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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 80 111
Rank change year-on-year -55 +31 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Management 653 770 781
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.04% 2.91% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.32% 3.26% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 476 520
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £402 £417 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £553
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.98% -5.72%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £680
90th Percentile £699 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 24 36
10th Percentile £12.63 £20.81 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.38 £26.24 £25.47
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £41.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -20.78% -38.07%
75th Percentile £35.38 £44.76 £50.96
90th Percentile £77.60 £96.38 £66.27
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -31.49% -29.62% -26.11%

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 28,150 23,642 32,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.12% 89.29% 87.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,007 14,469 21,732
10th Percentile £304 £310 £300
25th Percentile £409 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,749 768 1,647
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.10
25th Percentile £17.89 £21.00 £17.68
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £69.49 £75.00 £75.42
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £38.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -14.47% +16.92%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -41 346 £500 -9.05% 98
Midlands -13 85 £477 -9.24% 74
North of England -62 73 £438 -12.50% 78
West Midlands +2 72 £490 -8.84% 37
South East -55 66 £475 -9.52% 134
South West +24 49 £450 -7.69% 50
Yorkshire -31 35 £402 -24.79% 29
North West -50 33 £500 - 42
East of England -24 26 £505 +2.23% 50
East Midlands -32 13 £416 +0.48% 35
North East -15 5 £438 -18.60% 7
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 33 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.91%) Confluence
2 19 (2.91%) SAS
3 10 (1.53%) HCL Notes
4 9 (1.38%) Mendix
5 7 (1.07%) Apache
5 7 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.46%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.46%) WordPress
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) CMS
8 1 (0.15%) Moodle
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 59 (9.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (4.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 24 (3.68%) Microsoft Office
4 12 (1.84%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.38%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.61%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.61%) Revit
8 3 (0.46%) Windchill
9 2 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (4.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.53%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.77%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.46%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.46%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.31%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 109 (16.69%) Azure
2 93 (14.24%) Power Platform
3 52 (7.96%) AWS
4 37 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (4.90%) GCP
6 30 (4.59%) Collibra
7 23 (3.52%) PowerApps
8 21 (3.22%) OCI
9 19 (2.91%) Serverless
10 18 (2.76%) Microsoft 365
10 18 (2.76%) OpenShift
11 17 (2.60%) Azure Service Bus
11 17 (2.60%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.45%) Azure Logic Apps
12 16 (2.45%) SaaS
13 15 (2.30%) Azure Functions
13 15 (2.30%) Snowflake
14 14 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
14 14 (2.14%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 11 (1.68%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.46%) LAN
2 3 (0.46%) NAS
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) SMS
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) 2G
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) MPLS
4 1 (0.15%) MQTT
4 1 (0.15%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.15%) SMTP
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.48%) Power BI
2 53 (8.12%) Metadata
3 39 (5.97%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.83%) Tableau
5 20 (3.06%) SQL Server
6 17 (2.60%) Oracle Database
7 14 (2.14%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.68%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.53%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.53%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (1.38%) BigQuery
10 9 (1.38%) MySQL
10 9 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
11 8 (1.23%) GIS
12 7 (1.07%) Big Data
12 7 (1.07%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.92%) Power Query
13 6 (0.92%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 5 (0.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 64 (9.80%) JIRA
2 42 (6.43%) GitLab
3 31 (4.75%) Git
4 24 (3.68%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.76%) Selenium
6 15 (2.30%) JUnit
7 5 (0.77%) ERwin
7 5 (0.77%) JMeter
7 5 (0.77%) Postman
8 4 (0.61%) Appium
9 3 (0.46%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.46%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.31%) Gatling
10 2 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.31%) TestNG
10 2 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 275 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 223 (34.15%) Finance
3 155 (23.74%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.34%) Banking
5 47 (7.20%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.51%) Marketing
7 29 (4.44%) Manufacturing
