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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 84 118
Rank change year-on-year -55 +34 +35
Contract jobs citing Data Management 648 765 753
As % of all contract jobs in England 2.06% 2.78% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.33% 3.13% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 471 502
10th Percentile £313 £325 £400
25th Percentile £402 £418 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £525 £561
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.46% -3.23%
75th Percentile £588 £694 £688
90th Percentile £700 £788 £750
UK median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 26 33
10th Percentile £12.63 £19.92 £19.53
25th Percentile £17.00 £23.39 £26.24
Median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.06
Median % change year-on-year -31.49% -29.43% -30.48%
75th Percentile £34.76 £54.92 £50.75
90th Percentile £81.00 £95.63 £67.31
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -31.49% -29.62% -26.11%

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 27,843 24,416 31,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.51% 88.85% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,784 15,001 21,658
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
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 1,756 802 1,433
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.34 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.27% +23.66%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -34 346 £500 -9.05% 137
Midlands -12 89 £475 -9.52% 53
West Midlands -6 72 £490 -10.91% 39
North of England -64 71 £431 -13.75% 53
South East -50 64 £469 -10.71% 97
South West +23 50 £500 +2.56% 24
Yorkshire -30 35 £402 -24.79% 19
North West -50 31 £500 +1.01% 27
East of England -26 20 £500 -2.44% 39
East Midlands -26 17 £447 +7.97% 13
North East -18 5 £438 -12.50% 7
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 29 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 18 (2.78%) Confluence
2 18 (2.78%) SAS
3 8 (1.23%) HCL Notes
4 7 (1.08%) Apache
4 7 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.08%) Mendix
5 5 (0.77%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.46%) ArcGIS
6 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.46%) WordPress
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.15%) CMS
7 1 (0.15%) Moodle
7 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 60 (9.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (4.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (3.86%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (2.01%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.70%) MS Visio
6 9 (1.39%) ProjectWise
7 8 (1.23%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.62%) Navisworks
8 4 (0.62%) Revit
9 3 (0.46%) Windchill
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
11 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 23 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.23%) Teamcenter
3 5 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.77%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 5 (0.77%) Workday HCM
4 4 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 4 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.46%) Markit EDM
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.46%) Oracle SCM
5 3 (0.46%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.31%) Eagle PACE
6 2 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.31%) iTrent
6 2 (0.31%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.31%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.31%) Temenos T24
7 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.15%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 103 (15.90%) Azure
2 91 (14.04%) Power Platform
3 52 (8.02%) AWS
4 35 (5.40%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (5.09%) Collibra
6 31 (4.78%) GCP
7 24 (3.70%) PowerApps
8 22 (3.40%) OCI
9 20 (3.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 17 (2.62%) OpenShift
10 17 (2.62%) Serverless
11 16 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
11 16 (2.47%) SaaS
11 16 (2.47%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 15 (2.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 15 (2.31%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.16%) Snowflake
14 13 (2.01%) Azure Functions
14 13 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.62%) Firewall
2 3 (0.46%) LAN
2 3 (0.46%) NAS
3 2 (0.31%) SAN
3 2 (0.31%) SMS
3 2 (0.31%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.15%) 2G
4 1 (0.15%) 4G
4 1 (0.15%) Broadband
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%) 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 86 (13.27%) Power BI
2 52 (8.02%) Metadata
3 36 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (3.86%) Tableau
5 21 (3.24%) SQL Server
6 15 (2.31%) Oracle Database
7 13 (2.01%) Data Lake
8 12 (1.85%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.70%) Power Query
10 10 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
11 8 (1.23%) Big Data
11 8 (1.23%) NoSQL
11 8 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (1.08%) BigQuery
12 7 (1.08%) GIS
12 7 (1.08%) MySQL
12 7 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
12 7 (1.08%) SAP HANA
13 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
14 5 (0.77%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 61 (9.41%) JIRA
2 40 (6.17%) GitLab
3 31 (4.78%) Git
4 22 (3.40%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.78%) Selenium
6 15 (2.31%) JUnit
7 5 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.77%) JMeter
7 5 (0.77%) Postman
8 4 (0.62%) Appium
9 3 (0.46%) ERwin
9 3 (0.46%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.31%) Gatling
10 2 (0.31%) Katalon Studio
10 2 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.31%) TestNG
10 2 (0.31%) TestRail
General
1 272 (41.98%) Social Skills
2 228 (35.19%) Finance
3 159 (24.54%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (9.88%) Banking
5 50 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 40 (6.17%) Marketing
