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

6 months to
11 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 88 109
Rank change year-on-year -65 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Management 665 709 798
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.83% 2.87% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.12% 3.17% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 490 523
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £659
90th Percentile £702 £875 £773
UK median daily rate £495 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.91% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 26 57
10th Percentile £13.13 £20.36 £15.52
25th Percentile £16.38 £25.43 £19.57
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.51 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -23.73% -36.51%
75th Percentile £47.38 £53.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £53.00 £88.13 £58.10
UK median hourly rate £29.52 £31.65 £42.50
% change year-on-year -6.74% -25.52% -32.27%

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 31,421 22,365 33,112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.61% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,102 14,445 21,880
10th Percentile £313 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,952 795 2,164
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £13.02
25th Percentile £18.80 £21.01 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -9.72%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £58.53
90th Percentile £74.26 £76.81 £71.83
UK median hourly rate £29.61 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -8.89% - -7.14%

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 11 March 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 11 March 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 11 March 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 -47 342 £500 -16.67% 98
Midlands -17 92 £481 +6.94% 56
West Midlands -9 78 £492 -8.47% 33
South East -54 71 £488 -7.14% 100
North of England -75 64 £450 -11.33% 68
South West +19 60 £500 +11.11% 40
Yorkshire -54 33 £404 -21.95% 26
North West -60 28 £500 -1.48% 37
East of England -43 27 £505 +7.68% 45
East Midlands -32 14 £425 +2.54% 23
North East -13 3 £540 +8.00% 5
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 38 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 25 (3.76%) Confluence
3 22 (3.31%) SAS
4 11 (1.65%) HCL Notes
5 10 (1.50%) Mendix
5 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.20%) Apache
6 8 (1.20%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.60%) CMS
9 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.45%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 36 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.41%) MS Visio
5 15 (2.26%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.80%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.45%) Windchill
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.15%) CATIA
9 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) Revit
9 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 21 (3.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (2.11%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.75%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.45%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
Cloud Services
1 119 (17.89%) Azure
2 99 (14.89%) Power Platform
3 65 (9.77%) AWS
4 36 (5.41%) GCP
5 30 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.36%) Collibra
7 23 (3.46%) PowerApps
8 22 (3.31%) OpenShift
8 22 (3.31%) Serverless
9 21 (3.16%) SaaS
10 16 (2.41%) Power Automate
11 15 (2.26%) Azure Functions
11 15 (2.26%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 14 (2.11%) Azure Service Bus
12 14 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (1.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.65%) LAN
2 9 (1.35%) WAN
3 8 (1.20%) Unified Communications
3 8 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.75%) PSTN
5 2 (0.30%) Firewall
5 2 (0.30%) HTTP
5 2 (0.30%) Intranet
5 2 (0.30%) NAS
5 2 (0.30%) SMS
6 1 (0.15%) 2G
6 1 (0.15%) 4G
6 1 (0.15%) 5G
6 1 (0.15%) DWDM
6 1 (0.15%) Internet
6 1 (0.15%) MPLS
6 1 (0.15%) MQTT
6 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
6 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.15%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.38%) Power BI
2 60 (9.02%) Metadata
3 53 (7.97%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.96%) SQL Server
5 29 (4.36%) Data Lake
6 26 (3.91%) Tableau
7 21 (3.16%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.26%) MySQL
8 15 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.26%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.65%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.65%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.35%) Big Data
12 8 (1.20%) GIS
12 8 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (1.05%) BigQuery
13 7 (1.05%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 6 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 52 (7.82%) JIRA
2 42 (6.32%) GitLab
3 39 (5.86%) Git
4 27 (4.06%) Jenkins
5 19 (2.86%) Selenium
6 17 (2.56%) JUnit
7 11 (1.65%) ERwin
8 4 (0.60%) Appium
9 3 (0.45%) JMeter
9 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.45%) Toad
10 2 (0.30%) Postman
10 2 (0.30%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.15%) Gemini Tracker
11 1 (0.15%) Katalon Studio
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
11 1 (0.15%) Zephyr
General
1 257 (38.65%) Social Skills
2 212 (31.88%) Finance
3 154 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.72%) Banking
5 52 (7.82%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.32%) Marketing
