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 2 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
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 543 547
Rank change year-on-year -98 +4 +82
Contract jobs citing Teradata 31 27 20
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.058% 0.082% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.14% 0.17% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 14
10th Percentile £304 £415 £463
25th Percentile £356 £447 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -13.64% -6.38%
75th Percentile £560 £500 £575
90th Percentile £720 £530 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £368 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -22.63% -5.00% +11.11%

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 22,069 15,617 17,082
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.37% 47.18% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,692 9,560 10,717
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £601 £613 £625
90th Percentile £700 £705 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,118 789 859
10th Percentile £15.81 £14.62 £13.61
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.30 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.79% -10.18% -33.01%
75th Percentile £65.19 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.00 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.99 £22.32 £27.50
% change year-on-year +52.32% -18.85% -21.43%

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 2 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 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 2 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 -107 27 £470 -1.05% 14
London -55 14 £485 +2.11% 14
UK excluding London -102 13 £368 -22.63%
Work from Home -71 7 £535 +12.63% 3
North of England - 7 £310 -
North West - 7 £310 -
Midlands -48 4 £574 +39.94%
West Midlands - 4 £574 -
South East -67 3 £525 -
Yorkshire - 2 £805 -
Scotland -11 1 £375 -23.78%

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 4 (12.90%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (12.90%) SAS
2 3 (9.68%) Apache
2 3 (9.68%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (54.84%) AWS
2 11 (35.48%) Amazon S3
3 10 (32.26%) dbt
3 10 (32.26%) Snowflake
4 6 (19.35%) Azure
5 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
6 4 (12.90%) GCP
7 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (9.68%) OpenShift
7 3 (9.68%) Serverless
8 2 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (6.45%) GitHub
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (3.23%) Amazon EMR
9 1 (3.23%) Datadog
9 1 (3.23%) Fivetran
9 1 (3.23%) Google Analytics
9 1 (3.23%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (41.94%) Data Warehouse
2 7 (22.58%) Relational Database
3 6 (19.35%) NoSQL
4 5 (16.13%) Metadata
4 5 (16.13%) Power BI
5 4 (12.90%) DataStage
5 4 (12.90%) Db2
5 4 (12.90%) Tableau
6 3 (9.68%) Amazon QuickSight
6 3 (9.68%) Apache Iceberg
6 3 (9.68%) Big Data
6 3 (9.68%) DynamoDB
6 3 (9.68%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (6.45%) Spark SQL
7 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
8 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
8 1 (3.23%) Hadoop
8 1 (3.23%) Semantic Layer
8 1 (3.23%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) ER Studio
2 1 (3.23%) ERwin
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 13 (41.94%) Banking
3 10 (32.26%) Social Skills
4 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.68%) Marketing
6 2 (6.45%) Aviation
6 2 (6.45%) Retail Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (29.03%) Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Data Analyst
2 7 (22.58%) Developer
3 6 (19.35%) Lead
3 6 (19.35%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Architect
4 4 (12.90%) DataStage Developer
5 3 (9.68%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Business Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Data Insight Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Insight Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Insight Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Data Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Data Visualisation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) Kafka
2 3 (9.68%) Spring
2 3 (9.68%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.45%) Jinja
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Legacy Code
1 5 (16.13%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (9.68%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (6.45%) Credit Risk
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) AI Agents
4 1 (3.23%) Autonomous Agent
4 1 (3.23%) Data Structures
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.23%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (29.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (48.39%) Migration
2 12 (38.71%) Data Modelling
3 11 (35.48%) Analytics
3 11 (35.48%) CI/CD
3 11 (35.48%) Data Pipeline
4 10 (32.26%) ETL
5 8 (25.81%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Data Engineering
6 7 (22.58%) Data Integration
6 7 (22.58%) Data Transformation
6 7 (22.58%) Validation
7 5 (16.13%) Actionable Insight
7 5 (16.13%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (16.13%) Data Migration
7 5 (16.13%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (16.13%) QA Automation
8 4 (12.90%) Data Reconciliation
8 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (12.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) SQL
2 13 (41.94%) Python
3 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
3 4 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 3 (9.68%) Java
5 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Degree
1 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
1 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
1 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) Data Quality
2 5 (16.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Control-M
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) IBM
3 4 (12.90%) Databricks
4 3 (9.68%) Ab Initio
4 3 (9.68%) Informatica
5 2 (6.45%) Hitachi
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.23%) Google
6 1 (3.23%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (3.23%) Sparx
6 1 (3.23%) Talend