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

6 months to
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 76 110
Rank change year-on-year -61 +34 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Management 660 784 777
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.03% 2.93% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 3.28% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 487 525
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £403 £417 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £588 £700 £675
90th Percentile £700 £813 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 26 39
10th Percentile £12.63 £21.36 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.19 £26.32 £25.18
Median hourly rate £22.38 £32.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.13% -9.72% -48.57%
75th Percentile £35.75 £54.92 £49.92
90th Percentile £75.05 £95.63 £65.23
UK median hourly rate £22.38 £32.50 £43.03
% change year-on-year -31.13% -24.47% -35.05%

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 28,619 23,884 32,830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.03% 89.35% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,307 14,637 22,019
10th Percentile £305 £310 £300
25th Percentile £410 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,784 768 1,764
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.83 £20.94 £17.20
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% -9.33% +11.41%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £69.89 £75.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -22.62% -10.76% +16.69%

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 24 January 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 24 January 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 24 January 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 -40 352 £500 -9.09% 113
Midlands -15 87 £476 -9.38% 101
West Midlands -13 71 £488 -9.30% 41
North of England -74 70 £455 -9.00% 112
South East -53 68 £484 -7.90% 182
South West +14 50 £450 -7.69% 82
Yorkshire -40 34 £402 -24.79% 44
North West -57 32 £513 +2.50% 55
East of England -25 26 £505 +1.00% 88
East Midlands -29 16 £439 +5.92% 58
North East -17 4 £438 -18.60% 13
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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.88%) SAS
3 18 (2.73%) Confluence
4 10 (1.52%) HCL Notes
5 9 (1.36%) Mendix
6 7 (1.06%) Apache
6 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.76%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.45%) WordPress
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.15%) CMS
9 1 (0.15%) Moodle
9 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 61 (9.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 29 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (1.97%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.52%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (1.06%) ProjectWise
7 4 (0.61%) Navisworks
7 4 (0.61%) Revit
8 3 (0.45%) Windchill
9 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 28 (4.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (1.67%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.76%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.76%) Workday HCM
5 4 (0.61%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.61%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.45%) Markit EDM
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
6 3 (0.45%) SAP PP
7 2 (0.30%) Eagle PACE
7 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.30%) SAP CX
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
8 1 (0.15%) SAP FS
8 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 110 (16.67%) Azure
2 93 (14.09%) Power Platform
3 56 (8.48%) AWS
4 37 (5.61%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.70%) GCP
6 30 (4.55%) Collibra
7 21 (3.18%) OCI
7 21 (3.18%) PowerApps
8 20 (3.03%) Serverless
9 18 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.73%) OpenShift
10 17 (2.58%) Azure Service Bus
10 17 (2.58%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (2.27%) Azure Functions
12 15 (2.27%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (2.12%) SaaS
13 14 (2.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.61%) Firewall
2 3 (0.45%) LAN
2 3 (0.45%) NAS
3 2 (0.30%) SAN
3 2 (0.30%) SMS
3 2 (0.30%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) 2G
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) HTTP
4 1 (0.15%) Intranet
4 1 (0.15%) IPv4
4 1 (0.15%) MPLS
4 1 (0.15%) MQTT
4 1 (0.15%) Network Security
4 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.15%) SMTP
4 1 (0.15%) VLAN
4 1 (0.15%) WAN
4 1 (0.15%) Wireless
4 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.33%) Power BI
2 53 (8.03%) Metadata
3 43 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (4.09%) Tableau
5 21 (3.18%) SQL Server
6 18 (2.73%) Data Lake
7 17 (2.58%) Oracle Database
8 11 (1.67%) NoSQL
8 11 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
8 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 10 (1.52%) MySQL
9 10 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (1.36%) BigQuery
11 8 (1.21%) GIS
12 7 (1.06%) Big Data
12 7 (1.06%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.91%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.76%) Power Query
14 5 (0.76%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 5 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (9.55%) JIRA
2 42 (6.36%) GitLab
3 31 (4.70%) Git
4 24 (3.64%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.73%) Selenium
6 15 (2.27%) JUnit
7 6 (0.91%) ERwin
8 5 (0.76%) JMeter
8 5 (0.76%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) Appium
10 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.30%) Bitbucket
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
11 2 (0.30%) Gatling
11 2 (0.30%) Katalon Studio
11 2 (0.30%) TestNG
11 2 (0.30%) TestRail
General
1 280 (42.42%) Social Skills
2 226 (34.24%) Finance
3 155 (23.48%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (9.39%) Banking
