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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 91 108
Rank change year-on-year -59 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Management 678 683 771
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.72% 2.79% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 3.06% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 453 497
10th Percentile £343 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% - -
75th Percentile £588 £713 £675
90th Percentile £704 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 25 57
10th Percentile £13.13 £19.93 £15.52
25th Percentile £17.19 £25.15 £19.57
Median hourly rate £29.52 £30.81 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -31.54% +3.14%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.50 £63.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £32.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year +6.87% -27.22% +3.14%

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 33,651 22,305 32,263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.36% 91.07% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,531 14,664 21,253
10th Percentile £313 £310 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,083 886 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.80 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +32.29% -7.51% -6.66%
75th Percentile £67.13 £63.75 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.38 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year +25.00% -11.18% -5.92%

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 18 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 -48 340 £496 -17.33% 115
Midlands -20 93 £492 -6.29% 42
West Midlands -17 79 £494 -8.19% 28
South East -31 79 £463 -15.91% 66
North of England -65 64 £425 -19.43% 55
South West +2 61 £505 +1.00% 25
North West -58 33 £500 -9.09% 40
East of England -45 31 £505 +1.00% 18
Yorkshire -43 29 £375 -21.05% 11
East Midlands -35 13 £449 -2.71% 14
North East -11 3 £470 - 4
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 (5.60%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.13%) Confluence
3 20 (2.95%) SAS
4 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.62%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.47%) Mendix
7 7 (1.03%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.03%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.88%) Apache
8 6 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.59%) CMS
10 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
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 58 (8.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (5.01%) Microsoft Office
3 26 (3.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.65%) MS Visio
5 14 (2.06%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.59%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 21 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
1 21 (3.10%) Teamcenter
2 7 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.44%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
6 3 (0.44%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.29%) iTrent
7 2 (0.29%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 110 (16.22%) Azure
2 102 (15.04%) Power Platform
3 57 (8.41%) AWS
4 32 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (4.13%) Collibra
6 27 (3.98%) GCP
6 27 (3.98%) SaaS
7 25 (3.69%) PowerApps
8 22 (3.24%) Serverless
9 18 (2.65%) OpenShift
10 15 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.21%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.06%) Azure Functions
11 14 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.77%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.92%) LAN
2 11 (1.62%) WAN
3 10 (1.47%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.03%) PSTN
5 4 (0.59%) Intranet
6 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.29%) NAS
6 2 (0.29%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) 3G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) WebEx
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (12.98%) Power BI
2 75 (11.06%) Metadata
3 53 (7.82%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.87%) Data Lake
5 32 (4.72%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.83%) Tableau
7 23 (3.39%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.06%) Oracle Reports
9 12 (1.77%) GIS
9 12 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.77%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.62%) NoSQL
11 10 (1.47%) MySQL
12 9 (1.33%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
13 7 (1.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
13 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.88%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 51 (7.52%) JIRA
2 33 (4.87%) GitLab
3 28 (4.13%) Git
4 22 (3.24%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.65%) Selenium
6 14 (2.06%) JUnit
7 13 (1.92%) ERwin
8 6 (0.88%) JMeter
9 5 (0.74%) Appium
10 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.44%) Postman
11 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.44%) Toad
11 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.15%) GCC
13 1 (0.15%) Hudson
13 1 (0.15%) TestNG
General
1 241 (35.55%) Social Skills
2 199 (29.35%) Finance
3 149 (21.98%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 50 (7.37%) Banking
6 35 (5.16%) Manufacturing
6 35 (5.16%) Marketing
7 29 (4.28%) Financial Institution
8 28 (4.13%) Influencing Skills
9 23 (3.39%) Aerospace
10 19 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (2.51%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (2.36%) Retail
