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 6 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 86 110
Rank change year-on-year -68 +24 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Management 680 689 777
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.76% 2.83% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 3.11% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 469 512
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £423 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% - -
75th Percentile £588 £713 £675
90th Percentile £704 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 27 60
10th Percentile £13.13 £20.79 £15.84
25th Percentile £16.55 £25.70 £21.12
Median hourly rate £28.55 £32.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.15% -27.78% -28.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £48.00 £46.82
90th Percentile £58.65 £79.50 £63.80
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.18% -27.78% -28.29%

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 33,181 22,150 32,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.82% 90.86% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,274 14,593 21,355
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,050 865 2,166
10th Percentile £15.49 £14.99 £12.89
25th Percentile £19.48 £19.00 £15.85
Median hourly rate £37.50 £32.50 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -1.52% -13.95%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.95 £70.44
UK median hourly rate £35.91 £31.58 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.71% -2.83% -13.33%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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 6 April 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 -57 342 £492 -18.00% 102
Midlands -23 91 £492 -6.29% 51
South East -48 79 £475 -13.64% 94
West Midlands -12 77 £493 -6.19% 28
South West +7 61 £518 +8.95% 32
North of England -77 61 £425 -18.27% 46
East of England -40 36 £505 +1.00% 26
North West -53 31 £500 -7.41% 30
Yorkshire -44 28 £389 -18.21% 13
East Midlands -36 13 £447 -0.33% 23
North East -16 2 £540 +8.00% 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 38 (5.59%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.26%) Confluence
3 21 (3.09%) SAS
4 12 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.62%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.47%) Mendix
7 7 (1.03%) Apache
7 7 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.03%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.59%) CMS
9 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
10 2 (0.29%) WordPress
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 60 (8.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.79%) MS Visio
5 15 (2.21%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 21 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.65%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.88%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.44%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
5 3 (0.44%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.29%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.29%) iTrent
6 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 111 (16.32%) Azure
2 98 (14.41%) Power Platform
3 59 (8.68%) AWS
4 31 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.41%) Collibra
6 29 (4.26%) GCP
7 28 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.82%) SaaS
9 23 (3.38%) PowerApps
10 22 (3.24%) OpenShift
10 22 (3.24%) Serverless
11 15 (2.21%) Azure Functions
11 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.91%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (1.91%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.91%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.76%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.91%) LAN
2 11 (1.62%) WAN
3 10 (1.47%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.03%) PSTN
5 4 (0.59%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) 2G
6 2 (0.29%) 4G
6 2 (0.29%) 5G
6 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.29%) HTTP
6 2 (0.29%) NAS
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) WebEx
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (12.65%) Power BI
2 70 (10.29%) Metadata
3 54 (7.94%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (4.56%) Data Lake
5 29 (4.26%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.97%) Tableau
7 23 (3.38%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.21%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.91%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.76%) GIS
10 12 (1.76%) MySQL
10 12 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
11 11 (1.62%) NoSQL
12 10 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.18%) Big Data
14 7 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.88%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 53 (7.79%) JIRA
2 38 (5.59%) GitLab
3 33 (4.85%) Git
4 27 (3.97%) Jenkins
5 22 (3.24%) Selenium
6 18 (2.65%) JUnit
7 13 (1.91%) ERwin
8 6 (0.88%) JMeter
9 5 (0.74%) Appium
10 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.44%) Postman
11 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.44%) Toad
11 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.15%) GCC
13 1 (0.15%) Hudson
13 1 (0.15%) TestNG
General
1 250 (36.76%) Social Skills
2 203 (29.85%) Finance
3 152 (22.35%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.38%) Public Sector
5 55 (8.09%) Banking
6 39 (5.74%) Marketing
