Data Management Contracts

Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 111 173 179
Rank change year-on-year +62 +6 -21
Contract jobs citing Data Management 879 901 1,475
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.03% 1.51% 1.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.35% 1.68% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 547 553 932
10th Percentile £363 £338 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £654 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 21 23
10th Percentile £15.09 £19.06 £20.94
25th Percentile £19.57 £30.00 £25.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.35% +37.90%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £63.00 £66.00 £63.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.18 £32.75
% change year-on-year +12.01% +22.67% -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +60 769 £550 - 498
London +49 408 £550 -8.33% 212
UK excluding London +65 364 £525 +5.00% 319
Work from Home +66 292 £550 -4.35% 241
South West +71 98 £530 +8.72% 48
North of England +44 87 £500 -3.85% 77
Midlands +28 67 £594 +58.33% 45
North West +27 67 £500 -3.85% 47
West Midlands +57 60 £600 +65.52% 26
South East -3 52 £500 -8.59% 82
Scotland +41 40 £525 +10.53% 27
East of England +25 37 £518 +15.00% 36
Yorkshire +25 22 £550 +7.32% 21
East Midlands -3 6 £569 +99.56% 19
North East +23 4 £454 +10.06% 11
Isle of Man - 1 £475 -

Data Management
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 40 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.39%) SAS
3 11 (1.25%) Apache Spark
3 11 (1.25%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.02%) Apache
5 7 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.46%) Confluence
7 3 (0.34%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 92 (10.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (3.19%) Spreadsheet
4 26 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (2.96%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (2.28%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.37%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.46%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.34%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 27 (3.07%) Dynamics CRM
2 19 (2.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.02%) Teamcenter
4 8 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
5 5 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 5 (0.57%) Siebel CRM
6 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
6 4 (0.46%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.34%) ENOVIA
7 3 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
7 3 (0.34%) SAP BPC
7 3 (0.34%) SAP CO
7 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
7 3 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
7 3 (0.34%) SAP MDM
7 3 (0.34%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 162 (18.43%) Azure
2 117 (13.31%) Power Platform
3 82 (9.33%) AWS
4 49 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
5 43 (4.89%) GCP
6 31 (3.53%) Collibra
7 26 (2.96%) Snowflake
8 24 (2.73%) Serverless
9 20 (2.28%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.05%) Azure Data Factory
12 17 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 17 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 16 (1.82%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.59%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
16 11 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 11 (1.25%) Azure Stack
17 9 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.39%) Network Security
2 15 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.68%) Firewall
4 5 (0.57%) FTP
5 4 (0.46%) LAN
5 4 (0.46%) WAN
6 3 (0.34%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.34%) VoIP
6 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Internet
7 2 (0.23%) MPLS
7 2 (0.23%) RS-232
8 1 (0.11%) 4G
8 1 (0.11%) DHCP
8 1 (0.11%) DNS
8 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.11%) SAN
8 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (12.40%) Power BI
2 88 (10.01%) Metadata
3 79 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (5.57%) Big Data
5 46 (5.23%) SQL Server
6 39 (4.44%) Tableau
7 29 (3.30%) Data Lake
8 25 (2.84%) Relational Database
9 15 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 14 (1.59%) Data Mining
10 14 (1.59%) GIS
11 11 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
12 10 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 8 (0.91%) Ataccama
13 8 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
13 8 (0.91%) BigQuery
13 8 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
13 8 (0.91%) SAP HANA
14 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
14 7 (0.80%) KDB
Development Applications
1 50 (5.69%) JIRA
2 25 (2.84%) Git
3 13 (1.48%) ERwin
4 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.34%) JUnit
6 3 (0.34%) Xcode
7 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.23%) Gradle
7 2 (0.23%) JMeter
7 2 (0.23%) kappa
7 2 (0.23%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.23%) RStudio
7 2 (0.23%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) TestNG
8 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 263 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 237 (26.96%) Finance
3 185 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (11.72%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.71%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (6.37%) Banking
7 44 (5.01%) Manufacturing
8 43 (4.89%) Marketing
9 36 (4.10%) Retail
10 30 (3.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 26 (2.96%) Electronics
