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 8 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 101 144
Rank change year-on-year -25 +43 +15
Contract jobs citing Data Management 675 746 733
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.27% 2.39% 1.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.51% 2.76% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 427 479
10th Percentile £313 £312 £380
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £518 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% -9.91% -1.88%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £688
90th Percentile £738 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £516 £550
% change year-on-year -3.01% -6.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 34 31
10th Percentile £13.45 £20.38 £21.64
25th Percentile £17.00 £25.61 £31.24
Median hourly rate £26.50 £34.47 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.11% -1.53% -27.17%
75th Percentile £72.50 £54.06 £46.18
90th Percentile £81.00 £82.55 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £35.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -8.45% -25.70%

All Process and 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 26,934 26,984 35,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.48% 86.62% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,108 16,470 24,373
10th Percentile £298 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,747 976 1,492
10th Percentile £14.69 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.74 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%
75th Percentile £45.46 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.35 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.79
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.08% +25.12%

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 2025.

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 8 November 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
London -21 343 £525 -3.45% 500
North of England -32 93 £444 -6.58% 131
Midlands -5 90 £476 +0.16% 115
South East -27 69 £438 -15.87% 471
West Midlands -12 68 £490 -6.67% 79
Yorkshire -6 51 £420 -21.35% 42
South West +22 41 £520 +15.56% 49
North West -41 38 £500 +5.82% 80
East of England -12 23 £500 +25.00% 52
East Midlands -11 21 £450 +16.88% 30
North East -16 5 £438 -12.50% 9
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 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.67%) SAS
3 14 (2.07%) Confluence
4 9 (1.33%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.04%) Apache
7 4 (0.59%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.44%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.44%) WordPress
9 2 (0.30%) Appian
10 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.15%) CMS
10 1 (0.15%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 67 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
3 24 (3.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.48%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.33%) ProjectWise
7 5 (0.74%) Revit
8 4 (0.59%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.59%) Siemens NX
8 4 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.59%) Windchill
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 21 (3.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.93%) Teamcenter
3 7 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.74%) Oracle Retail
4 5 (0.74%) SAP MDG
4 5 (0.74%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle SCM
5 4 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.44%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.44%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.30%) Actimize
7 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.30%) Maximo
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.30%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.30%) SAP FI
7 2 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 111 (16.44%) Azure
2 97 (14.37%) Power Platform
3 61 (9.04%) AWS
4 35 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.44%) Collibra
5 30 (4.44%) GCP
6 24 (3.56%) SaaS
7 22 (3.26%) OCI
7 22 (3.26%) PowerApps
8 16 (2.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 15 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
9 15 (2.22%) OpenShift
9 15 (2.22%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 14 (2.07%) Cloud Computing
10 14 (2.07%) Snowflake
11 13 (1.93%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (1.93%) Power Automate
12 12 (1.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 11 (1.63%) PaaS
14 10 (1.48%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (2.81%) Firewall
2 14 (2.07%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.44%) HTTP
4 2 (0.30%) 5G
4 2 (0.30%) DNS
4 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 1 (0.15%) 2G
5 1 (0.15%) 4G
5 1 (0.15%) Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) FTP
5 1 (0.15%) Internet
5 1 (0.15%) IPv4
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
5 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.15%) Network Security
5 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.15%) SAN
5 1 (0.15%) SMTP
5 1 (0.15%) VLAN
5 1 (0.15%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.19%) Power BI
2 49 (7.26%) Metadata
3 37 (5.48%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.89%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.30%) Data Lake
5 29 (4.30%) Tableau
6 15 (2.22%) Azure SQL Database
7 14 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.93%) Big Data
8 13 (1.93%) NoSQL
9 12 (1.78%) Power Query
10 11 (1.63%) Oracle Reports
11 10 (1.48%) GIS
11 10 (1.48%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.33%) MySQL
13 8 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
14 7 (1.04%) SAP HANA
15 6 (0.89%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 49 (7.26%) JIRA
2 40 (5.93%) Git
3 34 (5.04%) Jenkins
4 30 (4.44%) GitLab
5 20 (2.96%) Selenium
6 17 (2.52%) JUnit
6 17 (2.52%) Postman
7 7 (1.04%) ERwin
8 5 (0.74%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.30%) Appium
10 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.30%) Gradle
10 2 (0.30%) JMeter
10 2 (0.30%) NUnit
10 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.30%) TestNG
10 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
10 2 (0.30%) webpack
General
1 268 (39.70%) Social Skills
2 228 (33.78%) Finance
3 176 (26.07%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.78%) Banking
5 44 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 29 (4.30%) Marketing
