Alation
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Alation skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Alation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 683 824
Rank change year-on-year +109 +141 -133
Contract jobs citing Alation 8 20 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.035% 0.017%
As % of the Cloud Services category 0.057% 0.094% 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 6
10th Percentile £634 £500 -
25th Percentile £675 £525 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £725 £513
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +41.46% -31.67%
75th Percentile £788 £1,013 £550
90th Percentile £791 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £550

All Cloud Skills
UK

Alation is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 13,934 21,306 33,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.40% 36.80% 38.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,906 15,402 24,532
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £633 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £743 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 345 346 426
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £13.88
25th Percentile £16.00 £18.25 £15.40
Median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £22.45
Median % change year-on-year -38.94% +55.90% -0.22%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.00 £54.81
90th Percentile £64.45 £78.00 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.71 £24.62 £20.00
% change year-on-year -28.09% +23.10% -

Alation
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Alation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Alation.

Daily rate trend for Alation in the UK

Alation
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Alation over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Alation in the UK

Alation
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Alation within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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 7 £750 -18.92% 1
England +89 7 £750 -18.92% 2
Work from Home +107 1 £575 -37.84% 1

Alation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 7 (87.50%) AWS
2 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 5 (62.50%) GCP
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Purview
4 1 (12.50%) Collibra
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) Metadata
1 5 (62.50%) NoSQL
2 4 (50.00%) Big Data
3 2 (25.00%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (12.50%) Power BI
4 1 (12.50%) PowerCenter
4 1 (12.50%) Tableau
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Governance Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Data Governance Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Data Governance Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Governance Consultant
2 2 (25.00%) Governance Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Data Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Data Strategy
2 6 (75.00%) Data Governance
3 5 (62.50%) Data Governance Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) Data Lineage
3 5 (62.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 5 (62.50%) Data Management
3 5 (62.50%) Data Security
3 5 (62.50%) Metadata Management
4 4 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 4 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
4 4 (50.00%) Workflow
5 3 (37.50%) Data Protection
6 2 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
6 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 1 (12.50%) Data Stewardship
7 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (12.50%) GDPR
2 1 (12.50%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Informatica
1 5 (62.50%) Okta
1 5 (62.50%) Symantec
1 5 (62.50%) Talend
1 5 (62.50%) Varonis
2 4 (50.00%) IBM
3 1 (12.50%) Google
3 1 (12.50%) OneTrust
3 1 (12.50%) SAP