Data Management Contract Job Trends in Central London

Data Management
London > Central London

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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 52 55
Rank change year-on-year -43 +3 +67
Contract jobs citing Data Management 37 79 97
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.83% 3.57% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 3.87% 4.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 42 70
10th Percentile £360 £358 £448
25th Percentile £411 £416 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £655 £691
90th Percentile £783 £736 £739
London median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.05% -4.35% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.79 -
London median hourly rate £18.00 £81.25 £47.78
% change year-on-year -77.85% +70.06% +59.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Central London

Data Management 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 1,823 2,039 2,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.20% 92.26% 89.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,269 1,273 1,678
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% - -
75th Percentile £665 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £800
London median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 18
10th Percentile £20.18 £19.67 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%
75th Percentile £41.75 £43.38 £44.56
90th Percentile £42.65 £112.00 £67.63
London median hourly rate £32.45 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.29% +7.69% -13.33%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in Central London

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Management

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Central London over the 6 months to 6 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Central London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Data Management

Data Management
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 Data Management within the Central London region over the 6 months to 6 January 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 -34 35 £538 - 31
City of Westminster 0 2 £700 +47.37% 1
West End of London +4 1 £800 +90.48%
Data Management
London

Data Management
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 2 (5.41%) Confluence
2 1 (2.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (2.70%) Apache
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) CMS
2 1 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (18.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.70%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.92%) Azure
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
3 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.11%) SaaS
4 3 (8.11%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (5.41%) Collibra
5 2 (5.41%) PaaS
5 2 (5.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.70%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.70%) Dagster
6 1 (2.70%) dbt
6 1 (2.70%) GCP
6 1 (2.70%) OCI
6 1 (2.70%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) Power BI
2 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (10.81%) Metadata
2 4 (10.81%) Tableau
3 3 (8.11%) Data Lake
4 2 (5.41%) MySQL
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 2 (5.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.70%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.70%) Informix
5 1 (2.70%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.70%) Power Query
5 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.70%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) JIRA
2 2 (5.41%) Git
3 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.70%) ERwin
3 1 (2.70%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 17 (45.95%) Finance
2 11 (29.73%) Social Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Banking
4 8 (21.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Financial Institution
6 3 (8.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.41%) Front Office
7 2 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (5.41%) Legal
7 2 (5.41%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
8 1 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.70%) Marketing
8 1 (2.70%) Publishing
8 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (13.51%) Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Architect
2 4 (10.81%) Business Analyst
2 4 (10.81%) Consultant
3 3 (8.11%) Data Modeller
3 3 (8.11%) Senior
4 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Data Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Environment Manager
4 2 (5.41%) Governance Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 2 (5.41%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (5.41%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Technical Business Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Architect
5 1 (2.70%) AWS Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
5 1 (2.70%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) Vulnerability Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Vulnerability Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) Lightning Web Components
1 3 (8.11%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.70%) ADO
2 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
2 1 (2.70%) Kafka
2 1 (2.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 2 (5.41%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.41%) Equities
2 2 (5.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (5.41%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.70%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.70%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.70%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.70%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.70%) Pricing Data
3 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (35.14%) Analytics
2 11 (29.73%) Data Modelling
3 10 (27.03%) Data Governance
4 9 (24.32%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 8 (21.62%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (18.92%) Data Analysis
7 6 (16.22%) Agile
7 6 (16.22%) Data Lineage
7 6 (16.22%) Validation
8 5 (13.51%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (13.51%) ETL
8 5 (13.51%) Migration
8 5 (13.51%) Visualisation
9 4 (10.81%) Data Analytics
9 4 (10.81%) Data Architecture
9 4 (10.81%) Data Visualisation
9 4 (10.81%) Master Data Management
9 4 (10.81%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 4 (10.81%) Python
3 2 (5.41%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.70%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.70%) SOQL
4 1 (2.70%) SOSL
4 1 (2.70%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.70%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) CFA
2 1 (2.70%) CISA
2 1 (2.70%) CISSP
2 1 (2.70%) CRISC
2 1 (2.70%) CSSLP
2 1 (2.70%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) PMI Certification
2 1 (2.70%) PMP
2 1 (2.70%) SANS
2 1 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (24.32%) Data Quality
2 4 (10.81%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Basel III
3 1 (2.70%) GAAP
3 1 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) IFRS
3 1 (2.70%) IFRS 17
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) MiFID
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
2 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.41%) Databricks
4 1 (2.70%) Adobe
4 1 (2.70%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.70%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.70%) Charles River
4 1 (2.70%) Informatica
4 1 (2.70%) Marketo
4 1 (2.70%) Okta
4 1 (2.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.70%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.70%) Qualys
4 1 (2.70%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.70%) Refinitiv
4 1 (2.70%) Sparx
4 1 (2.70%) Talend
4 1 (2.70%) Tenable
4 1 (2.70%) Workday