7 30 (4.51%) Financial Institution
7 30 (4.51%) Manufacturing
8 24 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (3.01%) Aerospace
10 20 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.56%) Retail
12 13 (1.95%) Presentation Skills
12 13 (1.95%) Telecoms
13 12 (1.80%) Legal
14 11 (1.65%) Military
15 10 (1.50%) Aviation
16 9 (1.35%) Front Office
16 9 (1.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 129 (19.40%) Analyst
2 72 (10.83%) Architect
3 65 (9.77%) Data Analyst
4 64 (9.62%) Senior
5 61 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 60 (9.02%) Lead
7 43 (6.47%) Data Architect
7 43 (6.47%) Developer
8 39 (5.86%) Consultant
9 33 (4.96%) Data Engineer
10 26 (3.91%) Data Manager
11 22 (3.31%) Administrator
12 18 (2.71%) Data Business Analyst
12 18 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (2.71%) Test Specialist
13 16 (2.41%) Project Manager
14 15 (2.26%) Data Modeller
15 14 (2.11%) Configuration Management Specialist
15 14 (2.11%) Configuration Specialist
15 14 (2.11%) Data Management Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (5.11%) REST
2 23 (3.46%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (2.86%) pytest
4 18 (2.71%) React
5 16 (2.41%) .NET
6 12 (1.80%) JSON
6 12 (1.80%) Kafka
7 11 (1.65%) SOAP
8 10 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Graph
9 9 (1.35%) XML
9 9 (1.35%) YAML
10 8 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
11 7 (1.05%) Middleware
12 6 (0.90%) Node.js
12 6 (0.90%) PySpark
12 6 (0.90%) Visualforce
13 5 (0.75%) NumPy
13 5 (0.75%) Pandas
13 5 (0.75%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 39 (5.86%) Onboarding
3 37 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.91%) Legacy Systems
5 23 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 21 (3.16%) Reference Data
7 20 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
9 13 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.50%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.20%) Life Science
11 8 (1.20%) Social Media
12 7 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.05%) IoT
12 7 (1.05%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.90%) CMDB
13 6 (0.90%) Wiki
14 5 (0.75%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.80%) Windows
2 6 (0.90%) Linux
3 5 (0.75%) Android
3 5 (0.75%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (29.92%) Agile
2 189 (28.42%) Problem-Solving
3 167 (25.11%) Data Governance
4 155 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
5 145 (21.80%) Analytics
6 126 (18.95%) Migration
7 124 (18.65%) Data Modelling
8 110 (16.54%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (13.68%) DevOps
10 90 (13.53%) CI/CD
11 88 (13.23%) Validation
12 77 (11.58%) AI
12 77 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 75 (11.28%) Project Management
14 72 (10.83%) Decision-Making
15 66 (9.92%) Data Analysis
16 65 (9.77%) ETL
17 63 (9.47%) Data Architecture
18 59 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 59 (8.87%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 141 (21.20%) SQL
2 88 (13.23%) Python
3 26 (3.91%) JavaScript
4 18 (2.71%) C#
5 15 (2.26%) Java
5 15 (2.26%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.65%) Formula Language
6 11 (1.65%) LotusScript
7 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 10 (1.50%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.35%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.20%) VBA
10 7 (1.05%) Apex Code
10 7 (1.05%) Groovy
10 7 (1.05%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.90%) R
12 5 (0.75%) C++
13 4 (0.60%) Bicep
13 4 (0.60%) Scala
14 3 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 146 (21.95%) Security Cleared
2 120 (18.05%) SC Cleared
3 90 (13.53%) Degree
4 22 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.01%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.65%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.20%) IIBA
9 7 (1.05%) CBAP
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (1.05%) OCA
10 5 (0.75%) DV Cleared
10 5 (0.75%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.75%) PMP
11 4 (0.60%) OCP
12 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.45%) PhD
12 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 159 (23.91%) Data Quality
2 71 (10.68%) QA
3 61 (9.17%) GDPR
4 14 (2.11%) PMO
5 13 (1.95%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.05%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.75%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.60%) IFRS
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
10 3 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) Basel III
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) SLA
12 1 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 21 (3.16%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) HDFS
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (4.66%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.35%) Terraform
3 5 (0.75%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.60%) Grafana
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Consul
6 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 129 (19.40%) Microsoft
2 78 (11.73%) Oracle
3 53 (7.97%) SAP
4 40 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.11%) Databricks
6 30 (4.51%) Informatica
7 25 (3.76%) ServiceNow
8 18 (2.71%) Google
9 13 (1.95%) Talend
10 11 (1.65%) Lotus
11 10 (1.50%) Kofax
12 9 (1.35%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.20%) Workday
14 7 (1.05%) Siemens
15 6 (0.90%) Charles River
15 6 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 6 (0.90%) Twitter
16 5 (0.75%) Adobe
16 5 (0.75%) Murex
16 5 (0.75%) Palantir