Data Collection Contracts in England

Data Collection
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection over the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 354 387 513
Rank change year-on-year +33 +126 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 130 149 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.40% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.46% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 85 94
10th Percentile £313 £226 £189
25th Percentile £381 £350 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £472 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -0.65% -5.94%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £588
90th Percentile £635 £675 £735
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 3
10th Percentile £20.76 £14.85 £18.10
25th Percentile £22.84 £15.39 £18.25
Median hourly rate £26.94 £17.64 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.74% -7.16% -57.78%
75th Percentile £32.67 £26.88 £20.36
90th Percentile £35.59 £66.25 £20.88
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £17.64 £19.00
% change year-on-year +34.84% -7.16% -57.78%

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 22,408 32,208 45,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.09% 86.52% 90.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,700 21,179 32,145
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £768
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.38% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 920 2,233 1,631
10th Percentile £14.66 £12.86 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £15.95 £16.74
Median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.74% +59.79%
75th Percentile £63.75 £59.44 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -17.14% -6.67% +50.00%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in England

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Collection in England over the 6 months to 25 April 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 25 April 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 +24 49 £544 -2.90% 264
South East +65 31 £588 -9.62% 66
Midlands +29 19 £388 -7.19% 27
West Midlands +18 18 £388 -13.89% 20
North of England +7 16 £463 +74.53% 45
North West +10 10 £450 - 30
Yorkshire +11 6 £469 +106.10% 11
South West +44 5 £450 - 25
East of England +15 2 £575 +19.17% 30
East Midlands +12 1 £625 +212.50% 6
Data Collection
UK

