Data Design Contracts

Data Design
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 454 596 555
Rank change year-on-year +142 -41 -81
Contract jobs citing Data Design 125 88 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.29% 0.15% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.17% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 58 202
10th Percentile £433 £349 £496
25th Percentile £513 £513 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £663 £640
Median % change year-on-year -9.43% +3.52% +0.39%
75th Percentile £825 £775 £738
90th Percentile £925 £875 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £625 £625
% change year-on-year -16.00% - -13.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Design in the UK

Data Design
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +153 116 £625 -7.41% 15
UK excluding London +94 61 £525 -16.00% 5
London +100 54 £800 +9.22% 10
Work from Home +115 41 £538 -14.00% 9
East of England +26 18 £525 +172.02% 1
Midlands +42 17 £600 +6.67%
South West +22 13 £500 -9.09%
West Midlands +35 11 £650 +15.56%
South East +11 11 £540 -14.46% 1
East Midlands - 6 £525 -
North West - 3 £500 - 1
North of England - 3 £500 - 2
Scotland +36 2 £525 -16.00%

Data Design
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 2 (1.60%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 19 (15.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (8.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.80%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.80%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.40%) Azure
2 11 (8.80%) Power Platform
3 9 (7.20%) SaaS
4 7 (5.60%) AWS
5 6 (4.80%) IaaS
5 6 (4.80%) PaaS
6 4 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.40%) Amazon S3
7 3 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.40%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.40%) Serverless
7 3 (2.40%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.60%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (1.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.60%) Azure Storage
8 2 (1.60%) Google Analytics
8 2 (1.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.60%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.60%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (31.20%) Metadata
2 36 (28.80%) Metadata Repository
3 29 (23.20%) Data Vault
3 29 (23.20%) NoSQL
4 21 (16.80%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (8.80%) Power BI
6 6 (4.80%) Data Mining
7 5 (4.00%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (4.00%) SQL Server
7 5 (4.00%) Tableau
8 4 (3.20%) QlikView
8 4 (3.20%) Star Schema
9 3 (2.40%) Big Data
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (1.60%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (1.60%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (1.60%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (1.60%) Data Hub
10 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.80%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 4 (3.20%) ERwin
2 3 (2.40%) JMeter
3 2 (1.60%) kappa
4 1 (0.80%) Terragrunt
General
1 36 (28.80%) Social Skills
2 33 (26.40%) Finance
3 25 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 16 (12.80%) Telecoms
5 15 (12.00%) Electronics
5 15 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 15 (12.00%) Marketing
6 12 (9.60%) Pharmaceutical
7 9 (7.20%) Banking
8 7 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.80%) Analytical Skills
10 5 (4.00%) Retail
11 4 (3.20%) General Ledger
12 3 (2.40%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (2.40%) Local Government
13 2 (1.60%) Billing
13 2 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 56 (44.80%) Architect
2 48 (38.40%) Data Architect
3 25 (20.00%) Chief Architect
3 25 (20.00%) Chief Data Architect
4 10 (8.00%) Data Modeller
4 10 (8.00%) Enterprise Architect
4 10 (8.00%) Head of Architecture
4 10 (8.00%) Head of Data Architecture
5 9 (7.20%) Lead
6 8 (6.40%) Analyst
7 7 (5.60%) Business Analyst
8 6 (4.80%) Developer
9 5 (4.00%) Business Architect
9 5 (4.00%) Consultant
9 5 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 4 (3.20%) Data Consultant
10 4 (3.20%) Qlik Developer
10 4 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (2.40%) Data Analyst
11 3 (2.40%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.40%) PySpark
2 2 (1.60%) Java EE
2 2 (1.60%) JSON
2 2 (1.60%) Kafka
2 2 (1.60%) Web Services
3 1 (0.80%) GraphQL
3 1 (0.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.80%) Next.js
3 1 (0.80%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 25 (20.00%) Reference Data
2 8 (6.40%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.60%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.60%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.80%) Enterprise Cloud
5 5 (4.00%) Cloud Native
6 4 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Life Science
8 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (48.80%) Data Modelling
2 52 (41.60%) Data Architecture
3 44 (35.20%) Data Governance
4 38 (30.40%) Migration
5 35 (28.00%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (24.00%) Data Strategy
7 29 (23.20%) Analytics
7 29 (23.20%) Data Integration
7 29 (23.20%) UML
8 26 (20.80%) Data Migration
9 24 (19.20%) Business Strategy
9 24 (19.20%) Data Management
10 18 (14.40%) ETL
11 17 (13.60%) Programme Management
12 15 (12.00%) Agile
12 15 (12.00%) Data Analysis
12 15 (12.00%) Digital Marketing
13 14 (11.20%) User Acceptance Testing
14 13 (10.40%) Record to Report
14 13 (10.40%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 29 (23.20%) SQL
2 5 (4.00%) Python
3 2 (1.60%) Bash
3 2 (1.60%) Java
3 2 (1.60%) MATLAB
4 1 (0.80%) C#
Qualifications
1 35 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 23 (18.40%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.20%) DV Cleared
4 4 (3.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (2.40%) Degree
5 3 (2.40%) ISEB
5 3 (2.40%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (17.60%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.20%) GDPR
2 4 (3.20%) QA
3 1 (0.80%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (29.60%) SAP
2 15 (12.00%) Microsoft
3 11 (8.80%) Databricks
4 10 (8.00%) Sparx
5 7 (5.60%) Ariba
5 7 (5.60%) Remedy
6 6 (4.80%) Oracle
7 5 (4.00%) Autodesk
8 4 (3.20%) Liquidlogic
9 2 (1.60%) Google
9 2 (1.60%) ServiceNow