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

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 93 107
Rank change year-on-year -71 +14 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Management 677 650 762
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.73% 2.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 2.99% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 398 423 466
10th Percentile £329 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £623 £738 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £781
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 28 57
10th Percentile £13.13 £21.10 £15.52
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.43 £21.73
Median hourly rate £30.49 £30.16 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.09% -32.98% +12.01%
75th Percentile £50.00 £61.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £79.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £30.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year +15.24% -31.54% +12.01%

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 35,196 21,756 31,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.30% 86.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,391 14,220 20,552
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,171 917 2,255
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.20 £15.97
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £60.13
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.97 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.98% -22.42% -2.58%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 23 May 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 -49 349 £500 -23.08% 157
South East -28 92 £450 -10.00% 84
Midlands -37 85 £513 -6.82% 32
West Midlands -31 66 £513 -2.38% 19
South West -5 57 £500 -4.76% 30
North of England -101 49 £475 -5.00% 61
North West -68 29 £500 -3.85% 35
East of England -52 27 £505 +1.00% 15
Yorkshire -60 19 £410 -8.89% 22
East Midlands -27 18 £525 -8.70% 13
North East - 2 £400 - 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 44 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.28%) Confluence
3 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.48%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.48%) HCL Notes
4 10 (1.48%) Mendix
5 9 (1.33%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.18%) CMS
6 8 (1.18%) SAS
7 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.59%) WordPress
9 3 (0.44%) Apache
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 61 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.87%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.51%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.62%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.59%) Windchill
8 3 (0.44%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.44%) Revit
9 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.15%) CATIA
9 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.55%) Teamcenter
2 19 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.89%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.59%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.30%) iTrent
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.15%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
7 1 (0.15%) Sage X3
7 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 124 (18.32%) Azure
2 114 (16.84%) Power Platform
3 53 (7.83%) AWS
4 33 (4.87%) PowerApps
5 32 (4.73%) Microsoft 365
6 28 (4.14%) SaaS
7 25 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (3.55%) GCP
9 23 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 23 (3.40%) Collibra
10 20 (2.95%) Power Automate
10 20 (2.95%) Serverless
11 18 (2.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 18 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.07%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (1.92%) Azure Functions
14 12 (1.77%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.77%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.62%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.62%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 14 (2.07%) LAN
2 11 (1.62%) WAN
3 10 (1.48%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.03%) PSTN
5 4 (0.59%) Intranet
6 3 (0.44%) SMS
7 2 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (0.30%) Network Security
7 2 (0.30%) SAN
7 2 (0.30%) WLAN
8 1 (0.15%) 3G
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
8 1 (0.15%) DWDM
8 1 (0.15%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) MPLS
8 1 (0.15%) SDH
8 1 (0.15%) SIGTRAN
8 1 (0.15%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (13.88%) Power BI
2 80 (11.82%) Metadata
3 57 (8.42%) Data Warehouse
4 40 (5.91%) Data Lake
5 33 (4.87%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.84%) Tableau
7 18 (2.66%) Oracle Database
8 17 (2.51%) GIS
9 14 (2.07%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.77%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.77%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (1.62%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.33%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.33%) Metadata Repository
12 9 (1.33%) MySQL
12 9 (1.33%) Spatial Data
13 8 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 8 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 50 (7.39%) JIRA
2 16 (2.36%) Git
3 15 (2.22%) GitLab
4 13 (1.92%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.62%) ERwin
6 9 (1.33%) Selenium
7 6 (0.89%) JMeter
8 5 (0.74%) JUnit
8 5 (0.74%) Sonatype Nexus
9 4 (0.59%) Postman
9 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.59%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.44%) Appium
10 3 (0.44%) Toad
10 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) MLflow
11 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.30%) SonarQube