7 27 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 26 (3.85%) Manufacturing
9 24 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.11%) Legal
11 19 (2.81%) Local Government
12 16 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.37%) Pharmaceutical
12 16 (2.37%) Retail
13 15 (2.22%) Financial Institution
14 13 (1.93%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (1.78%) Military
16 11 (1.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.48%) Electronics
17 10 (1.48%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (19.56%) Analyst
2 77 (11.41%) Architect
3 71 (10.52%) Data Analyst
4 69 (10.22%) Developer
5 56 (8.30%) Senior
6 54 (8.00%) Lead
7 49 (7.26%) Consultant
8 39 (5.78%) Business Analyst
9 30 (4.44%) Data Architect
10 24 (3.56%) Data Manager
11 21 (3.11%) Data Engineer
12 20 (2.96%) Administrator
13 16 (2.37%) Governance Analyst
14 15 (2.22%) Solutions Architect
15 14 (2.07%) ServiceNow Developer
15 14 (2.07%) Test Specialist
16 13 (1.93%) Salesforce Architect
17 12 (1.78%) Data Modeller
17 12 (1.78%) Oracle Consultant
18 10 (1.48%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.67%) REST
2 26 (3.85%) SOAP
3 21 (3.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 16 (2.37%) Lightning Web Components
5 15 (2.22%) Middleware
5 15 (2.22%) pytest
6 14 (2.07%) .NET
7 13 (1.93%) HTML
7 13 (1.93%) RESTful
7 13 (1.93%) Visualforce
8 11 (1.63%) CSS
9 10 (1.48%) Kafka
10 8 (1.19%) JSON
10 8 (1.19%) React
11 7 (1.04%) PySpark
11 7 (1.04%) Web Services
12 6 (0.89%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.89%) MIDP
13 5 (0.74%) Node.js
13 5 (0.74%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.85%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.33%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 28 (4.15%) Data Structures
5 21 (3.11%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.81%) Reference Data
7 16 (2.37%) CMDB
8 15 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.93%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.19%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.04%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.04%) Low-Code
12 6 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
12 6 (0.89%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.89%) Life Science
12 6 (0.89%) Reinsurance
12 6 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
13 5 (0.74%) Derivative
13 5 (0.74%) Fixed Income
13 5 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.41%) Windows
2 12 (1.78%) Linux
3 7 (1.04%) Android
4 6 (0.89%) Apple iOS
4 6 (0.89%) Unix
5 4 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (0.59%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.44%) AIX
6 3 (0.44%) Solaris
6 3 (0.44%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (29.93%) Problem-Solving
2 186 (27.56%) Agile
3 167 (24.74%) Data Governance
4 145 (21.48%) Analytics
5 123 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 115 (17.04%) DevOps
7 107 (15.85%) Data Modelling
8 105 (15.56%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (14.07%) Migration
10 77 (11.41%) CI/CD
11 76 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 73 (10.81%) Data Analysis
13 71 (10.52%) Validation
14 66 (9.78%) Visualisation
15 65 (9.63%) Data Strategy
16 63 (9.33%) Project Management
17 59 (8.74%) Decision-Making
17 59 (8.74%) Roadmaps
18 58 (8.59%) Data Migration
18 58 (8.59%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.89%) SQL
2 101 (14.96%) Python
3 33 (4.89%) JavaScript
4 21 (3.11%) C#
5 18 (2.67%) Java
5 18 (2.67%) PowerShell
6 15 (2.22%) Apex Code
7 13 (1.93%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.89%) Korn
8 6 (0.89%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (0.74%) Groovy
9 5 (0.74%) Shell Script
10 4 (0.59%) Perl
10 4 (0.59%) R
11 3 (0.44%) C++
11 3 (0.44%) Formula Language
11 3 (0.44%) LotusScript
11 3 (0.44%) VBA
11 3 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 111 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 89 (13.19%) SC Cleared
3 82 (12.15%) Degree
4 21 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.37%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (1.63%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.33%) Azure Certification
9 5 (0.74%) CCAB
9 5 (0.74%) OCA
9 5 (0.74%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.59%) CIPD
10 4 (0.59%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.59%) MCSE
11 3 (0.44%) CISSP
12 2 (0.30%) HNC
12 2 (0.30%) HND
12 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
13 1 (0.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.15%) NVQ Level 5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 53 (7.85%) GDPR
2 53 (7.85%) QA
3 15 (2.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 14 (2.07%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.63%) PMO
6 10 (1.48%) ISO 19650
7 6 (0.89%) GxP
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.59%) IFRS
10 3 (0.44%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.44%) GRC
11 2 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.30%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
11 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.30%) Solvency II
11 2 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (3.56%) Docker
2 15 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.63%) Firmware
4 6 (0.89%) Active Directory
5 4 (0.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 1 (0.15%) HDFS
6 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
6 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 28 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 15 (2.22%) Ansible
3 13 (1.93%) Puppet
4 11 (1.63%) Terraform
5 10 (1.48%) SCCM
6 9 (1.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 9 (1.33%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
8 2 (0.30%) Consul
8 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.15%) TADDM
9 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
9 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 143 (21.19%) Microsoft
2 72 (10.67%) Oracle
3 55 (8.15%) SAP
4 35 (5.19%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.74%) ServiceNow
6 28 (4.15%) Databricks
7 21 (3.11%) Informatica
8 18 (2.67%) Google
9 17 (2.52%) MuleSoft
10 15 (2.22%) VMware
11 14 (2.07%) Workday
12 8 (1.19%) Alteryx
12 8 (1.19%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.04%) EMC
13 7 (1.04%) Refinitiv
14 5 (0.74%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.74%) Palantir
14 5 (0.74%) Talend
15 4 (0.59%) Dynatrace
15 4 (0.59%) Siemens