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 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 416 371 441
Rank change year-on-year -45 +70 +109
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 119 121 109
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.45% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.50% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 59 69
10th Percentile £270 £308 £222
25th Percentile £382 £365 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £625 £597 £600
90th Percentile £688 £675 £658
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +10.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 8
10th Percentile £15.57 £17.06 -
25th Percentile £28.60 £19.76 £23.63
Median hourly rate £41.50 £21.50 £25.32
Median % change year-on-year +93.02% -15.07% +35.66%
75th Percentile £57.83 £22.88 £29.16
90th Percentile £64.88 £25.55 £45.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £21.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year +66.67% -17.26% +36.01%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 11 January 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 -16 47 £450 -16.28% 28
North of England -29 22 £500 +71.82% 13
East of England +1 19 £400 - 15
South East -7 14 £600 +20.00% 33
Yorkshire -37 14 £525 +51.78% 4
Midlands -53 12 £507 +26.75% 2
West Midlands -43 11 £507 +26.81% 1
North West -23 8 £267 -8.25% 8
South West -15 1 - - 6
East Midlands -22 1 £380 - 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 7 (5.88%) Apache Pig
2 3 (2.52%) Apache
2 3 (2.52%) IIS
3 2 (1.68%) Apache Spark
3 2 (1.68%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.84%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (4.20%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.68%) Chatbot
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 26 (21.85%) Power Platform
2 14 (11.76%) Azure
3 9 (7.56%) GCP
4 6 (5.04%) AWS
5 4 (3.36%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.36%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.52%) Figma
6 3 (2.52%) GitHub
7 2 (1.68%) Commercetools
7 2 (1.68%) Contentful
7 2 (1.68%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.68%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.84%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (0.84%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.84%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.84%) PaaS
8 1 (0.84%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.84%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.52%) Firewall
2 2 (1.68%) 2G
2 2 (1.68%) 5G
2 2 (1.68%) LTE
2 2 (1.68%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.68%) VoIP
3 1 (0.84%) BGP
3 1 (0.84%) IPsec
3 1 (0.84%) LAN
3 1 (0.84%) SNMP
3 1 (0.84%) VLAN
3 1 (0.84%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.85%) 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 3 (2.52%) Data Lake
5 3 (2.52%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.52%) MySQL
5 3 (2.52%) OLTP
5 3 (2.52%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.68%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.68%) Power Query
7 1 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.84%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.84%) BusinessObjects XI
7 1 (0.84%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.84%) MS Access
7 1 (0.84%) Spark SQL
7 1 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (2.52%) Git
2 2 (1.68%) GitLab
2 2 (1.68%) Jaeger
2 2 (1.68%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.68%) JIRA
3 1 (0.84%) MLflow
3 1 (0.84%) Visual Studio
General
1 46 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 22 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (16.81%) Marketing
4 16 (13.45%) Public Sector
5 8 (6.72%) Finance
5 8 (6.72%) Multimedia
5 8 (6.72%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.72%) Pharmaceutical
6 7 (5.88%) Legal
7 6 (5.04%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.36%) Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Electronics
8 4 (3.36%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.36%) Local Government
8 4 (3.36%) Retail
9 3 (2.52%) Back Office
9 3 (2.52%) Military
9 3 (2.52%) Wearables
10 2 (1.68%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (21.85%) Analyst
2 20 (16.81%) Data Scientist
3 17 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 10 (8.40%) Data Engineer
4 10 (8.40%) Senior
5 8 (6.72%) Developer
6 6 (5.04%) Business Analyst
6 6 (5.04%) Lead
7 5 (4.20%) Audio Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) Senior User Researcher
8 4 (3.36%) Software Engineer
8 4 (3.36%) User Researcher
9 3 (2.52%) Power BI Developer
9 3 (2.52%) Python Engineer
9 3 (2.52%) Security Analyst
10 2 (1.68%) Analytics Manager
