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

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 130 99
Rank change year-on-year -40 -31 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Management 808 643 768
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.28% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.51% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 459 370 433
10th Percentile £300 £312 £316
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £498 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -5.24% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 38 37
10th Percentile £16.20 £13.59 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.00 £27.84
Median hourly rate £27.00 £25.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -26.43% +6.06%
75th Percentile £41.00 £59.94 £60.00
90th Percentile £53.90 £81.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £28.23 £25.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year +9.61% -26.43% +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 39,799 25,590 27,763
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.96% 90.90% 86.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,011 16,250 16,937
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,071 1,598 1,107
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.53 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £20.50
Median hourly rate £38.72 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +53.96% -40.82% -5.56%
75th Percentile £67.25 £44.78 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £74.18
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -10.11%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -42 383 £533 +0.47% 59
South East -23 114 £500 +17.65% 49
Midlands -16 110 £513 +13.89% 27
North of England -66 98 £400 -9.86% 45
West Midlands -15 80 £531 +15.24% 18
North West -40 55 £375 -17.58% 24
South West -22 48 £525 +15.07% 20
Yorkshire -44 40 £400 -5.33% 18
East Midlands -3 30 £500 +11.11% 9
East of England -22 28 £576 -4.00% 11
North East -38 3 £425 -2.86% 3
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 (3.71%) Confluence
2 27 (3.34%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.61%) SAS
4 12 (1.49%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.49%) CMS
5 9 (1.11%) WordPress
6 8 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.87%) Apache
8 6 (0.74%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.50%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.50%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.50%) Mule
11 2 (0.25%) ArcGIS
12 1 (0.12%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.12%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.12%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.12%) nginx
12 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.12%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 74 (9.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.74%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.62%) Revit
7 3 (0.37%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.37%) Windchill
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.25%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.12%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.12%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.61%) Aladdin
3 9 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.99%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
5 7 (0.87%) Teamcenter
6 5 (0.62%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.62%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.62%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.37%) iTrent
7 3 (0.37%) Maximo
7 3 (0.37%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.25%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.25%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.12%) Endur
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.12%) Primavera
9 1 (0.12%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 156 (19.31%) Azure
2 104 (12.87%) Power Platform
3 57 (7.05%) AWS
4 35 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
4 35 (4.33%) Collibra
5 34 (4.21%) Microsoft Purview
6 28 (3.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.34%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (2.97%) SaaS
9 23 (2.85%) PowerApps
9 23 (2.85%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.72%) GCP
10 22 (2.72%) GitHub
10 22 (2.72%) Power Automate
11 20 (2.48%) Alation
12 18 (2.23%) Microsoft 365
13 17 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 16 (1.98%) SuccessFactors
15 15 (1.86%) Microsoft Copilot
16 14 (1.73%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 7 (0.87%) Firewall
2 5 (0.62%) Network Security
3 4 (0.50%) Broadband
3 4 (0.50%) SMS
4 3 (0.37%) FTP
4 3 (0.37%) Internet
5 2 (0.25%) HTTP
5 2 (0.25%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.25%) VPN
6 1 (0.12%) DNS
6 1 (0.12%) LAN
6 1 (0.12%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.12%) SAN
6 1 (0.12%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.12%) WAN
6 1 (0.12%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (17.70%) Metadata
2 85 (10.52%) Power BI
3 54 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
4 45 (5.57%) Data Lake
4 45 (5.57%) SQL Server
5 24 (2.97%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.85%) Tableau
7 18 (2.23%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.73%) Oracle Database
8 14 (1.73%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.61%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.36%) GIS
12 10 (1.24%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.11%) Ataccama
13 9 (1.11%) Big Data
13 9 (1.11%) MySQL
14 8 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (0.99%) MS Access
15 7 (0.87%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 50 (6.19%) JIRA
2 20 (2.48%) Git
3 16 (1.98%) Selenium
4 12 (1.49%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.36%) ERwin
5 11 (1.36%) Postman
6 10 (1.24%) Jenkins
7 8 (0.99%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.87%) GitLab
9 6 (0.74%) JMeter
10 5 (0.62%) JUnit
10 5 (0.62%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.50%) Gradle
11 4 (0.50%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.50%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.37%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.37%) MLflow
12 3 (0.37%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.37%) Zephyr
General
1 307 (38.00%) Social Skills
2 228 (28.22%) Finance