13 14 (2.06%) Legal
14 13 (1.92%) Local Government
15 12 (1.77%) Telecoms
16 11 (1.62%) Military
16 11 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
17 10 (1.47%) Aviation
18 9 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 128 (18.88%) Analyst
2 76 (11.21%) Architect
3 70 (10.32%) Senior
4 65 (9.59%) Lead
5 59 (8.70%) Data Analyst
6 58 (8.55%) Business Analyst
7 48 (7.08%) Data Architect
8 39 (5.75%) Consultant
9 36 (5.31%) Developer
10 35 (5.16%) Data Manager
11 32 (4.72%) Data Engineer
12 22 (3.24%) Administrator
13 18 (2.65%) Data Business Analyst
13 18 (2.65%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.21%) Senior Manager
16 14 (2.06%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.06%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.06%) Data Management Specialist
16 14 (2.06%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (4.13%) REST
2 18 (2.65%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (2.36%) .NET
4 13 (1.92%) pytest
4 13 (1.92%) React
5 12 (1.77%) Kafka
6 11 (1.62%) JSON
7 10 (1.47%) HTML5 Canvas
7 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
8 8 (1.18%) XML
9 7 (1.03%) PySpark
9 7 (1.03%) YAML
10 5 (0.74%) JDO
10 5 (0.74%) Middleware
10 5 (0.74%) SOAP
10 5 (0.74%) Web Services
11 4 (0.59%) ADO
11 4 (0.59%) CSS
11 4 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.59%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.82%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.90%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.72%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.28%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (3.54%) Reference Data
6 22 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 21 (3.10%) Cloud Native
8 19 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 18 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (1.77%) FMCG
10 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.47%) Life Science
11 10 (1.47%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.18%) IoT
13 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.03%) Synthetic Data
14 6 (0.88%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (0.88%) Wiki
15 5 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.92%) Windows
2 4 (0.59%) Android
2 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.44%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (26.25%) Agile
1 178 (26.25%) Data Governance
2 177 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (23.01%) Stakeholder Management
4 150 (22.12%) Migration
5 142 (20.94%) Analytics
6 130 (19.17%) Data Modelling
7 109 (16.08%) Business Intelligence
8 105 (15.49%) Validation
9 87 (12.83%) Decision-Making
10 85 (12.54%) AI
11 82 (12.09%) DevOps
12 80 (11.80%) CI/CD
13 76 (11.21%) ETL
14 73 (10.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (10.47%) Data Analysis
16 70 (10.32%) Data Migration
17 69 (10.18%) Data Architecture
18 65 (9.59%) Project Management
19 60 (8.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.21%) SQL
2 82 (12.09%) Python
3 20 (2.95%) C#
4 18 (2.65%) JavaScript
5 17 (2.51%) Java
6 16 (2.36%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.62%) Formula Language
7 11 (1.62%) LotusScript
7 11 (1.62%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 9 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 9 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.33%) VBA
10 6 (0.88%) Bicep
10 6 (0.88%) C
11 5 (0.74%) C++
11 5 (0.74%) Groovy
11 5 (0.74%) R
12 3 (0.44%) Scala
12 3 (0.44%) X++
Qualifications
1 135 (19.91%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.52%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.24%) Degree
4 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.47%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.18%) IIBA
9 7 (1.03%) CBAP
9 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.88%) OCA
11 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.74%) PMP
12 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.59%) OCP
13 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.44%) PhD
13 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (26.40%) Data Quality
2 64 (9.44%) QA
3 57 (8.41%) GDPR
4 15 (2.21%) Accessibility
4 15 (2.21%) PMO
5 8 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (0.88%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.74%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.59%) BS7666
8 4 (0.59%) COREP
8 4 (0.59%) FINREP
8 4 (0.59%) IFRS
8 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.44%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.29%) DICOM
10 2 (0.29%) HL7
10 2 (0.29%) MiFID
10 2 (0.29%) NCSC
10 2 (0.29%) NIST
10 2 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 16 (2.36%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (3.98%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (1.62%) Terraform
3 7 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.59%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 123 (18.14%) Microsoft
2 76 (11.21%) Oracle
3 56 (8.26%) SAP
4 36 (5.31%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.87%) Databricks
6 24 (3.54%) Informatica
7 17 (2.51%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.92%) Google
9 11 (1.62%) Lotus
10 10 (1.47%) Kofax
10 10 (1.47%) Talend
11 9 (1.33%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.03%) Siemens
13 6 (0.88%) Adobe
13 6 (0.88%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.74%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.74%) Charles River
14 5 (0.74%) Murex
14 5 (0.74%) Palantir