Data Lineage Contracts

Data Lineage
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data Lineage skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Lineage over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 412 595 693
Rank change year-on-year +183 +98 -67
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 169 99 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.40% 0.17% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.19% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 60 111
10th Percentile £400 £475 £450
25th Percentile £425 £504 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £788 £775 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £510 £583
% change year-on-year -4.41% -12.52% +37.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data Lineage 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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Lineage in the UK

Data Lineage
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lineage within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +183 156 £525 -12.47% 39
London +160 120 £525 -19.23% 29
Work from Home +144 71 £566 -1.52% 15
UK excluding London +57 39 £488 -4.41% 16
North of England +30 15 £550 +8.91% 2
North West +16 11 £550 +10.00% 1
Midlands +21 8 £450 -10.00% 2
Scotland +42 7 £575 +15.00% 2
South West +12 7 £500 -4.76% 2
South East +23 6 £450 -16.28% 7
West Midlands +22 6 £510 +2.00% 2
Yorkshire +21 6 £800 +47.37% 1
East Midlands - 2 £445 -
North East - 2 - -

Data Lineage
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 14 (8.28%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.59%) Apache
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 12 (7.10%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.78%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (7.69%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.40%) Azure
2 37 (21.89%) Collibra
3 29 (17.16%) AWS
4 21 (12.43%) Power Platform
5 14 (8.28%) Microsoft Purview
6 11 (6.51%) Azure Stack
6 11 (6.51%) GCP
7 5 (2.96%) Alation
7 5 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.37%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.37%) Serverless
9 3 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.78%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.78%) Matillion
10 2 (1.18%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.18%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.59%) Datadog
11 1 (0.59%) PaaS
11 1 (0.59%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.59%) DNS
1 1 (0.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (40.24%) Metadata
2 41 (24.26%) Data Warehouse
3 30 (17.75%) NoSQL
4 23 (13.61%) SQL Server
5 21 (12.43%) Power BI
6 14 (8.28%) Data Vault
7 11 (6.51%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (5.92%) Qlik Sense
8 10 (5.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.33%) Relational Database
10 8 (4.73%) Pentaho
10 8 (4.73%) QlikView
10 8 (4.73%) RDBMS
11 7 (4.14%) Data Lake
12 6 (3.55%) Tableau
13 5 (2.96%) Big Data
13 5 (2.96%) OLTP
14 4 (2.37%) Data Mining
14 4 (2.37%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 5 (2.96%) Git
2 3 (1.78%) ERwin
2 3 (1.78%) JIRA
3 2 (1.18%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.18%) kappa
General
1 53 (31.36%) Finance
2 42 (24.85%) Social Skills
3 22 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 21 (12.43%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (8.28%) Publishing
6 12 (7.10%) Banking
7 10 (5.92%) Front Office
7 10 (5.92%) Marketing
8 7 (4.14%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.55%) Electronics
9 6 (3.55%) Manufacturing
9 6 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.78%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (1.18%) Legal
11 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.59%) Automotive
12 1 (0.59%) General Ledger
12 1 (0.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 52 (30.77%) Architect
2 44 (26.04%) Data Architect
3 21 (12.43%) Analyst
4 20 (11.83%) Data Analyst
5 19 (11.24%) Consultant
5 19 (11.24%) Integration Engineer
6 17 (10.06%) Senior
7 14 (8.28%) Data Consultant
7 14 (8.28%) Data Engineer
8 12 (7.10%) Lead
9 11 (6.51%) Developer
10 8 (4.73%) Data Governance Consultant
10 8 (4.73%) Data Modeller
10 8 (4.73%) Governance Consultant
11 7 (4.14%) Governance Analyst
11 7 (4.14%) Java Developer
12 6 (3.55%) Senior Architect
12 6 (3.55%) Senior Data Architect
13 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Architect
13 5 (2.96%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (12.43%) JSON
2 12 (7.10%) REST
2 12 (7.10%) XML
3 10 (5.92%) JSON Schema
4 4 (2.37%) .NET
5 2 (1.18%) PySpark
6 1 (0.59%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.59%) ODBC
6 1 (0.59%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 25 (14.79%) Reference Data
2 21 (12.43%) Data Structures
3 20 (11.83%) Product Ownership
4 10 (5.92%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.55%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.96%) Taxonomies
7 4 (2.37%) Equities
7 4 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.78%) Credit Risk
9 2 (1.18%) Blockchain
10 1 (0.59%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.59%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.59%) Life Science
10 1 (0.59%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.18%) Windows
2 1 (0.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (62.13%) Data Governance
2 90 (53.25%) Data Modelling
3 50 (29.59%) Data Management
3 50 (29.59%) ETL
4 46 (27.22%) Data Architecture
5 45 (26.63%) Agile
5 45 (26.63%) Metadata Management
6 36 (21.30%) Business Intelligence
7 35 (20.71%) Decision-Making
8 33 (19.53%) Analytics
9 32 (18.93%) Data Strategy
10 31 (18.34%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (17.16%) Data Integration
11 29 (17.16%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (15.38%) Data Mapping
13 24 (14.20%) Use Case
14 21 (12.43%) Computer Science
14 21 (12.43%) Project Delivery
15 19 (11.24%) Data Analysis
16 18 (10.65%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 56 (33.14%) SQL
2 16 (9.47%) Python
3 14 (8.28%) T-SQL
4 9 (5.33%) Java
5 5 (2.96%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.96%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.37%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.78%) Bash
7 3 (1.78%) C#
8 2 (1.18%) R
8 2 (1.18%) Scala
Qualifications
1 25 (14.79%) SC Cleared
1 25 (14.79%) Security Cleared
2 24 (14.20%) Degree
3 11 (6.51%) Computer Science Degree
4 10 (5.92%) Master's Degree
4 10 (5.92%) PhD
5 2 (1.18%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.18%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.59%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (42.60%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.92%) GDPR
3 5 (2.96%) MiFID
4 4 (2.37%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.59%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.59%) PMO
5 1 (0.59%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.14%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.18%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 30 (17.75%) Informatica
2 26 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 20 (11.83%) Sparx
4 16 (9.47%) Oracle
5 10 (5.92%) ServiceNow
6 8 (4.73%) Facebook
6 8 (4.73%) Instagram
7 7 (4.14%) Nexthink
7 7 (4.14%) SAP
8 6 (3.55%) IBM
9 5 (2.96%) Foundry
9 5 (2.96%) Palantir
9 5 (2.96%) Snow
10 4 (2.37%) Databricks
10 4 (2.37%) Okta
10 4 (2.37%) Symantec
10 4 (2.37%) Talend
10 4 (2.37%) Varonis
11 2 (1.18%) Alteryx
12 1 (0.59%) Splunk