Data Mining Contracts

Data Mining
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Mining skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Mining over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 495 596 697
Rank change year-on-year +101 +101 -169
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 96 123 157
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.21% 0.18%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.32% 1.16% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 78 92
10th Percentile £288 £376 £401
25th Percentile £408 £425 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -10.00% +3.77%
75th Percentile £562 £584 £614
90th Percentile £744 £650 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £455 £520
% change year-on-year -1.10% -12.50% -5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £45.63 - -
25th Percentile - £22.16 £36.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.56% -34.51% +59.26%
75th Percentile £66.13 £32.30 £53.50
90th Percentile £71.50 £40.88 £60.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 £25.16 -
% change year-on-year +182.19% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

Data Mining is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,284 10,606 17,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.88% 17.93% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,196 7,543 12,708
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £771 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -5.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 187 186
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.98 £33.70 £22.39
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +37.86% +57.64%
75th Percentile £58.88 £73.11 £62.05
90th Percentile £72.50 £81.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -27.27% +57.14% +44.33%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Mining over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Mining in the UK

Data Mining
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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 +84 85 £465 -6.06% 67
UK excluding London +58 46 £450 -1.10% 30
London +91 43 £481 -3.75% 39
Work from Home +93 22 £550 +18.92% 20
Midlands +38 14 £450 +38.46% 5
West Midlands +35 13 £450 -7.69% 4
North of England +26 12 £475 +10.79% 7
South East +8 8 £263 -42.31% 5
Yorkshire +25 7 £554 +47.73% 1
North West +15 5 £475 +8.57% 5
Scotland +42 4 £550 -8.33% 2
South West +15 4 £450 -16.28% 5
East of England +11 3 £488 - 4
Wales - 2 £481 - 3
East Midlands +22 1 £340 +13.33% 1

Data Mining
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 9 (9.38%) SAS
2 3 (3.13%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.13%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (3.13%) MIS ActiveH
1 3 (3.13%) NEC Housing
2 2 (2.08%) Temenos Globus
3 1 (1.04%) OPENHousing
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.83%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.46%) AWS
3 9 (9.38%) Azure
4 8 (8.33%) Snowflake
5 6 (6.25%) Collibra
5 6 (6.25%) Power Automate
6 4 (4.17%) Serverless
7 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon Neptune
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Step Functions
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (2.08%) PaaS
9 1 (1.04%) Azure App Service
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.04%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (20.83%) Power BI
2 13 (13.54%) Data Lake
2 13 (13.54%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (11.46%) SQL Server
4 8 (8.33%) Big Data
5 7 (7.29%) Qlik Sense
6 6 (6.25%) Ataccama
7 5 (5.21%) Relational Database
8 4 (4.17%) PowerPivot
9 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
10 2 (2.08%) BigQuery
10 2 (2.08%) Cloudera CDH
10 2 (2.08%) Hadoop
10 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (2.08%) Power Query
10 2 (2.08%) Tableau
11 1 (1.04%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 1 (1.04%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (6.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.13%) JIRA
2 3 (3.13%) Selenium
3 2 (2.08%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.08%) ERwin
3 2 (2.08%) kappa
3 2 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.04%) Git
4 1 (1.04%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.04%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.04%) Zephyr
General
1 46 (47.92%) Social Skills
2 35 (36.46%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Finance
4 8 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (8.33%) Retail
5 6 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.17%) Marketing
7 3 (3.13%) Advertising
8 2 (2.08%) Banking
8 2 (2.08%) Czech Language
8 2 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Billing
9 1 (1.04%) Hungarian Language
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.04%) Local Government
9 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (30.21%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Data Analyst
3 14 (14.58%) Architect
3 14 (14.58%) Data Architect
4 13 (13.54%) Data Scientist
5 12 (12.50%) Senior
6 10 (10.42%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (8.33%) Data Engineer
7 8 (8.33%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 6 (6.25%) Data Quality Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) QA Analyst
8 6 (6.25%) Quality Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) AWS Engineer
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Senior QA Analyst
9 5 (5.21%) Senior Quality Analyst
10 4 (4.17%) Consultant
11 3 (3.13%) Developer
11 3 (3.13%) Migration Engineer
11 3 (3.13%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) PySpark
2 5 (5.21%) scikit-learn
3 3 (3.13%) Flask
3 3 (3.13%) Pandas
3 3 (3.13%) PyTorch
3 3 (3.13%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.08%) Matplotlib
4 2 (2.08%) NumPy
4 2 (2.08%) Plotly
5 1 (1.04%) ADO
5 1 (1.04%) React
5 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.21%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.13%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.13%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.13%) Life Science
3 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Tandem
4 2 (2.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.04%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (1.04%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.04%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.04%) Handset
5 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.04%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.04%) Windows
1 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 31 (32.29%) Data Analysis
3 26 (27.08%) Data Modelling
3 26 (27.08%) Machine Learning
4 23 (23.96%) Analytics
4 23 (23.96%) Business Intelligence
5 22 (22.92%) Decision-Making
6 21 (21.88%) Data Science
7 20 (20.83%) Migration
8 16 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 16 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 16 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
8 16 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (15.63%) ETL
9 15 (15.63%) Statistics
10 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (14.58%) Data Management
11 13 (13.54%) Data Cleansing
12 12 (12.50%) Actionable Insight
13 11 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (43.75%) Python
2 41 (42.71%) SQL
3 15 (15.63%) Java
4 8 (8.33%) R
5 7 (7.29%) C++
6 6 (6.25%) C
7 5 (5.21%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.17%) Scala
9 3 (3.13%) VBA
10 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (1.04%) Bash
11 1 (1.04%) JavaScript
11 1 (1.04%) Perl
11 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (22.92%) Degree
2 13 (13.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 9 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 5 (5.21%) Master's Degree
4 5 (5.21%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (2.08%) IBM Certification
5 2 (2.08%) PhD
6 1 (1.04%) ACCA
6 1 (1.04%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CIMA
6 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.33%) QA
3 4 (4.17%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (3.13%) Basel III
5 2 (2.08%) COREP
5 2 (2.08%) FINREP
5 2 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (2.08%) PMO
5 2 (2.08%) SLA
6 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.04%) Basel II
System Software
1 3 (3.13%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.04%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Oracle
2 8 (8.33%) Databricks
2 8 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 6 (6.25%) Alteryx
3 6 (6.25%) Dataiku
3 6 (6.25%) IBM
3 6 (6.25%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Trillium
4 5 (5.21%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.17%) IBM Sterling
5 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
6 3 (3.13%) NEC
7 2 (2.08%) Cisco
7 2 (2.08%) IDERA
7 2 (2.08%) Informatica
7 2 (2.08%) Liquidlogic
8 1 (1.04%) Brandwatch
8 1 (1.04%) Cognos
8 1 (1.04%) Instagram
8 1 (1.04%) OpenAI