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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 355 429
Rank change year-on-year -68 +74 +110
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 127 133 137
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.38% 0.51% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.56% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 63 81
10th Percentile £281 £282 £210
25th Percentile £400 £356 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.99%
75th Percentile £625 £563 £625
90th Percentile £688 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 24
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.66 -
25th Percentile £22.12 £21.25 £15.39
Median hourly rate £37.75 £22.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year +71.59% +20.55% -2.20%
75th Percentile £53.08 £27.25 £26.88
90th Percentile £64.63 £29.43 £66.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £21.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year +51.16% +16.22% -0.86%

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 29,282 23,546 33,173
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 87.65% 89.63% 87.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,737 14,474 22,202
10th Percentile £306 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £639 £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 1,833 746 1,958
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £21.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +2.66%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.01 £61.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +9.38%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -36 53 £503 -7.59% 41
North of England -46 22 £475 +63.23% 11
East of England -6 19 £400 - 5
South East -29 16 £644 +32.10% 15
Yorkshire -49 12 £525 +51.78% 1
Midlands -73 12 £498 +28.39% 9
West Midlands -63 11 £507 +30.84% 6
North West -25 10 £318 +9.36% 10
South West -17 1 - - 5
East Midlands - 1 £380 - 3
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 (5.51%) Apache Pig
2 5 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.36%) Apache
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.36%) IIS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.79%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.72%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (1.57%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.79%) Markit EDM
Cloud Services
1 23 (18.11%) Power Platform
2 12 (9.45%) Azure
3 7 (5.51%) GCP
4 5 (3.94%) Google Analytics
5 4 (3.15%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (2.36%) AWS
6 3 (2.36%) GitHub
6 3 (2.36%) Google Tag Manager
7 2 (1.57%) Commercetools
7 2 (1.57%) Contentful
7 2 (1.57%) Figma
7 2 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (1.57%) PaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.79%) Cloud Run
8 1 (0.79%) Google Data Studio
8 1 (0.79%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.79%) SaaS
8 1 (0.79%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) Firewall
2 2 (1.57%) 2G
2 2 (1.57%) 5G
2 2 (1.57%) LTE
2 2 (1.57%) Mobile Backhaul
2 2 (1.57%) VoIP
3 1 (0.79%) BGP
3 1 (0.79%) Broadband
3 1 (0.79%) Internet
3 1 (0.79%) IPsec
3 1 (0.79%) LAN
3 1 (0.79%) SNMP
3 1 (0.79%) VLAN
3 1 (0.79%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (18.11%) Power BI
2 11 (8.66%) Data Mining
3 8 (6.30%) Apache Hive
3 8 (6.30%) Hadoop
3 8 (6.30%) Tableau
4 7 (5.51%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.36%) MySQL
5 3 (2.36%) OLTP
6 2 (1.57%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (1.57%) Power Query
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.79%) Looker
7 1 (0.79%) MS Access
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.79%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Git
1 2 (1.57%) GitLab
1 2 (1.57%) Jaeger
1 2 (1.57%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.79%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 48 (37.80%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.69%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (17.32%) Marketing
4 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.66%) Finance
5 11 (8.66%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (6.30%) Multimedia
6 8 (6.30%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.51%) Banking
8 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.72%) Manufacturing
9 5 (3.94%) Legal
10 4 (3.15%) Electronics
10 4 (3.15%) Local Government
11 3 (2.36%) Back Office
11 3 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (2.36%) Military
