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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 121 109
Rank change year-on-year -46 -12 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Management 758 647 704
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.36% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.60% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 363 396
10th Percentile £321 £281 £338
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £688
90th Percentile £744 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% -6.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 33 40
10th Percentile £16.73 £17.00 £19.20
25th Percentile £21.05 £21.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.32 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -13.37% +6.06%
75th Percentile £47.25 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.30 £64.70
UK median hourly rate £34.20 £31.66 £35.00
% change year-on-year +8.02% -9.54% +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 38,735 24,846 28,143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,900 15,805 17,939
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,596 1,469 1,428
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.38 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £65.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.65 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -50 363 £525 -4.55% 736
Midlands -18 112 £550 +22.22% 86
South East -24 98 £475 +37.09% 175
North of England -60 89 £400 -8.57% 144
West Midlands -14 84 £550 +30.95% 61
North West -44 47 £475 - 91
South West -31 41 £536 -6.78% 100
Yorkshire -40 41 £400 - 46
East of England -16 34 £576 -4.00% 85
East Midlands -16 27 £525 +13.51% 25
North East -44 2 £425 -2.86% 8
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 33 (4.35%) Confluence
2 29 (3.83%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 12 (1.58%) SAS
4 10 (1.32%) CMS
5 9 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.06%) ArcGIS
7 7 (0.92%) Apache
7 7 (0.92%) WordPress
8 6 (0.79%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.79%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.53%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.53%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.53%) Mule
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
11 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 62 (8.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.77%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.40%) Revit
7 3 (0.40%) Windchill
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (4.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.98%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.72%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.79%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.66%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.66%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.53%) iTrent
7 4 (0.53%) SAP HR
7 4 (0.53%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.40%) Maximo
8 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.40%) 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
1 152 (20.05%) Azure
2 113 (14.91%) Power Platform
3 62 (8.18%) AWS
4 34 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
5 32 (4.22%) SaaS
6 31 (4.09%) Collibra
7 27 (3.56%) Azure Data Factory
7 27 (3.56%) PowerApps
8 26 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (3.17%) Microsoft Purview
10 23 (3.03%) GCP
11 21 (2.77%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.77%) Snowflake
12 18 (2.37%) GitHub
13 16 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.72%) SuccessFactors
15 12 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
16 11 (1.45%) Entra ID
16 11 (1.45%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.66%) Firewall
1 5 (0.66%) Network Security
2 4 (0.53%) SMS
3 3 (0.40%) Internet
3 3 (0.40%) Intranet
3 3 (0.40%) LAN
3 3 (0.40%) WAN
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%) 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%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) DWDM
5 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (16.89%) Metadata
2 91 (12.01%) Power BI
3 49 (6.46%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.07%) Data Lake
5 36 (4.75%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.43%) Tableau
7 22 (2.90%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (2.24%) GIS
10 14 (1.85%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
12 10 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
12 10 (1.32%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.19%) Big Data
13 9 (1.19%) MySQL
13 9 (1.19%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.06%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.92%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.92%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 55 (7.26%) JIRA
2 18 (2.37%) Git
3 17 (2.24%) Selenium
4 13 (1.72%) ERwin
5 12 (1.58%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.32%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.32%) Postman
7 9 (1.19%) ER Studio
8 8 (1.06%) JMeter
9 6 (0.79%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.79%) GitLab
10 5 (0.66%) Oracle Forms
10 5 (0.66%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.53%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.53%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.40%) Gradle
12 3 (0.40%) JUnit
12 3 (0.40%) MLflow
12 3 (0.40%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 255 (33.64%) Social Skills
2 217 (28.63%) Finance
3 153 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (10.16%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.65%) Banking
