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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 381 405 485
Rank change year-on-year +24 +80 +118
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 127 136 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.37% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.43% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 74 93
10th Percentile £300 £240 £195
25th Percentile £400 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £431 £450
Median % change year-on-year +21.74% -4.17% -12.20%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £603 £675 £598
UK median daily rate £488 £444 £466
% change year-on-year +9.86% -4.83% -9.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 4
10th Percentile £21.46 - £18.90
25th Percentile £25.38 £14.05 £20.25
Median hourly rate £30.38 £15.79 £21.61
Median % change year-on-year +92.37% -26.93% -47.61%
75th Percentile £42.93 £19.56 £33.19
90th Percentile £45.75 £58.38 £51.53
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £15.79 £21.61
% change year-on-year +76.95% -26.93% -47.61%

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 24,651 31,309 42,892
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 85.64% 89.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,798 20,359 30,046
10th Percentile £300 £308 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £645 £669
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,312 2,212 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.25 £18.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% -8.14% +59.62%
75th Percentile £54.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.70 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £40.00
% change year-on-year -34.02% -4.70% +50.94%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 +28 53 £550 +30.56% 171
South East +56 32 £600 -7.69% 40
North of England +20 19 £456 +163.44% 41
Midlands +7 12 £350 +30.33% 28
West Midlands +12 11 £313 -20.51% 16
Yorkshire +9 10 £463 +167.05% 13
North West +17 9 £450 - 27
South West +32 6 £375 -24.24% 29
East of England 0 3 £575 +29.21% 9
East Midlands -5 1 £625 +212.50% 12
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 9 (7.09%) Apache Spark
2 7 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.57%) R Markdown
4 1 (0.79%) CICS
4 1 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (4.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (2.36%) Chatbot
5 2 (1.57%) CANalyzer
5 2 (1.57%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.57%) Relativity
Cloud Services
1 27 (21.26%) Power Platform
2 13 (10.24%) Azure
3 5 (3.94%) Figma
3 5 (3.94%) GCP
3 5 (3.94%) Google Analytics
4 4 (3.15%) Snowflake
5 3 (2.36%) AWS
5 3 (2.36%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.36%) Fivetran
5 3 (2.36%) Miro
5 3 (2.36%) SaaS
6 2 (1.57%) Commercetools
6 2 (1.57%) Contentful
6 2 (1.57%) Google Data Studio
6 2 (1.57%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.79%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.79%) Contentsquare
7 1 (0.79%) Datadog
7 1 (0.79%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.79%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.36%) 802.11
1 3 (2.36%) Firewall
1 3 (2.36%) VLAN
1 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (2.36%) Wireless
2 1 (0.79%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.79%) Internet
2 1 (0.79%) J1939
2 1 (0.79%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (21.26%) Power BI
2 13 (10.24%) Tableau
3 4 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
4 3 (2.36%) Big Data
4 3 (2.36%) BusinessObjects
4 3 (2.36%) Hadoop
4 3 (2.36%) Power Query
4 3 (2.36%) Qlik Sense
4 3 (2.36%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.57%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.57%) DB2
5 2 (1.57%) EDRMS
5 2 (1.57%) Looker
5 2 (1.57%) Metadata
5 2 (1.57%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.57%) MySQL
5 2 (1.57%) QlikView
5 2 (1.57%) Spark SQL
5 2 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 7 (5.51%) GitLab
1 7 (5.51%) JIRA
2 4 (3.15%) Selenium
3 3 (2.36%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.36%) Liquibase
4 1 (0.79%) CANoe
4 1 (0.79%) Git
4 1 (0.79%) Jaeger
General
1 49 (38.58%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.32%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (16.54%) Marketing
4 18 (14.17%) Finance
5 13 (10.24%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (2.36%) Banking
7 3 (2.36%) Legal
7 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.36%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.57%) Local Government
8 2 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.79%) Automotive
9 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.79%) Electronics