11 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (2.36%) Wearables
12 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (17.32%) Analyst
2 21 (16.54%) Data Scientist
3 14 (11.02%) Data Analyst
4 12 (9.45%) Senior
5 10 (7.87%) Data Engineer
6 9 (7.09%) Developer
7 6 (4.72%) Lead
8 5 (3.94%) Audio Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.94%) Consultant
8 5 (3.94%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.15%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (3.15%) Project Coordinator
9 4 (3.15%) Senior User Researcher
9 4 (3.15%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) User Researcher
10 3 (2.36%) Administrator
10 3 (2.36%) Project Manager
10 3 (2.36%) Python Engineer
10 3 (2.36%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) RESTful
2 5 (3.94%) OpenTelemetry
3 4 (3.15%) FastAPI
3 4 (3.15%) React
4 3 (2.36%) ADO
4 3 (2.36%) Middleware
4 3 (2.36%) Pandas
5 2 (1.57%) Flash
5 2 (1.57%) JSON
5 2 (1.57%) PySpark
5 2 (1.57%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.57%) Smart Contracts
6 1 (0.79%) CSS
6 1 (0.79%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.79%) HTML
6 1 (0.79%) Kafka
6 1 (0.79%) Lucene
6 1 (0.79%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (14.17%) Algorithms
2 9 (7.09%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (6.30%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.72%) Virtual Reality
5 5 (3.94%) AI Agents
5 5 (3.94%) Linux Command Line
5 5 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (3.15%) Acoustics
6 4 (3.15%) Augmented Reality
6 4 (3.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (2.36%) Equities
7 3 (2.36%) Multi-touch
7 3 (2.36%) NHS
7 3 (2.36%) Social Media
8 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.57%) Life Science
8 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Linux
2 5 (3.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.79%) Android
3 1 (0.79%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (25.98%) Machine Learning
2 29 (22.83%) Validation
3 27 (21.26%) Decision-Making
4 26 (20.47%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (19.69%) Analytics
6 24 (18.90%) Data Analysis
6 24 (18.90%) Data Science
6 24 (18.90%) Visualisation
7 18 (14.17%) Actionable Insight
7 18 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
7 18 (14.17%) Data Visualisation
8 12 (9.45%) Agile
8 12 (9.45%) AI
8 12 (9.45%) Data Management
8 12 (9.45%) Statistical Modelling
9 11 (8.66%) Bayesian Methods
9 11 (8.66%) Data Protection
9 11 (8.66%) Marketing Mix
9 11 (8.66%) Statistics
10 10 (7.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 56 (44.09%) Python
2 32 (25.20%) SQL
3 15 (11.81%) R
4 11 (8.66%) Java
4 11 (8.66%) Scala
5 8 (6.30%) Shell Script
6 7 (5.51%) JavaScript
7 5 (3.94%) Bash
7 5 (3.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.57%) Bourne shell
9 2 (1.57%) C++
9 2 (1.57%) Go
9 2 (1.57%) Rust
9 2 (1.57%) Solidity
10 1 (0.79%) Assembly Language
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) C#
10 1 (0.79%) JCL
10 1 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (10.24%) Security Cleared
2 11 (8.66%) Degree
3 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
4 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
5 4 (3.15%) PhD
6 3 (2.36%) CEH
6 3 (2.36%) CISSP
6 3 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 2 (1.57%) CCSK
7 2 (1.57%) CISA
7 2 (1.57%) CISM
7 2 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) OSCP
8 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) GDPR
2 8 (6.30%) QA
3 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
3 5 (3.94%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.36%) NIST
5 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.57%) SLA
5 2 (1.57%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 1 (0.79%) GAMP
6 1 (0.79%) GRC
6 1 (0.79%) PERC
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (0.79%) KVM
3 1 (0.79%) Squid
Systems Management
1 2 (1.57%) Grafana
1 2 (1.57%) logstash
1 2 (1.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (0.79%) Ansible
2 1 (0.79%) Cacti
2 1 (0.79%) Fluentd
2 1 (0.79%) Kibana
2 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.79%) Rsyslog
2 1 (0.79%) SCCM
2 1 (0.79%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 9 (7.09%) Splunk
3 6 (4.72%) Google
4 5 (3.94%) Adobe
5 2 (1.57%) Databricks
5 2 (1.57%) OneTrust
5 2 (1.57%) Optimizely
5 2 (1.57%) SAP
5 2 (1.57%) VMware
6 1 (0.79%) AlgoSec
6 1 (0.79%) BMC
6 1 (0.79%) Broadcom
6 1 (0.79%) BT
6 1 (0.79%) Facebook
6 1 (0.79%) HubSpot
6 1 (0.79%) LexisNexis
6 1 (0.79%) NetApp
6 1 (0.79%) Oracle
6 1 (0.79%) Palo Alto
6 1 (0.79%) Siemens