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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 576 664
Rank change year-on-year +96 +88 -121
Contract jobs citing Data Mining 95 106 174
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.19% 0.20%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.30% 1.07% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 70 111
10th Percentile £271 £363 £375
25th Percentile £388 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £482 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -12.36% +3.77%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £745 £653 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £450 £528
% change year-on-year - -14.69% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 4
10th Percentile £45.63 - £34.85
25th Percentile - £22.16 £35.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.23 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.40% -29.70% +45.76%
75th Percentile £66.13 £32.30 £53.50
90th Percentile £71.50 £38.74 £60.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £71.00 £28.16 -
% change year-on-year +152.13% - -

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 7,300 9,902 17,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.95% 17.66% 19.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,235 7,035 12,303
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.46% -0.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £754 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 179 180
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.45
25th Percentile £20.77 £33.70 £21.69
Median hourly rate £40.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +33.33% +69.81%
75th Percentile £56.88 £73.75 £63.60
90th Percentile £72.75 £80.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.00 £58.59 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.26% +67.40% +42.86%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 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 +78 87 £475 -2.86% 51
London +84 47 £500 - 31
UK excluding London +45 44 £450 - 26
Work from Home +82 21 £550 +20.88% 21
Midlands +32 14 £450 +38.46% 1
West Midlands +24 13 £450 -7.69%
North of England +25 11 £488 +11.43% 8
Yorkshire +22 6 £557 +48.53%
South East +1 6 £259 -43.13% 6
North West +19 5 £475 +7.04% 6
Scotland +38 4 £550 +22.22% 2
East of England +8 4 £550 - 2
South West +6 4 £450 -14.29% 3
Wales - 2 £481 - 3
East Midlands +11 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 10 (10.53%) SAS
2 3 (3.16%) Apache Spark
3 2 (2.11%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.05%) Confluence
4 1 (1.05%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.16%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (5.26%) MIS ActiveH
1 5 (5.26%) NEC Housing
2 3 (3.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (3.16%) OPENHousing
3 2 (2.11%) Temenos Globus
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.26%) Power Platform
2 13 (13.68%) AWS
3 9 (9.47%) Azure
4 8 (8.42%) Snowflake
5 6 (6.32%) Collibra
5 6 (6.32%) Power Automate
6 5 (5.26%) Serverless
7 4 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 4 (4.21%) GCP
8 3 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.11%) Amazon Neptune
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.11%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.11%) PaaS
10 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
10 1 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.05%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (25.26%) Power BI
2 19 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 14 (14.74%) SQL Server
4 13 (13.68%) Data Lake
5 9 (9.47%) Qlik Sense
6 8 (8.42%) Big Data
7 7 (7.37%) Relational Database
8 6 (6.32%) Ataccama
8 6 (6.32%) Tableau
9 5 (5.26%) PowerPivot
9 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (4.21%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (4.21%) BigQuery
11 3 (3.16%) Metadata
11 3 (3.16%) Metadata Repository
11 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
12 2 (2.11%) Amazon QuickSight
12 2 (2.11%) Cloudera CDH
12 2 (2.11%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 6 (6.32%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (3.16%) JIRA
3 2 (2.11%) ER Studio
3 2 (2.11%) ERwin
3 2 (2.11%) kappa
3 2 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.05%) Git
4 1 (1.05%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.05%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (43.16%) Social Skills
2 32 (33.68%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (16.84%) Finance
4 8 (8.42%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (7.37%) Retail
6 6 (6.32%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.26%) Marketing
8 3 (3.16%) Advertising
8 3 (3.16%) Local Government
9 2 (2.11%) Banking
9 2 (2.11%) Czech Language
9 2 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.05%) Hungarian Language
10 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.05%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.05%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Analyst
2 26 (27.37%) Data Analyst
3 12 (12.63%) Architect
3 12 (12.63%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.58%) Data Architect
4 11 (11.58%) Senior
5 10 (10.53%) Data Scientist
5 10 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Data Quality Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Machine Learning Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) QA Analyst
6 6 (6.32%) Quality Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Data Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Senior QA Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Senior Quality Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 3 (3.16%) Senior Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) PySpark
2 2 (2.11%) Pandas
2 2 (2.11%) scikit-learn
3 1 (1.05%) ADO
3 1 (1.05%) Flask
3 1 (1.05%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.05%) NumPy
3 1 (1.05%) Plotly
3 1 (1.05%) PyTorch
3 1 (1.05%) React
3 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
3 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.58%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (8.42%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.16%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.16%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.11%) Tandem
5 2 (2.11%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.05%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.05%) Blog
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.05%) Life Science
6 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) VMS
1 1 (1.05%) Windows
1 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Visualisation
2 36 (37.89%) Data Analysis
3 33 (34.74%) Data Modelling
4 32 (33.68%) Analytics
5 31 (32.63%) Business Intelligence
6 24 (25.26%) Decision-Making
7 23 (24.21%) ETL
8 22 (23.16%) Data Science
8 22 (23.16%) Machine Learning
9 20 (21.05%) Data Visualisation
9 20 (21.05%) Migration
10 18 (18.95%) Data Governance
11 17 (17.89%) Actionable Insight
12 16 (16.84%) Computer Science
12 16 (16.84%) Data Management
13 14 (14.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (13.68%) Data Cleansing
14 13 (13.68%) Problem-Solving
14 13 (13.68%) Statistics
15 11 (11.58%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 47 (49.47%) SQL
2 44 (46.32%) Python
3 12 (12.63%) Java
4 11 (11.58%) R
5 7 (7.37%) C++
6 6 (6.32%) C
7 5 (5.26%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.21%) Scala
9 3 (3.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (3.16%) VBA
10 1 (1.05%) Bash
10 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.05%) Perl
10 1 (1.05%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.05%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (23.16%) Degree
2 14 (14.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.21%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (3.16%) PhD
6 2 (2.11%) ACCA
6 2 (2.11%) CIMA
6 2 (2.11%) IBM Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (25.26%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.42%) QA
3 6 (6.32%) Actionable Recommendations
4 4 (4.21%) GDPR
5 3 (3.16%) Basel III
6 2 (2.11%) COREP
6 2 (2.11%) FINREP
6 2 (2.11%) PMO
6 2 (2.11%) SLA
7 1 (1.05%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.05%) Basel II
System Software
1 2 (2.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.05%) Docker
2 1 (1.05%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (9.47%) Databricks
2 8 (8.42%) Alteryx
2 8 (8.42%) Oracle
3 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
3 7 (7.37%) SAP
4 6 (6.32%) Dataiku
4 6 (6.32%) Trillium
5 5 (5.26%) NEC
5 5 (5.26%) Salesforce
5 5 (5.26%) ServiceNow
6 4 (4.21%) Liquidlogic
7 3 (3.16%) IBM
7 3 (3.16%) Northgate
8 2 (2.11%) Google
8 2 (2.11%) IDERA
8 2 (2.11%) Informatica
9 1 (1.05%) Brandwatch
9 1 (1.05%) IBM Sterling
9 1 (1.05%) Instagram
9 1 (1.05%) OpenAI