4.26%) Jinja
3 2 (4.26%) Spring
3 2 (4.26%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Legacy Code
2 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (10.64%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (6.38%) AI Agents
3 3 (6.38%) Autonomous Agent
3 3 (6.38%) Credit Risk
3 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
4 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.13%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.13%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Migration
2 18 (38.30%) Data Modelling
3 17 (36.17%) ETL
4 16 (34.04%) Data Pipeline
5 15 (31.91%) Agile
6 14 (29.79%) Analytics
6 14 (29.79%) Data Engineering
7 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
8 12 (25.53%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (23.40%) Data Integration
9 11 (23.40%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (23.40%) Validation
10 9 (19.15%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (17.02%) Data Governance
11 8 (17.02%) Data Transformation
11 8 (17.02%) Metadata Management
12 7 (14.89%) Data Reconciliation
12 7 (14.89%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (14.89%) Performance Tuning
12 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 29 (61.70%) SQL
2 15 (31.91%) Python
3 6 (12.77%) PL/SQL
3 6 (12.77%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.26%) Java
4 2 (4.26%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (4.26%) SC Cleared
1 2 (4.26%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Degree
2 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (27.66%) Data Quality
2 5 (10.64%) QA
3 1 (2.13%) IFRS
3 1 (2.13%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.38%) Control-M
2 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (29.79%) Databricks
2 11 (23.40%) Oracle
3 7 (14.89%) IBM
4 4 (8.51%) Informatica
5 2 (4.26%) Ab Initio
5 2 (4.26%) Hitachi
5 2 (4.26%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.13%) Cloudera
6 1 (2.13%) Google
6 1 (2.13%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (2.13%) Sparx
6 1 (2.13%) Talend