Data Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 185 173
Rank change year-on-year +54 -12 -11
Contract jobs citing Data Management 353 289 453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.68% 1.27% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 1.43% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 162 305
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £364 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £637 £638 £613
90th Percentile £738 £700 £691
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 13
10th Percentile £14.64 £23.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £27.84 £30.39 £28.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £37.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.64% +6.57% -18.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £48.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £36.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year +10.34% +3.57% +29.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Management 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,470 20,263 27,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.91% 89.11% 89.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,284 13,881 19,183
10th Percentile £250 £260 £244
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £583
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,169 1,254 1,348
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.67 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.38 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.58 £74.25 £63.08
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South West +58 93 £530 +11.58% 47
North of England +50 89 £500 -3.15% 87
North West +37 70 £500 -1.96% 53
Midlands +27 63 £606 +61.67% 82
West Midlands +31 55 £650 +85.71% 46
South East -7 52 £388 -32.90% 78
East of England +21 41 £475 -9.52% 44
Scotland +33 29 £515 +3.00% 34
Yorkshire +22 22 £513 -10.87% 26
East Midlands -2 7 £550 +10.00% 36
North East +14 3 - - 8
Wales +15 2 £550 +20.55% 9
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 13 (3.68%) Apache
2 10 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.55%) SAS
3 9 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.98%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) Smallworld
Applications
1 58 (16.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (8.22%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (6.80%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (3.40%) Acrobat
6 9 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.13%) MicroStation
8 3 (0.85%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.57%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (3.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.55%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.98%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.13%) Infor SunSystems
4 4 (1.13%) SAP IS-U
4 4 (1.13%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.85%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.85%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
6 2 (0.57%) SmartPlant
7 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.28%) Odoo
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.30%) Azure
2 45 (12.75%) Power Platform
3 21 (5.95%) Snowflake
4 20 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (4.82%) AWS
6 16 (4.53%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.83%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
9 8 (2.27%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.98%) Collibra
10 7 (1.98%) GCP
10 7 (1.98%) Serverless
11 6 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
11 6 (1.70%) Azure Stack
11 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.38%) Network Security
2 18 (5.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.42%) FTP
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 2 (0.57%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) DWDM
6 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.28%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) RS-232
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) SDH
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.46%) Power BI
2 33 (9.35%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (8.78%) Big Data
4 25 (7.08%) Metadata
5 20 (5.67%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.25%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.40%) Tableau
8 11 (3.12%) GIS
9 9 (2.55%) MySQL
10 8 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
10 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
11 7 (1.98%) Ataccama
11 7 (1.98%) Data Mining
11 7 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
12 6 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
12 6 (1.70%) MS Access
12 6 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (1.42%) BigQuery
14 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (1.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 45 (12.75%) JIRA
2 15 (4.25%) Git
3 7 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.57%) Gradle
4 2 (0.57%) JUnit
5 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.28%) LSMW
5 1 (0.28%) RStudio
General
1 116 (32.86%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.91%) Analytical Skills
3 81 (22.95%) Finance
4 35 (9.92%) Public Sector
5 33 (9.35%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (6.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 20 (5.67%) Aerospace
7 20 (5.67%) Manufacturing
8 15 (4.25%) Law
9 12 (3.40%) Billing
9 12 (3.40%) Legal
9 12 (3.40%) Marketing
10 10 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.55%) Electronics
12 8 (2.27%) Retail
13 7 (1.98%) Banking
14 5 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.42%) Publishing
14 5 (1.42%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (22.66%) Architect
2 60 (17.00%) Analyst
3 42 (11.90%) Data Analyst
3 42 (11.90%) Data Architect
4 39 (11.05%) Lead
5 28 (7.93%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (7.08%) Project Leader
7 23 (6.52%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.23%) Senior
9 21 (5.95%) Data Manager
10 16 (4.53%) Developer
10 16 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.68%) Data Quality Analyst
11 13 (3.68%) Quality Analyst
12 12 (3.40%) Author
12 12 (3.40%) Technical Author
13 10 (2.83%) Administrator
13 10 (2.83%) Business Analyst
13 10 (2.83%) QA Analyst
14 9 (2.55%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.22%) XML
2 18 (5.10%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (3.40%) JSON
3 12 (3.40%) SGML
4 8 (2.27%) HTML
5 7 (1.98%) CSS
5 7 (1.98%) REST
6 5 (1.42%) Kafka
6 5 (1.42%) RESTful
7 4 (1.13%) React
8 3 (0.85%) .NET
8 3 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.57%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (0.57%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.57%) Dagger
9 2 (0.57%) Jetpack Compose
9 2 (0.57%) PySpark
9 2 (0.57%) Retrofit
9 2 (0.57%) SOAP
10 1 (0.28%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 51 (14.45%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (5.38%) Distributed Applications
3 12 (3.40%) Animation
3 12 (3.40%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (1.98%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.70%) NHS
6 6 (1.70%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.13%) e-Health
7 4 (1.13%) FMCG
7 4 (1.13%) Life Science
8 3 (0.85%) Algorithms
8 3 (0.85%) Analogue Electronics
8 3 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
8 3 (0.85%) Lidar
8 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.37%) Windows
2 20 (5.67%) Unix
3 19 (5.38%) Linux
4 18 (5.10%) Android
5 16 (4.53%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (22.10%) Agile
3 75 (21.25%) Analytics
4 73 (20.68%) Migration
5 65 (18.41%) Business Intelligence
6 58 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 57 (16.15%) Data Analysis
8 56 (15.86%) Project Delivery
8 56 (15.86%) Project Management
9 53 (15.01%) Data Governance
10 49 (13.88%) Data Migration
11 46 (13.03%) Data Modelling
12 38 (10.76%) Computer Science
13 37 (10.48%) Data Architecture
14 35 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
15 34 (9.63%) Data Engineering
16 29 (8.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 29 (8.22%) Workshop Facilitation
17 28 (7.93%) PRINCE2
18 27 (7.65%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 70 (19.83%) SQL
2 34 (9.63%) Python
3 17 (4.82%) Java
4 11 (3.12%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.70%) C#
6 5 (1.42%) MATLAB
6 5 (1.42%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.13%) ABAP
7 4 (1.13%) Bash
7 4 (1.13%) R
8 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
8 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) Groovy
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) Tcl
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
9 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 62 (17.56%) Degree
3 54 (15.30%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.80%) APMP
5 22 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 9 (2.55%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.98%) ACCA
8 6 (1.70%) ISEB
8 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.13%) CIMA
10 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.57%) PhD
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) MCSE
12 1 (0.28%) OCP
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (19.55%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.35%) PMO
3 21 (5.95%) QA
4 18 (5.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 14 (3.97%) GDPR
6 13 (3.68%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) COBIT
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.85%) Terraform
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) Control-M
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 79 (22.38%) Microsoft
2 45 (12.75%) SAP
3 17 (4.82%) Oracle
4 15 (4.25%) Adobe
5 14 (3.97%) Informatica
5 14 (3.97%) Red Hat
6 13 (3.68%) Databricks
7 11 (3.12%) Alteryx
8 7 (1.98%) Dataiku
8 7 (1.98%) Remedy
8 7 (1.98%) Trillium
9 6 (1.70%) Autodesk
9 6 (1.70%) Talend
10 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
11 4 (1.13%) Siemens
11 4 (1.13%) Sun
12 3 (0.85%) Brio
12 3 (0.85%) ESRI
12 3 (0.85%) F5
12 3 (0.85%) Google