6 35 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 34 (4.49%) Influencing Skills
7 34 (4.49%) Manufacturing
8 30 (3.96%) Marketing
9 25 (3.30%) Retail
10 22 (2.90%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.64%) Legal
12 17 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.24%) Local Government
13 13 (1.72%) Billing
13 13 (1.72%) Front Office
13 13 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.58%) Investment Banking
15 10 (1.32%) Military
16 9 (1.19%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 119 (15.70%) Analyst
2 111 (14.64%) Architect
3 84 (11.08%) Lead
4 73 (9.63%) Data Architect
5 72 (9.50%) Senior
6 55 (7.26%) Data Analyst
7 54 (7.12%) Developer
8 46 (6.07%) Consultant
9 44 (5.80%) Business Analyst
10 43 (5.67%) Data Engineer
11 39 (5.15%) Administrator
12 32 (4.22%) Data Manager
13 28 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.77%) Data Consultant
15 17 (2.24%) Project Manager
16 16 (2.11%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.85%) Data Administrator
17 14 (1.85%) Data Business Analyst
17 14 (1.85%) Data Management Specialist
17 14 (1.85%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.09%) REST
2 23 (3.03%) JSON
3 21 (2.77%) Kafka
4 20 (2.64%) Middleware
4 20 (2.64%) Terraform
5 19 (2.51%) XML
6 14 (1.85%) .NET
6 14 (1.85%) PySpark
6 14 (1.85%) RESTful
7 11 (1.45%) HTML
7 11 (1.45%) SOAP
8 8 (1.06%) FIX Protocol
8 8 (1.06%) OAuth
8 8 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (0.92%) Playwright
10 6 (0.79%) .NET Core
11 5 (0.66%) CSS
11 5 (0.66%) JWT
11 5 (0.66%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.44%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.73%) Data Structures
3 44 (5.80%) Onboarding
4 39 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 37 (4.88%) Reference Data
6 31 (4.09%) Product Ownership
7 26 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 17 (2.24%) Legacy Systems
10 13 (1.72%) FMCG
11 12 (1.58%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.58%) Life Science
12 11 (1.45%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
14 9 (1.19%) Data Fabric
14 9 (1.19%) Replication
15 8 (1.06%) CMDB
15 8 (1.06%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.92%) Autonomous Agent
16 7 (0.92%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.58%) Linux
2 10 (1.32%) 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
1 261 (34.43%) Data Governance
2 194 (25.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 170 (22.43%) Migration
4 165 (21.77%) Agile
5 163 (21.50%) Analytics
5 163 (21.50%) Data Modelling
6 161 (21.24%) Problem-Solving
7 142 (18.73%) Validation
8 129 (17.02%) AI
9 116 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
10 113 (14.91%) Decision-Making
11 109 (14.38%) Data Architecture
12 108 (14.25%) Business Intelligence
13 104 (13.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (12.66%) ETL
15 94 (12.40%) Roadmaps
16 89 (11.74%) DevOps
17 85 (11.21%) Data Migration
18 82 (10.82%) Metadata Management
19 73 (9.63%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 164 (21.64%) SQL
2 76 (10.03%) Python
3 42 (5.54%) Java
4 27 (3.56%) C#
5 17 (2.24%) C
6 16 (2.11%) JavaScript
7 14 (1.85%) X++
8 8 (1.06%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.79%) Bicep
9 6 (0.79%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.79%) VBA
10 5 (0.66%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.53%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.53%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.53%) R
12 2 (0.26%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 141 (18.60%) Security Cleared
2 108 (14.25%) SC Cleared
3 64 (8.44%) Degree
4 27 (3.56%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 17 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (0.92%) OCP
7 7 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (0.79%) ISTQB
8 6 (0.79%) TOGAF Certification
9 5 (0.66%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.53%) Master's Degree
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.40%) ISEB
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.26%) CBAP
12 2 (0.26%) IIBA
12 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.26%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 270 (35.62%) Data Quality
2 74 (9.76%) GDPR
3 54 (7.12%) QA
4 22 (2.90%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.85%) PMO
6 8 (1.06%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (0.79%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.66%) NCSC
9 4 (0.53%) BS7666
10 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.40%) COREP
10 3 (0.40%) FINREP
10 3 (0.40%) PERC
10 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) GRC
11 2 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.58%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.45%) Docker
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.40%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.40%) 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%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.26%) MOM
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 125 (16.49%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.50%) SAP
3 70 (9.23%) Databricks
4 61 (8.05%) Oracle
5 46 (6.07%) Salesforce
6 31 (4.09%) Informatica
7 19 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.72%) Google
9 11 (1.45%) Workday
10 10 (1.32%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.32%) IBM
11 9 (1.19%) ESRI
12 8 (1.06%) Charles River
12 8 (1.06%) Concur
12 8 (1.06%) Talend
13 7 (0.92%) Denodo
13 7 (0.92%) Foundry
13 7 (0.92%) MuleSoft
13 7 (0.92%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.79%) Sparx