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 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 129 98
Rank change year-on-year -40 -31 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Management 799 641 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.71% 2.28% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 2.51% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 369 428
10th Percentile £302 £302 £317
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.54% -5.71% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
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 79 37 37
10th Percentile £16.40 £13.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.00 £27.84
Median hourly rate £27.38 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -28.57% +6.06%
75th Percentile £41.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.80 £81.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% +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 39,775 25,570 27,639
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.94% 90.90% 86.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,015 16,235 16,841
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,044 1,594 1,106
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.41 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.47 £44.80 £66.90
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 14 October 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 -53 379 £525 - 555
South East -17 113 £500 +17.65% 129
Midlands -20 108 £519 +15.28% 61
North of England -68 96 £400 -9.86% 125
West Midlands -17 79 £550 +19.31% 43
North West -42 53 £400 -12.09% 70
South West -17 49 £525 +15.07% 48
Yorkshire -37 40 £400 -5.33% 43
East Midlands -10 29 £500 +11.11% 18
East of England -24 27 £576 -4.00% 50
North East -43 3 £425 -2.86% 12
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 (3.75%) Confluence
2 26 (3.25%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.88%) SAS
4 12 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.50%) CMS
5 9 (1.13%) WordPress
6 8 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.88%) Apache
8 6 (0.75%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.50%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.50%) Mule
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.13%) nginx
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 73 (9.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.75%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.63%) Revit
7 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.38%) Windchill
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.25%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.63%) Aladdin
3 9 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (1.00%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.88%) Teamcenter
6 6 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.63%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.63%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.63%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.38%) iTrent
8 3 (0.38%) Maximo
8 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.25%) SAP R/3
10 1 (0.13%) Endur
10 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 157 (19.65%) Azure
2 106 (13.27%) Power Platform
3 56 (7.01%) AWS
4 35 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (4.26%) Collibra
6 33 (4.13%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (3.63%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
9 23 (2.88%) PowerApps
9 23 (2.88%) SaaS
9 23 (2.88%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.75%) GCP
10 22 (2.75%) GitHub
10 22 (2.75%) Power Automate
11 19 (2.38%) Alation
12 17 (2.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
13 16 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.75%) Google Workspace
14 14 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.75%) Firewall
2 5 (0.63%) Network Security
3 4 (0.50%) Broadband
3 4 (0.50%) SMS
4 3 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) FTP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) DNS
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (17.77%) Metadata
2 87 (10.89%) Power BI
3 56 (7.01%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (5.88%) Data Lake
5 45 (5.63%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.25%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.88%) Tableau
8 18 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.75%) Oracle Database
10 13 (1.63%) Delta Lake
10 13 (1.63%) Relational Database
11 12 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 11 (1.38%) GIS
13 10 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
14 9 (1.13%) Big Data
14 9 (1.13%) MySQL
14 9 (1.13%) Pentaho
15 8 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
15 8 (1.00%) Ataccama
15 8 (1.00%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 50 (6.26%) JIRA
2 20 (2.50%) Git
3 16 (2.00%) Selenium
4 12 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.38%) ERwin
5 11 (1.38%) Postman
6 10 (1.25%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.00%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.88%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.88%) GitLab
9 6 (0.75%) JMeter
10 5 (0.63%) JUnit
10 5 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.50%) Gradle
11 4 (0.50%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.38%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.38%) MLflow
12 3 (0.38%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
General
1 303 (37.92%) Social Skills
2 227 (28.41%) Finance
3 172 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 79 (9.89%) Public Sector
