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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 391 454
Rank change year-on-year -31 +63 +108
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 126 128 115
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.40% 0.42% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.48% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 61 73
10th Percentile £267 £291 £178
25th Percentile £400 £365 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £625 £613 £615
90th Percentile £688 £800 £698
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 5
10th Percentile £20.66 £14.05 £22.60
25th Percentile £33.13 £16.76 £25.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £21.50 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year +97.67% -15.29% +36.01%
75th Percentile £59.80 £26.00 £36.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £38.75 £54.45
UK median hourly rate £37.75 £21.00 £29.69
% change year-on-year +79.76% -29.27% +59.11%

All Process and 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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 2025. 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 -12 53 £519 -1.94% 34
North of England -34 25 £488 +67.53% 31
Yorkshire -21 17 £520 +150.37% 8
East of England -1 16 £403 - 18
South East -6 14 £600 +20.00% 41
West Midlands -39 11 £507 +22.97% 16
Midlands -40 11 £507 +22.97% 30
North West -22 8 £267 -8.25% 22
South West -6 2 £275 -43.30% 12
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 7 (5.56%) Apache Pig
2 5 (3.97%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.38%) Apache
4 3 (2.38%) IIS
5 1 (0.79%) CICS
5 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 23 (18.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (3.97%) Spreadsheet
4 3 (2.38%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 28 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 17 (13.49%) Azure
3 10 (7.94%) GCP
4 7 (5.56%) Google Analytics
5 6 (4.76%) AWS
5 6 (4.76%) Figma
6 4 (3.17%) Adobe Analytics
7 3 (2.38%) Commercetools
7 3 (2.38%) Contentful
7 3 (2.38%) GitHub
7 3 (2.38%) Google Tag Manager
7 3 (2.38%) Miro
8 2 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.59%) Google Data Studio
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.79%) Cloud Run
9 1 (0.79%) Contentsquare
9 1 (0.79%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.59%) 2G
1 2 (1.59%) 5G
1 2 (1.59%) Firewall
1 2 (1.59%) LTE
1 2 (1.59%) Mobile Backhaul
1 2 (1.59%) VoIP
2 1 (0.79%) BGP
2 1 (0.79%) IPsec
2 1 (0.79%) SNMP
2 1 (0.79%) VLAN
2 1 (0.79%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (22.22%) Power BI
2 12 (9.52%) Tableau
3 11 (8.73%) Data Mining
4 8 (6.35%) Apache Hive
4 8 (6.35%) Hadoop
5 7 (5.56%) NoSQL
6 5 (3.97%) Power Query
7 3 (2.38%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.38%) MySQL
7 3 (2.38%) OLTP
7 3 (2.38%) Relational Database
8 2 (1.59%) BigQuery
8 2 (1.59%) BusinessObjects
8 2 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.59%) DB2
8 2 (1.59%) Looker
9 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.79%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.79%) MS Access
9 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Git
1 3 (2.38%) JIRA
2 2 (1.59%) GitLab
2 2 (1.59%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.59%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.79%) MLflow
3 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (34.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (18.25%) Marketing
4 14 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 12 (9.52%) Finance
6 10 (7.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (6.35%) Multimedia
8 7 (5.56%) Legal
8 7 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.76%) Banking
9 6 (4.76%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.97%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (3.17%) Electronics
12 3 (2.38%) Local Government
12 3 (2.38%) Military
12 3 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.38%) Retail
12 3 (2.38%) Wearables
13 2 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 31 (24.60%) Analyst
2 25 (19.84%) Data Scientist
3 19 (15.08%) Data Analyst
4 12 (9.52%) Senior
5 10 (7.94%) Data Engineer
6 8 (6.35%) Developer
7 7 (5.56%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.97%) Audio Engineer
9 4 (3.17%) Performance Analyst
9 4 (3.17%) Security Analyst
9 4 (3.17%) Software Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Administrator
10 3 (2.38%) Designer
10 3 (2.38%) Lead
10 3 (2.38%) Power BI Developer
