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 4 March 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
4 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 567 503 575
Rank change year-on-year -64 +72 +83
Contract jobs citing Teradata 20 14 25
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.047% 0.047% 0.056%
As % of the Vendors category 0.11% 0.100% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 7 9
10th Percentile £404 £289 £300
25th Percentile £408 £300 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.88% -27.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £525 £563 £625
90th Percentile £780 £588 £632
UK excluding London median daily rate £442 £312 £538
% change year-on-year +41.67% -41.95% +27.98%

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 18,722 14,011 19,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 44.43% 46.64% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,002 8,583 11,959
10th Percentile £306 £283 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £514
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.93%
75th Percentile £602 £623 £626
90th Percentile £700 £713 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 937 442 979
10th Percentile £15.24 £15.62 £12.73
25th Percentile £18.25 £21.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £24.55 £29.54 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +16.97% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.68 £82.33 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £27.35 £24.65
% change year-on-year -17.26% +10.95% -24.15%

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 4 March 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 4 March 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 -84 14 £442 +41.67% 2
England -82 13 £426 +19.59% 6
Work from Home -14 7 £418 -14.36%
Scotland +11 6 £437 -
London -43 5 £418 +4.38% 4
South East -27 4 £400 -23.81%
Midlands -62 4 £780 +157.85%
West Midlands -53 3 £780 +35.65%
North of England - 3 £780 - 1
North West - 3 £780 -
Yorkshire - 3 £780 - 1
East Midlands -33 1 £402 +37.20%

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 7 (35.00%) SAS
2 5 (25.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Snowflake
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 3 (15.00%) Amazon S3
3 3 (15.00%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (15.00%) GCP
3 3 (15.00%) OpenShift
3 3 (15.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (55.00%) Metadata
2 9 (45.00%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (30.00%) NoSQL
4 5 (25.00%) BigQuery
5 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
6 3 (15.00%) Big Data
6 3 (15.00%) DynamoDB
6 3 (15.00%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (15.00%) PowerCenter
7 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (5.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Database
7 1 (5.00%) Oracle Exadata
7 1 (5.00%) RDBMS
7 1 (5.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (5.00%) Sqoop
7 1 (5.00%) SSDT
General
1 13 (65.00%) Finance
2 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (35.00%) Banking
5 4 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (15.00%) Marketing
7 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (5.00%) Retail
7 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Analyst
2 10 (50.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Data Modeller
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Insight Analyst
3 3 (15.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Insight Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Insight Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Java Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Teradata Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Apache Spark Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Management Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Risk Management Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) SAS Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) Kafka
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Credit Risk
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Data Governance
2 8 (40.00%) Analytics
2 8 (40.00%) Data Transformation
2 8 (40.00%) ETL
2 8 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 7 (35.00%) Data Lineage
4 6 (30.00%) Data Modelling
5 5 (25.00%) Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
6 4 (20.00%) Data Design
6 4 (20.00%) Data Mapping
6 4 (20.00%) ETL Development
6 4 (20.00%) Machine Learning
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
7 3 (15.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (15.00%) Pricing Analytics
7 3 (15.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (100.00%) SQL
2 10 (50.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (35.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Oracle
2 4 (20.00%) Ab Initio
2 4 (20.00%) Informatica
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.00%) Google
4 1 (5.00%) Greenplum
4 1 (5.00%) Netezza