9 1 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (27.56%) Analyst
2 17 (13.39%) Data Analyst
3 15 (11.81%) FPGA Engineer
4 11 (8.66%) Data Scientist
4 11 (8.66%) Senior
5 7 (5.51%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 7 (5.51%) Developer
6 6 (4.72%) Architect
6 6 (4.72%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Consultant
7 5 (3.94%) Data Architect
7 5 (3.94%) Data Engineer
7 5 (3.94%) Performance Analyst
7 5 (3.94%) Senior Data Scientist
8 3 (2.36%) Automation Developer
8 3 (2.36%) Designer
8 3 (2.36%) Power BI Analyst
8 3 (2.36%) Report Analyst
8 3 (2.36%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (2.36%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.94%) Pandas
2 3 (2.36%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.36%) OpenTelemetry
3 2 (1.57%) Kafka
3 2 (1.57%) Loki
3 2 (1.57%) PySpark
3 2 (1.57%) REST
3 2 (1.57%) Shiny
4 1 (0.79%) .NET
4 1 (0.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.79%) CSS
4 1 (0.79%) D3.js
4 1 (0.79%) Express.js
4 1 (0.79%) FHIR
4 1 (0.79%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.79%) HTML
4 1 (0.79%) PyTorch
4 1 (0.79%) RESTful
4 1 (0.79%) scikit-learn
4 1 (0.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.81%) FPGA
1 15 (11.81%) Verilog
2 7 (5.51%) Multi-touch
3 6 (4.72%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.94%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.15%) IoT
5 4 (3.15%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (3.15%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.36%) Data Structures
6 3 (2.36%) FMCG
6 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 3 (2.36%) Virtual Reality
7 2 (1.57%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.57%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.57%) Replication
7 2 (1.57%) SCADA
7 2 (1.57%) Social Media
8 1 (0.79%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Linux
1 15 (11.81%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (30.71%) Validation
2 32 (25.20%) Data Analysis
3 31 (24.41%) Business Intelligence
4 29 (22.83%) Visualisation
5 26 (20.47%) Analytics
6 21 (16.54%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.39%) Machine Learning
8 16 (12.60%) Software Engineering
9 15 (11.81%) FPGA Design
9 15 (11.81%) Process Improvement
9 15 (11.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (11.02%) Actionable Insight
10 14 (11.02%) Data Governance
10 14 (11.02%) Data Science
10 14 (11.02%) Mathematics
10 14 (11.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (10.24%) Agile
11 13 (10.24%) Data Modelling
11 13 (10.24%) Decision-Making
12 12 (9.45%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (36.22%) Python
2 26 (20.47%) SQL
3 15 (11.81%) Shell Script
3 15 (11.81%) SystemVerilog
3 15 (11.81%) Tcl
4 12 (9.45%) R
5 4 (3.15%) Bash
5 4 (3.15%) Java
6 3 (2.36%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.36%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.57%) MATLAB
7 2 (1.57%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) C
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) C++
8 1 (0.79%) CLIST
8 1 (0.79%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.79%) Embedded C++
8 1 (0.79%) Go
8 1 (0.79%) REXX
Qualifications
1 22 (17.32%) Degree
2 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 8 (6.30%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) PhD
5 3 (2.36%) CCNA
5 3 (2.36%) CCNP
5 3 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.36%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.79%) CISM
7 1 (0.79%) CISSP
7 1 (0.79%) CRISC
7 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
7 1 (0.79%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.81%) Data Quality
2 10 (7.87%) QA
3 7 (5.51%) GDPR
4 5 (3.94%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.36%) NIST
6 2 (1.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 2 (1.57%) WCAG
7 1 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.79%) HL7
7 1 (0.79%) IFRS
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 31000
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.79%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (3.15%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Ansible
3 3 (2.36%) Grafana
3 3 (2.36%) Terraform
4 2 (1.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.79%) Tivoli NetView
Vendors
1 16 (12.60%) Microsoft
2 15 (11.81%) Xilinx
3 7 (5.51%) Google
4 6 (4.72%) SAP
5 5 (3.94%) Atlassian
5 5 (3.94%) ServiceNow
6 4 (3.15%) Adobe
7 3 (2.36%) AirMagnet
7 3 (2.36%) Aruba
7 3 (2.36%) Cisco
7 3 (2.36%) Ekahau
7 3 (2.36%) Extreme Networks
7 3 (2.36%) Fortinet
7 3 (2.36%) Infoblox
7 3 (2.36%) Juniper
7 3 (2.36%) Meraki
7 3 (2.36%) Optimizely
7 3 (2.36%) Qualys
7 3 (2.36%) Talend
8 2 (1.57%) OneTrust