Data Management Contracts in England

Data Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 164 171
Rank change year-on-year +57 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Management 772 792 1,214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.09% 1.57% 1.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 1.74% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 483 487 767
10th Percentile £350 £328 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.86%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £676
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 21 22
10th Percentile £15.09 £19.06 £20.74
25th Percentile £19.57 £30.00 £26.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.88
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.00% +38.37%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.50 £51.63
90th Percentile £63.00 £66.00 £63.93
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.88
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.00% +38.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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 +55 409 £550 -8.33% 231
South West +65 100 £530 +8.72% 48
North of England +44 87 £500 -3.15% 78
North West +35 67 £500 -3.85% 46
Midlands +32 67 £594 +58.33% 51
West Midlands +58 60 £600 +65.52% 29
South East -6 52 £500 -9.09% 83
East of England +17 37 £518 +15.00% 36
Yorkshire +28 22 £550 +7.32% 23
East Midlands -1 6 £569 +89.58% 22
North East +24 4 £454 +10.06% 11
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (4.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.68%) SAS
3 11 (1.42%) ArcGIS
4 10 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.17%) Apache
6 7 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.52%) Confluence
8 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.26%) CMS
9 2 (0.26%) IIS
9 2 (0.26%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 88 (11.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (6.35%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.89%) Spreadsheet
4 28 (3.63%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 17 (2.20%) MS Visio
7 12 (1.55%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.52%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.39%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 17 (2.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.17%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.39%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.39%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.39%) SAP MDM
6 3 (0.39%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (17.49%) Azure
2 84 (10.88%) Power Platform
3 65 (8.42%) AWS
4 38 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (4.92%) GCP
5 32 (4.15%) Collibra
6 26 (3.37%) Snowflake
7 19 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.33%) Serverless
9 15 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (1.68%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.55%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.42%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (1.17%) Azure Stack
15 8 (1.04%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.91%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.33%) Network Security
2 15 (1.94%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.78%) Firewall
4 5 (0.65%) FTP
5 4 (0.52%) LAN
5 4 (0.52%) WAN
6 3 (0.39%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.39%) VoIP
6 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.26%) Internet
7 2 (0.26%) MPLS
7 2 (0.26%) RS-232
8 1 (0.13%) 4G
8 1 (0.13%) 5G
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) DNS
8 1 (0.13%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (10.36%) Metadata
2 79 (10.23%) Power BI
3 70 (9.07%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.35%) Big Data
5 44 (5.70%) SQL Server
6 32 (4.15%) Tableau
7 24 (3.11%) Relational Database
8 23 (2.98%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.81%) Data Mining
9 14 (1.81%) GIS
9 14 (1.81%) NoSQL
10 9 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.04%) Ataccama
11 8 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
11 8 (1.04%) SAP HANA
12 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.91%) KDB
12 7 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
13 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 40 (5.18%) JIRA
2 19 (2.46%) Git
3 13 (1.68%) ERwin
4 8 (1.04%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.65%) Eclipse
6 3 (0.39%) Xcode
7 2 (0.26%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.26%) JMeter
7 2 (0.26%) kappa
7 2 (0.26%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.26%) RStudio
7 2 (0.26%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.13%) Gatling
8 1 (0.13%) Mockito
8 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.13%) TestNG
8 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 233 (30.18%) Social Skills
2 223 (28.89%) Finance
3 160 (20.73%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.49%) Public Sector
5 56 (7.25%) Presentation Skills
6 50 (6.48%) Banking
7 41 (5.31%) Marketing
8 39 (5.05%) Manufacturing
9 36 (4.66%) Retail
10 28 (3.63%) Pharmaceutical
11 25 (3.24%) Electronics
11 25 (3.24%) Telecoms
12 20 (2.59%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (2.59%) Legal
13 16 (2.07%) Aerospace
13 16 (2.07%) Law
14 14 (1.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.68%) Billing
16 11 (1.42%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 167 (21.63%) Architect
2 150 (19.43%) Analyst
3 84 (10.88%) Data Analyst
4 77 (9.97%) Data Architect
5 73 (9.46%) Lead
6 58 (7.51%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (6.61%) Developer
7 51 (6.61%) Senior
8 50 (6.48%) Data Engineer
9 48 (6.22%) Data Manager
10 45 (5.83%) Consultant
11 41 (5.31%) Business Analyst
12 24 (3.11%) Project Manager
13 23 (2.98%) Data Business Analyst
13 23 (2.98%) Enterprise Architect
13 23 (2.98%) Project Leader
14 17 (2.20%) Data Migration Analyst
14 17 (2.20%) Migration Analyst
15 16 (2.07%) Data Consultant
15 16 (2.07%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.27%) XML
2 20 (2.59%) JSON
3 17 (2.20%) REST
4 16 (2.07%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (1.55%) SGML
6 11 (1.42%) HTML
7 8 (1.04%) RESTful
8 7 (0.91%) .NET
8 7 (0.91%) CSS
8 7 (0.91%) Web Services
9 6 (0.78%) Node.js
9 6 (0.78%) Spring
10 5 (0.65%) ADO
11 4 (0.52%) Hugging Face
11 4 (0.52%) Kafka
11 4 (0.52%) LangChain
11 4 (0.52%) PyTorch
11 4 (0.52%) Spring Boot
12 3 (0.39%) React
12 3 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.84%) Management Information System
2 29 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 26 (3.37%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (3.24%) Data Structures
5 18 (2.33%) Reference Data
6 16 (2.07%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (2.07%) Distributed Applications
7 13 (1.68%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.55%) Animation
8 12 (1.55%) Wiki
9 11 (1.42%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.17%) Derivative
10 9 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.17%) Life Science
11 7 (0.91%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.78%) NHS
13 5 (0.65%) CMDB
13 5 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.44%) Windows
2 32 (4.15%) Linux
3 25 (3.24%) Unix
4 16 (2.07%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.68%) Android
6 10 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (20.98%) Analytics
2 159 (20.60%) Data Modelling
3 158 (20.47%) Data Governance
4 152 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
5 146 (18.91%) Migration
6 144 (18.65%) Agile
7 133 (17.23%) Business Intelligence
8 116 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 98 (12.69%) Data Analysis
10 97 (12.56%) Data Architecture
11 94 (12.18%) Data Migration
12 82 (10.62%) Project Management
13 80 (10.36%) Project Delivery
14 76 (9.84%) Decision-Making
15 72 (9.33%) ETL
16 70 (9.07%) DevOps
17 69 (8.94%) Data Strategy
18 63 (8.16%) Computer Science
18 63 (8.16%) Roadmaps
19 57 (7.38%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (18.91%) SQL
2 83 (10.75%) Python
3 29 (3.76%) Java
4 19 (2.46%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.94%) C#
5 15 (1.94%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.55%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.17%) R
9 6 (0.78%) ABAP
9 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.65%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.52%) Bash
11 4 (0.52%) C++
11 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.52%) Scala
12 3 (0.39%) C
12 3 (0.39%) Go
12 3 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 126 (16.32%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.25%) Degree
3 75 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 51 (6.61%) DV Cleared
5 22 (2.85%) APMP
6 20 (2.59%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.04%) CISSP
9 7 (0.91%) ACCA
9 7 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.78%) ISEB
11 5 (0.65%) PMP
12 4 (0.52%) CIMA
12 4 (0.52%) PhD
13 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 194 (25.13%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.48%) QA
3 40 (5.18%) GDPR
4 33 (4.27%) PMO
5 17 (2.20%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.68%) Def Stans
7 11 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.78%) COBIT
10 6 (0.78%) SLA
11 5 (0.65%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.39%) GxP
13 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.13%) GRC
14 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 12 (1.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.42%) Grafana
2 9 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.17%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.26%) Control-M
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) Matomo
5 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
5 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 132 (17.10%) Microsoft
2 99 (12.82%) SAP
3 49 (6.35%) Oracle
4 24 (3.11%) Informatica
5 21 (2.72%) Adobe
5 21 (2.72%) Databricks
6 17 (2.20%) Alteryx
7 16 (2.07%) Google
7 16 (2.07%) Sparx
8 15 (1.94%) IBM
9 13 (1.68%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.55%) Talend
11 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.17%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.17%) ESRI
12 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
13 7 (0.91%) Dataiku
13 7 (0.91%) Genesys
13 7 (0.91%) Trillium
14 6 (0.78%) Siemens