Data Management Contracts in Central London

Data Management
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 88 99
Rank change year-on-year +15 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Management 63 50 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.07% 2.16% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.27% 2.36% 2.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 36 47
10th Percentile £372 £363 £405
25th Percentile £472 £469 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% -7.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £725 £694 £725
90th Percentile £755 £750 £850
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £24.40 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.82% - -
London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.92 £31.52
% change year-on-year -10.46% -11.42% -42.69%

All Process and 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 1,925 2,120 3,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.81% 91.70% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,438 2,185
10th Percentile £325 £375 £345
25th Percentile £424 £471 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £820
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 20 17
10th Percentile £19.14 £15.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.43 £15.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -23.49% -17.65%
75th Percentile £49.22 £65.63 £42.32
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -15.71% -12.50% +8.11%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in Central London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in Central London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in Central London over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in Central London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in Central London

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 15 August 2025. 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 +10 61 £550 - 48
West End of London +1 2 £525 -22.22% 2
City of Westminster -2 1 £800 -
Data Management
London

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.17%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (19.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (7.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.59%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.59%) Maximo
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.59%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.59%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) AWS
2 12 (19.05%) Azure
3 10 (15.87%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.35%) Collibra
4 4 (6.35%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.17%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) Alation
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Datadog
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (14.29%) Metadata
2 9 (14.29%) Power BI
3 8 (12.70%) Data Lake
4 5 (7.94%) Hadoop
4 5 (7.94%) SQL Server
5 4 (6.35%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.35%) Tableau
6 3 (4.76%) Apache Hive
6 3 (4.76%) Big Data
7 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.17%) Looker
7 2 (3.17%) MongoDB
7 2 (3.17%) Power Query
7 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
7 2 (3.17%) Spark SQL
7 2 (3.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.59%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.59%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.59%) Git
2 1 (1.59%) Selenium
General
1 29 (46.03%) Finance
2 26 (41.27%) Social Skills
3 23 (36.51%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.87%) Banking
5 5 (7.94%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.35%) Police
7 3 (4.76%) Back Office
7 3 (4.76%) Front Office
8 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.59%) Retail
9 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (19.05%) Analyst
2 8 (12.70%) Project Manager
3 6 (9.52%) Architect
3 6 (9.52%) Consultant
3 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) Data Analyst
4 5 (7.94%) Data Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Senior
6 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (4.76%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Data Architect
7 2 (3.17%) Data Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Data Governance Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Governance Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 2 (3.17%) CSS
2 2 (3.17%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (3.17%) HTML
2 2 (3.17%) Middleware
2 2 (3.17%) PySpark
2 2 (3.17%) RESTful
2 2 (3.17%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (3.17%) Web Services
3 1 (1.59%) .NET
3 1 (1.59%) ADO
3 1 (1.59%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.59%) Node.js
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Reference Data
2 4 (6.35%) Data Structures
2 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.76%) PMI
3 3 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.17%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.17%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.59%) BYOD
5 1 (1.59%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) SCADA
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
2 1 (1.59%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (39.68%) Analytics
2 18 (28.57%) Data Governance
2 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (26.98%) Data Modelling
4 16 (25.40%) Agile
5 11 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
5 11 (17.46%) Decision-Making
6 10 (15.87%) Project Management
7 9 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
7 9 (14.29%) Data Analysis
8 8 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (12.70%) Data Analytics
8 8 (12.70%) Data Science
9 7 (11.11%) CRM
9 7 (11.11%) Data Lineage
9 7 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (11.11%) DevOps
9 7 (11.11%) Reference Data Management
9 7 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 22 (34.92%) SQL
2 14 (22.22%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) Java
5 2 (3.17%) C++
5 2 (3.17%) R
5 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.59%) Perl
6 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.59%) Scala
6 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.59%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) Degree
2 6 (9.52%) PMI Certification
2 6 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.76%) PMP
5 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.59%) CCAB
5 1 (1.59%) CISA
5 1 (1.59%) CISSP
5 1 (1.59%) CRISC
5 1 (1.59%) CSSLP
5 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.35%) Accessibility
2 4 (6.35%) PMO
3 3 (4.76%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) QA
5 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.59%) GAAP
5 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.59%) IFRS
5 1 (1.59%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.59%) NIST
5 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.76%) Terraform
2 2 (3.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Oracle
2 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.94%) SAP
3 2 (3.17%) Databricks
3 2 (3.17%) Foundry
3 2 (3.17%) Palantir
4 1 (1.59%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.59%) IFS
4 1 (1.59%) Okta
4 1 (1.59%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.59%) Qualtrics
4 1 (1.59%) Qualys
4 1 (1.59%) Rapid7
4 1 (1.59%) Refinitiv
4 1 (1.59%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.59%) Sparx
4 1 (1.59%) Sybase
4 1 (1.59%) Tenable
4 1 (1.59%) Workday