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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 121 115
Rank change year-on-year -52 -6 +38
Contract jobs citing Data Management 741 643 675
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.33% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.57% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 367 393
10th Percentile £333 £288 £325
25th Percentile £413 £394 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -7.27% -1.35%
75th Percentile £650 £633 £688
90th Percentile £750 £747 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +2.69% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 31 43
10th Percentile £16.58 £19.00 £20.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £22.98 £25.82
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +21.21%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £58.13
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.71% +2.94%

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 38,779 25,035 28,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.92% 90.85% 85.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,017 15,949 18,476
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,559 1,455 1,574
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.92 £17.80
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +3.61%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.05 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +67.00% -37.90% -1.22%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -43 364 £525 -4.55% 146
Midlands -15 106 £550 +22.22% 61
South East -21 97 £471 +42.19% 106
North of England -85 81 £450 - 60
West Midlands -17 78 £550 +37.93% 42
North West -48 42 £538 +10.26% 32
South West -39 41 £535 -6.96% 37
Yorkshire -48 38 £400 -2.44% 23
East of England -13 32 £588 +17.60% 33
East Midlands -15 27 £525 +13.51% 19
North East -36 2 £425 -10.53% 5
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
3 12 (1.62%) CMS
4 10 (1.35%) SAS
5 8 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 7 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 6 (0.81%) Apache
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 23 (3.10%) 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 14 (1.89%) 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
2 111 (14.98%) Power Platform
3 58 (7.83%) AWS
4 33 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (3.91%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (3.91%) SaaS
6 28 (3.78%) Collibra
6 28 (3.78%) PowerApps
7 26 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.24%) Microsoft Purview
9 23 (3.10%) GCP
10 22 (2.97%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.83%) Snowflake
12 16 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 15 (2.02%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.75%) GitHub
15 12 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
15 12 (1.62%) Serverless
15 12 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
16 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
1 114 (15.38%) Metadata
2 89 (12.01%) Power BI
3 49 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.34%) Data Lake
5 33 (4.45%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.10%) Tableau
7 22 (2.97%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.43%) GIS
9 15 (2.02%) 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%) MySQL
14 8 (1.08%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.94%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.94%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 53 (7.15%) JIRA
2 17 (2.29%) Git
3 16 (2.16%) Selenium
4 13 (1.75%) ERwin
5 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 9 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.21%) Postman
7 8 (1.08%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.94%) JMeter
9 6 (0.81%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.54%) GitLab
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
10 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
11 3 (0.40%) Gradle
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MLflow
11 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 244 (32.93%) Social Skills
2 213 (28.74%) Finance
3 152 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.69%) Banking
6 36 (4.86%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (4.59%) Manufacturing
8 32 (4.32%) Marketing
9 28 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (3.51%) Retail
11 19 (2.56%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.56%) Legal
12 17 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.02%) Local Government
14 13 (1.75%) Front Office
14 13 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
15 12 (1.62%) Billing
16 11 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 11 (1.48%) Investment Banking
17 10 (1.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 115 (15.52%) Analyst
2 106 (14.30%) Architect
3 84 (11.34%) Lead
4 69 (9.31%) Senior
5 67 (9.04%) Data Architect
6 57 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 53 (7.15%) Developer
8 46 (6.21%) Consultant
9 44 (5.94%) Data Engineer
10 40 (5.40%) Business Analyst
11 36 (4.86%) Administrator
12 31 (4.18%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
14 19 (2.56%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.29%) Project Manager
16 15 (2.02%) Data Management Specialist
16 15 (2.02%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.89%) Data Administrator
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 65 (8.77%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 39 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 38 (5.13%) Onboarding
5 35 (4.72%) Reference Data
6 30 (4.05%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.89%) FMCG
10 13 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.62%) Life Science
12 11 (1.48%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.08%) CMDB
14 8 (1.08%) Replication
15 7 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
15 7 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
16 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
1 252 (34.01%) Data Governance
2 181 (24.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 172 (23.21%) Migration
4 158 (21.32%) Agile
5 156 (21.05%) Data Modelling
6 154 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
7 153 (20.65%) Analytics
8 135 (18.22%) Validation
9 126 (17.00%) AI
10 108 (14.57%) Continuous Improvement
11 105 (14.17%) Business Intelligence
12 101 (13.63%) Data Architecture
13 99 (13.36%) Decision-Making
14 95 (12.82%) ETL
14 95 (12.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 87 (11.74%) Data Migration
16 84 (11.34%) DevOps
17 82 (11.07%) Roadmaps
18 72 (9.72%) Data Analysis
18 72 (9.72%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 164 (22.13%) SQL
2 79 (10.66%) Python
3 39 (5.26%) 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%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) Scala
13 2 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 126 (17.00%) Security Cleared
2 94 (12.69%) 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 10 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.94%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.81%) OCP
9 6 (0.81%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.67%) Azure 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 61 (8.23%) Oracle
5 47 (6.34%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.64%) 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%) Foundry
11 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.94%) Palantir
11 7 (0.94%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.94%) Talend