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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 124 106
Rank change year-on-year -45 -18 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Management 774 638 724
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.33% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.57% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 356 403
10th Percentile £313 £286 £332
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £682
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 36
10th Percentile £16.40 £15.21 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.69 £26.04
Median hourly rate £30.90 £31.66 £39.84
Median % change year-on-year -2.40% -20.53% +20.73%
75th Percentile £43.84 £73.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £81.00 £66.50
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.91% -5.71% +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 39,157 24,863 28,050
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.69% 90.87% 86.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,010 15,784 17,561
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £648
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,714 1,478 1,320
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.29 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £48.74 £66.53
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 -45 371 £525 -4.55% 1,022
Midlands -13 108 £550 +22.22% 122
South East -22 101 £498 +17.06% 228
North of England -62 95 £400 -8.57% 218
West Midlands -15 82 £550 +20.88% 90
North West -40 52 £443 -4.73% 131
South West -41 44 £535 +2.88% 120
Yorkshire -30 42 £400 - 66
East of England -23 32 £576 -4.00% 113
East Midlands -7 25 £525 +16.67% 32
North East -40 2 £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 (3.88%) Confluence
2 26 (3.36%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.81%) SAS
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.29%) CMS
6 9 (1.16%) WordPress
7 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.78%) Apache
8 6 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) Mule
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
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%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 65 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 4 (0.52%) Windchill
7 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.39%) Revit
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.81%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.68%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.78%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.65%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.52%) iTrent
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.39%) Maximo
8 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) Primavera
9 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 148 (19.12%) Azure
2 110 (14.21%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.62%) AWS
4 35 (4.52%) Collibra
5 33 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.01%) SaaS
7 27 (3.49%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (3.10%) PowerApps
11 22 (2.84%) GCP
12 21 (2.71%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.58%) Snowflake
14 18 (2.33%) GitHub
15 15 (1.94%) Alation
15 15 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
19 11 (1.42%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) LAN
3 3 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
4 2 (0.26%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.26%) FTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) Internet
4 2 (0.26%) PSTN
4 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 3G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (17.57%) Metadata
2 90 (11.63%) Power BI
3 51 (6.59%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.20%) Data Lake
5 37 (4.78%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.23%) Tableau
7 24 (3.10%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.94%) GIS
10 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.16%) MySQL
13 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.03%) Ataccama
14 8 (1.03%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
15 7 (0.90%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 51 (6.59%) JIRA
2 17 (2.20%) Git
3 16 (2.07%) Selenium
4 12 (1.55%) ERwin
4 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.29%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.16%) Postman
7 8 (1.03%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.90%) JMeter
9 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.78%) GitLab
10 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.52%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.39%) Gradle
12 3 (0.39%) JUnit
12 3 (0.39%) Maven
12 3 (0.39%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 265 (34.24%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.17%) Finance
3 156 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 84 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.49%) Banking
6 42 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 41 (5.30%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.39%) Marketing
10 29 (3.75%) Retail
11 26 (3.36%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.71%) Legal
13 20 (2.58%) Local Government
14 18 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.81%) Front Office
16 13 (1.68%) Billing
16 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.68%) Military
17 11 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 118 (15.25%) Analyst
2 109 (14.08%) Architect
3 87 (11.24%) Lead
4 74 (9.56%) Data Architect
5 72 (9.30%) Senior
6 57 (7.36%) Developer
7 53 (6.85%) Data Analyst
8 46 (5.94%) Consultant
9 45 (5.81%) Administrator
9 45 (5.81%) Data Engineer
10 44 (5.68%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.62%) Data Manager
12 27 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.84%) Data Consultant
14 16 (2.07%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.07%) Senior Developer
15 14 (1.81%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (1.81%) Data Management Specialist
16 13 (1.68%) Data Administrator
16 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.13%) REST
2 22 (2.84%) JSON
2 22 (2.84%) Middleware
3 21 (2.71%) Terraform
3 21 (2.71%) XML
4 20 (2.58%) Kafka
5 15 (1.94%) .NET
6 14 (1.81%) RESTful
7 12 (1.55%) PySpark
8 11 (1.42%) HTML
8 11 (1.42%) SOAP
9 10 (1.29%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.03%) OAuth
11 6 (0.78%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.78%) LDAP
11 6 (0.78%) OpenTofu
11 6 (0.78%) Playwright
11 6 (0.78%) Web Services
12 5 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 71 (9.17%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.59%) Data Structures
3 50 (6.46%) Onboarding
4 38 (4.91%) Cloud Native
5 35 (4.52%) Reference Data
6 34 (4.39%) Product Ownership
7 28 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 13 (1.68%) Legacy Systems
9 13 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.55%) FMCG
10 12 (1.55%) Life Science
11 11 (1.42%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.29%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.16%) Autonomous Agent
13 9 (1.16%) CMDB
13 9 (1.16%) Social Media
13 9 (1.16%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.90%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.81%) Linux
2 10 (1.29%) 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 10
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (33.59%) Data Governance
2 209 (27.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 175 (22.61%) Agile
4 169 (21.83%) Migration
5 167 (21.58%) Problem-Solving
6 166 (21.45%) Analytics
7 159 (20.54%) Data Modelling
8 142 (18.35%) Validation
9 137 (17.70%) AI
10 120 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 118 (15.25%) Decision-Making
12 112 (14.47%) Data Architecture
13 107 (13.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 105 (13.57%) Business Intelligence
15 97 (12.53%) Roadmaps
16 94 (12.14%) ETL
17 88 (11.37%) DevOps
18 86 (11.11%) Data Migration
19 85 (10.98%) Metadata Management
20 74 (9.56%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 168 (21.71%) SQL
2 77 (9.95%) Python
3 42 (5.43%) Java
4 29 (3.75%) C#
5 19 (2.45%) C
6 17 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.68%) X++
8 8 (1.03%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.90%) VBA
10 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.65%) Bicep
12 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.52%) R
13 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.13%) C++
15 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 146 (18.86%) Security Cleared
2 113 (14.60%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.53%) Degree
4 27 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.90%) OCP
8 7 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (0.90%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.78%) PMP
9 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.52%) CIPD
10 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.39%) ISEB
11 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 280 (36.18%) Data Quality
2 77 (9.95%) GDPR
3 54 (6.98%) QA
4 23 (2.97%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.81%) PMO
6 8 (1.03%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.39%) BS7666
9 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.39%) PERC
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.26%) COBIT
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) MiFID
10 2 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 14 (1.81%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.29%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.39%) MOM
3 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 133 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.04%) SAP
3 67 (8.66%) Databricks
4 64 (8.27%) Oracle
5 45 (5.81%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.39%) Informatica
7 20 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.45%) Google
9 13 (1.68%) Workday
10 10 (1.29%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.16%) Denodo
11 9 (1.16%) IBM
12 8 (1.03%) Charles River
12 8 (1.03%) Concur
12 8 (1.03%) ESRI
12 8 (1.03%) Foundry
12 8 (1.03%) Talend
13 7 (0.90%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.78%) Palantir