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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 119 115
Rank change year-on-year -44 -4 +43
Contract jobs citing Data Management 739 653 668
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.35% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.58% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 377 404
10th Percentile £341 £296 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -7.27% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £505 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.93% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 33 48
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.38 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.03 £23.45 £26.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% -31.54% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £61.28
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.90 £45.00
% change year-on-year +17.55% -29.11% +28.57%

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 38,771 25,264 28,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.11% 90.78% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,101 16,147 18,629
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,535 1,418 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.19%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.05 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -3.67%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -51 355 £525 -4.55% 613
Midlands -16 109 £525 +16.67% 81
South East -31 101 £450 +22.45% 142
West Midlands -15 82 £513 +21.30% 51
North of England -75 77 £450 - 127
South West -29 44 £525 -8.70% 72
North West -50 41 £538 +7.50% 74
Yorkshire -51 35 £400 -2.44% 39
East of England -26 29 £613 +100.49% 59
East Midlands -4 26 £525 +13.51% 30
North East -42 2 £425 -10.53% 14
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 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.79%) Confluence
3 13 (1.76%) CMS
4 11 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.49%) SAS
5 8 (1.08%) ArcGIS
5 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.95%) WordPress
7 6 (0.81%) Apache
8 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.54%) Mule
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 63 (8.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.76%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.41%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.41%) Revit
7 3 (0.41%) Windchill
8 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 33 (4.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.89%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.76%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.81%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.54%) iTrent
8 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.41%) Maximo
9 3 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.27%) Primavera
10 2 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 134 (18.13%) Azure
2 110 (14.88%) Power Platform
3 53 (7.17%) AWS
4 30 (4.06%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (4.06%) SaaS
5 27 (3.65%) Collibra
5 27 (3.65%) PowerApps
6 25 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (2.71%) Power Automate
9 19 (2.57%) GCP
9 19 (2.57%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
11 13 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (1.49%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.35%) GitHub
14 10 (1.35%) PaaS
14 10 (1.35%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
1 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Intranet
2 3 (0.41%) LAN
2 3 (0.41%) SMS
2 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) 2G
4 1 (0.14%) 3G
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.14%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (13.94%) Metadata
2 85 (11.50%) Power BI
3 46 (6.22%) Data Lake
3 46 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.33%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.11%) Tableau
6 21 (2.84%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.44%) GIS
8 14 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.35%) Data Mining
11 10 (1.35%) MySQL
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.08%) Big Data
13 8 (1.08%) Spatial Data
14 7 (0.95%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 49 (6.63%) JIRA
2 17 (2.30%) Git
3 14 (1.89%) Selenium
4 13 (1.76%) ERwin
5 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 8 (1.08%) ER Studio
6 8 (1.08%) Jenkins
7 7 (0.95%) Postman
8 6 (0.81%) GitLab
8 6 (0.81%) JMeter
9 5 (0.68%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.54%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) Gradle
11 3 (0.41%) Maven
11 3 (0.41%) MLflow
11 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
11 3 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.27%) SoapUI
General
1 244 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 204 (27.60%) Finance
3 154 (20.84%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.04%) Banking
6 36 (4.87%) Marketing
7 34 (4.60%) Manufacturing
7 34 (4.60%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.25%) Retail
10 19 (2.57%) Aerospace
11 18 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (2.44%) Legal
12 14 (1.89%) Pharmaceutical
13 13 (1.76%) Local Government
14 12 (1.62%) Front Office
15 11 (1.49%) Billing
15 11 (1.49%) Financial Institution
16 9 (1.22%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.22%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (15.83%) Analyst
2 103 (13.94%) Architect
3 83 (11.23%) Lead
4 66 (8.93%) Senior
5 65 (8.80%) Data Architect
6 60 (8.12%) Data Analyst
7 50 (6.77%) Developer
8 47 (6.36%) Consultant
9 46 (6.22%) Data Engineer
10 42 (5.68%) Business Analyst
11 40 (5.41%) Administrator
12 32 (4.33%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.30%) Data Consultant
14 17 (2.30%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.17%) Data Administrator
15 16 (2.17%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (2.03%) Data Management Specialist
16 15 (2.03%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.65%) REST
2 19 (2.57%) JSON
3 17 (2.30%) Middleware
3 17 (2.30%) XML
4 14 (1.89%) Kafka
4 14 (1.89%) RESTful
5 12 (1.62%) .NET
6 10 (1.35%) PySpark
7 9 (1.22%) SOAP
8 8 (1.08%) OAuth
8 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
9 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (0.68%) HTML
10 5 (0.68%) JWT
10 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
11 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.54%) JDO
11 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.82%) Data Structures
3 36 (4.87%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 29 (3.92%) Reference Data
6 27 (3.65%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 19 (2.57%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.89%) FMCG
11 14 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (1.76%) Life Science
13 10 (1.35%) Fixed Income
14 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
15 7 (0.95%) Autonomous Agent
15 7 (0.95%) CMDB
15 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
15 7 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (31.39%) Data Governance
2 174 (23.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (23.41%) Migration
4 155 (20.97%) Agile
5 150 (20.30%) Problem-Solving
6 148 (20.03%) Analytics
6 148 (20.03%) Data Modelling
7 136 (18.40%) Validation
8 119 (16.10%) AI
9 105 (14.21%) Business Intelligence
10 102 (13.80%) Continuous Improvement
11 100 (13.53%) Data Architecture
12 97 (13.13%) Decision-Making
13 94 (12.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 90 (12.18%) Data Migration
15 89 (12.04%) ETL
16 82 (11.10%) Roadmaps
17 78 (10.55%) DevOps
18 74 (10.01%) Data Analysis
19 65 (8.80%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 151 (20.43%) SQL
2 69 (9.34%) Python
3 37 (5.01%) Java
4 23 (3.11%) C#
5 17 (2.30%) C
6 14 (1.89%) X++
7 12 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.08%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.95%) VBA
10 6 (0.81%) Bicep
10 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 5 (0.68%) PowerShell
12 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
13 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.27%) R
14 2 (0.27%) Scala
15 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 122 (16.51%) Security Cleared
2 89 (12.04%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.12%) Degree
4 25 (3.38%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.08%) OCP
8 8 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.68%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) PMP
13 1 (0.14%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.14%) NVQ Level 3
13 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (34.10%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.34%) GDPR
3 56 (7.58%) QA
4 17 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.62%) PMO
6 7 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.81%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
9 4 (0.54%) COREP
9 4 (0.54%) FINREP
9 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.41%) PERC
10 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.08%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.30%) Terraform
2 9 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.14%) CASB
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (16.37%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.88%) SAP
3 60 (8.12%) Databricks
3 60 (8.12%) Oracle
4 51 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 22 (2.98%) Informatica
6 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
7 12 (1.62%) Bloomberg
8 10 (1.35%) ESRI
8 10 (1.35%) Workday
9 9 (1.22%) Charles River
9 9 (1.22%) Google
10 8 (1.08%) Concur
10 8 (1.08%) Foundry
10 8 (1.08%) Palantir
10 8 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Adobe
11 7 (0.95%) Denodo
11 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.95%) Sitecore