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 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 401 404 460
Rank change year-on-year +3 +56 +158
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 119 118 129
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.42% 0.37% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.43% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 58 80
10th Percentile £275 £232 £198
25th Percentile £400 £323 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £456 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.12% +1.33% -9.95%
75th Percentile £603 £559 £575
90th Percentile £688 £641 £689
UK median daily rate £500 £456 £475
% change year-on-year +9.59% -3.95% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 5
10th Percentile £19.85 - £22.60
25th Percentile £33.75 £14.05 £25.00
Median hourly rate £44.00 £17.02 £25.38
Median % change year-on-year +158.56% -32.95% -19.84%
75th Percentile £53.33 £23.31 £36.00
90th Percentile £63.88 £41.38 £52.65
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £18.54 £29.69
% change year-on-year +129.30% -37.57% -6.22%

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 25,818 27,322 36,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.93% 86.54% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,369 16,640 25,071
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £639 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,635 1,055 1,472
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.69 £20.27 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.42 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.08 £39.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.52% -7.06% +30.61%

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 21 October 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 21 October 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 21 October 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 +4 47 £560 +44.52% 93
North of England -19 24 £450 +54.64% 12
South East +17 20 £600 +20.00% 69
Yorkshire -18 17 £500 +140.97% 2
East of England +4 12 £403 - 18
West Midlands -26 10 £508 +28.89% 1
Midlands -29 10 £508 +28.89% 2
North West -19 7 £267 -8.25% 8
South West +7 2 £275 -43.88% 20
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 (5.88%) Apache Pig
1 7 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.20%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.52%) Apache
3 3 (2.52%) IIS
4 1 (0.84%) CICS
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 24 (20.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.52%) Chatbot
3 3 (2.52%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.84%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.84%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.21%) Power Platform
2 13 (10.92%) Azure
3 6 (5.04%) GCP
4 5 (4.20%) Figma
4 5 (4.20%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.52%) AWS
5 3 (2.52%) Fivetran
5 3 (2.52%) GitHub
5 3 (2.52%) Miro
5 3 (2.52%) Snowflake
6 2 (1.68%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.68%) Commercetools
6 2 (1.68%) Contentful
6 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.68%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.68%) SaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Adobe Analytics
7 1 (0.84%) PaaS
7 1 (0.84%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Firewall
2 1 (0.84%) 2G
2 1 (0.84%) 5G
2 1 (0.84%) BGP
2 1 (0.84%) IPsec
2 1 (0.84%) J1939
2 1 (0.84%) LTE
2 1 (0.84%) Mobile Backhaul
2 1 (0.84%) SMS
2 1 (0.84%) VLAN
2 1 (0.84%) VoIP
2 1 (0.84%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (25.21%) Power BI
2 11 (9.24%) Data Mining
3 8 (6.72%) Apache Hive
3 8 (6.72%) Hadoop
3 8 (6.72%) Tableau
4 7 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.36%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (3.36%) Power Query
6 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.52%) OLTP
6 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.68%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.68%) DB2
7 2 (1.68%) Metadata
7 2 (1.68%) MySQL
7 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 5 (4.20%) GitLab
2 3 (2.52%) JIRA
2 3 (2.52%) Liquibase
3 2 (1.68%) Git
3 2 (1.68%) Jaeger
3 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.84%) MLflow
4 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (17.65%) Marketing
4 13 (10.92%) Finance
5 11 (9.24%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.72%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.20%) Legal
7 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.20%) Multimedia
8 4 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Local Government
9 3 (2.52%) Banking
9 3 (2.52%) Electronics
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.52%) Wearables
10 2 (1.68%) Military
