Data Design Contracts in England

Data Design
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Design skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Design over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 562 530
Rank change year-on-year +135 -32 -52
Contract jobs citing Data Design 116 76 258
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.16% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.18% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 46 170
10th Percentile £433 £481 £498
25th Percentile £513 £553 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £675 £629
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +7.36% -3.27%
75th Percentile £841 £775 £738
90th Percentile £925 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £600 £675 £625
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Design is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in England

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in England

Data Design
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 Design within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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 +89 57 £800 +9.22% 16
East of England +24 18 £525 +172.02% 2
Midlands +36 16 £613 +8.89%
South West - 13 £500 - 2
West Midlands +25 11 £650 +15.56%
South East +7 11 £540 -20.00% 3
East Midlands - 5 £525 -
North West - 3 £500 -
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
Data Design
UK

Data Design
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 2 (1.72%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (14.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (8.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.86%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 9 (7.76%) Azure
1 9 (7.76%) Power Platform
1 9 (7.76%) SaaS
2 7 (6.03%) AWS
3 6 (5.17%) IaaS
3 6 (5.17%) PaaS
4 3 (2.59%) Amazon S3
4 3 (2.59%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.59%) Serverless
4 3 (2.59%) Snowflake
4 3 (2.59%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (1.72%) Amazon Neptune
5 2 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.72%) Azure Storage
5 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
5 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (1.72%) Power Automate
5 2 (1.72%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (33.62%) Metadata
2 36 (31.03%) Metadata Repository
3 29 (25.00%) Data Vault
3 29 (25.00%) NoSQL
4 19 (16.38%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (7.76%) Power BI
6 6 (5.17%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.31%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.31%) Tableau
8 4 (3.45%) QlikView
8 4 (3.45%) SQL Server
8 4 (3.45%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.59%) Big Data
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.72%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.72%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.72%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.72%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
11 1 (0.86%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (3.45%) ERwin
2 3 (2.59%) JMeter
3 2 (1.72%) kappa
4 1 (0.86%) Terragrunt
General
1 35 (30.17%) Finance
2 30 (25.86%) Social Skills
3 24 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 15 (12.93%) Electronics
4 15 (12.93%) Manufacturing
4 15 (12.93%) Marketing
4 15 (12.93%) Telecoms
5 10 (8.62%) Banking
6 9 (7.76%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (7.76%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.31%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (4.31%) Retail
8 4 (3.45%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.59%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.59%) Local Government
10 2 (1.72%) Billing
10 2 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (45.69%) Architect
2 46 (39.66%) Data Architect
3 25 (21.55%) Chief Architect
3 25 (21.55%) Chief Data Architect
4 11 (9.48%) Data Modeller
5 10 (8.62%) Head of Architecture
5 10 (8.62%) Head of Data Architecture
5 10 (8.62%) Lead
6 9 (7.76%) Analyst
6 9 (7.76%) Enterprise Architect
7 7 (6.03%) Business Analyst
8 6 (5.17%) Developer
9 5 (4.31%) Consultant
10 4 (3.45%) Business Architect
10 4 (3.45%) Data Analyst
10 4 (3.45%) Data Consultant
10 4 (3.45%) Qlik Developer
11 3 (2.59%) Enterprise Data Architect
11 3 (2.59%) Performance Test Engineer
11 3 (2.59%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.72%) Kafka
1 2 (1.72%) PySpark
1 2 (1.72%) Web Services
2 1 (0.86%) GraphQL
2 1 (0.86%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.69%) Reference Data
2 8 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 7 (6.03%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.03%) Onboarding
4 6 (5.17%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (4.31%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.59%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 50 (43.10%) Data Architecture
3 41 (35.34%) Data Governance
4 35 (30.17%) Migration
5 33 (28.45%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (25.86%) Data Strategy
7 29 (25.00%) UML
8 27 (23.28%) Data Integration
9 25 (21.55%) Analytics
9 25 (21.55%) Data Migration
10 24 (20.69%) Business Strategy
10 24 (20.69%) Data Management
11 17 (14.66%) Programme Management
12 15 (12.93%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.93%) Digital Marketing
12 15 (12.93%) ETL
13 14 (12.07%) Agile
13 14 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
14 12 (10.34%) Change Management
14 12 (10.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (23.28%) SQL
2 4 (3.45%) Python
3 2 (1.72%) Bash
3 2 (1.72%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 34 (29.31%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.97%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.76%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (2.59%) Degree
4 3 (2.59%) ISEB
4 3 (2.59%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (18.10%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.45%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (28.45%) SAP
2 13 (11.21%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.62%) Databricks
3 10 (8.62%) Sparx
4 7 (6.03%) Ariba
4 7 (6.03%) Remedy
5 6 (5.17%) Oracle
6 5 (4.31%) Autodesk
7 4 (3.45%) Liquidlogic
8 3 (2.59%) ServiceNow
9 2 (1.72%) Google