5 47 (7.12%) Public Sector
6 36 (5.45%) Marketing
7 30 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 27 (4.09%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.79%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (3.18%) Organisational Skills
11 20 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (2.27%) Legal
13 15 (2.27%) Retail
14 14 (2.12%) Local Government
15 12 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 12 (1.82%) Military
15 12 (1.82%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.52%) Aerospace
17 9 (1.36%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 133 (20.15%) Analyst
2 72 (10.91%) Architect
3 63 (9.55%) Data Analyst
4 61 (9.24%) Developer
5 60 (9.09%) Lead
6 58 (8.79%) Business Analyst
7 54 (8.18%) Senior
8 49 (7.42%) Consultant
9 34 (5.15%) Data Architect
10 29 (4.39%) Data Manager
11 26 (3.94%) Administrator
12 21 (3.18%) Data Engineer
13 17 (2.58%) Data Modeller
13 17 (2.58%) Governance Analyst
14 15 (2.27%) Oracle Consultant
14 15 (2.27%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (2.12%) Test Specialist
16 13 (1.97%) Data Business Analyst
16 13 (1.97%) QA Engineer
16 13 (1.97%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.82%) REST
2 30 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
3 23 (3.48%) SOAP
4 18 (2.73%) .NET
5 17 (2.58%) React
6 15 (2.27%) pytest
7 12 (1.82%) Lightning Web Components
8 10 (1.52%) Middleware
8 10 (1.52%) Visualforce
9 9 (1.36%) HTML5 Canvas
9 9 (1.36%) JSON
9 9 (1.36%) Kafka
9 9 (1.36%) RESTful
10 7 (1.06%) Node.js
10 7 (1.06%) XML
11 6 (0.91%) CSS
11 6 (0.91%) OAuth
11 6 (0.91%) PySpark
12 5 (0.76%) NumPy
12 5 (0.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.82%) Management Information System
2 41 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.94%) Product Ownership
5 23 (3.48%) Legacy Systems
6 18 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.27%) Reference Data
8 14 (2.12%) CMDB
9 11 (1.67%) Low-Code
10 9 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
10 9 (1.36%) Synthetic Data
11 8 (1.21%) Data Centre
12 7 (1.06%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.06%) Life Science
12 7 (1.06%) Mobile App
13 6 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
13 6 (0.91%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (0.91%) Reinsurance
14 5 (0.76%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.82%) Windows
2 7 (1.06%) Android
2 7 (1.06%) Apple iOS
2 7 (1.06%) Linux
3 2 (0.30%) Unix
3 2 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 198 (30.00%) Agile
1 198 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 164 (24.85%) Data Governance
3 153 (23.18%) Analytics
4 146 (22.12%) Stakeholder Management
5 110 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 110 (16.67%) DevOps
6 105 (15.91%) Business Intelligence
7 97 (14.70%) Migration
8 91 (13.79%) CI/CD
9 82 (12.42%) Project Management
9 82 (12.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 80 (12.12%) Validation
11 70 (10.61%) Decision-Making
12 69 (10.45%) Data Analysis
13 68 (10.30%) Visualisation
14 63 (9.55%) Roadmaps
15 59 (8.94%) AI
15 59 (8.94%) Data Strategy
16 55 (8.33%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 138 (20.91%) SQL
2 78 (11.82%) Python
3 34 (5.15%) JavaScript
4 19 (2.88%) C#
5 16 (2.42%) Java
6 12 (1.82%) Apex Code
6 12 (1.82%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.67%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.52%) Formula Language
8 10 (1.52%) LotusScript
9 8 (1.21%) Groovy
10 7 (1.06%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.91%) R
11 6 (0.91%) VBA
12 5 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.76%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.61%) C++
13 4 (0.61%) Korn
14 3 (0.45%) Perl
14 3 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 117 (17.73%) Security Cleared
2 94 (14.24%) SC Cleared
3 81 (12.27%) Degree
4 22 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.73%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.36%) OCA
6 9 (1.36%) Oracle Certification
7 8 (1.21%) IIBA
8 7 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.06%) CBAP
9 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.61%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.61%) PMP
9 4 (0.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.45%) MCP
10 3 (0.45%) PhD
11 2 (0.30%) CIPD
11 2 (0.30%) CISSP
11 2 (0.30%) DV Cleared
11 2 (0.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (22.58%) Data Quality
2 69 (10.45%) QA
3 59 (8.94%) GDPR
4 14 (2.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 11 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.67%) PMO
6 8 (1.21%) ISO 19650
7 6 (0.91%) GxP
8 5 (0.76%) IFRS
8 5 (0.76%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.45%) Def Stans
10 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) Basel III
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
11 2 (0.30%) GAAP
11 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 23 (3.48%) Docker
2 6 (0.91%) Firmware
3 3 (0.45%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (4.09%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.52%) Terraform
3 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 3 (0.45%) Grafana
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.45%) SCCM
4 2 (0.30%) Consul
4 2 (0.30%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.15%) Ansible
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (0.15%) Puppet
5 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 117 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 78 (11.82%) Oracle
3 55 (8.33%) SAP
4 36 (5.45%) Salesforce
5 32 (4.85%) Databricks
6 29 (4.39%) ServiceNow
7 23 (3.48%) Informatica
8 16 (2.42%) Google
9 11 (1.67%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.67%) Workday
10 10 (1.52%) Lotus
10 10 (1.52%) Talend
11 9 (1.36%) Kofax
12 7 (1.06%) Alteryx
12 7 (1.06%) Refinitiv
13 6 (0.91%) Autodesk
14 5 (0.76%) EMC
14 5 (0.76%) MuleSoft
15 4 (0.61%) Anaplan
15 4 (0.61%) Dynatrace