12 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 232 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 193 (28.51%) Finance
3 138 (20.38%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.94%) Banking
6 30 (4.43%) Manufacturing
7 27 (3.99%) Aerospace
7 27 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
8 26 (3.84%) Marketing
9 25 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (3.40%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (2.22%) Local Government
13 12 (1.77%) Retail
14 10 (1.48%) Aviation
14 10 (1.48%) Legal
15 9 (1.33%) Military
15 9 (1.33%) Telecoms
16 8 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (1.03%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 126 (18.61%) Analyst
2 90 (13.29%) Architect
3 72 (10.64%) Lead
3 72 (10.64%) Senior
4 62 (9.16%) Data Analyst
4 62 (9.16%) Data Architect
5 53 (7.83%) Business Analyst
6 39 (5.76%) Consultant
7 38 (5.61%) Developer
8 36 (5.32%) Data Engineer
9 32 (4.73%) Administrator
9 32 (4.73%) Data Manager
10 18 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 17 (2.51%) Data Business Analyst
11 17 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
12 15 (2.22%) Governance Analyst
12 15 (2.22%) Senior Manager
13 14 (2.07%) Configuration Management Specialist
13 14 (2.07%) Configuration Specialist
13 14 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.36%) REST
2 13 (1.92%) .NET
3 12 (1.77%) JSON
3 12 (1.77%) Oracle Fusion
3 12 (1.77%) React
3 12 (1.77%) XML
4 10 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
4 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
5 8 (1.18%) Kafka
5 8 (1.18%) Middleware
5 8 (1.18%) PySpark
6 6 (0.89%) CSS
6 6 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
6 6 (0.89%) RESTful
6 6 (0.89%) YAML
7 5 (0.74%) HTML
7 5 (0.74%) JDO
7 5 (0.74%) Web Services
8 4 (0.59%) ADO
8 4 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.01%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.28%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.69%) Cloud Native
5 24 (3.55%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.25%) Reference Data
7 21 (3.10%) Data Protection Act
8 20 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.51%) Product Ownership
10 14 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.62%) FMCG
12 10 (1.48%) Life Science
12 10 (1.48%) Low-Code
13 8 (1.18%) IoT
14 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
14 7 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (1.03%) Replication
15 6 (0.89%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.07%) Windows
2 4 (0.59%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Android
3 2 (0.30%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (25.70%) Data Governance
2 168 (24.82%) Migration
3 154 (22.75%) Agile
4 147 (21.71%) Data Modelling
5 145 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 128 (18.91%) Analytics
7 106 (15.66%) Business Intelligence
8 98 (14.48%) Validation
9 97 (14.33%) AI
10 90 (13.29%) Decision-Making
11 88 (13.00%) ETL
12 83 (12.26%) Data Architecture
13 78 (11.52%) Data Migration
14 76 (11.23%) Data Analysis
15 72 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
15 72 (10.64%) DevOps
15 72 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 62 (9.16%) CI/CD
17 61 (9.01%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 139 (20.53%) SQL
2 80 (11.82%) Python
3 21 (3.10%) Java
4 20 (2.95%) C#
5 18 (2.66%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (1.48%) Formula Language
7 10 (1.48%) LotusScript
8 9 (1.33%) C
8 9 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.18%) VBA
10 7 (1.03%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.03%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.89%) Bicep
11 6 (0.89%) X++
12 4 (0.59%) C++
12 4 (0.59%) R
13 3 (0.44%) Scala
14 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 121 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.92%) SC Cleared
3 88 (13.00%) Degree
4 22 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.33%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.18%) CBAP
7 8 (1.18%) IIBA
8 6 (0.89%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
9 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
9 5 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.59%) OCP
10 4 (0.59%) PMP
11 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
11 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 3 (0.44%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (27.47%) Data Quality
2 58 (8.57%) GDPR
3 56 (8.27%) QA
4 17 (2.51%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.62%) PMO
6 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.74%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.59%) BS7666
7 4 (0.59%) COREP
7 4 (0.59%) FINREP
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.59%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) DICOM
9 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.30%) HL7
9 2 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (0.59%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.07%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.33%) Terraform
4 7 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.89%) Grafana
6 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.30%) Ansible
8 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (17.87%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.31%) Oracle
3 53 (7.83%) SAP
4 47 (6.94%) Databricks
5 33 (4.87%) Salesforce
6 22 (3.25%) Informatica
7 14 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.92%) Google
9 10 (1.48%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.48%) Kofax
9 10 (1.48%) Lotus
10 7 (1.03%) ESRI
10 7 (1.03%) Siemens
11 6 (0.89%) Adobe
11 6 (0.89%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.89%) Charles River
11 6 (0.89%) Talend
12 5 (0.74%) Foundry
12 5 (0.74%) Palantir
12 5 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud