Data Management Contract Job Trends in England

Data Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 124 104
Rank change year-on-year -43 -20 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Management 772 657 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.36% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.60% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 371 409
10th Percentile £311 £300 £329
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £524 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 35
10th Percentile £16.40 £13.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £18.50 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.83 £39.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -24.84% +20.24%
75th Percentile £41.68 £73.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £81.00 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £30.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -13.37% +6.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39,448 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,130 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,805 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Data Management job vacancy trend in England

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Data Management

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 19 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
London -47 373 £525 -4.55% 805
Midlands -20 107 £550 +15.79% 112
South East -24 99 £500 +17.65% 213
North of England -63 98 £400 -11.11% 189
West Midlands -19 82 £550 +15.79% 78
North West -48 54 £406 -14.63% 115
South West -27 44 £530 +1.92% 99
Yorkshire -34 43 £400 - 55
East of England -24 27 £576 -4.00% 103
East Midlands -12 24 £525 +16.67% 34
North East -52 2 £425 -2.86% 20
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 30 (3.89%) Confluence
2 27 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.81%) SAS
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) CMS
6 9 (1.17%) WordPress
7 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.78%) Apache
8 6 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.52%) Mule
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 67 (8.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.39%) Revit
6 3 (0.39%) Windchill
7 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.68%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.55%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.91%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.65%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.52%) iTrent
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.39%) Maximo
8 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
10 1 (0.13%) Endur
10 1 (0.13%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 149 (19.30%) Azure
2 107 (13.86%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.64%) AWS
4 34 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (4.27%) Collibra
6 30 (3.89%) SaaS
7 27 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (3.11%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.98%) GCP
12 21 (2.72%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.59%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.46%) GitHub
15 15 (1.94%) Alation
15 15 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
15 15 (1.94%) SuccessFactors
16 12 (1.55%) Entra ID
16 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) Internet
3 3 (0.39%) LAN
3 3 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
4 2 (0.26%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) PSTN
4 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 3G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.13%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 135 (17.49%) Metadata
2 87 (11.27%) Power BI
3 51 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 39 (5.05%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.24%) Tableau
7 24 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.81%) GIS
10 13 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.55%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.17%) MySQL
13 9 (1.17%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.04%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.91%) Ataccama
15 7 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 52 (6.74%) JIRA
2 17 (2.20%) Git
2 17 (2.20%) Selenium
3 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.42%) ERwin
4 11 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.30%) Postman
6 8 (1.04%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.91%) JMeter
8 6 (0.78%) GitLab
9 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.39%) Gradle
11 3 (0.39%) JUnit
11 3 (0.39%) Maven
11 3 (0.39%) MLflow
11 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 271 (35.10%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.24%) Finance
3 159 (20.60%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.51%) Banking
6 43 (5.57%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 37 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.40%) Marketing
10 29 (3.76%) Retail
11 25 (3.24%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.72%) Local Government
13 20 (2.59%) Legal
14 18 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.07%) Front Office
16 13 (1.68%) Billing
16 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.68%) Military
17 9 (1.17%) Automotive
17 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (14.51%) Analyst
2 107 (13.86%) Architect
3 89 (11.53%) Lead
4 74 (9.59%) Data Architect
5 73 (9.46%) Senior
6 62 (8.03%) Developer
7 48 (6.22%) Administrator
7 48 (6.22%) Data Analyst
8 45 (5.83%) Consultant
9 44 (5.70%) Business Analyst
9 44 (5.70%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.63%) Data Manager
11 24 (3.11%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (2.85%) Data Consultant
13 16 (2.07%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.07%) Senior Developer
14 14 (1.81%) Data Business Analyst
14 14 (1.81%) Data Management Specialist
14 14 (1.81%) Senior Manager
15 13 (1.68%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (4.40%) REST
2 23 (2.98%) Middleware
3 22 (2.85%) JSON
3 22 (2.85%) Terraform
4 21 (2.72%) Kafka
4 21 (2.72%) XML
5 17 (2.20%) .NET
6 15 (1.94%) RESTful
7 12 (1.55%) HTML
7 12 (1.55%) PySpark
7 12 (1.55%) SOAP
8 11 (1.42%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (1.04%) OAuth
10 7 (0.91%) .NET Core
10 7 (0.91%) LDAP
10 7 (0.91%) OpenTofu
10 7 (0.91%) Web Services
11 6 (0.78%) Playwright
12 5 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 50 (6.48%) Onboarding
3 49 (6.35%) Data Structures
4 38 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.40%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.40%) Reference Data
6 28 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
8 16 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.55%) Life Science
11 11 (1.42%) CMDB
11 11 (1.42%) FMCG
12 10 (1.30%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.17%) Autonomous Agent
13 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.17%) Social Media
14 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.91%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.94%) Linux
2 11 (1.42%) Windows
3 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 256 (33.16%) Data Governance
2 217 (28.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 182 (23.58%) Agile
4 171 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (21.37%) Migration
6 162 (20.98%) Analytics
7 161 (20.85%) Data Modelling
8 138 (17.88%) Validation
9 136 (17.62%) AI
10 122 (15.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (15.41%) Decision-Making
12 112 (14.51%) Data Architecture
13 107 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 102 (13.21%) Business Intelligence
15 96 (12.44%) Roadmaps
16 94 (12.18%) ETL
17 89 (11.53%) DevOps
18 84 (10.88%) Data Migration
19 83 (10.75%) Metadata Management
20 73 (9.46%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 169 (21.89%) SQL
2 78 (10.10%) Python
3 43 (5.57%) Java
4 31 (4.02%) C#
5 18 (2.33%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.20%) C
7 13 (1.68%) X++
8 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.91%) T-SQL
8 7 (0.91%) VBA
9 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.65%) Bicep
11 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.52%) R
12 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.13%) Scala
Qualifications
1 145 (18.78%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.33%) Degree
4 27 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.91%) OCP
9 7 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.91%) PMP
10 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.65%) CIPD
11 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
12 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.39%) ISEB
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (36.14%) Data Quality
2 80 (10.36%) GDPR
3 53 (6.87%) QA
4 22 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.81%) PMO
6 7 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.39%) PERC
10 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.26%) COREP
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FATCA
11 2 (0.26%) FINREP
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (2.07%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.39%) MOM
3 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 138 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.07%) SAP
3 67 (8.68%) Oracle
4 66 (8.55%) Databricks
5 44 (5.70%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.40%) Informatica
7 22 (2.85%) Google
8 21 (2.72%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.81%) Workday
10 11 (1.42%) Bloomberg
10 11 (1.42%) IBM
11 9 (1.17%) Denodo
12 8 (1.04%) Charles River
12 8 (1.04%) Concur
12 8 (1.04%) Foundry
12 8 (1.04%) Talend
13 7 (0.91%) ESRI
13 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.91%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.78%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud