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 5 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 430 579 694
Rank change year-on-year +149 +115 -60
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 154 98 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 59 99
10th Percentile £400 £475 £460
25th Percentile £428 £506 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £651 £650 £683
90th Percentile £800 £778 £818
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £592
% change year-on-year -10.00% -15.47% +39.18%

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 36,767 49,750 79,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.37% 89.73% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,536 34,430 55,867
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,538 1,657 1,878
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.51
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +10.64%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 5 June 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 5 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
England +122 141 £525 -12.50% 32
London +120 107 £550 -15.38% 17
Work from Home +150 67 £550 -8.33% 13
UK excluding London +52 38 £450 -10.00% 16
North of England +21 15 £550 +10.00% 3
North West +19 11 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +22 8 £450 -10.00% 4
Scotland +46 7 £575 +15.00% 3
South East +29 6 £450 -16.28% 2
Yorkshire +20 6 £800 +47.37% 1
West Midlands +16 6 £450 -10.00% 3
South West +12 6 £500 - 3
East Midlands - 2 £445 - 1
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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.65%) Apache
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.65%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.65%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (5.84%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 13 (8.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (25.97%) Azure
2 27 (17.53%) AWS
2 27 (17.53%) Collibra
3 21 (13.64%) Power Platform
4 14 (9.09%) Microsoft Purview
5 11 (7.14%) Azure Stack
6 9 (5.84%) GCP
7 5 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.60%) Alation
9 3 (1.95%) Amazon Kinesis
9 3 (1.95%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.95%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.95%) Matillion
10 2 (1.30%) Amazon S3
10 2 (1.30%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (1.30%) Serverless
10 2 (1.30%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.65%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 1 (0.65%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.65%) DNS
1 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (33.77%) Metadata
2 37 (24.03%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (18.83%) NoSQL
4 21 (13.64%) Power BI
5 20 (12.99%) SQL Server
6 14 (9.09%) Data Vault
7 11 (7.14%) Snowflake Schema
8 10 (6.49%) Qlik Sense
8 10 (6.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (5.84%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (5.84%) Relational Database
10 8 (5.19%) Pentaho
10 8 (5.19%) QlikView
10 8 (5.19%) RDBMS
11 6 (3.90%) Data Lake
11 6 (3.90%) Tableau
12 4 (2.60%) Big Data
12 4 (2.60%) Data Mining
13 3 (1.95%) Amazon QuickSight
14 2 (1.30%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (3.25%) Git
2 3 (1.95%) ERwin
2 3 (1.95%) JIRA
3 2 (1.30%) ER Studio
3 2 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 47 (30.52%) Finance
2 37 (24.03%) Social Skills
3 21 (13.64%) Public Sector
4 19 (12.34%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.09%) Publishing
6 10 (6.49%) Banking
6 10 (6.49%) Front Office
6 10 (6.49%) Marketing
7 6 (3.90%) Electronics
7 6 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 5 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.95%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.30%) Legal
10 2 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.65%) Automotive
11 1 (0.65%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 47 (30.52%) Architect
2 40 (25.97%) Data Architect
3 22 (14.29%) Analyst
4 19 (12.34%) Consultant
4 19 (12.34%) Data Analyst
5 16 (10.39%) Senior
6 15 (9.74%) Data Engineer
7 14 (9.09%) Data Consultant
8 12 (7.79%) Integration Engineer
8 12 (7.79%) Lead
9 10 (6.49%) Developer
10 8 (5.19%) Data Governance Consultant
10 8 (5.19%) Data Modeller
10 8 (5.19%) Governance Consultant
11 6 (3.90%) Business Analyst
11 6 (3.90%) Governance Analyst
11 6 (3.90%) Java Developer
11 6 (3.90%) Senior Architect
11 6 (3.90%) Senior Data Architect
12 5 (3.25%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (13.64%) JSON
2 12 (7.79%) REST
2 12 (7.79%) XML
3 10 (6.49%) JSON Schema
4 4 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (1.30%) PySpark
6 1 (0.65%) Apache Avro
6 1 (0.65%) ODBC
6 1 (0.65%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (16.88%) Reference Data
2 21 (13.64%) Data Structures
3 17 (11.04%) Product Ownership
4 9 (5.84%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.60%) Equities
6 4 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.95%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.30%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.65%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.65%) Life Science
9 1 (0.65%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.65%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.30%) Windows
2 1 (0.65%) Linux
2 1 (0.65%) pSOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (57.79%) Data Governance
2 84 (54.55%) Data Modelling
3 43 (27.92%) Agile
3 43 (27.92%) ETL
4 41 (26.62%) Data Architecture
5 38 (24.68%) Data Management
6 33 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
7 31 (20.13%) Decision-Making
7 31 (20.13%) Metadata Management
8 29 (18.83%) Data Strategy
9 28 (18.18%) Analytics
9 28 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
9 28 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (16.23%) Data Mapping
11 22 (14.29%) Data Integration
11 22 (14.29%) Use Case
12 21 (13.64%) Project Delivery
13 20 (12.99%) Computer Science
14 16 (10.39%) Data Analysis
14 16 (10.39%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 51 (33.12%) SQL
2 16 (10.39%) Python
3 11 (7.14%) T-SQL
4 8 (5.19%) Java
5 5 (3.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (3.25%) TypeScript
6 3 (1.95%) Bash
6 3 (1.95%) C#
7 2 (1.30%) R
7 2 (1.30%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.65%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 25 (16.23%) SC Cleared
1 25 (16.23%) Security Cleared
2 23 (14.94%) Degree
3 11 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (5.84%) Master's Degree
4 9 (5.84%) PhD
5 2 (1.30%) IBM Certification
5 2 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (1.30%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.65%) SAS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (44.16%) Data Quality
2 11 (7.14%) GDPR
3 5 (3.25%) MiFID
4 4 (2.60%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (0.65%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (0.65%) PMO
5 1 (0.65%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.65%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (4.55%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (1.30%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 29 (18.83%) Informatica
2 24 (15.58%) Microsoft
3 20 (12.99%) Sparx
4 13 (8.44%) Oracle
5 10 (6.49%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.84%) SAP
7 8 (5.19%) Facebook
7 8 (5.19%) Instagram
8 7 (4.55%) Nexthink
9 5 (3.25%) Foundry
9 5 (3.25%) IBM
9 5 (3.25%) Palantir
9 5 (3.25%) Snow
10 3 (1.95%) Okta
10 3 (1.95%) Symantec
10 3 (1.95%) Talend
10 3 (1.95%) Varonis
11 2 (1.30%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.30%) Databricks
12 1 (0.65%) Splunk