11 26 (2.96%) Telecoms
12 25 (2.84%) Legal
13 21 (2.39%) Influencing Skills
14 16 (1.82%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.82%) Law
15 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 13 (1.48%) Billing
16 13 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 11 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 197 (22.41%) Architect
2 172 (19.57%) Analyst
3 101 (11.49%) Data Analyst
4 91 (10.35%) Data Architect
5 76 (8.65%) Lead
6 68 (7.74%) Solutions Architect
7 58 (6.60%) Data Engineer
8 57 (6.48%) Data Manager
8 57 (6.48%) Senior
9 53 (6.03%) Developer
10 48 (5.46%) Business Analyst
11 47 (5.35%) Consultant
12 29 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
13 26 (2.96%) Data Business Analyst
13 26 (2.96%) Project Manager
14 21 (2.39%) Project Leader
15 20 (2.28%) Enterprise Data Architect
16 19 (2.16%) Administrator
16 19 (2.16%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (1.93%) Data Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.32%) XML
2 22 (2.50%) JSON
3 20 (2.28%) REST
4 16 (1.82%) Apache NiFi
5 14 (1.59%) HTML
6 12 (1.37%) SGML
7 10 (1.14%) .NET
7 10 (1.14%) CSS
8 9 (1.02%) RESTful
9 8 (0.91%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.80%) Node.js
10 7 (0.80%) PySpark
10 7 (0.80%) Web Services
11 6 (0.68%) Spring
11 6 (0.68%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.57%) ADO
12 5 (0.57%) Hugging Face
12 5 (0.57%) LangChain
12 5 (0.57%) Oracle Fusion
13 4 (0.46%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.58%) Management Information System
2 34 (3.87%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
4 27 (3.07%) Data Structures
5 21 (2.39%) Reference Data
6 16 (1.82%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (1.82%) Distributed Applications
7 15 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 14 (1.59%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.37%) Animation
9 12 (1.37%) Wiki
10 11 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 10 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.14%) Life Science
12 9 (1.02%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.02%) Derivative
13 8 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
14 7 (0.80%) Taxonomies
15 6 (0.68%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.01%) Windows
2 34 (3.87%) Linux
3 26 (2.96%) Unix
4 16 (1.82%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.71%) Android
6 10 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (22.87%) Analytics
2 190 (21.62%) Data Governance
3 183 (20.82%) Data Modelling
4 174 (19.80%) Problem-Solving
5 171 (19.45%) Agile
6 165 (18.77%) Business Intelligence
6 165 (18.77%) Migration
7 128 (14.56%) Stakeholder Management
8 112 (12.74%) Data Analysis
9 109 (12.40%) Data Architecture
10 101 (11.49%) Data Migration
11 94 (10.69%) Project Management
12 89 (10.13%) ETL
13 86 (9.78%) DevOps
13 86 (9.78%) Project Delivery
14 84 (9.56%) Data Strategy
15 83 (9.44%) Computer Science
16 80 (9.10%) Visualisation
17 79 (8.99%) Decision-Making
18 67 (7.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 171 (19.45%) SQL
2 97 (11.04%) Python
3 32 (3.64%) Java
4 27 (3.07%) JavaScript
5 23 (2.62%) C#
6 17 (1.93%) R
7 16 (1.82%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 12 (1.37%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.80%) VB
11 6 (0.68%) ABAP
12 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.57%) MATLAB
13 4 (0.46%) Bash
13 4 (0.46%) C++
13 4 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.46%) Scala
14 3 (0.34%) Go
14 3 (0.34%) Swift
Qualifications
1 142 (16.15%) Security Cleared
2 133 (15.13%) Degree
3 93 (10.58%) SC Cleared
4 52 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 29 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 20 (2.28%) APMP
7 14 (1.59%) Master's Degree
8 10 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 9 (1.02%) Azure Certification
10 8 (0.91%) CISSP
11 7 (0.80%) ACCA
11 7 (0.80%) PMI Certification
12 6 (0.68%) ISEB
13 5 (0.57%) PMP
14 4 (0.46%) CIMA
14 4 (0.46%) PhD
15 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
16 1 (0.11%) FFIEC
16 1 (0.11%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 215 (24.46%) Data Quality
2 55 (6.26%) QA
3 46 (5.23%) GDPR
4 36 (4.10%) PMO
5 17 (1.93%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.48%) Def Stans
8 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.80%) CDISC
10 7 (0.80%) SLA
11 6 (0.68%) COBIT
11 6 (0.68%) GxP
12 5 (0.57%) ISO 22301
13 4 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.34%) Disclosure Scotland
14 3 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
14 3 (0.34%) NCSC
14 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.68%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (1.71%) Terraform
2 11 (1.25%) Grafana
3 9 (1.02%) ITRS Geneos
3 9 (1.02%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.46%) Ansible
5 3 (0.34%) Control-M
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.11%) Kibana
7 1 (0.11%) logstash
7 1 (0.11%) Matomo
7 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.11%) Puppet
7 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 149 (16.95%) Microsoft
2 103 (11.72%) SAP
3 60 (6.83%) Oracle
4 29 (3.30%) Informatica
5 27 (3.07%) Databricks
6 22 (2.50%) Adobe
7 21 (2.39%) Google
8 19 (2.16%) Sparx
9 17 (1.93%) Alteryx
10 16 (1.82%) IBM
11 14 (1.59%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.37%) Talend
13 10 (1.14%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.14%) ServiceNow
14 9 (1.02%) Dynatrace
14 9 (1.02%) ESRI
15 7 (0.80%) Dataiku
15 7 (0.80%) Genesys
15 7 (0.80%) Trillium
16 6 (0.68%) Workday