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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 91 111
Rank change year-on-year -74 +20 +63
Contract jobs citing Data Management 688 668 743
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.74% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 3.00% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 419 448
10th Percentile £345 £324 £343
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £725 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 59
10th Percentile £14.06 £22.10 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -24.20% +10.34%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £57.88 £77.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £31.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.71% -20.24% +10.34%

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 36,103 22,244 31,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.13% 91.27% 85.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,869 14,374 20,646
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,268 1,001 2,353
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.79 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.25 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +65.79% -24.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £73.75 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.85% -24.66% +1.67%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -48 348 £500 -20.00% 96
South East -10 100 £450 -10.00% 65
Midlands -38 83 £513 -4.65% 42
West Midlands -32 65 £513 - 24
North of England -102 57 £450 -10.00% 50
South West -1 53 £510 -1.92% 41
North West -64 32 £500 -2.91% 25
East of England -50 26 £505 +1.00% 20
Yorkshire -63 23 £400 -15.79% 24
East Midlands -29 17 £525 -8.70% 19
North East - 3 £425 - 1
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 43 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.92%) Confluence
3 12 (1.74%) CMS
3 12 (1.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.31%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.16%) HCL Notes
6 8 (1.16%) Mendix
6 8 (1.16%) SAS
7 7 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.87%) WordPress
9 5 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.58%) Apache
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 61 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.89%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.45%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.44%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.44%) Revit
7 3 (0.44%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.49%) Teamcenter
2 22 (3.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.87%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.44%) Maximo
7 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.29%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.15%) IntelliMatch
9 1 (0.15%) Markit EDM
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 121 (17.59%) Azure
2 110 (15.99%) Power Platform
3 53 (7.70%) AWS
4 34 (4.94%) PowerApps
5 31 (4.51%) SaaS
6 28 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.63%) GCP
9 24 (3.49%) Collibra
10 23 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 22 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (2.76%) Power Automate
13 18 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 18 (2.62%) Serverless
14 16 (2.33%) Snowflake
15 15 (2.18%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (1.74%) Azure Functions
16 12 (1.74%) Entra ID
16 12 (1.74%) OneDrive
17 10 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (1.74%) LAN
2 10 (1.45%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.45%) WAN
2 10 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.02%) PSTN
4 5 (0.73%) SMS
5 3 (0.44%) Intranet
5 3 (0.44%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
7 1 (0.15%) 3G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) DWDM
7 1 (0.15%) Firewall
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) SS7
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.65%) Power BI
2 83 (12.06%) Metadata
3 54 (7.85%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (5.96%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.23%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.34%) Tableau
7 20 (2.91%) GIS
8 16 (2.33%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.89%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.60%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.31%) Data Mining
13 9 (1.31%) Metadata Repository
13 9 (1.31%) MySQL
13 9 (1.31%) Spatial Data
14 8 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (6.40%) JIRA
2 17 (2.47%) Git
3 11 (1.60%) ERwin
4 9 (1.31%) GitLab
4 9 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.31%) Selenium
5 6 (0.87%) Postman
5 6 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.73%) JUnit
7 4 (0.58%) JMeter
7 4 (0.58%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.44%) Toad
8 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.29%) MLflow
9 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) Appium
10 1 (0.15%) Gatling
General
1 227 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 190 (27.62%) Finance
3 137 (19.91%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.72%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.40%) Banking
6 32 (4.65%) Marketing
7 29 (4.22%) Manufacturing
8 27 (3.92%) Aerospace
