DAMA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

DAMA International
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 130 - 127
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing DAMA 5 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.24% - 0.085%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% - 0.095%
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 - -
Central London median daily rate £440 - £525

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,848 1,623 2,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.29% 91.95% 89.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,279 1,035 1,497
10th Percentile £362 £368 £350
25th Percentile £444 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £684 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 10 12
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £19.03
25th Percentile £19.11 £26.25 £20.15
Median hourly rate £27.75 £33.58 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.35% +3.31% -13.91%
75th Percentile £46.29 £47.50 £43.07
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £49.90
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £32.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -19.66% +16.86% -20.54%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

DAMA job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DAMA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing DAMA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

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

Daily rate histogram for DAMA in the City of London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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