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

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 350 418
Rank change year-on-year -73 +68 +105
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 131 128 141
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.50% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.44% 0.56% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 63 84
10th Percentile £299 £291 £207
25th Percentile £400 £358 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +5.61% +1.27%
75th Percentile £620 £568 £618
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £473
% change year-on-year +2.56% +2.97% +2.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 8 25
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.45 £15.33
25th Percentile £23.59 £21.25 £15.39
Median hourly rate £35.00 £23.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.37% +31.94% -5.26%
75th Percentile £50.30 £27.50 £26.88
90th Percentile £64.50 £30.02 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £30.53 £21.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year +41.98% +17.81% -3.95%

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 29,988 23,032 33,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.44% 89.84% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,171 14,261 22,013
10th Percentile £310 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £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 1,882 723 1,996
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £13.31
25th Percentile £18.23 £21.15 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% - -
75th Percentile £60.41 £64.86 £61.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.27
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -4.41% -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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -24 57 £500 -9.09% 27
North of England -54 21 £475 +63.23% 13
East of England -5 19 £400 - 7
South East -24 16 £644 +32.10% 18
Midlands -71 15 £475 +22.58% 10
West Midlands -64 14 £482 +24.26% 6
Yorkshire -46 11 £525 +51.78% 1
North West -26 10 £318 +9.36% 12
South West -22 1 - - 4
East Midlands -23 1 £380 -39.20% 4
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 6 (4.58%) Apache Pig
2 5 (3.82%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Apache
3 3 (2.29%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.34%) Spreadsheet
3 6 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.76%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.76%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.03%) Power Platform
2 11 (8.40%) Azure
3 6 (4.58%) GCP
4 4 (3.05%) Adobe Analytics
4 4 (3.05%) Google Analytics
5 3 (2.29%) AWS
6 2 (1.53%) Commercetools
6 2 (1.53%) Contentful
6 2 (1.53%) Figma
6 2 (1.53%) GitHub
6 2 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.53%) Google Tag Manager
6 2 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (0.76%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.76%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.76%) Cloud Run
7 1 (0.76%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.29%) Firewall
2 2 (1.53%) 2G
2 2 (1.53%) 5G
2 2 (1.53%) LTE
2 2 (1.53%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.53%) VoIP
2 2 (1.53%) VPN
3 1 (0.76%) BGP
3 1 (0.76%) Broadband
3 1 (0.76%) Internet
3 1 (0.76%) IPsec
3 1 (0.76%) LAN
3 1 (0.76%) SNMP
3 1 (0.76%) VLAN
3 1 (0.76%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.03%) Power BI
2 10 (7.63%) Data Mining
3 8 (6.11%) Tableau
4 7 (5.34%) Apache Hive
4 7 (5.34%) Hadoop
4 7 (5.34%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.29%) MySQL
5 3 (2.29%) OLTP
6 2 (1.53%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.76%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.76%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.76%) Looker
7 1 (0.76%) MS Access
7 1 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.76%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.53%) Git
1 2 (1.53%) GitLab
1 2 (1.53%) Jaeger
1 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 27 (20.61%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.03%) Marketing
4 14 (10.69%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.92%) Finance
6 11 (8.40%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (6.11%) Multimedia
7 8 (6.11%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (5.34%) Banking
9 6 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.58%) Manufacturing
10 5 (3.82%) Legal
11 4 (3.05%) Electronics
11 4 (3.05%) Local Government
12 3 (2.29%) Back Office
12 3 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (2.29%) Wearables
13 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (16.79%) Analyst
2 20 (15.27%) Data Scientist
3 15 (11.45%) Data Analyst
4 14 (10.69%) Senior
5 9 (6.87%) Consultant
5 9 (6.87%) Data Engineer
5 9 (6.87%) Developer
6 6 (4.58%) Lead
