Data Management Contracts in the East of England

Data Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 70 94
Rank change year-on-year +10 +24 +2
Contract jobs citing Data Management 39 40 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 3.16% 2.24% 1.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 2.66% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 16
10th Percentile - £303 £269
25th Percentile £296 £413 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -27.14% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £656
90th Percentile - £675 £713
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 5
10th Percentile £17.80 £25.00 £24.33
25th Percentile £18.61 £39.38 £36.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £57.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% +31.79% +235.62%
75th Percentile £73.75 £60.00 £64.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £64.25 £65.40
England median hourly rate £31.90 £40.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year -20.24% +21.21% -5.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,087 1,501 1,753
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.09% 84.23% 87.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 594 1,007
10th Percentile £200 £200 £226
25th Percentile £375 £311 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £554 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £704
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 239 560 361
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.67 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +90.48% +6.01%
75th Percentile £67.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -34.68% -9.41% +63.46%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the East of England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the East of England

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the East of England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the East of England

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the East of England

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 19 July 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
Bedfordshire +5 18 £600 +7.14% 8
Cambridgeshire +19 15 £296 -40.32% 14
Hertfordshire +3 3 £500 +11.11% 17
Norfolk -6 2 £600 +95.76% 6
Essex +7 1 £315 -49.60% 5
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 12 (30.77%) Confluence
1 12 (30.77%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
2 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 7 (17.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (15.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (5.13%) Simulink
5 1 (2.56%) CANalyzer
5 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.56%) PTC Creo
5 1 (2.56%) Stateflow
5 1 (2.56%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 12 (30.77%) Teamcenter
2 4 (10.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) Azure
2 2 (5.13%) GitHub
3 1 (2.56%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.56%) dbt
3 1 (2.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.56%) IaaS
3 1 (2.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.56%) PaaS
3 1 (2.56%) SaaS
3 1 (2.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.56%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Power BI
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.56%) Flink
3 1 (2.56%) Looker
3 1 (2.56%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) PowerCenter
3 1 (2.56%) RDBMS
3 1 (2.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) CANoe
1 1 (2.56%) Git
1 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
1 1 (2.56%) JIRA
1 1 (2.56%) JMeter
1 1 (2.56%) LoadRunner
1 1 (2.56%) NeoLoad
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Pharmaceutical
2 10 (25.64%) Presentation Skills
3 9 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Banking
4 4 (10.26%) Electronics
4 4 (10.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (10.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.13%) Aerospace
5 2 (5.13%) Finance
6 1 (2.56%) Automotive
6 1 (2.56%) Law
6 1 (2.56%) Local Government
6 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Lead
3 5 (12.82%) Principal Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) IT Support
4 4 (10.26%) Support Officer
5 3 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Analyst
6 2 (5.13%) Architect
6 2 (5.13%) Electronics Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Validation Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Verification Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Data Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Design Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Quality Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.56%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) Kafka
2 1 (2.56%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.56%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (2.56%) HTML
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) Keycloak
2 1 (2.56%) NumPy
2 1 (2.56%) Pandas
2 1 (2.56%) PySpark
2 1 (2.56%) React
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) SOAP
2 1 (2.56%) XML
2 1 (2.56%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.64%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (23.08%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.26%) EPoS
3 4 (10.26%) Molecular Biology
4 3 (7.69%) Life Science
5 2 (5.13%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.56%) FMCG
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (35.90%) Validation
3 13 (33.33%) PDM
4 10 (25.64%) Verification and Validation
5 8 (20.51%) Analytics
6 7 (17.95%) Cryptography
6 7 (17.95%) Data Analysis
6 7 (17.95%) Data Governance
6 7 (17.95%) Migration
7 6 (15.38%) Document Management
7 6 (15.38%) Systems Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 5 (12.82%) Security Management
9 4 (10.26%) Accounts Payable
9 4 (10.26%) Biology
9 4 (10.26%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (10.26%) Data Design
9 4 (10.26%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 4 (10.26%) MATLAB
2 4 (10.26%) Python
3 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.56%) Java
4 1 (2.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 11 (28.21%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.13%) Degree
4 1 (2.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.69%) GDPR
3 1 (2.56%) GxP
3 1 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) Ariba
3 1 (2.56%) EMC
3 1 (2.56%) Google
3 1 (2.56%) Informatica
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle
3 1 (2.56%) PTC