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 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 93 122
Rank change year-on-year -35 +29 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Management 667 780 788
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.15% 2.57% 2.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.93% 2.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 461 525
10th Percentile £313 £313 £400
25th Percentile £405 £413 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £518 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.68% -9.91% -1.88%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £688
90th Percentile £738 £762 £773
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £561
% change year-on-year -2.44% -8.69% -2.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 36
10th Percentile £12.63 £19.98 £23.31
25th Percentile £16.81 £25.61 £31.50
Median hourly rate £24.21 £33.75 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.27% -4.93% -49.29%
75th Percentile £59.94 £55.00 £48.83
90th Percentile £81.00 £94.13 £64.14
UK median hourly rate £24.21 £32.50 £41.04
% change year-on-year -25.52% -20.81% -34.34%

All Process and 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 27,655 26,658 34,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.31% 87.92% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,614 16,424 23,309
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £406 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £648 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,796 941 1,445
10th Percentile £14.92 £15.25 £14.85
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 -27 345 £525 - 152
Midlands -14 89 £475 +2.70% 106
North of England -51 82 £438 -7.89% 136
South East -42 74 £469 -10.71% 212
West Midlands 0 72 £492 -6.29% 55
South West +12 44 £450 -4.26% 73
Yorkshire -19 43 £402 -22.24% 52
North West -41 34 £525 +13.82% 75
East of England -21 21 £500 +2.46% 90
East Midlands -20 17 £447 +7.97% 49
North East -9 6 £438 -12.50% 12
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 29 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.85%) SAS
3 14 (2.10%) Confluence
4 8 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.05%) Apache
6 5 (0.75%) Apache Spark
6 5 (0.75%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.45%) WordPress
8 2 (0.30%) Mendix
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.15%) WebSphere
Applications
1 58 (8.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 15 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (1.80%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.35%) ProjectWise
6 7 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.60%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.60%) Revit
7 4 (0.60%) Windchill
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
8 2 (0.30%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 24 (3.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.90%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.75%) Oracle Retail
3 5 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.75%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.60%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
5 3 (0.45%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.45%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.30%) iTrent
6 2 (0.30%) Maximo
6 2 (0.30%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 108 (16.19%) Azure
2 93 (13.94%) Power Platform
3 57 (8.55%) AWS
4 35 (5.25%) GCP
5 34 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.65%) Collibra
7 24 (3.60%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.00%) OCI
9 18 (2.70%) SaaS
9 18 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (2.55%) OpenShift
11 16 (2.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 14 (2.10%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.10%) Snowflake
13 13 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 13 (1.95%) Microsoft 365
13 13 (1.95%) Power Automate
14 12 (1.80%) Serverless
15 11 (1.65%) Tricentis Tosca
16 10 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.05%) Firewall
2 5 (0.75%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.45%) NAS
4 2 (0.30%) HTTP
4 2 (0.30%) LAN
4 2 (0.30%) SAN
5 1 (0.15%) 4G
5 1 (0.15%) 5G
5 1 (0.15%) Broadband
5 1 (0.15%) DNS
5 1 (0.15%) Intranet
5 1 (0.15%) IPv4
5 1 (0.15%) MPLS
5 1 (0.15%) MQTT
5 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
5 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.15%) SMTP
5 1 (0.15%) WAN
5 1 (0.15%) WebEx
5 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.19%) Power BI
2 49 (7.35%) Metadata
3 29 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (4.35%) Tableau
4 26 (3.90%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.55%) Data Lake
6 12 (1.80%) Power Query
7 11 (1.65%) Oracle Database
8 10 (1.50%) Big Data
8 10 (1.50%) Relational Database
8 10 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (1.35%) GIS
9 9 (1.35%) NoSQL
9 9 (1.35%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
10 7 (1.05%) MySQL
10 7 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
10 7 (1.05%) SAP HANA
11 6 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 57 (8.55%) JIRA
2 40 (6.00%) GitLab
3 35 (5.25%) Git
4 28 (4.20%) Jenkins
5 20 (3.00%) Selenium
6 15 (2.25%) JUnit
7 8 (1.20%) Postman
8 6 (0.90%) Appium
9 5 (0.75%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.75%) JMeter
10 4 (0.60%) ERwin
11 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
12 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.30%) Gatling
12 2 (0.30%) NUnit
12 2 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
12 2 (0.30%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.30%) TestNG
12 2 (0.30%) WebDriver
General
1 268 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 233 (34.93%) Finance
3 170 (25.49%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (10.34%) Banking