10 2 (1.68%) Retail
11 1 (0.84%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (27.73%) Analyst
2 22 (18.49%) Data Scientist
3 19 (15.97%) Data Analyst
4 9 (7.56%) Data Engineer
5 8 (6.72%) Business Analyst
5 8 (6.72%) Senior
6 7 (5.88%) Developer
6 7 (5.88%) FPGA Engineer
7 4 (3.36%) Security Analyst
7 4 (3.36%) Software Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Administrator
8 3 (2.52%) Architect
8 3 (2.52%) Data Architect
8 3 (2.52%) Designer
8 3 (2.52%) Marketing Business Analyst
8 3 (2.52%) Performance Analyst
8 3 (2.52%) Python Engineer
8 3 (2.52%) Report Analyst
8 3 (2.52%) Service Designer
8 3 (2.52%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) RESTful
2 6 (5.04%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (4.20%) FastAPI
3 5 (4.20%) Pandas
4 4 (3.36%) React
5 3 (2.52%) Middleware
6 2 (1.68%) JSON
6 2 (1.68%) LangChain
6 2 (1.68%) PyTorch
7 1 (0.84%) CrewAI
7 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.84%) Express.js
7 1 (0.84%) FHIR
7 1 (0.84%) GraphQL
7 1 (0.84%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.84%) Loki
7 1 (0.84%) PySpark
7 1 (0.84%) REST
7 1 (0.84%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 7 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 7 (5.88%) FPGA
2 7 (5.88%) Verilog
3 6 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (4.20%) Multi-touch
4 5 (4.20%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.36%) Data Structures
5 4 (3.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.52%) Acoustics
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) Social Media
7 2 (1.68%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.68%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.68%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.68%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.97%) Linux
2 7 (5.88%) Unix
3 4 (3.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (34.45%) Validation
2 34 (28.57%) Visualisation
3 31 (26.05%) Machine Learning
4 27 (22.69%) Data Analysis
5 26 (21.85%) Analytics
5 26 (21.85%) Data Science
5 26 (21.85%) Decision-Making
6 24 (20.17%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (16.81%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (15.97%) Actionable Insight
8 19 (15.97%) Data Visualisation
9 16 (13.45%) Software Engineering
10 14 (11.76%) Marketing Mix
10 14 (11.76%) Statistics
11 13 (10.92%) Bayesian Methods
11 13 (10.92%) Mathematics
11 13 (10.92%) Statistical Modelling
12 12 (10.08%) Data Governance
12 12 (10.08%) ETL
12 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 64 (53.78%) Python
2 35 (29.41%) SQL
3 15 (12.61%) Shell Script
4 14 (11.76%) R
5 11 (9.24%) Java
5 11 (9.24%) Scala
6 7 (5.88%) SystemVerilog
6 7 (5.88%) Tcl
7 4 (3.36%) Bash
7 4 (3.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 4 (3.36%) JavaScript
8 3 (2.52%) C++
8 3 (2.52%) Go
8 3 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.68%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.68%) C
10 1 (0.84%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.84%) Embedded C++
10 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.84%) REXX
Qualifications
1 14 (11.76%) Degree
2 9 (7.56%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.88%) PhD
4 5 (4.20%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) CISSP
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.68%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) CEH
7 1 (0.84%) CISM
7 1 (0.84%) CRISC
7 1 (0.84%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) Data Quality
2 8 (6.72%) QA
3 5 (4.20%) GDPR
4 4 (3.36%) Accessibility
4 4 (3.36%) NIST
5 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.52%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.84%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.84%) GAMP
7 1 (0.84%) HL7
7 1 (0.84%) IFRS
7 1 (0.84%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.84%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (4.20%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.36%) Docker
3 1 (0.84%) KVM
3 1 (0.84%) Squid
Systems Management
1 3 (2.52%) Grafana
1 3 (2.52%) Kubernetes
1 3 (2.52%) Terraform
2 2 (1.68%) Ansible
2 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.84%) Fluentd
3 1 (0.84%) Kibana
3 1 (0.84%) Kubeflow
3 1 (0.84%) logstash
3 1 (0.84%) Rsyslog
3 1 (0.84%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 13 (10.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Splunk
3 7 (5.88%) Xilinx
4 6 (5.04%) Google
4 6 (5.04%) SAP
5 4 (3.36%) Adobe
6 3 (2.52%) Optimizely
6 3 (2.52%) Talend
7 2 (1.68%) Databricks
7 2 (1.68%) OneTrust
7 2 (1.68%) OpenText
7 2 (1.68%) VMware
8 1 (0.84%) Hotjar
8 1 (0.84%) IBM
8 1 (0.84%) Juniper
8 1 (0.84%) NetApp
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle
8 1 (0.84%) Qualys
8 1 (0.84%) Tenable
8 1 (0.84%) Workday