8 27 (4.13%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 19 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (2.45%) Legal
13 16 (2.45%) Local Government
14 14 (2.14%) Retail
15 12 (1.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.84%) Military
15 12 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 9 (1.38%) Electronics
16 9 (1.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 129 (19.75%) Analyst
2 70 (10.72%) Architect
3 62 (9.49%) Data Analyst
4 61 (9.34%) Lead
5 60 (9.19%) Developer
6 55 (8.42%) Business Analyst
7 52 (7.96%) Senior
8 49 (7.50%) Consultant
9 33 (5.05%) Data Architect
10 29 (4.44%) Data Manager
11 27 (4.13%) Administrator
12 20 (3.06%) Data Engineer
13 18 (2.76%) Governance Analyst
14 15 (2.30%) Data Modeller
14 15 (2.30%) Oracle Consultant
15 14 (2.14%) Test Specialist
16 13 (1.99%) Data Business Analyst
16 13 (1.99%) QA Engineer
16 13 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
16 13 (1.99%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.89%) REST
2 30 (4.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 23 (3.52%) SOAP
4 18 (2.76%) .NET
5 17 (2.60%) React
6 15 (2.30%) pytest
7 12 (1.84%) Lightning Web Components
8 10 (1.53%) Middleware
8 10 (1.53%) Visualforce
9 9 (1.38%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (1.38%) JSON
9 9 (1.38%) Kafka
9 9 (1.38%) RESTful
10 7 (1.07%) Node.js
10 7 (1.07%) XML
11 6 (0.92%) CSS
11 6 (0.92%) MIDP
11 6 (0.92%) OAuth
11 6 (0.92%) PySpark
12 5 (0.77%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.89%) Management Information System
2 43 (6.58%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.90%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.98%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.30%) Reference Data
8 14 (2.14%) CMDB
9 11 (1.68%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.38%) Synthetic Data
11 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.07%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.07%) Life Science
12 7 (1.07%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.92%) Derivative
13 6 (0.92%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.92%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.92%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.99%) Windows
2 7 (1.07%) Android
2 7 (1.07%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.07%) Linux
3 2 (0.31%) Unix
3 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
2 193 (29.56%) Agile
3 160 (24.50%) Data Governance
4 148 (22.66%) Analytics
5 138 (21.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (16.23%) DevOps
7 104 (15.93%) Business Intelligence
8 101 (15.47%) Data Modelling
9 93 (14.24%) Migration
10 91 (13.94%) CI/CD
11 85 (13.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 79 (12.10%) Project Management
13 76 (11.64%) Validation
14 69 (10.57%) Data Analysis
15 67 (10.26%) Decision-Making
16 66 (10.11%) Visualisation
17 63 (9.65%) Roadmaps
18 59 (9.04%) Data Strategy
19 58 (8.88%) AI
20 54 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 136 (20.83%) SQL
2 75 (11.49%) Python
3 34 (5.21%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.91%) C#
5 15 (2.30%) Java
6 13 (1.99%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.84%) Apex Code
8 11 (1.68%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.53%) Formula Language
9 10 (1.53%) LotusScript
10 8 (1.23%) Groovy
11 7 (1.07%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.92%) R
12 6 (0.92%) VBA
13 5 (0.77%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.77%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.61%) C++
14 4 (0.61%) Korn
15 3 (0.46%) Perl
15 3 (0.46%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 115 (17.61%) Security Cleared
2 93 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 72 (11.03%) Degree
4 19 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.45%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.38%) OCA
6 9 (1.38%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.61%) IIBA
8 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.61%) PMP
8 4 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.46%) CBAP
9 3 (0.46%) MCP
9 3 (0.46%) PhD
10 2 (0.31%) APMP
10 2 (0.31%) CIPD
10 2 (0.31%) CISSP
10 2 (0.31%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (22.51%) Data Quality
2 69 (10.57%) QA
3 57 (8.73%) GDPR
4 14 (2.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.68%) PMO
6 10 (1.53%) ISO 19650
7 6 (0.92%) GxP
8 5 (0.77%) IFRS
9 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.61%) Solvency II
10 3 (0.46%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.31%) Basel III
11 2 (0.31%) EMIR
11 2 (0.31%) GAAP
11 2 (0.31%) MiFID
11 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.15%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (3.52%) Docker
2 7 (1.07%) Firmware
3 3 (0.46%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.53%) Terraform
3 4 (0.61%) SCCM
4 3 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (0.46%) Grafana
4 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.31%) Consul
5 2 (0.31%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.15%) Ansible
6 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
6 1 (0.15%) Puppet
6 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 113 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 77 (11.79%) Oracle
3 55 (8.42%) SAP
4 35 (5.36%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.90%) Databricks
6 29 (4.44%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.37%) Informatica
8 17 (2.60%) Google
9 11 (1.68%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.68%) Workday
10 10 (1.53%) Lotus
10 10 (1.53%) Talend
11 9 (1.38%) Kofax
12 8 (1.23%) Alteryx
13 7 (1.07%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.92%) Autodesk
15 5 (0.77%) EMC
15 5 (0.77%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.61%) Anaplan
16 4 (0.61%) Dynatrace