Data Collection Contract Job Trends in England

Data Collection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Collection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 385 424
Rank change year-on-year -141 +39 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 105 119 110
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.23% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.48% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 62 65
10th Percentile £305 £306 £260
25th Percentile £350 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £410
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +34.15% -8.89%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £588
90th Percentile £750 £634 £650
UK median daily rate £454 £513 £421
% change year-on-year -11.37% +21.66% -11.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 14
10th Percentile £21.14 £19.75 £12.97
25th Percentile £22.20 £24.99 £14.05
Median hourly rate £26.93 £33.11 £14.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.66% +126.78% -32.44%
75th Percentile £30.59 £45.75 £34.19
90th Percentile £40.86 - £51.25
UK median hourly rate £26.93 £30.53 £14.60
% change year-on-year -11.77% +109.08% -32.44%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

Data Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Collection relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Collection job vacancy trend in England

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Collection in England over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
London -61 46 £500 -9.09% 81
North of England -55 23 £440 -7.37% 26
Yorkshire -39 18 £440 -6.13% 8
South East -84 16 £615 +2.49% 17
Midlands -51 11 £445 +14.84% 12
West Midlands -53 9 £450 +30.91% 8
East of England -11 7 £293 -49.13% 12
North West -53 5 - - 5
East Midlands -8 2 £225 -64.00% 4
South West -49 2 - - 10
North East - 1 £440 - 13
Data Collection
UK

Data Collection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 (2.86%) ArcGIS
1 3 (2.86%) Confluence
2 2 (1.90%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.95%) Apache
3 1 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.95%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.95%) R Markdown
Applications
1 21 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.95%) Gliffy
4 1 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.95%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.90%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.95%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 32 (30.48%) Power Platform
2 17 (16.19%) Azure
3 6 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 5 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (3.81%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
5 4 (3.81%) GCP
5 4 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.86%) AWS
6 3 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (2.86%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.90%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.90%) GitHub
7 2 (1.90%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.90%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.95%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.95%) Serverless
8 1 (0.95%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.67%) VPN
2 5 (4.76%) DHCP
2 5 (4.76%) DNS
2 5 (4.76%) Firewall
2 5 (4.76%) SSH
2 5 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.86%) Network Security
4 1 (0.95%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.95%) PSTN
4 1 (0.95%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (30.48%) Power BI
2 17 (16.19%) Tableau
3 6 (5.71%) Metadata
4 5 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.90%) Geospatial Data
5 2 (1.90%) GIS
5 2 (1.90%) Looker
5 2 (1.90%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.90%) Spatial Data
5 2 (1.90%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.95%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.95%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.95%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.95%) Power Query
6 1 (0.95%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 5 (4.76%) JIRA
2 2 (1.90%) Charles Proxy
General
1 30 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 29 (27.62%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.95%) Finance
4 8 (7.62%) Marketing
5 7 (6.67%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Legal
6 4 (3.81%) Local Government
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.86%) Law
7 3 (2.86%) Military
7 3 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.90%) Front Office
8 2 (1.90%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Publishing
8 2 (1.90%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 35 (33.33%) Analyst
2 22 (20.95%) Data Analyst
3 12 (11.43%) Senior
4 8 (7.62%) Architect
4 8 (7.62%) Consultant
4 8 (7.62%) Lead
5 7 (6.67%) Performance Analyst
6 5 (4.76%) SQL Analyst
7 4 (3.81%) Data Architect
7 4 (3.81%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.81%) Platform Engineer
7 4 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.81%) SQL Data Analyst
7 4 (3.81%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (2.86%) Data Manager
8 3 (2.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Architect
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (2.86%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (2.86%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 4 (3.81%) CSS
2 4 (3.81%) HTML
3 3 (2.86%) JSON
3 3 (2.86%) REST
4 2 (1.90%) GeoJSON
4 2 (1.90%) PostGIS
4 2 (1.90%) PySpark
5 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.95%) Pandas
5 1 (0.95%) RESTful
5 1 (0.95%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 15 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.62%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (6.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (3.81%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.86%) Acoustics
7 3 (2.86%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.90%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.90%) BYOD
8 2 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
8 2 (1.90%) Life Science
8 2 (1.90%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.90%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.90%) NHS
8 2 (1.90%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.57%) Linux
2 5 (4.76%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Android
4 2 (1.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.95%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.95%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (36.19%) Validation
2 32 (30.48%) Business Intelligence
3 31 (29.52%) Decision-Making
4 27 (25.71%) Analytics
5 25 (23.81%) Visualisation
6 23 (21.90%) Actionable Insight
7 20 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (18.10%) Agile
8 19 (18.10%) Data Analysis
9 18 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (13.33%) AI
11 13 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 12 (11.43%) Data Visualisation
13 11 (10.48%) Data Protection
14 10 (9.52%) Analytical Thinking
14 10 (9.52%) Dashboard Development
14 10 (9.52%) Mathematics
15 9 (8.57%) Data Science
15 9 (8.57%) Statistical Analysis
15 9 (8.57%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 32 (30.48%) Python
2 31 (29.52%) SQL
3 14 (13.33%) R
4 6 (5.71%) Bash
4 6 (5.71%) PowerShell
5 5 (4.76%) Bicep
5 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.95%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (20.00%) Degree
2 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.71%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.90%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.90%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.90%) PhD
5 2 (1.90%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.95%) ACCA
6 1 (0.95%) CIMA
6 1 (0.95%) CISM
6 1 (0.95%) CISSP
6 1 (0.95%) CRISC
6 1 (0.95%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.95%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.95%) PMP
6 1 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (15.24%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.52%) GDPR
3 8 (7.62%) QA
4 4 (3.81%) SLA
5 2 (1.90%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) NCSC
6 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.90%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Terraform
2 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.81%) Ansible
3 4 (3.81%) SCCM
4 1 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (20.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.76%) Google
3 4 (3.81%) Adobe
3 4 (3.81%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 2 (1.90%) ESRI
4 2 (1.90%) Facebook
4 2 (1.90%) NEC
4 2 (1.90%) SAP
4 2 (1.90%) Sparx
4 2 (1.90%) Workday
5 1 (0.95%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.95%) BT
5 1 (0.95%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.95%) Dell
5 1 (0.95%) Hortonworks
5 1 (0.95%) OneLogin
5 1 (0.95%) Palantir
5 1 (0.95%) ServiceNow