7 5 (3.82%) Audio Engineer
7 5 (3.82%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.82%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.05%) Implementation Consultant
8 4 (3.05%) Power BI Developer
8 4 (3.05%) Project Coordinator
8 4 (3.05%) Senior Consultant
8 4 (3.05%) Senior Implementation Consultant
8 4 (3.05%) Senior User Researcher
8 4 (3.05%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.05%) User Researcher
9 3 (2.29%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.34%) RESTful
2 5 (3.82%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.05%) FastAPI
3 4 (3.05%) React
4 3 (2.29%) ADO
4 3 (2.29%) Middleware
4 3 (2.29%) Pandas
5 2 (1.53%) Flash
5 2 (1.53%) PySpark
5 2 (1.53%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.53%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.76%) CSS
6 1 (0.76%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.76%) HTML
6 1 (0.76%) JSON
6 1 (0.76%) Kafka
6 1 (0.76%) LangChain
6 1 (0.76%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.76%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.76%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.87%) Data Protection Act
2 9 (6.87%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (4.58%) Virtual Reality
5 5 (3.82%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.82%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (3.05%) Acoustics
6 4 (3.05%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (3.05%) Life Science
6 4 (3.05%) NHS
7 3 (2.29%) Equities
7 3 (2.29%) Multi-touch
7 3 (2.29%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.53%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.53%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.53%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.45%) Linux
2 5 (3.82%) Windows
3 1 (0.76%) Android
3 1 (0.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (23.66%) Machine Learning
2 29 (22.14%) Validation
3 27 (20.61%) Analytics
4 26 (19.85%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.08%) Data Analysis
5 25 (19.08%) Decision-Making
6 23 (17.56%) Data Science
7 22 (16.79%) Visualisation
8 18 (13.74%) Actionable Insight
9 17 (12.98%) Business Intelligence
9 17 (12.98%) Data Visualisation
10 15 (11.45%) Data Management
11 12 (9.16%) AI
11 12 (9.16%) Statistical Modelling
12 11 (8.40%) Agile
12 11 (8.40%) Bayesian Methods
12 11 (8.40%) Data Protection
12 11 (8.40%) Marketing Mix
12 11 (8.40%) Service Delivery
13 10 (7.63%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 55 (41.98%) Python
2 31 (23.66%) SQL
3 15 (11.45%) R
4 10 (7.63%) Java
4 10 (7.63%) Scala
5 8 (6.11%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.34%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.82%) Bash
7 5 (3.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.53%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.53%) C++
9 2 (1.53%) Go
9 2 (1.53%) Rust
9 2 (1.53%) Solidity
10 1 (0.76%) C
10 1 (0.76%) C#
10 1 (0.76%) JCL
10 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (9.92%) Degree
2 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.34%) Master's Degree
3 7 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.05%) PhD
5 3 (2.29%) CEH
5 3 (2.29%) CISSP
5 3 (2.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.53%) CCSK
6 2 (1.53%) CISA
6 2 (1.53%) CISM
6 2 (1.53%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.53%) OSCP
7 1 (0.76%) ACCA
7 1 (0.76%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.63%) GDPR
2 8 (6.11%) QA
3 5 (3.82%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.82%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.29%) NIST
5 2 (1.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.53%) SLA
5 2 (1.53%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.76%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.76%) GAMP
6 1 (0.76%) GRC
6 1 (0.76%) PERC
6 1 (0.76%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.29%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.53%) Docker
3 1 (0.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.76%) KVM
3 1 (0.76%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Grafana
1 2 (1.53%) logstash
1 2 (1.53%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.53%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) Cacti
2 1 (0.76%) Fluentd
2 1 (0.76%) Kibana
2 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) Rsyslog
2 1 (0.76%) SCCM
2 1 (0.76%) Terraform
2 1 (0.76%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 13 (9.92%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.11%) Splunk
3 5 (3.82%) Adobe
3 5 (3.82%) Google
4 2 (1.53%) Databricks
4 2 (1.53%) OneTrust
4 2 (1.53%) Optimizely
4 2 (1.53%) SAP
4 2 (1.53%) VMware
5 1 (0.76%) AlgoSec
5 1 (0.76%) BMC
5 1 (0.76%) Broadcom
5 1 (0.76%) BT
5 1 (0.76%) Cisco
5 1 (0.76%) HubSpot
5 1 (0.76%) IBM
5 1 (0.76%) Juniper
5 1 (0.76%) LexisNexis
5 1 (0.76%) Oracle
5 1 (0.76%) Palo Alto