DAMA Contract Job Trends in Central London

DAMA International
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring DAMA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DAMA 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.22% - 0.078%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £312 - -
25th Percentile £325 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £525
75th Percentile £700 - £538
90th Percentile £850 - -
London median daily rate £440 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -23.48% +15.00% -40.30%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

DAMA falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 1,846 2,314
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 88.50% 92.07% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,373 1,201 1,647
10th Percentile £359 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 17 25
10th Percentile £18.75 £21.70 £19.33
25th Percentile £20.50 £24.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +16.86% -20.54%
75th Percentile £42.65 £43.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £58.92 £74.05 £59.10
London median hourly rate £35.50 £36.20 £30.50
% change year-on-year -1.92% +18.67% -16.44%

DAMA
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DAMA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

DAMA job vacancy trend in Central London

DAMA
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DAMA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing DAMA

DAMA
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DAMA in Central London over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DAMA in Central London

DAMA
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA within the Central London region over the 6 months to 20 March 2026. 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
City of London - 5 £440 - 1
DAMA
London

DAMA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (20.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Collibra
2 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) Alation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Hyperconnected
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Metadata
2 2 (40.00%) Power BI
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (20.00%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (20.00%) MySQL
3 1 (20.00%) OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) ERwin
2 1 (20.00%) PowerDesigner
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) Retail
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Data Modeller
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (20.00%) Data Fabric
2 1 (20.00%) FMCG
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Governance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) Analytics
2 3 (60.00%) Logical Data Model
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
3 2 (40.00%) AI
3 2 (40.00%) Business Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Lineage
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 2 (40.00%) GDPR
3 1 (20.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Informatica
3 1 (20.00%) Databricks
3 1 (20.00%) Google
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle
3 1 (20.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) Sparx