10 3 (2.38%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (2.38%) Senior Data Scientist
10 3 (2.38%) Service Designer
11 2 (1.59%) DB2 Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.56%) RESTful
2 5 (3.97%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (3.97%) Pandas
3 4 (3.17%) FastAPI
3 4 (3.17%) React
4 3 (2.38%) Middleware
4 3 (2.38%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.59%) Flash
5 2 (1.59%) JSON
5 2 (1.59%) PySpark
5 2 (1.59%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (1.59%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.79%) CSS
6 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.79%) LangChain
6 1 (0.79%) Lucene
6 1 (0.79%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.08%) Algorithms
2 10 (7.94%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.97%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (3.97%) Multi-touch
4 5 (3.97%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.17%) Acoustics
5 4 (3.17%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (3.17%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.17%) Social Media
6 3 (2.38%) AI Agents
6 3 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.38%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.38%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.59%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.59%) IoT
7 2 (1.59%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.90%) Linux
2 4 (3.17%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (30.16%) Machine Learning
2 34 (26.98%) Analytics
3 33 (26.19%) Validation
4 31 (24.60%) Visualisation
5 28 (22.22%) Data Science
5 28 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 26 (20.63%) Data Analysis
7 23 (18.25%) Problem-Solving
8 22 (17.46%) Actionable Insight
8 22 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
9 18 (14.29%) Data Visualisation
10 16 (12.70%) Statistical Modelling
11 15 (11.90%) Bayesian Methods
11 15 (11.90%) Marketing Mix
12 14 (11.11%) Data Protection
12 14 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 13 (10.32%) Data Modelling
13 13 (10.32%) Statistics
14 12 (9.52%) Mathematics
15 11 (8.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 63 (50.00%) Python
2 39 (30.95%) SQL
3 18 (14.29%) R
4 11 (8.73%) Java
4 11 (8.73%) Scala
5 8 (6.35%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 6 (4.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.17%) Bash
9 3 (2.38%) Go
10 2 (1.59%) Bourne shell
10 2 (1.59%) C++
10 2 (1.59%) Rust
10 2 (1.59%) Solidity
11 1 (0.79%) C
11 1 (0.79%) C#
11 1 (0.79%) CLIST
11 1 (0.79%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (12.70%) Degree
2 13 (10.32%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) PhD
3 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.17%) CISSP
4 4 (3.17%) Master's Degree
5 3 (2.38%) CEH
5 3 (2.38%) CISM
5 3 (2.38%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.59%) CCSK
6 2 (1.59%) CISA
6 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.59%) OSCP
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.32%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.94%) GDPR
2 10 (7.94%) QA
3 7 (5.56%) Accessibility
4 6 (4.76%) NIST
5 5 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (2.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
7 2 (1.59%) SLA
7 2 (1.59%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 1 (0.79%) GAMP
8 1 (0.79%) IFRS
8 1 (0.79%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.79%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.38%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) KVM
3 1 (0.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (2.38%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (1.59%) Grafana
2 2 (1.59%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.79%) Ansible
3 1 (0.79%) Cacti
3 1 (0.79%) Fluentd
3 1 (0.79%) Kibana
3 1 (0.79%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.79%) logstash
3 1 (0.79%) Rsyslog
3 1 (0.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.79%) Tivoli NetView
3 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (10.32%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.35%) Google
2 8 (6.35%) Splunk
3 7 (5.56%) Adobe
4 4 (3.17%) Optimizely
5 3 (2.38%) Databricks
5 3 (2.38%) OneTrust
5 3 (2.38%) SAP
6 2 (1.59%) VMware
7 1 (0.79%) AlgoSec
7 1 (0.79%) Cisco
7 1 (0.79%) Facebook
7 1 (0.79%) Hotjar
7 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.79%) IBM
7 1 (0.79%) Juniper
7 1 (0.79%) NetApp
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle
7 1 (0.79%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.79%) Workday