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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 59 122
Rank change year-on-year +4 +63 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Management 63 71 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.76% 3.29% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.02% 3.62% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 52 30
10th Percentile £425 £371 £350
25th Percentile £500 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% -0.44%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £951
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
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 1,566 1,961 3,167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.49% 90.83% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,374 2,130
10th Percentile £355 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +5.22%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £821
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 12 24
10th Percentile £18.70 £19.95 £14.55
25th Percentile £22.88 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £28.15 £25.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.85% -26.79% -13.58%
75th Percentile £39.21 £40.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £57.75 £41.65 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +1.22% -20.54% -13.58%

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 29 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 5 (7.94%) Apache Spark
2 4 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (4.76%) Apache
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.59%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.59%) Revit
3 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.17%) SAP MDG
4 1 (1.59%) Maximo
4 1 (1.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.59%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.29%) Azure
2 8 (12.70%) AWS
2 8 (12.70%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.35%) SaaS
4 3 (4.76%) GitHub
5 2 (3.17%) Collibra
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) Alation
6 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.59%) Fivetran
6 1 (1.59%) GCP
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.59%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
6 1 (1.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.59%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
2 9 (14.29%) Metadata
2 9 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 7 (11.11%) Power BI
4 5 (7.94%) Big Data
4 5 (7.94%) Hadoop
5 4 (6.35%) Data Mining
5 4 (6.35%) MongoDB
5 4 (6.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (6.35%) Relational Database
6 3 (4.76%) Data Lake
6 3 (4.76%) DB2
7 2 (3.17%) BigQuery
7 2 (3.17%) Looker
7 2 (3.17%) Tableau
8 1 (1.59%) Data Hub
8 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
8 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
8 1 (1.59%) Oracle Database
8 1 (1.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) JIRA
2 1 (1.59%) CircleCI
General
1 28 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 27 (42.86%) Finance
3 21 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (6.35%) Police
5 4 (6.35%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Back Office
7 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.17%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Marketing
7 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.59%) Front Office
8 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.59%) Legal
8 1 (1.59%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.22%) Analyst
2 9 (14.29%) Data Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) Project Manager
4 6 (9.52%) Architect
4 6 (9.52%) Data Engineer
4 6 (9.52%) Data Manager
5 5 (7.94%) Business Analyst
5 5 (7.94%) Developer
6 4 (6.35%) Consultant
6 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 4 (6.35%) Senior
7 3 (4.76%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Senior Data Analyst
7 3 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.17%) Business Data Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Data Cleansing Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Data Governance Consultant
8 2 (3.17%) Data Migration Analyst
8 2 (3.17%) Migration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) Kafka
2 4 (6.35%) RESTful
2 4 (6.35%) Web Services
3 3 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.76%) React
3 3 (4.76%) Spring
4 2 (3.17%) .NET
4 2 (3.17%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (3.17%) SOAP
5 1 (1.59%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.59%) Ajax
5 1 (1.59%) HTML
5 1 (1.59%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (1.59%) Middleware
5 1 (1.59%) MIDP
5 1 (1.59%) Node.js
5 1 (1.59%) PySpark
5 1 (1.59%) REST
5 1 (1.59%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Reference Data
2 5 (7.94%) Data Structures
3 4 (6.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.35%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
4 3 (4.76%) PMI
5 2 (3.17%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.59%) CMDB
6 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.59%) Derivative
6 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.59%) Equities
6 1 (1.59%) FMCG
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.59%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.76%) Linux
1 3 (4.76%) Unix
2 1 (1.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Analytics
2 21 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 18 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (23.81%) Agile
5 14 (22.22%) Data Modelling
6 13 (20.63%) Project Management
7 12 (19.05%) Decision-Making
8 11 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (14.29%) Data Analysis
10 8 (12.70%) Data Science
10 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (11.11%) Data Engineering
11 7 (11.11%) Data Integration
11 7 (11.11%) Data Strategy
11 7 (11.11%) DevOps
12 6 (9.52%) Data Lineage
12 6 (9.52%) Migration
12 6 (9.52%) Reference Data Management
12 6 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (33.33%) SQL
2 12 (19.05%) Python
3 6 (9.52%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.76%) Java
4 3 (4.76%) Perl
4 3 (4.76%) Scala
4 3 (4.76%) Shell Script
4 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.17%) R
5 2 (3.17%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.59%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.59%) C#
6 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.70%) Degree
2 7 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.35%) PMP
3 4 (6.35%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.59%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.59%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.59%) CBAP
6 1 (1.59%) CCAB
6 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.59%) RIBA
6 1 (1.59%) SAP Certification
6 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.94%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.35%) PMO
4 3 (4.76%) GDPR
5 2 (3.17%) EMIR
5 2 (3.17%) MiFID
6 1 (1.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.59%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.59%) QA
6 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.59%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.70%) Oracle
3 6 (9.52%) SAP
4 5 (7.94%) Salesforce
5 3 (4.76%) Sybase
6 2 (3.17%) Databricks
6 2 (3.17%) Informatica
6 2 (3.17%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.59%) Autodesk
7 1 (1.59%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.59%) Google
7 1 (1.59%) IFS
7 1 (1.59%) Splunk
7 1 (1.59%) Sun
7 1 (1.59%) Workday