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (8.46%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.31%) R Markdown
3 1 (0.77%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (13.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.77%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.77%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Relativity
1 2 (1.54%) Sprinklr
2 1 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 31 (23.85%) Power Platform
2 14 (10.77%) Azure
3 11 (8.46%) Adobe Analytics
4 6 (4.62%) GCP
5 4 (3.08%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.31%) AWS
6 3 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.31%) Google Data Studio
6 3 (2.31%) Snowflake
6 3 (2.31%) WhatsApp
7 2 (1.54%) Fivetran
7 2 (1.54%) SaaS
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.77%) Datadog
8 1 (0.77%) dbt
8 1 (0.77%) Figma
8 1 (0.77%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.77%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.77%) Serverless
8 1 (0.77%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.31%) 802.11
1 3 (2.31%) Firewall
1 3 (2.31%) VLAN
1 3 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (2.31%) Wireless
2 2 (1.54%) Internet
3 1 (0.77%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.77%) SNMP
3 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (23.85%) Power BI
2 22 (16.92%) Tableau
3 9 (6.92%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (4.62%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (2.31%) Big Data
5 3 (2.31%) Hadoop
5 3 (2.31%) Looker
5 3 (2.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.31%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.54%) Apache Hive
6 2 (1.54%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.54%) EDRMS
6 2 (1.54%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.54%) MySQL
6 2 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.54%) QlikView
6 2 (1.54%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.54%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.77%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.77%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) JIRA
2 5 (3.85%) GitLab
2 5 (3.85%) Selenium
3 3 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.77%) CANoe
4 1 (0.77%) Git
4 1 (0.77%) Jaeger
4 1 (0.77%) Liquibase
General
1 53 (40.77%) Social Skills
2 26 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (16.92%) Marketing
4 19 (14.62%) Finance
5 14 (10.77%) Public Sector
6 5 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (2.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.54%) Automotive
8 2 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (0.77%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.77%) Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.77%) Electronics
9 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.77%) Local Government
9 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.77%) Military
9 1 (0.77%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.77%) Retail
9 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 32 (24.62%) Analyst
2 18 (13.85%) Data Analyst
3 14 (10.77%) Senior
4 12 (9.23%) Data Scientist
5 9 (6.92%) Data Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) FPGA Engineer
5 9 (6.92%) Senior Data Scientist
6 8 (6.15%) Lead
7 7 (5.38%) Consultant
7 7 (5.38%) Developer
8 6 (4.62%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 5 (3.85%) Architect
9 5 (3.85%) Business Analyst
10 4 (3.08%) Data Architect
10 4 (3.08%) Report Analyst
11 3 (2.31%) Head of Analytics
11 3 (2.31%) Performance Analyst
11 3 (2.31%) Project Manager
11 3 (2.31%) Test Engineer
11 3 (2.31%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.08%) CSS
1 4 (3.08%) HTML
1 4 (3.08%) jQuery
2 3 (2.31%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.31%) Kafka
2 3 (2.31%) Pandas
2 3 (2.31%) Shiny
3 2 (1.54%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.54%) PySpark
4 1 (0.77%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.77%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.77%) Loki
4 1 (0.77%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.77%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.77%) REST
4 1 (0.77%) RESTful
4 1 (0.77%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.77%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.77%) TensorFlow
4 1 (0.77%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.92%) FPGA
1 9 (6.92%) Multi-touch
1 9 (6.92%) Verilog
2 8 (6.15%) Algorithms
3 5 (3.85%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.08%) IoT
4 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.31%) FMCG
5 3 (2.31%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.31%) Social Media
6 2 (1.54%) Digital Media
6 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.77%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing Technology
7 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.77%) SCADA
7 1 (0.77%) Security Posture
7 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.77%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Linux
2 9 (6.92%) Unix
3 1 (0.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.69%) Data Analysis
1 36 (27.69%) Validation
2 35 (26.92%) Analytics
3 33 (25.38%) Business Intelligence
4 30 (23.08%) Visualisation
5 28 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (16.15%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (14.62%) Agile
8 18 (13.85%) Mathematics
9 17 (13.08%) Decision-Making
9 17 (13.08%) Machine Learning
10 16 (12.31%) Data Science
10 16 (12.31%) Data Visualisation
11 15 (11.54%) Actionable Insight
11 15 (11.54%) Process Improvement
11 15 (11.54%) Project Management
11 15 (11.54%) Test Automation
12 14 (10.77%) Data Governance
12 14 (10.77%) Data Modelling
12 14 (10.77%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 40 (30.77%) Python
2 27 (20.77%) SQL
3 13 (10.00%) R
4 9 (6.92%) Shell Script
4 9 (6.92%) SystemVerilog
4 9 (6.92%) Tcl
5 7 (5.38%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.85%) Java
7 3 (2.31%) Bash
8 2 (1.54%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.54%) T-SQL
8 2 (1.54%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.77%) ABAP
9 1 (0.77%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.77%) C#
Qualifications
1 27 (20.77%) Degree
2 11 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 10 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 8 (6.15%) PhD
5 5 (3.85%) Master's Degree
6 4 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.31%) CCNA
7 3 (2.31%) CCNP
7 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.54%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.77%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (16.15%) QA
2 14 (10.77%) Data Quality
3 11 (8.46%) GDPR
4 6 (4.62%) Accessibility
5 4 (3.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (2.31%) WCAG
7 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.77%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.77%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.54%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (3.08%) Ansible
1 4 (3.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.54%) Grafana
3 1 (0.77%) Kibana
3 1 (0.77%) logstash
3 1 (0.77%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.77%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.46%) Adobe
3 10 (7.69%) Atlassian
4 9 (6.92%) Xilinx
5 8 (6.15%) Google
6 4 (3.08%) Cisco
6 4 (3.08%) SAP
6 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow
7 3 (2.31%) AirMagnet
7 3 (2.31%) Aruba
7 3 (2.31%) Ekahau
7 3 (2.31%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (2.31%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.31%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.31%) Juniper
7 3 (2.31%) Meraki
7 3 (2.31%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.54%) Marketo
8 2 (1.54%) Qualys
8 2 (1.54%) YouTube