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 10 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 526 397 411
Rank change year-on-year -129 +14 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 110 120 117
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.24% 0.43% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.48% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 60 59
10th Percentile £294 £310 £254
25th Percentile £331 £413 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -18.09% +37.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £573
90th Percentile £688 £644 £650
UK median daily rate £451 £525 £434
% change year-on-year -14.19% +21.04% -8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 7 18
10th Percentile £16.93 £19.75 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.14 £26.90 £14.05
Median hourly rate £26.37 £44.50 £17.02
Median % change year-on-year -40.75% +161.50% -22.65%
75th Percentile £31.47 £45.75 £23.31
90th Percentile £41.25 £49.79 £46.25
UK median hourly rate £22.20 £38.81 £18.54
% change year-on-year -42.79% +109.36% -33.80%

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 39,304 25,245 28,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.83% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,151 16,024 17,695
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -2.87% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,693 1,483 1,349
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.31 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.22
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +2.87%

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 10 September 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 10 September 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 10 September 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 -80 47 £475 -15.18% 82
North of England -68 26 £450 -5.26% 27
Yorkshire -44 20 £450 -5.26% 9
South East -74 17 £615 +2.49% 24
Midlands -54 9 £333 -34.48% 12
East of England -25 8 £293 -40.76% 10
West Midlands -46 6 £451 -11.23% 5
North West -54 4 - - 14
North East - 3 £440 - 6
East Midlands - 3 £225 - 7
South West -44 2 - - 14
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 4 (3.64%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 2 (1.82%) ArcGIS
2 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) Apache
3 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.91%) R Markdown
Applications
1 24 (21.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (5.45%) Spreadsheet
3 4 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.91%) Gliffy
5 1 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.91%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) NEC Housing
1 2 (1.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 35 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 20 (18.18%) Azure
3 6 (5.45%) Azure Monitor
3 6 (5.45%) Entra ID
3 6 (5.45%) GCP
4 5 (4.55%) AWS
5 4 (3.64%) Adobe Analytics
5 4 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (2.73%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.73%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (2.73%) SaaS
7 2 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
7 2 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.82%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.82%) GitHub
7 2 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.82%) Miro
7 2 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.45%) DHCP
1 6 (5.45%) DNS
1 6 (5.45%) Firewall
1 6 (5.45%) SSH
1 6 (5.45%) TCP/IP
1 6 (5.45%) VPN
2 5 (4.55%) IP Telephony
2 5 (4.55%) PSTN
2 5 (4.55%) VoIP
3 4 (3.64%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (31.82%) Power BI
2 20 (18.18%) Tableau
3 6 (5.45%) Metadata
4 4 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.73%) Looker
6 2 (1.82%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.82%) Flink
6 2 (1.82%) GIS
6 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.82%) Spatial Data
6 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.91%) Delta Lake
7 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
7 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.91%) Power Query
7 1 (0.91%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 8 (7.27%) JIRA
2 2 (1.82%) Charles Proxy
General
1 36 (32.73%) Social Skills
2 29 (26.36%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (23.64%) Public Sector
4 22 (20.00%) Finance
5 9 (8.18%) Marketing
6 8 (7.27%) Telecoms
7 6 (5.45%) Banking
8 4 (3.64%) Legal
8 4 (3.64%) Local Government
9 3 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.73%) Military
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Retail
10 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.82%) Publishing
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 39 (35.45%) Analyst
2 19 (17.27%) Data Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Senior
4 9 (8.18%) Lead
5 8 (7.27%) Architect
6 7 (6.36%) Performance Analyst
7 6 (5.45%) Consultant
7 6 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) IT Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) IT Support
8 5 (4.55%) IT Support Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
8 5 (4.55%) SQL Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Support Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Telephony Analyst
8 5 (4.55%) Telephony Support
9 4 (3.64%) Digital Analyst
9 4 (3.64%) Senior Digital Analyst
9 4 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (3.64%) SQL Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.18%) Terraform
2 6 (5.45%) ARM Templates
3 4 (3.64%) CSS
3 4 (3.64%) HTML
4 3 (2.73%) JSON
4 3 (2.73%) REST
5 2 (1.82%) GeoJSON
5 2 (1.82%) Kafka
5 2 (1.82%) PostGIS
5 2 (1.82%) PySpark
6 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.91%) Pandas
6 1 (0.91%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.91%) RESTful
6 1 (0.91%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 14 (12.73%) Management Information System
2 9 (8.18%) Onboarding
3 7 (6.36%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (4.55%) Cloud Native
5 5 (4.55%) Driving Licence
6 4 (3.64%) Acoustics
6 4 (3.64%) ARM Cortex
6 4 (3.64%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.64%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
7 3 (2.73%) Taxonomies
8 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.82%) Augmented Reality
8 2 (1.82%) BYOD
8 2 (1.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.82%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.09%) Linux
2 6 (5.45%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.73%) Android
4 2 (1.82%) VMS
5 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (35.45%) Validation
2 36 (32.73%) Business Intelligence
3 32 (29.09%) Decision-Making
4 28 (25.45%) Analytics
5 26 (23.64%) Actionable Insight
6 25 (22.73%) Visualisation
7 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 19 (17.27%) Agile
9 18 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (16.36%) Data Analysis
10 16 (14.55%) AI
11 12 (10.91%) Data Visualisation
11 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 12 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
12 10 (9.09%) Dashboard Development
12 10 (9.09%) Data Protection
12 10 (9.09%) Mathematics
13 9 (8.18%) CI/CD
13 9 (8.18%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (29.09%) Python
1 32 (29.09%) SQL
2 13 (11.82%) R
3 6 (5.45%) Bash
3 6 (5.45%) Bicep
3 6 (5.45%) PowerShell
4 4 (3.64%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.82%) Java
6 1 (0.91%) C
6 1 (0.91%) C++
6 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.91%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.91%) Swift
Qualifications
1 21 (19.09%) Degree
2 16 (14.55%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (5.45%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.55%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.82%) Azure Certification
5 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.82%) PhD
5 2 (1.82%) Six Sigma Green Belt
6 1 (0.91%) CISM
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) CRISC
6 1 (0.91%) DBS Check
6 1 (0.91%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.91%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.91%) PMP
6 1 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (15.45%) Data Quality
2 10 (9.09%) QA
3 9 (8.18%) GDPR
4 6 (5.45%) SLA
5 4 (3.64%) PMO
6 2 (1.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.91%) NCSC
7 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.82%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (3.64%) Ansible
2 4 (3.64%) SCCM
3 1 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 23 (20.91%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) Google
3 4 (3.64%) Adobe
3 4 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
4 3 (2.73%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) Amplitude
5 2 (1.82%) Databricks
5 2 (1.82%) ESRI
5 2 (1.82%) Facebook
5 2 (1.82%) HubSpot
5 2 (1.82%) NEC
5 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) Sparx
5 2 (1.82%) Workday
6 1 (0.91%) BT
6 1 (0.91%) Cloudera
6 1 (0.91%) Dell
6 1 (0.91%) Hortonworks
6 1 (0.91%) Palantir