Data Management Contracts in the City of London

Data Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 52 116
Rank change year-on-year -6 +64 +12
Contract jobs citing Data Management 65 77 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.70% 3.54% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.97% 3.91% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 57 33
10th Percentile £425 £450 £330
25th Percentile £503 £513 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £672 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 -
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,639 1,968 3,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.28% 90.57% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,040 1,396 2,228
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% -5.21% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.13
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £17.08
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -13.58%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the City of London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the City of London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the City of London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the City of London

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 6 (9.23%) Apache Spark
2 3 (4.62%) Apache
2 3 (4.62%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.54%) Drupal
4 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 7 (10.77%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.54%) Revit
4 1 (1.54%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (9.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.62%) SAP MDG
2 3 (4.62%) SAP MDG-S
3 1 (1.54%) CiviCRM
3 1 (1.54%) Maximo
3 1 (1.54%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.31%) AWS
2 7 (10.77%) Azure
2 7 (10.77%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.15%) SaaS
4 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.08%) Fivetran
4 2 (3.08%) GCP
4 2 (3.08%) WhatsApp
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.54%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.54%) AWS Step Functions
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (1.54%) GitHub
5 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.54%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.54%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (16.92%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (13.85%) SQL Server
3 6 (9.23%) Metadata
3 6 (9.23%) Power BI
4 5 (7.69%) Big Data
4 5 (7.69%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.15%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.15%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.62%) DB2
6 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
6 3 (4.62%) SAP HANA
7 2 (3.08%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.08%) Data Lake
7 2 (3.08%) Looker
7 2 (3.08%) Tableau
8 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (1.54%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) JIRA
2 1 (1.54%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.54%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (46.15%) Finance
1 30 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 22 (33.85%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (16.92%) Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Marketing
4 4 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.62%) Back Office
5 3 (4.62%) Police
5 3 (4.62%) Retail
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.54%) Front Office
7 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (23.08%) Analyst
2 11 (16.92%) Data Analyst
3 8 (12.31%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.77%) Business Analyst
5 6 (9.23%) Architect
5 6 (9.23%) Data Engineer
5 6 (9.23%) Data Manager
6 5 (7.69%) Data Business Analyst
6 5 (7.69%) Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (6.15%) Consultant
8 3 (4.62%) Administrator
8 3 (4.62%) Data Administrator
8 3 (4.62%) Lead
8 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Senior Data Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Data Cleansing Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Data Migration Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.15%) Kafka
1 4 (6.15%) RESTful
1 4 (6.15%) Web Services
2 3 (4.62%) AngularJS
2 3 (4.62%) React
2 3 (4.62%) Spring
3 2 (3.08%) .NET
3 2 (3.08%) SOAP
4 1 (1.54%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.54%) Ajax
4 1 (1.54%) HTML
4 1 (1.54%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.54%) Middleware
4 1 (1.54%) MIDP
4 1 (1.54%) Node.js
4 1 (1.54%) PySpark
4 1 (1.54%) REST
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.54%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Reference Data
2 6 (9.23%) Data Structures
2 6 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 3 (4.62%) Derivative
5 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
5 3 (4.62%) PMI
6 2 (3.08%) Equities
6 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.54%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.54%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.54%) CMDB
7 1 (1.54%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.54%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.54%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
1 3 (4.62%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Analytics
2 20 (30.77%) Data Governance
3 19 (29.23%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.08%) Agile
5 14 (21.54%) Project Management
6 13 (20.00%) Data Analysis
7 12 (18.46%) Business Intelligence
8 11 (16.92%) Data Modelling
8 11 (16.92%) Decision-Making
9 10 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (12.31%) Data Science
10 8 (12.31%) Migration
10 8 (12.31%) Reference Data Management
11 7 (10.77%) Data Engineering
11 7 (10.77%) Data Integration
11 7 (10.77%) DevOps
11 7 (10.77%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (9.23%) Data Analytics
12 6 (9.23%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.31%) SQL
2 14 (21.54%) Python
3 6 (9.23%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.62%) Java
4 3 (4.62%) Perl
4 3 (4.62%) Scala
4 3 (4.62%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.08%) R
5 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.54%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (18.46%) Degree
2 8 (12.31%) PMI Certification
3 5 (7.69%) PMP
4 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.62%) TOGAF Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CBAP
5 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) SAP Certification
5 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.54%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.54%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.54%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 6 (9.23%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.15%) EMIR
3 4 (6.15%) GDPR
3 4 (6.15%) MiFID
3 4 (6.15%) PMO
4 2 (3.08%) Dodd-Frank
5 1 (1.54%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.54%) QA
5 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.54%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.08%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.62%) Terraform
2 1 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (1.54%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.31%) Oracle
3 7 (10.77%) SAP
4 3 (4.62%) BiZZdesign
4 3 (4.62%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.62%) Sybase
5 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.54%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.54%) Databricks
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) IFS
6 1 (1.54%) Informatica
6 1 (1.54%) Splunk
6 1 (1.54%) Workday