10 2 (1.68%) Digital Analytics Manager
10 2 (1.68%) Performance Analyst
10 2 (1.68%) Quantitative Researcher
10 2 (1.68%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.88%) RESTful
2 5 (4.20%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.36%) FastAPI
3 4 (3.36%) React
4 3 (2.52%) ADO
4 3 (2.52%) Middleware
4 3 (2.52%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.68%) Flash
5 2 (1.68%) JSON
5 2 (1.68%) Pandas
5 2 (1.68%) PySpark
5 2 (1.68%) Smart Contracts
5 2 (1.68%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.84%) CSS
6 1 (0.84%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.84%) HTML
6 1 (0.84%) Hugging Face
6 1 (0.84%) Lucene
6 1 (0.84%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.84%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (15.97%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.56%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (5.04%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.20%) AI Agents
4 5 (4.20%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (4.20%) Virtual Reality
5 4 (3.36%) Acoustics
5 4 (3.36%) Augmented Reality
5 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.52%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.52%) Equities
6 3 (2.52%) NHS
6 3 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.52%) Social Media
7 2 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.68%) Blockchain
7 2 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.68%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.61%) Linux
2 5 (4.20%) Windows
3 1 (0.84%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (27.73%) Machine Learning
2 29 (24.37%) Analytics
2 29 (24.37%) Validation
3 27 (22.69%) Decision-Making
3 27 (22.69%) Visualisation
4 23 (19.33%) Data Analysis
4 23 (19.33%) Data Science
5 22 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (17.65%) Business Intelligence
7 20 (16.81%) Actionable Insight
8 18 (15.13%) Data Visualisation
9 13 (10.92%) Data Protection
10 12 (10.08%) AI
11 11 (9.24%) Data Modelling
11 11 (9.24%) Statistical Modelling
12 10 (8.40%) Agile
12 10 (8.40%) Data Cleansing
12 10 (8.40%) Data Governance
12 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 10 (8.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 57 (47.90%) Python
2 33 (27.73%) SQL
3 13 (10.92%) R
4 11 (9.24%) Java
4 11 (9.24%) Scala
5 8 (6.72%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.88%) JavaScript
7 6 (5.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (3.36%) Bash
9 2 (1.68%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.68%) C++
9 2 (1.68%) Go
9 2 (1.68%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.68%) Rust
9 2 (1.68%) Solidity
10 1 (0.84%) C
10 1 (0.84%) C#
10 1 (0.84%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.84%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.92%) Security Cleared
2 9 (7.56%) Degree
3 7 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) CEH
4 3 (2.52%) CISSP
4 3 (2.52%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (2.52%) PhD
5 2 (1.68%) CCSK
5 2 (1.68%) CISA
5 2 (1.68%) CISM
5 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.68%) OSCP
6 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.40%) GDPR
2 9 (7.56%) Data Quality
3 8 (6.72%) QA
4 5 (4.20%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.52%) NIST
6 2 (1.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.68%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.68%) SLA
6 2 (1.68%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.84%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 1 (0.84%) GAMP
7 1 (0.84%) IFRS
7 1 (0.84%) PERC
System Software
1 3 (2.52%) Docker
1 3 (2.52%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.84%) KVM
2 1 (0.84%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (1.68%) Grafana
1 2 (1.68%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.68%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.84%) Ansible
2 1 (0.84%) Cacti
2 1 (0.84%) Fluentd
2 1 (0.84%) Kibana
2 1 (0.84%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.84%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.84%) logstash
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.84%) Rsyslog
2 1 (0.84%) SCCM
2 1 (0.84%) Terraform
2 1 (0.84%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (9.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.72%) Splunk
3 6 (5.04%) Adobe
4 5 (4.20%) Google
5 3 (2.52%) Databricks
6 2 (1.68%) OneTrust
6 2 (1.68%) Optimizely
6 2 (1.68%) SAP
6 2 (1.68%) VMware
7 1 (0.84%) AlgoSec
7 1 (0.84%) Cisco
7 1 (0.84%) Facebook
7 1 (0.84%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.84%) Juniper
7 1 (0.84%) LexisNexis
7 1 (0.84%) NetApp
7 1 (0.84%) Oracle
7 1 (0.84%) Palo Alto
7 1 (0.84%) Siemens
7 1 (0.84%) Sophos