7 37 (5.44%) Manufacturing
8 29 (4.26%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.53%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
12 19 (2.79%) Organisational Skills
13 17 (2.50%) Telecoms
14 16 (2.35%) Retail
15 13 (1.91%) Legal
16 12 (1.76%) Military
16 12 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.62%) Aviation
17 11 (1.62%) Local Government
18 10 (1.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 129 (18.97%) Analyst
2 72 (10.59%) Architect
3 66 (9.71%) Senior
4 65 (9.56%) Data Analyst
5 63 (9.26%) Lead
6 59 (8.68%) Business Analyst
7 46 (6.76%) Data Architect
8 38 (5.59%) Consultant
9 36 (5.29%) Developer
10 34 (5.00%) Data Engineer
11 33 (4.85%) Data Manager
12 23 (3.38%) Administrator
13 18 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
13 18 (2.65%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.65%) Test Specialist
14 17 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.21%) Data Modeller
16 14 (2.06%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.06%) Governance Analyst
16 14 (2.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (4.41%) REST
2 19 (2.79%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (2.50%) pytest
4 15 (2.21%) Kafka
4 15 (2.21%) React
5 14 (2.06%) .NET
6 12 (1.76%) JSON
7 10 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.18%) XML
9 7 (1.03%) PySpark
9 7 (1.03%) YAML
10 5 (0.74%) JDO
10 5 (0.74%) Node.js
10 5 (0.74%) NumPy
10 5 (0.74%) Pandas
10 5 (0.74%) SOAP
11 4 (0.59%) ADO
11 4 (0.59%) CSS
11 4 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 52 (7.65%) Management Information System
2 38 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 37 (5.44%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.26%) Legacy Systems
5 26 (3.82%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.21%) Cloud Native
10 13 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.62%) FMCG
12 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 10 (1.47%) Life Science
12 10 (1.47%) Low-Code
13 9 (1.32%) IoT
14 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.03%) Synthetic Data
15 6 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
15 6 (0.88%) Social Media
15 6 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.06%) Windows
2 6 (0.88%) Linux
3 4 (0.59%) Android
3 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 184 (27.06%) Data Governance
1 184 (27.06%) Problem-Solving
2 175 (25.74%) Agile
3 156 (22.94%) Stakeholder Management
4 148 (21.76%) Analytics
5 138 (20.29%) Migration
6 130 (19.12%) Data Modelling
7 112 (16.47%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (15.44%) Validation
9 84 (12.35%) Decision-Making
10 83 (12.21%) DevOps
11 81 (11.91%) CI/CD
12 78 (11.47%) AI
13 75 (11.03%) ETL
14 73 (10.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (10.44%) Data Analysis
16 70 (10.29%) Data Architecture
17 68 (10.00%) Project Management
18 65 (9.56%) Data Migration
19 62 (9.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 143 (21.03%) SQL
2 88 (12.94%) Python
3 18 (2.65%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.50%) C#
5 16 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.91%) Java
7 11 (1.62%) Formula Language
7 11 (1.62%) LotusScript
8 10 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.47%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.32%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.32%) VBA
10 8 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.88%) C
11 6 (0.88%) Groovy
12 5 (0.74%) Bicep
12 5 (0.74%) C++
12 5 (0.74%) R
13 4 (0.59%) Scala
14 2 (0.29%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 137 (20.15%) Security Cleared
2 113 (16.62%) SC Cleared
3 84 (12.35%) Degree
4 21 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.18%) IIBA
9 7 (1.03%) CBAP
9 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.88%) OCA
11 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.74%) PMP
12 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.59%) OCP
13 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.44%) PhD
13 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 184 (27.06%) Data Quality
2 66 (9.71%) QA
3 57 (8.38%) GDPR
4 16 (2.35%) PMO
5 14 (2.06%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.88%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.74%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.59%) BS7666
9 4 (0.59%) COREP
9 4 (0.59%) FINREP
9 4 (0.59%) IFRS
9 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.44%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.29%) Basel III
11 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.29%) EMIR
11 2 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (3.09%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (4.71%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.47%) Terraform
4 7 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.59%) Grafana
5 4 (0.59%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.29%) Consul
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (18.09%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.32%) Oracle
3 55 (8.09%) SAP
4 38 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 35 (5.15%) Databricks
6 27 (3.97%) Informatica
7 16 (2.35%) ServiceNow
8 14 (2.06%) Google
9 12 (1.76%) Talend
10 11 (1.62%) Lotus
11 10 (1.47%) Kofax
12 9 (1.32%) Bloomberg
13 7 (1.03%) Siemens
14 6 (0.88%) Adobe
14 6 (0.88%) GoldenSource
14 6 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 5 (0.74%) Alteryx
15 5 (0.74%) Charles River
15 5 (0.74%) Murex
15 5 (0.74%) Palantir