5 66 (8.26%) Banking
6 57 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (5.01%) Influencing Skills
8 39 (4.88%) Manufacturing
9 38 (4.76%) Marketing
10 36 (4.51%) Aerospace
11 33 (4.13%) Retail
12 23 (2.88%) Local Government
13 22 (2.75%) Legal
14 19 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.00%) Front Office
16 14 (1.75%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.75%) Military
17 12 (1.50%) Billing
18 11 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
19 10 (1.25%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 112 (14.02%) Analyst
2 105 (13.14%) Architect
3 87 (10.89%) Lead
4 73 (9.14%) Administrator
5 71 (8.89%) Data Architect
6 66 (8.26%) Developer
7 65 (8.14%) Senior
8 50 (6.26%) Data Engineer
9 49 (6.13%) Business Analyst
9 49 (6.13%) Data Analyst
10 42 (5.26%) Consultant
11 28 (3.50%) Data Manager
12 23 (2.88%) Data Consultant
12 23 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
14 18 (2.25%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.75%) Data Management Specialist
16 13 (1.63%) Data Administrator
16 13 (1.63%) Data Migration Lead
16 13 (1.63%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (5.01%) REST
2 27 (3.38%) Terraform
2 27 (3.38%) XML
3 26 (3.25%) Middleware
4 25 (3.13%) JSON
5 24 (3.00%) .NET
6 23 (2.88%) Kafka
7 18 (2.25%) RESTful
8 14 (1.75%) HTML
9 13 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (1.63%) SOAP
10 12 (1.50%) PySpark
11 11 (1.38%) OAuth
12 10 (1.25%) LDAP
13 9 (1.13%) .NET Core
13 9 (1.13%) OpenTofu
13 9 (1.13%) Spring
13 9 (1.13%) Web Services
14 8 (1.00%) FIX Protocol
14 8 (1.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.14%) Management Information System
2 55 (6.88%) Data Structures
3 45 (5.63%) Onboarding
4 35 (4.38%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.26%) Reference Data
6 32 (4.01%) Enterprise Software
6 32 (4.01%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
8 18 (2.25%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.50%) Social Media
11 10 (1.25%) CMDB
11 10 (1.25%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
11 10 (1.25%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.25%) Life Science
11 10 (1.25%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.13%) Autonomous Agent
12 9 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.88%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.25%) Linux
2 9 (1.13%) Windows
3 2 (0.25%) Android
3 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (32.54%) Data Governance
2 225 (28.16%) Stakeholder Management
3 193 (24.16%) Agile
4 177 (22.15%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (20.53%) Data Modelling
6 163 (20.40%) Analytics
7 150 (18.77%) Migration
8 142 (17.77%) Validation
9 141 (17.65%) AI
10 136 (17.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 115 (14.39%) Data Architecture
12 112 (14.02%) Decision-Making
12 112 (14.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 102 (12.77%) Roadmaps
14 99 (12.39%) Business Intelligence
15 95 (11.89%) DevOps
16 93 (11.64%) ETL
17 85 (10.64%) Metadata Management
18 84 (10.51%) Data Migration
19 83 (10.39%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 174 (21.78%) SQL
2 85 (10.64%) Python
3 47 (5.88%) Java
4 38 (4.76%) C#
5 21 (2.63%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.13%) C
7 12 (1.50%) X++
8 9 (1.13%) PL/SQL
8 9 (1.13%) R
8 9 (1.13%) TypeScript
9 8 (1.00%) VBA
10 7 (0.88%) Bicep
11 6 (0.75%) PowerShell
11 6 (0.75%) T-SQL
12 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.25%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) Bash
14 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 162 (20.28%) Security Cleared
2 127 (15.89%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.76%) Degree
4 29 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 18 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.25%) DBS Check
8 10 (1.25%) PMI Certification
9 9 (1.13%) PMP
10 7 (0.88%) OCP
10 7 (0.88%) Oracle Certification
11 6 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.75%) CIPD
11 6 (0.75%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.63%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.38%) ISEB
13 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.25%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (35.54%) Data Quality
2 84 (10.51%) GDPR
3 52 (6.51%) QA
4 25 (3.13%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.00%) PMO
6 6 (0.75%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.75%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.63%) NCSC
8 4 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.38%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) EMIR
10 2 (0.25%) FATCA
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.25%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.50%) Docker
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (1.38%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.38%) Ansible
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) MOM
5 2 (0.25%) CASB
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 161 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.14%) Databricks
3 72 (9.01%) SAP
4 71 (8.89%) Oracle
5 47 (5.88%) Salesforce
6 33 (4.13%) Google
7 32 (4.01%) Informatica
8 21 (2.63%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.88%) Workday
10 12 (1.50%) IBM
11 10 (1.25%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.13%) Denodo
13 8 (1.00%) Charles River
13 8 (1.00%) Concur
13 8 (1.00%) Foundry
14 7 (0.88%) Sitecore
14 7 (0.88%) UiPath
15 6 (0.75%) MuleSoft
15 6 (0.75%) Palantir
15 6 (0.75%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud