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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 122 98
Rank change year-on-year -45 -24 +60
Contract jobs citing Data Management 777 642 759
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 2.31% 2.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.54% 2.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 448 369 420
10th Percentile £300 £299 £313
25th Percentile £404 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £644 £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 72 37 35
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £19.00 £25.82
Median hourly rate £28.23 £29.33 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -16.20% +6.06%
75th Percentile £41.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.75 £81.00 £80.90
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £29.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -0.89% -16.20% +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 39,251 25,237 27,768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.73% 90.91% 86.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,728 16,010 16,947
10th Percentile £325 £297 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £642
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,965 1,563 1,177
10th Percentile £13.82 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.57 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.75 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £38.50 £25.15 £41.08
% change year-on-year +53.08% -38.77% -3.91%

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 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 6 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 6 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 -48 366 £525 -4.55% 885
Midlands -13 110 £519 +15.28% 123
South East -17 106 £500 +33.33% 276
North of England -66 98 £400 -11.11% 211
West Midlands -12 85 £513 +11.17% 80
North West -36 55 £385 -17.20% 120
South West -22 48 £525 +0.96% 119
Yorkshire -40 41 £400 -5.33% 69
East Midlands -5 25 £525 +16.67% 42
East of England -24 25 £576 -4.00% 114
North East -39 3 £425 -2.86% 23
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 (3.86%) Confluence
2 25 (3.22%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.80%) SAS
4 13 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.54%) CMS
6 9 (1.16%) WordPress
7 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 7 (0.90%) Apache
9 6 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
9 6 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
10 4 (0.51%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.51%) Mule
11 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 69 (8.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
4 8 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
6 5 (0.64%) Revit
7 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.39%) Windchill
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.26%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.67%) Aladdin
3 10 (1.29%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.03%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.64%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.64%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.39%) iTrent
8 3 (0.39%) Maximo
8 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
10 1 (0.13%) Endur
10 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 153 (19.69%) Azure
2 106 (13.64%) Power Platform
3 56 (7.21%) AWS
4 34 (4.38%) Collibra
5 33 (4.25%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 27 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.47%) Dynamics 365
8 25 (3.22%) SaaS
9 24 (3.09%) PowerApps
10 23 (2.96%) GCP
10 23 (2.96%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.70%) GitHub
11 21 (2.70%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.32%) Alation
13 16 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
14 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (1.67%) Entra ID
15 13 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Firewall
2 5 (0.64%) Network Security
3 4 (0.51%) SMS
4 3 (0.39%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) Broadband
5 2 (0.26%) HTTP
5 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) DNS
6 1 (0.13%) FTP
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
1 139 (17.89%) Metadata
2 86 (11.07%) Power BI
3 52 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.18%) Data Lake
5 45 (5.79%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.35%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.96%) Tableau
8 18 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.67%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.42%) GIS
12 10 (1.29%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.29%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.16%) Big Data
13 9 (1.16%) MySQL
13 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.03%) Ataccama
15 7 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 48 (6.18%) JIRA
2 20 (2.57%) Git
3 16 (2.06%) Selenium
4 12 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.42%) ERwin
6 10 (1.29%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.16%) Postman
8 8 (1.03%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.77%) GitLab
10 6 (0.77%) JMeter
11 5 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.51%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.39%) JUnit
13 3 (0.39%) MLflow
13 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.39%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.26%) Gradle
14 2 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 284 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 220 (28.31%) Finance
3 164 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 64 (8.24%) Banking
6 52 (6.69%) Organisational Skills
7 37 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
7 37 (4.76%) Manufacturing
8 35 (4.50%) Marketing
9 32 (4.12%) Retail
10 29 (3.73%) Aerospace
11 24 (3.09%) Local Government
12 22 (2.83%) Legal
13 19 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (2.06%) Front Office
15 14 (1.80%) Investment Banking
15 14 (1.80%) Military
16 13 (1.67%) Billing
17 9 (1.16%) Automotive
17 9 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 109 (14.03%) Analyst
2 106 (13.64%) Architect
3 82 (10.55%) Lead
4 71 (9.14%) Data Architect
5 68 (8.75%) Senior
6 66 (8.49%) Administrator
6 66 (8.49%) Developer
7 50 (6.44%) Data Engineer
8 47 (6.05%) Business Analyst
9 46 (5.92%) Data Analyst
10 42 (5.41%) Consultant
11 25 (3.22%) Data Manager
12 23 (2.96%) Data Consultant
12 23 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
13 17 (2.19%) Data Business Analyst
14 15 (1.93%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.80%) Data Management Specialist
16 13 (1.67%) Data Administrator
16 13 (1.67%) Data Migration Lead
16 13 (1.67%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.89%) REST
2 26 (3.35%) Middleware
2 26 (3.35%) Terraform
3 25 (3.22%) XML
4 22 (2.83%) .NET
4 22 (2.83%) JSON
5 20 (2.57%) Kafka
6 17 (2.19%) RESTful
7 14 (1.80%) HTML
8 13 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.67%) PySpark
8 13 (1.67%) SOAP
9 10 (1.29%) OAuth
10 9 (1.16%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (1.03%) LDAP
11 8 (1.03%) OpenTofu
11 8 (1.03%) Web Services
12 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
12 6 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 47 (6.05%) Onboarding
4 37 (4.76%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.38%) Reference Data
6 32 (4.12%) Product Ownership
7 30 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.45%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
11 11 (1.42%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (1.29%) CMDB
12 10 (1.29%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.29%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.29%) Life Science
12 10 (1.29%) Social Media
12 10 (1.29%) Taxonomies
13 9 (1.16%) Autonomous Agent
14 8 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.19%) Linux
2 9 (1.16%) Windows
3 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 257 (33.08%) Data Governance
2 220 (28.31%) Stakeholder Management
3 187 (24.07%) Agile
4 172 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (21.11%) Data Modelling
6 163 (20.98%) Analytics
7 156 (20.08%) Migration
8 139 (17.89%) AI
9 138 (17.76%) Validation
10 129 (16.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 113 (14.54%) Decision-Making
12 112 (14.41%) Data Architecture
13 110 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 100 (12.87%) Roadmaps
15 97 (12.48%) Business Intelligence
16 95 (12.23%) ETL
17 91 (11.71%) DevOps
18 86 (11.07%) Metadata Management
19 84 (10.81%) Data Migration
20 79 (10.17%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 171 (22.01%) SQL
2 83 (10.68%) Python
3 45 (5.79%) Java
4 36 (4.63%) C#
5 20 (2.57%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.19%) C
7 13 (1.67%) X++
8 8 (1.03%) R
9 7 (0.90%) Bicep
9 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.90%) VBA
10 6 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 156 (20.08%) Security Cleared
2 122 (15.70%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.65%) Degree
4 28 (3.60%) DV Cleared
5 26 (3.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.29%) DBS Check
9 8 (1.03%) PMI Certification
10 7 (0.90%) OCP
10 7 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
10 7 (0.90%) PMP
11 6 (0.77%) Azure Certification
11 6 (0.77%) CIPD
11 6 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
12 5 (0.64%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.39%) ISEB
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (35.52%) Data Quality
2 85 (10.94%) GDPR
3 51 (6.56%) QA
4 22 (2.83%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.93%) PMO
6 6 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.64%) NCSC
8 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.39%) GRC
9 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.39%) PERC
9 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.39%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) EMIR
10 2 (0.26%) FATCA
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 20 (2.57%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (1.42%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.39%) Ansible
4 3 (0.39%) Grafana
4 3 (0.39%) MOM
5 2 (0.26%) 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
1 151 (19.43%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.14%) Databricks
2 71 (9.14%) SAP
3 66 (8.49%) Oracle
4 44 (5.66%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.12%) Informatica
6 31 (3.99%) Google
7 20 (2.57%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.93%) Workday
9 12 (1.54%) IBM
10 10 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.16%) Denodo
12 8 (1.03%) Charles River
12 8 (1.03%) Concur
12 8 (1.03%) Foundry
13 7 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.77%) Palantir
14 6 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 6 (0.77%) Talend