7 27 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 26 (4.01%) Financial Institution
9 22 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (2.93%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (2.93%) Legal
12 18 (2.78%) Local Government
12 18 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
13 13 (2.01%) Military
14 12 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.85%) Telecoms
15 10 (1.54%) Retail
16 9 (1.39%) Electronics
16 9 (1.39%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (19.14%) Analyst
2 73 (11.27%) Architect
3 61 (9.41%) Lead
4 60 (9.26%) Developer
5 57 (8.80%) Data Analyst
6 53 (8.18%) Business Analyst
7 52 (8.02%) Consultant
8 50 (7.72%) Senior
9 28 (4.32%) Data Manager
10 27 (4.17%) Data Architect
11 24 (3.70%) Administrator
12 19 (2.93%) Governance Analyst
13 18 (2.78%) Data Engineer
14 15 (2.31%) Oracle Consultant
14 15 (2.31%) Salesforce Architect
15 14 (2.16%) Test Specialist
16 13 (2.01%) Data Modeller
16 13 (2.01%) QA Engineer
16 13 (2.01%) ServiceNow Developer
17 12 (1.85%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (7.41%) REST
2 31 (4.78%) Oracle Fusion
3 27 (4.17%) SOAP
4 17 (2.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 16 (2.47%) .NET
6 15 (2.31%) pytest
6 15 (2.31%) React
7 14 (2.16%) Middleware
7 14 (2.16%) Visualforce
8 10 (1.54%) JSON
8 10 (1.54%) RESTful
9 9 (1.39%) Kafka
10 7 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
10 7 (1.08%) Node.js
11 6 (0.93%) CSS
11 6 (0.93%) MIDP
11 6 (0.93%) OAuth
12 5 (0.77%) NumPy
12 5 (0.77%) Pandas
12 5 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 45 (6.94%) Management Information System
2 41 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 33 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 25 (3.86%) Legacy Systems
6 20 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 15 (2.31%) Reference Data
8 14 (2.16%) CMDB
9 9 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 9 (1.39%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.39%) Synthetic Data
10 8 (1.23%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.23%) Data Centre
11 7 (1.08%) Mobile App
12 6 (0.93%) Derivative
12 6 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
12 6 (0.93%) Fixed Income
12 6 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (0.93%) Life Science
12 6 (0.93%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.16%) Windows
2 8 (1.23%) Apple iOS
3 7 (1.08%) Android
3 7 (1.08%) Linux
4 2 (0.31%) Unix
4 2 (0.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.15%) tvOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (30.71%) Problem-Solving
2 185 (28.55%) Agile
3 169 (26.08%) Data Governance
4 144 (22.22%) Analytics
5 142 (21.91%) Stakeholder Management
6 105 (16.20%) Data Modelling
6 105 (16.20%) DevOps
7 103 (15.90%) Business Intelligence
8 96 (14.81%) Migration
9 86 (13.27%) CI/CD
9 86 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 78 (12.04%) Project Management
11 70 (10.80%) Validation
12 67 (10.34%) Data Analysis
13 64 (9.88%) AI
13 64 (9.88%) Roadmaps
14 63 (9.72%) Data Strategy
15 62 (9.57%) Decision-Making
15 62 (9.57%) Visualisation
16 58 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 129 (19.91%) SQL
2 72 (11.11%) Python
3 32 (4.94%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.62%) C#
4 17 (2.62%) Java
5 16 (2.47%) Apex Code
6 13 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.70%) PL/SQL
8 8 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.23%) Formula Language
8 8 (1.23%) Groovy
8 8 (1.23%) LotusScript
9 7 (1.08%) R
9 7 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.77%) Shell Script
10 5 (0.77%) VBA
11 4 (0.62%) C++
11 4 (0.62%) Korn
12 3 (0.46%) Perl
12 3 (0.46%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 114 (17.59%) Security Cleared
2 95 (14.66%) SC Cleared
3 75 (11.57%) Degree
4 20 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 18 (2.78%) Master's Degree
6 9 (1.39%) OCA
6 9 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (0.62%) PMI Certification
8 4 (0.62%) PMP
8 4 (0.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.46%) CBAP
9 3 (0.46%) CISSP
9 3 (0.46%) IIBA
9 3 (0.46%) MCP
9 3 (0.46%) PhD
10 2 (0.31%) APMP
10 2 (0.31%) CCAB
10 2 (0.31%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (22.84%) Data Quality
2 68 (10.49%) QA
3 57 (8.80%) GDPR
4 17 (2.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 12 (1.85%) PMO
6 11 (1.70%) Accessibility
7 10 (1.54%) ISO 19650
8 6 (0.93%) GxP
9 5 (0.77%) IFRS
10 4 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 4 (0.62%) Solvency II
11 3 (0.46%) IFRS 17
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) Basel III
12 2 (0.31%) EMIR
12 2 (0.31%) GAAP
12 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.31%) MiFID
12 2 (0.31%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.15%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 23 (3.55%) Docker
2 8 (1.23%) Firmware
3 6 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.31%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.15%) HDFS
5 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 27 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.39%) Terraform
3 6 (0.93%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (0.77%) SCCM
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.31%) Consul
6 2 (0.31%) Grafana
6 2 (0.31%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.31%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Ansible
7 1 (0.15%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Clustering
7 1 (0.15%) Puppet
7 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 124 (19.14%) Microsoft
2 74 (11.42%) Oracle
3 49 (7.56%) SAP
4 39 (6.02%) Salesforce
5 31 (4.78%) Databricks
6 29 (4.48%) ServiceNow
7 22 (3.40%) Informatica
8 16 (2.47%) Google
9 11 (1.70%) Workday
10 10 (1.54%) Alteryx
10 10 (1.54%) Talend
11 9 (1.39%) Bloomberg
12 8 (1.23%) Lotus
13 7 (1.08%) Kofax
13 7 (1.08%) Refinitiv
14 6 (0.93%) Autodesk
15 5 (0.77%) Atlassian
15 5 (0.77%) EMC
15 5 (0.77%) MuleSoft
16 4 (0.62%) Dynatrace