5 51 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 35 (5.25%) Marketing
7 30 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
9 21 (3.15%) Local Government
10 19 (2.85%) Financial Institution
10 19 (2.85%) Legal
11 18 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (2.40%) Retail
13 14 (2.10%) Military
14 12 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.65%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 10 (1.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 123 (18.44%) Analyst
2 77 (11.54%) Architect
3 62 (9.30%) Data Analyst
4 58 (8.70%) Developer
5 53 (7.95%) Senior
6 50 (7.50%) Consultant
7 49 (7.35%) Lead
8 48 (7.20%) Business Analyst
9 29 (4.35%) Data Manager
10 24 (3.60%) Data Architect
11 22 (3.30%) Administrator
11 22 (3.30%) Data Engineer
12 17 (2.55%) Governance Analyst
13 15 (2.25%) Oracle Consultant
13 15 (2.25%) Salesforce Architect
14 14 (2.10%) ServiceNow Developer
14 14 (2.10%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.10%) Test Specialist
15 13 (1.95%) QA Engineer
16 12 (1.80%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.05%) REST
2 30 (4.50%) Oracle Fusion
3 28 (4.20%) SOAP
4 18 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (2.40%) Middleware
6 15 (2.25%) pytest
6 15 (2.25%) Visualforce
7 13 (1.95%) .NET
8 11 (1.65%) React
8 11 (1.65%) RESTful
9 9 (1.35%) Kafka
10 8 (1.20%) JSON
11 7 (1.05%) Node.js
12 6 (0.90%) MIDP
12 6 (0.90%) OAuth
13 5 (0.75%) CSS
13 5 (0.75%) PySpark
14 4 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
14 4 (0.60%) Pandas
14 4 (0.60%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 42 (6.30%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.55%) Product Ownership
3 34 (5.10%) Onboarding
4 30 (4.50%) Data Structures
5 27 (4.05%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
6 18 (2.70%) Reference Data
7 15 (2.25%) CMDB
8 12 (1.80%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 9 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.35%) Mobile App
9 9 (1.35%) Synthetic Data
10 7 (1.05%) Low-Code
10 7 (1.05%) Reinsurance
11 6 (0.90%) Derivative
11 6 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (0.90%) Life Science
12 5 (0.75%) Fixed Income
12 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.70%) Windows
2 11 (1.65%) Linux
3 10 (1.50%) Apple iOS
4 9 (1.35%) Android
5 4 (0.60%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.45%) Unix
7 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 202 (30.28%) Problem-Solving
2 194 (29.09%) Agile
3 172 (25.79%) Data Governance
4 148 (22.19%) Analytics
5 137 (20.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 109 (16.34%) DevOps
7 106 (15.89%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (14.84%) Data Modelling
9 93 (13.94%) Migration
10 87 (13.04%) CI/CD
11 85 (12.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 72 (10.79%) Project Management
13 70 (10.49%) Data Analysis
14 69 (10.34%) Validation
15 67 (10.04%) Data Strategy
15 67 (10.04%) Roadmaps
16 64 (9.60%) Decision-Making
17 62 (9.30%) Visualisation
18 59 (8.85%) AI
19 58 (8.70%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 131 (19.64%) SQL
2 89 (13.34%) Python
3 30 (4.50%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.85%) C#
5 18 (2.70%) Java
6 17 (2.55%) Apex Code
7 14 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 10 (1.50%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.20%) Groovy
9 8 (1.20%) R
9 8 (1.20%) TypeScript
10 7 (1.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.90%) C++
12 5 (0.75%) Formula Language
12 5 (0.75%) Korn
12 5 (0.75%) LotusScript
12 5 (0.75%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.75%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.60%) Perl
13 4 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 112 (16.79%) Security Cleared
2 94 (14.09%) SC Cleared
3 74 (11.09%) Degree
4 20 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.70%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.35%) OCA
6 9 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.60%) CCAB
8 4 (0.60%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.45%) CISSP
9 3 (0.45%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.45%) PMP
10 2 (0.30%) HND
10 2 (0.30%) MCP
10 2 (0.30%) MCSE
10 2 (0.30%) PhD
10 2 (0.30%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 147 (22.04%) Data Quality
2 68 (10.19%) QA
3 57 (8.55%) GDPR
4 17 (2.55%) Accessibility
5 16 (2.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 13 (1.95%) PMO
7 10 (1.50%) ISO 19650
8 6 (0.90%) GxP
9 5 (0.75%) IFRS
10 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.60%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.45%) GRC
11 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.30%) EMIR
12 2 (0.30%) GAAP
12 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.30%) MiFID
12 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 24 (3.60%) Docker
2 10 (1.50%) Firmware
3 6 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.75%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
5 1 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 29 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.35%) Terraform
3 6 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 6 (0.90%) Ansible
3 6 (0.90%) SCCM
4 4 (0.60%) Puppet
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.30%) Consul
6 2 (0.30%) Grafana
6 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.15%) TADDM
7 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (19.94%) Microsoft
2 75 (11.24%) Oracle
3 55 (8.25%) SAP
4 36 (5.40%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.95%) Databricks
5 33 (4.95%) ServiceNow
6 25 (3.75%) Informatica
7 20 (3.00%) Google
8 11 (1.65%) Workday
9 10 (1.50%) Alteryx
9 10 (1.50%) Talend
10 9 (1.35%) Bloomberg
11 8 (1.20%) EMC
11 8 (1.20%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.05%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.90%) VMware
14 5 (0.75%) Atlassian
14 5 (0.75%) Lotus
15 4 (0.60%) Autodesk
15 4 (0.60%) Murex