Data Matching Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Matching skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Matching over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 436 512
Rank change year-on-year +49 +76 -67
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 7 6 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.026% 0.003%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.029% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £393 £363 -
25th Percentile £411 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £380 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.21% - -
75th Percentile £547 £413 -
90th Percentile £550 £458 -
UK median daily rate £525 £400 £600
% change year-on-year +31.25% -33.33% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.89
Median hourly rate - - £13.58
75th Percentile - - £14.27
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £13.58

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Matching 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,263 20,432 27,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.19% 89.17% 89.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,230 14,021 19,224
10th Percentile £246 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £580
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,129 1,241 1,350
10th Percentile £12.41 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.45%

Data Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Matching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Matching in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Matching in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Matching in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Matching in the UK excluding London

Data Matching
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Matching within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 June 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
East of England - 3 £550 -
Wales - 2 £396 - 1
South East +11 1 £525 +22.09%
North West - 1 £450 -
North of England - 1 £450 -
Data Matching
UK

Data Matching
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (28.57%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (28.57%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Epicor Tropos
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) Power BI
3 1 (14.29%) OLAP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (14.29%) Tableau
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Local Government
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Data Migration Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Data Scientist
1 2 (28.57%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Data Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
2 1 (14.29%) SSRS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (28.57%) Credit Risk
3 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ETL
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Design
2 3 (42.86%) Data Extraction
2 3 (42.86%) Data Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Data Protection
2 3 (42.86%) Quality Management
2 3 (42.86%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Product Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Financial Modelling
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) R
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) Data Quality
1 3 (42.86%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Liquidlogic