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 1 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 471 349 408
Rank change year-on-year -122 +59 +114
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 114 129 142
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.30% 0.53% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.59% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 70 79
10th Percentile £301 £311 £222
25th Percentile £400 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £472
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +11.25% -0.65%
75th Percentile £589 £595 £620
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £486
% change year-on-year -5.00% +2.89% -0.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 25
10th Percentile £15.00 £23.65 £14.76
25th Percentile £23.44 £25.50 £15.39
Median hourly rate £30.53 £27.39 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +11.47% +55.24% -4.65%
75th Percentile £36.69 £31.20 £26.88
90th Percentile £43.55 £34.27 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £30.53 £25.50 £17.64
% change year-on-year +19.71% +44.56% -4.65%

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 32,858 22,016 32,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.08% 90.81% 86.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,074 14,505 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,007 857 2,166
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.27 £20.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.36
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.63 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +10.94% -1.54% -11.33%

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 1 April 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 1 April 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 1 April 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 -59 57 £500 -9.09% 34
South East -56 19 £600 +20.00% 20
East of England -13 17 £293 -49.13% 11
North of England -77 10 £500 +9.59% 10
Midlands -87 9 £438 +12.90% 8
West Midlands -74 8 £444 +14.52% 2
North West -46 5 £369 -18.11% 6
Yorkshire -57 5 £527 +11.00% 3
East Midlands -32 1 £380 -39.20% 6
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 5 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.51%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) Apache
3 1 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.88%) Confluence
3 1 (0.88%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (0.88%) R Markdown
Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (7.89%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.88%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.91%) Power Platform
2 12 (10.53%) Azure
3 7 (6.14%) Adobe Analytics
3 7 (6.14%) GCP
4 5 (4.39%) AWS
5 4 (3.51%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.75%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.75%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.88%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.88%) Contentful
8 1 (0.88%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.88%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.88%) Miro
8 1 (0.88%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.88%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.75%) 2G
1 2 (1.75%) 5G
1 2 (1.75%) LTE
1 2 (1.75%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.75%) VoIP
1 2 (1.75%) VPN
2 1 (0.88%) Broadband
2 1 (0.88%) Firewall
2 1 (0.88%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) LAN
2 1 (0.88%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.91%) Power BI
2 10 (8.77%) Tableau
3 3 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.63%) Metadata
4 2 (1.75%) Geospatial Data
4 2 (1.75%) Looker
4 2 (1.75%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.88%) BusinessObjects XI
5 1 (0.88%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.88%) Power Query
5 1 (0.88%) QGIS
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Charles Proxy
2 1 (0.88%) Git
2 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 41 (35.96%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.42%) Marketing
3 20 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 17 (14.91%) Finance
6 13 (11.40%) Organisational Skills
7 7 (6.14%) Banking
7 7 (6.14%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (4.39%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.51%) Multimedia
10 3 (2.63%) Back Office
10 3 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Electronics
10 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (2.63%) Law
10 3 (2.63%) Local Government
10 3 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.75%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.75%) Legal
11 2 (1.75%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (19.30%) Analyst
2 15 (13.16%) Senior
3 14 (12.28%) Data Analyst
4 11 (9.65%) Consultant
4 11 (9.65%) Data Scientist
5 8 (7.02%) Lead
6 5 (4.39%) Audio Engineer
6 5 (4.39%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Analytics Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Coordinator
7 4 (3.51%) Data Engineer
7 4 (3.51%) Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Implementation Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Project Manager
7 4 (3.51%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (3.51%) Senior Implementation Consultant
7 4 (3.51%) Senior User Researcher
7 4 (3.51%) User Researcher
8 3 (2.63%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (2.63%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) ADO
1 3 (2.63%) CSS
1 3 (2.63%) HTML
1 3 (2.63%) JSON
1 3 (2.63%) Pandas
2 2 (1.75%) Flash
2 2 (1.75%) PySpark
2 2 (1.75%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.75%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.88%) REST
3 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.88%) Shiny
3 1 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.89%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (7.02%) Management Information System
2 8 (7.02%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (5.26%) Acoustics
3 6 (5.26%) Algorithms
3 6 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.39%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.51%) AI Agents
5 4 (3.51%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (3.51%) Life Science
5 4 (3.51%) NHS
6 3 (2.63%) Equities
6 3 (2.63%) Multi-touch
6 3 (2.63%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.75%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.75%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.75%) IoT
7 2 (1.75%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.02%) Linux
2 4 (3.51%) Android
3 1 (0.88%) Unix
3 1 (0.88%) Windows
3 1 (0.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.81%) Analytics
2 24 (21.05%) Validation
3 21 (18.42%) Data Analysis
3 21 (18.42%) Decision-Making
4 19 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 18 (15.79%) Machine Learning
6 16 (14.04%) Actionable Insight
7 15 (13.16%) Agile
7 15 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (12.28%) Visualisation
9 13 (11.40%) Data Management
10 12 (10.53%) Data Protection
10 12 (10.53%) Data Science
11 11 (9.65%) AI
11 11 (9.65%) Statistical Modelling
12 10 (8.77%) Bayesian Methods
12 10 (8.77%) Marketing Mix
13 9 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (7.89%) Data Visualisation
13 9 (7.89%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (35.96%) Python
2 21 (18.42%) SQL
3 17 (14.91%) R
4 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.63%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (2.63%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.75%) Bash
6 2 (1.75%) Rust
6 2 (1.75%) Solidity
7 1 (0.88%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.88%) C
7 1 (0.88%) C#
7 1 (0.88%) C++
7 1 (0.88%) JCL
7 1 (0.88%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.88%) REXX
7 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (14.91%) Degree
2 10 (8.77%) Security Cleared
3 7 (6.14%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.51%) PhD
4 4 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.75%) CCSK
5 2 (1.75%) CEH
5 2 (1.75%) CISA
5 2 (1.75%) CISM
5 2 (1.75%) CISSP
5 2 (1.75%) OSCP
6 1 (0.88%) ACCA
6 1 (0.88%) CIMA
6 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) PMP
6 1 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (10.53%) GDPR
2 8 (7.02%) QA
3 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.75%) NIST
6 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.75%) PMO
6 2 (1.75%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.88%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.88%) GAMP
7 1 (0.88%) GRC
7 1 (0.88%) PERC
7 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (0.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.88%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.88%) Cacti
2 1 (0.88%) logstash
2 1 (0.88%) SCCM
2 1 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.88%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 9 (7.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Adobe
3 6 (5.26%) Google
4 2 (1.75%) BT
4 2 (1.75%) Databricks
4 2 (1.75%) SAP
5 1 (0.88%) Amplitude
5 1 (0.88%) BMC
5 1 (0.88%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco
5 1 (0.88%) Cloudera
5 1 (0.88%) Dell
5 1 (0.88%) Facebook
5 1 (0.88%) Hortonworks
5 1 (0.88%) IBM
5 1 (0.88%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.88%) Siemens
5 1 (0.88%) Sophos
5 1 (0.88%) Splunk