9 25 (3.63%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.49%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (3.05%) Financial Institution
12 15 (2.18%) Local Government
13 14 (2.03%) Legal
14 13 (1.89%) Retail
15 11 (1.60%) Documentation Skills
16 10 (1.45%) Aviation
17 8 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
17 8 (1.16%) Telecoms
18 7 (1.02%) Front Office
18 7 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 122 (17.73%) Analyst
2 95 (13.81%) Architect
3 74 (10.76%) Lead
4 71 (10.32%) Senior
5 65 (9.45%) Data Architect
6 59 (8.58%) Data Analyst
7 49 (7.12%) Business Analyst
8 42 (6.10%) Developer
9 38 (5.52%) Consultant
9 38 (5.52%) Data Engineer
10 35 (5.09%) Administrator
11 32 (4.65%) Data Manager
12 20 (2.91%) Data Management Specialist
13 17 (2.47%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.47%) Senior Analyst
13 17 (2.47%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.18%) Data Administrator
14 15 (2.18%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (2.03%) Configuration Specialist
15 14 (2.03%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.47%) REST
2 16 (2.33%) JSON
3 14 (2.03%) XML
4 12 (1.74%) .NET
5 10 (1.45%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (1.31%) Middleware
7 8 (1.16%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (1.16%) Kafka
7 8 (1.16%) React
7 8 (1.16%) RESTful
8 7 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
8 7 (1.02%) PySpark
9 6 (0.87%) Web Services
9 6 (0.87%) YAML
10 5 (0.73%) HTML
10 5 (0.73%) JDO
11 4 (0.58%) CSS
11 4 (0.58%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.58%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.74%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.38%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.63%) Cloud Native
4 24 (3.49%) Data Structures
5 23 (3.34%) Reference Data
6 22 (3.20%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.47%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.60%) FMCG
11 10 (1.45%) Life Science
12 8 (1.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.16%) IoT
12 8 (1.16%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.02%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.87%) Replication
14 6 (0.87%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.74%) Windows
2 2 (0.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 189 (27.47%) Data Governance
2 172 (25.00%) Migration
3 157 (22.82%) Agile
4 148 (21.51%) Stakeholder Management
5 147 (21.37%) Data Modelling
6 144 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
7 124 (18.02%) Analytics
8 99 (14.39%) Business Intelligence
9 96 (13.95%) Validation
10 95 (13.81%) AI
11 92 (13.37%) Decision-Making
12 89 (12.94%) ETL
13 82 (11.92%) Continuous Improvement
13 82 (11.92%) Data Architecture
14 81 (11.77%) Data Migration
15 79 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 73 (10.61%) DevOps
17 72 (10.47%) Data Analysis
18 63 (9.16%) Roadmaps
19 56 (8.14%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 141 (20.49%) SQL
2 76 (11.05%) Python
3 22 (3.20%) Java
4 20 (2.91%) C#
5 16 (2.33%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.33%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.45%) C
6 10 (1.45%) T-SQL
7 8 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 8 (1.16%) Formula Language
7 8 (1.16%) LotusScript
7 8 (1.16%) X++
8 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.87%) Bicep
10 5 (0.73%) VBA
11 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.44%) Scala
11 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) R
Qualifications
1 120 (17.44%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.06%) Degree
4 22 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.89%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.60%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.16%) CBAP
8 8 (1.16%) IIBA
9 6 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.58%) OCP
11 4 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.58%) PMP
11 4 (0.58%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.15%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (28.49%) Data Quality
2 65 (9.45%) GDPR
3 56 (8.14%) QA
4 16 (2.33%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.16%) PMO
6 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.73%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.58%) BS7666
7 4 (0.58%) COREP
7 4 (0.58%) FINREP
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) DICOM
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (0.73%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.60%) Kubernetes
1 11 (1.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.31%) Terraform
3 7 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.58%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.29%) Ansible
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (16.72%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.58%) Oracle
3 54 (7.85%) SAP
4 50 (7.27%) Databricks
5 44 (6.40%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.76%) Informatica
7 15 (2.18%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.74%) Google
9 10 (1.45%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.45%) ESRI
10 8 (1.16%) Kofax
10 8 (1.16%) Lotus
11 7 (1.02%) Foundry
11 7 (1.02%) Palantir
11 7 (1.02%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (1.02%) Siemens
12 6 (0.87%) Adobe
12 6 (0.87%) Autodesk
12 6 (0.87%) Sitecore
13 5 (0.73%) GoldenSource