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 24 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 126 111
Rank change year-on-year -46 -15 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Management 741 645 686
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.32% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.56% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 369 397
10th Percentile £325 £291 £328
25th Percentile £413 £400 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -3.30%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £550
% change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 32 39
10th Percentile £16.58 £17.92 £18.70
25th Percentile £21.08 £22.38 £23.95
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.66 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -9.54% +6.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £59.38
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £34.47
% change year-on-year +13.64% -4.25% -1.53%

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 38,743 25,202 28,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.81% 90.84% 85.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,962 16,051 18,351
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £627 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,572 1,476 1,524
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.25 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.17 £17.87 £18.08
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +67.00% -38.57% -3.67%

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 24 August 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 24 August 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 24 August 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 -46 364 £525 -4.55% 148
Midlands -13 105 £550 +22.22% 66
South East -23 97 £471 +37.02% 99
North of England -76 83 £411 -8.67% 57
West Midlands -13 77 £550 +37.93% 49
North West -50 44 £475 -5.00% 32
South West -34 40 £535 -6.96% 42
Yorkshire -43 38 £400 -2.44% 22
East of England -23 32 £588 +17.60% 31
East Midlands -9 27 £525 +13.51% 17
North East -41 2 £425 -2.86% 4
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 31 (4.18%) Confluence
2 30 (4.05%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.62%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.48%) CMS
4 11 (1.48%) SAS
5 8 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 6 (0.81%) Apache
7 6 (0.81%) Palantir Foundry
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.54%) Mule
10 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 59 (7.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (2.97%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
5 3 (0.40%) Revit
5 3 (0.40%) Windchill
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.02%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.62%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.67%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.54%) iTrent
7 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.40%) Maximo
8 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.40%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.27%) Primavera
9 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 147 (19.84%) Azure
2 112 (15.11%) Power Platform
3 57 (7.69%) AWS
4 33 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.05%) Collibra
6 29 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
6 29 (3.91%) SaaS
7 28 (3.78%) PowerApps
8 26 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.37%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (3.10%) GCP
11 22 (2.97%) Power Automate
12 21 (2.83%) Snowflake
13 16 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
15 13 (1.75%) GitHub
16 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
16 12 (1.62%) Serverless
16 12 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
17 10 (1.35%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
1 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.40%) Intranet
2 3 (0.40%) LAN
2 3 (0.40%) SMS
2 3 (0.40%) WAN
3 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) PSTN
3 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) 2G
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) DWDM
4 1 (0.13%) SS7
4 1 (0.13%) VPN
4 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 117 (15.79%) Metadata
2 90 (12.15%) Power BI
3 49 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.34%) Data Lake
5 32 (4.32%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.24%) Tableau
7 22 (2.97%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.43%) GIS
9 14 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.75%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.35%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.21%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.21%) Big Data
13 9 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (1.08%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.94%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.94%) MySQL
15 7 (0.94%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (7.15%) JIRA
2 16 (2.16%) Git
2 16 (2.16%) Selenium
3 13 (1.75%) ERwin
4 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 9 (1.21%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.21%) Postman
6 8 (1.08%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.94%) JMeter
8 6 (0.81%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.54%) GitLab
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.40%) Gradle
10 3 (0.40%) Maven
10 3 (0.40%) MLflow
10 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 244 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 214 (28.88%) Finance
3 152 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (9.45%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.83%) Banking
6 35 (4.72%) Organisational Skills
7 33 (4.45%) Manufacturing
8 30 (4.05%) Marketing
9 29 (3.91%) Influencing Skills
10 25 (3.37%) Retail
11 20 (2.70%) Legal
12 18 (2.43%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (2.02%) Local Government
15 13 (1.75%) Front Office
15 13 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 12 (1.62%) Billing
16 12 (1.62%) Financial Institution
17 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
18 10 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (15.79%) Analyst
2 106 (14.30%) Architect
3 83 (11.20%) Lead
4 69 (9.31%) Senior
5 67 (9.04%) Data Architect
6 57 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 53 (7.15%) Developer
8 48 (6.48%) Consultant
9 45 (6.07%) Data Engineer
10 41 (5.53%) Business Analyst
11 35 (4.72%) Administrator
12 31 (4.18%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.83%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.29%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.02%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.89%) Data Administrator
17 14 (1.89%) Data Business Analyst
17 14 (1.89%) Senior Manager
17 14 (1.89%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.05%) REST
2 21 (2.83%) JSON
3 20 (2.70%) Terraform
4 19 (2.56%) Kafka
5 17 (2.29%) Middleware
5 17 (2.29%) XML
6 15 (2.02%) .NET
7 14 (1.89%) RESTful
8 13 (1.75%) PySpark
9 9 (1.21%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.21%) SOAP
10 8 (1.08%) OAuth
11 7 (0.94%) HTML
12 6 (0.81%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
13 5 (0.67%) JWT
13 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
14 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
14 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
14 4 (0.54%) XSD
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.64%) Management Information System
2 50 (6.75%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 38 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 36 (4.86%) Reference Data
6 30 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (1.89%) FMCG
11 13 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (1.62%) Life Science
13 11 (1.48%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.35%) Self-Motivation
15 9 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.08%) CMDB
16 8 (1.08%) Replication
17 7 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
17 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
18 6 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Linux
2 9 (1.21%) Windows
3 2 (0.27%) Unix
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (34.41%) Data Governance
2 185 (24.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (23.35%) Migration
4 159 (21.46%) Agile
5 156 (21.05%) Analytics
5 156 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 155 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
7 135 (18.22%) Validation
8 125 (16.87%) AI
9 107 (14.44%) Continuous Improvement
10 106 (14.30%) Business Intelligence
11 101 (13.63%) Data Architecture
12 100 (13.50%) Decision-Making
13 96 (12.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 95 (12.82%) ETL
15 87 (11.74%) Data Migration
16 84 (11.34%) DevOps
17 83 (11.20%) Roadmaps
18 75 (10.12%) Metadata Management
19 72 (9.72%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 163 (22.00%) SQL
2 77 (10.39%) Python
3 38 (5.13%) Java
4 26 (3.51%) C#
5 17 (2.29%) C
6 14 (1.89%) X++
7 13 (1.75%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.94%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.94%) VBA
10 6 (0.81%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.27%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.13%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 124 (16.73%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 62 (8.37%) Degree
4 27 (3.64%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.67%) OCP
10 5 (0.67%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.40%) ISEB
12 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) CBAP
13 2 (0.27%) IIBA
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 263 (35.49%) Data Quality
2 68 (9.18%) GDPR
3 53 (7.15%) QA
4 19 (2.56%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.62%) PMO
6 8 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.67%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.67%) NCSC
8 5 (0.67%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
9 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.40%) COREP
10 3 (0.40%) FINREP
10 3 (0.40%) PERC
10 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) GRC
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.35%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) CASB
5 1 (0.13%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.58%) SAP
3 68 (9.18%) Databricks
4 60 (8.10%) Oracle
5 47 (6.34%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.78%) Informatica
7 18 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.62%) Google
9 10 (1.35%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.35%) ESRI
9 10 (1.35%) Workday
10 8 (1.08%) Charles River
10 8 (1.08%) Concur
10 8 (1.08%) IBM
11 7 (0.94%) Denodo
11 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.94%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.94%) Talend
12 6 (0.81%) Foundry
12 6 (0.81%) Sparx