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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 434 352 420
Rank change year-on-year -82 +68 +102
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 118 127 135
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.34% 0.50% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 61 80
10th Percentile £281 £291 £210
25th Percentile £387 £365 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% +9.23% -2.61%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £595
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -2.40% +7.53% -0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £21.25 £15.32
25th Percentile £22.12 £21.63 £15.39
Median hourly rate £33.75 £25.50 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% +43.10% -6.21%
75th Percentile £44.50 £27.75 £26.88
90th Percentile £64.63 £30.61 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £28.55 £21.50 £17.82
% change year-on-year +32.79% +20.65% -6.21%

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 30,532 22,872 32,975
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.28% 90.11% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,556 14,324 21,897
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £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 1,892 747 2,040
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.48 £21.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - -
75th Percentile £63.40 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.18 £72.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £33.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year -21.91% -2.94% -2.86%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -43 54 £500 -9.09% 19
East of England -4 17 £400 - 9
North of England -64 17 £400 +50.15% 9
South East -30 16 £644 +32.10% 19
North West -30 10 £318 +9.36% 8
Midlands -78 10 £450 +16.13% 7
West Midlands -76 9 £450 +16.13% 6
Yorkshire -53 7 £527 +118.06% 1
South West -20 1 - - 3
East Midlands -29 1 £380 -39.20% 1
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 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Pig
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.85%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 13 (11.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.93%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (5.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Loan IQ
1 1 (0.85%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 19 (16.10%) Power Platform
2 9 (7.63%) Azure
3 6 (5.08%) Adobe Analytics
4 5 (4.24%) GCP
5 4 (3.39%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.54%) AWS
7 2 (1.69%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.85%) Commercetools
8 1 (0.85%) Contentful
8 1 (0.85%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.85%) Figma
8 1 (0.85%) IaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Miro
8 1 (0.85%) PaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.85%) SaaS
8 1 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.69%) 2G
1 2 (1.69%) 5G
1 2 (1.69%) LTE
1 2 (1.69%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.69%) VoIP
1 2 (1.69%) VPN
2 1 (0.85%) Broadband
2 1 (0.85%) Firewall
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) LAN
2 1 (0.85%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.10%) Power BI
2 9 (7.63%) Tableau
3 4 (3.39%) Apache Hive
3 4 (3.39%) Data Mining
3 4 (3.39%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.54%) MySQL
4 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.69%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.69%) Looker
6 1 (0.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.85%) BusinessObjects XI
6 1 (0.85%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.85%) MS Access
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.85%) Power Query
6 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Git
1 1 (0.85%) JIRA
General
1 41 (34.75%) Social Skills
2 23 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.95%) Marketing
4 15 (12.71%) Finance
4 15 (12.71%) Public Sector
5 11 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.78%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.93%) Banking
8 6 (5.08%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing
9 5 (4.24%) Legal
9 5 (4.24%) Multimedia
10 4 (3.39%) Electronics
10 4 (3.39%) Local Government
11 3 (2.54%) Back Office
11 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.69%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.69%) Retail
12 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (20.34%) Analyst
2 17 (14.41%) Data Scientist
3 16 (13.56%) Data Analyst
4 15 (12.71%) Senior
5 11 (9.32%) Consultant
6 6 (5.08%) Developer
6 6 (5.08%) Lead
7 5 (4.24%) Coordinator
7 5 (4.24%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (3.39%) Audio Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Business Analyst
8 4 (3.39%) Data Engineer
8 4 (3.39%) Implementation Consultant
8 4 (3.39%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.39%) Project Coordinator
8 4 (3.39%) Senior Implementation Consultant
8 4 (3.39%) Senior User Researcher
8 4 (3.39%) User Researcher
9 3 (2.54%) Administrator
9 3 (2.54%) Analytics Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.54%) ADO
1 3 (2.54%) Pandas
1 3 (2.54%) RESTful
2 2 (1.69%) Flash
2 2 (1.69%) PySpark
2 2 (1.69%) PyTorch
2 2 (1.69%) Smart Contracts
3 1 (0.85%) CSS
3 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.85%) HTML
3 1 (0.85%) Kafka
3 1 (0.85%) React
3 1 (0.85%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.85%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Algorithms
2 8 (6.78%) Data Protection Act
2 8 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.93%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.39%) AI Agents
4 4 (3.39%) Life Science
4 4 (3.39%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (3.39%) NHS
4 4 (3.39%) Virtual Reality
5 3 (2.54%) Acoustics
5 3 (2.54%) Augmented Reality
5 3 (2.54%) Equities
5 3 (2.54%) Multi-touch
5 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.69%) Blockchain
6 2 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.69%) IoT
6 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.93%) Linux
2 2 (1.69%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Android
3 1 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (22.03%) Analytics
2 25 (21.19%) Data Analysis
2 25 (21.19%) Validation
3 24 (20.34%) Machine Learning
4 23 (19.49%) Decision-Making
4 23 (19.49%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (16.10%) Data Science
6 18 (15.25%) Visualisation
7 17 (14.41%) Actionable Insight
7 17 (14.41%) Business Intelligence
8 15 (12.71%) Data Management
9 14 (11.86%) Data Visualisation
10 12 (10.17%) Statistical Modelling
11 11 (9.32%) Bayesian Methods
11 11 (9.32%) Marketing Mix
11 11 (9.32%) Service Delivery
12 10 (8.47%) Agile
12 10 (8.47%) Data Modelling
12 10 (8.47%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 10 (8.47%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (35.59%) Python
2 27 (22.88%) SQL
3 15 (12.71%) R
4 5 (4.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
5 4 (3.39%) Java
5 4 (3.39%) Scala
6 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.69%) Bash
7 2 (1.69%) C++
7 2 (1.69%) Rust
7 2 (1.69%) Solidity
8 1 (0.85%) Assembly Language
8 1 (0.85%) Bourne shell
8 1 (0.85%) C
8 1 (0.85%) C#
8 1 (0.85%) JCL
8 1 (0.85%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (11.02%) Degree
2 11 (9.32%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) Master's Degree
4 6 (5.08%) SC Cleared
5 4 (3.39%) PhD
6 2 (1.69%) CCSK
6 2 (1.69%) CEH
6 2 (1.69%) CISA
6 2 (1.69%) CISM
6 2 (1.69%) CISSP
6 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.69%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.69%) OSCP
7 1 (0.85%) ACCA
7 1 (0.85%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.63%) GDPR
2 8 (6.78%) QA
3 5 (4.24%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.39%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.69%) NIST
5 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.69%) SLA
5 2 (1.69%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.85%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.85%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.85%) GAMP
6 1 (0.85%) GRC
6 1 (0.85%) PERC
6 1 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.85%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (0.85%) Cacti
1 1 (0.85%) logstash
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.85%) SCCM
1 1 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (0.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 10 (8.47%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) Adobe
3 5 (4.24%) Splunk
4 4 (3.39%) Google
5 2 (1.69%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) Amplitude
6 1 (0.85%) BMC
6 1 (0.85%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.85%) BT
6 1 (0.85%) Cisco
6 1 (0.85%) Facebook
6 1 (0.85%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.85%) IBM
6 1 (0.85%) LexisNexis
6 1 (0.85%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.85%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) SAP
6 1 (0.85%) Siemens
6 1 (0.85%) Sophos