3 174 (21.53%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (9.90%) Public Sector
5 66 (8.17%) Banking
6 60 (7.43%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (4.83%) Manufacturing
7 39 (4.83%) Marketing
8 38 (4.70%) Aerospace
8 38 (4.70%) Influencing Skills
9 33 (4.08%) Retail
10 22 (2.72%) Legal
10 22 (2.72%) Local Government
11 19 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.98%) Front Office
13 15 (1.86%) Military
14 14 (1.73%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.49%) Billing
16 11 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.24%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 115 (14.23%) Analyst
2 103 (12.75%) Architect
3 86 (10.64%) Lead
4 77 (9.53%) Administrator
5 69 (8.54%) Data Architect
6 66 (8.17%) Developer
6 66 (8.17%) Senior
7 52 (6.44%) Data Analyst
8 50 (6.19%) Business Analyst
8 50 (6.19%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.32%) Consultant
10 29 (3.59%) Data Manager
11 24 (2.97%) Data Consultant
12 23 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
14 18 (2.23%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.73%) Data Administrator
15 14 (1.73%) Data Management Specialist
16 13 (1.61%) Data Migration Lead
16 13 (1.61%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.95%) REST
2 27 (3.34%) Terraform
2 27 (3.34%) XML
3 25 (3.09%) JSON
3 25 (3.09%) Middleware
4 24 (2.97%) .NET
5 23 (2.85%) Kafka
6 18 (2.23%) RESTful
7 15 (1.86%) HTML
8 13 (1.61%) Oracle Fusion
8 13 (1.61%) SOAP
9 12 (1.49%) PySpark
10 11 (1.36%) OAuth
11 10 (1.24%) LDAP
12 9 (1.11%) .NET Core
12 9 (1.11%) OpenTofu
12 9 (1.11%) Spring
12 9 (1.11%) Web Services
13 8 (0.99%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (0.99%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 94 (11.63%) Management Information System
2 55 (6.81%) Data Structures
3 47 (5.82%) Onboarding
4 34 (4.21%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.21%) Reference Data
5 32 (3.96%) Enterprise Software
5 32 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 21 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (2.23%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.61%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.49%) Social Media
10 10 (1.24%) CMDB
10 10 (1.24%) Data Fabric
10 10 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
10 10 (1.24%) Fixed Income
10 10 (1.24%) Life Science
10 10 (1.24%) Taxonomies
11 9 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (0.87%) Autonomous Agent
12 7 (0.87%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 18 (2.23%) Linux
2 9 (1.11%) Windows
3 2 (0.25%) Android
3 2 (0.25%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.25%) Unix
3 2 (0.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (32.67%) Data Governance
2 226 (27.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 192 (23.76%) Agile
4 176 (21.78%) Problem-Solving
5 161 (19.93%) Analytics
5 161 (19.93%) Data Modelling
6 152 (18.81%) Migration
7 145 (17.95%) Validation
8 138 (17.08%) AI
9 136 (16.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (13.86%) Data Architecture
10 112 (13.86%) Decision-Making
10 112 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 102 (12.62%) Roadmaps
12 98 (12.13%) Business Intelligence
13 93 (11.51%) DevOps
14 90 (11.14%) ETL
15 86 (10.64%) Data Migration
16 85 (10.52%) Metadata Management
17 81 (10.02%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 174 (21.53%) SQL
2 87 (10.77%) Python
3 45 (5.57%) Java
4 37 (4.58%) C#
5 21 (2.60%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.10%) C
7 12 (1.49%) X++
8 10 (1.24%) R
9 9 (1.11%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.11%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.99%) VBA
11 7 (0.87%) Bicep
12 6 (0.74%) PowerShell
12 6 (0.74%) T-SQL
13 4 (0.50%) Apex Code
13 4 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.25%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.25%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 1 (0.12%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 163 (20.17%) Security Cleared
2 128 (15.84%) SC Cleared
3 80 (9.90%) Degree
4 30 (3.71%) BPSS Clearance
5 29 (3.59%) DV Cleared
6 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 12 (1.49%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 10 (1.24%) PMI Certification
10 9 (1.11%) PMP
11 7 (0.87%) OCP
11 7 (0.87%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.74%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.74%) CIPD
12 6 (0.74%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.62%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.37%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.37%) ISEB
14 3 (0.37%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.25%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (35.64%) Data Quality
2 84 (10.40%) GDPR
3 53 (6.56%) QA
4 25 (3.09%) Accessibility
5 17 (2.10%) PMO
6 6 (0.74%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.74%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.62%) NCSC
8 4 (0.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.37%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.37%) WCAG
10 2 (0.25%) IFRS
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 19650
10 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.25%) NIST
10 2 (0.25%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (2.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.49%) Docker
3 4 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.12%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (1.36%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.37%) Ansible
4 3 (0.37%) Grafana
4 3 (0.37%) MOM
5 2 (0.25%) CASB
6 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.12%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.12%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.12%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.12%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.12%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 167 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 72 (8.91%) Databricks
2 72 (8.91%) SAP
3 70 (8.66%) Oracle
4 49 (6.06%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.08%) Google
5 33 (4.08%) Informatica
6 20 (2.48%) ServiceNow
7 15 (1.86%) Workday
8 13 (1.61%) IBM
9 10 (1.24%) Bloomberg
10 8 (0.99%) Charles River
10 8 (0.99%) Concur
10 8 (0.99%) Foundry
11 7 (0.87%) Denodo
11 7 (0.87%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.87%) Talend
11 7 (0.87%) UiPath
12 6 (0.74%) Palantir
12 6 (0.74%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud