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 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 121 102
Rank change year-on-year -50 -19 +55
Contract jobs citing Data Management 784 647 741
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 2.32% 2.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.54% 2.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 374 403
10th Percentile £300 £282 £313
25th Percentile £406 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £735 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 35 35
10th Percentile £16.30 £13.18 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £18.00 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.33 £39.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.89% -26.08% +20.24%
75th Percentile £41.22 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £57.30 £81.00 £80.90
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £29.83 £35.00
% change year-on-year -2.53% -14.79% +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 39,431 25,424 27,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.70% 90.99% 86.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,955 16,149 17,033
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,897 1,546 1,199
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.42 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.30
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £46.55 £67.01
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -43 372 £525 -4.55% 904
Midlands -19 110 £525 +16.67% 120
South East -20 104 £500 +33.33% 268
North of England -63 100 £400 -9.86% 191
West Midlands -3 85 £513 +7.89% 76
North West -34 56 £385 -17.20% 114
South West -26 45 £525 +0.96% 116
Yorkshire -41 43 £400 -4.76% 60
East of England -24 26 £576 -4.00% 98
East Midlands -12 25 £525 +16.67% 43
North East -40 2 £425 -2.86% 18
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 30 (3.83%) Confluence
2 26 (3.32%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.79%) SAS
4 12 (1.53%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.53%) CMS
5 9 (1.15%) WordPress
6 8 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.77%) Apache
7 6 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.51%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.51%) Mule
9 3 (0.38%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 68 (8.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.21%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.53%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.51%) Revit
8 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.38%) Windchill
9 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.66%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.66%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.02%) SAP HR
4 7 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.64%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.64%) SAP MDG
6 5 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.38%) iTrent
7 3 (0.38%) Maximo
7 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
8 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
8 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
9 1 (0.13%) Endur
9 1 (0.13%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 156 (19.90%) Azure
2 107 (13.65%) Power Platform
3 60 (7.65%) AWS
4 34 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
5 33 (4.21%) Collibra
6 32 (4.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 28 (3.57%) SaaS
8 27 (3.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 27 (3.44%) Dynamics 365
9 25 (3.19%) PowerApps
10 23 (2.93%) Power Automate
11 22 (2.81%) GCP
12 20 (2.55%) GitHub
12 20 (2.55%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.17%) Alation
14 16 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 15 (1.91%) SuccessFactors
16 14 (1.79%) Microsoft 365
16 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
17 12 (1.53%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) Firewall
2 4 (0.51%) Network Security
2 4 (0.51%) SMS
3 3 (0.38%) Internet
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
4 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) LAN
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) PSTN
5 1 (0.13%) SAN
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 138 (17.60%) Metadata
2 86 (10.97%) Power BI
3 52 (6.63%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.12%) Data Lake
5 44 (5.61%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.19%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.93%) Tableau
8 18 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.66%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.66%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.53%) GIS
11 11 (1.40%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
12 9 (1.15%) MySQL
12 9 (1.15%) Pentaho
13 8 (1.02%) Ataccama
13 8 (1.02%) Big Data
13 8 (1.02%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.89%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 48 (6.12%) JIRA
2 20 (2.55%) Git
3 18 (2.30%) Selenium
4 12 (1.53%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.40%) ERwin
5 11 (1.40%) Jenkins
6 10 (1.28%) Postman
7 8 (1.02%) Cucumber
7 8 (1.02%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.89%) GitLab
8 7 (0.89%) JMeter
9 5 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.64%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.51%) JUnit
10 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.51%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.38%) Gatling
11 3 (0.38%) MLflow
11 3 (0.38%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 279 (35.59%) Social Skills
2 217 (27.68%) Finance
3 163 (20.79%) Analytical Skills
4 87 (11.10%) Public Sector
5 62 (7.91%) Banking
6 48 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.59%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.34%) Marketing
10 30 (3.83%) Retail
11 28 (3.57%) Aerospace
12 24 (3.06%) Local Government
13 22 (2.81%) Legal
14 20 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.04%) Front Office
15 16 (2.04%) Military
16 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
17 13 (1.66%) Billing
18 9 (1.15%) Automotive
18 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (14.29%) Analyst
2 108 (13.78%) Architect
3 81 (10.33%) Lead
4 75 (9.57%) Senior
5 73 (9.31%) Data Architect
6 66 (8.42%) Developer
7 60 (7.65%) Administrator
8 48 (6.12%) Data Engineer
9 47 (5.99%) Data Analyst
10 45 (5.74%) Business Analyst
11 43 (5.48%) Consultant
12 28 (3.57%) Data Manager
13 23 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.81%) Data Consultant
15 16 (2.04%) Senior Developer
16 15 (1.91%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (1.91%) Project Manager
17 14 (1.79%) Data Management Specialist
18 13 (1.66%) Data Administrator
18 13 (1.66%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (4.72%) REST
2 25 (3.19%) Middleware
2 25 (3.19%) Terraform
3 24 (3.06%) XML
4 21 (2.68%) JSON
5 20 (2.55%) .NET
5 20 (2.55%) Kafka
6 16 (2.04%) RESTful
7 14 (1.79%) HTML
7 14 (1.79%) SOAP
8 13 (1.66%) PySpark
9 12 (1.53%) Oracle Fusion
10 9 (1.15%) OAuth
11 8 (1.02%) .NET Core
11 8 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (1.02%) LDAP
11 8 (1.02%) OpenTofu
12 7 (0.89%) Playwright
12 7 (0.89%) Web Services
13 5 (0.64%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 84 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.51%) Data Structures
3 49 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 40 (5.10%) Cloud Native
5 35 (4.46%) Reference Data
6 33 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 28 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.40%) Life Science
11 10 (1.28%) CMDB
11 10 (1.28%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.28%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.15%) Autonomous Agent
12 9 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.15%) FMCG
12 9 (1.15%) Social Media
12 9 (1.15%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.04%) Linux
2 9 (1.15%) 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 Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (33.04%) Data Governance
2 222 (28.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 186 (23.72%) Agile
4 174 (22.19%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (21.05%) Migration
6 164 (20.92%) Data Modelling
7 162 (20.66%) Analytics
8 143 (18.24%) AI
9 139 (17.73%) Validation
10 127 (16.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 118 (15.05%) Decision-Making
12 110 (14.03%) Data Architecture
12 110 (14.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 100 (12.76%) Business Intelligence
14 98 (12.50%) Roadmaps
15 94 (11.99%) ETL
16 92 (11.73%) DevOps
17 87 (11.10%) Data Migration
18 85 (10.84%) Metadata Management
19 80 (10.20%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 170 (21.68%) SQL
2 81 (10.33%) Python
3 44 (5.61%) Java
4 33 (4.21%) C#
5 20 (2.55%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.17%) C
7 13 (1.66%) X++
8 7 (0.89%) Bicep
9 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.77%) R
9 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 6 (0.77%) VBA
10 5 (0.64%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.38%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 155 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 121 (15.43%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.57%) Degree
4 28 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 25 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.02%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.89%) OCP
9 7 (0.89%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.89%) PMP
10 6 (0.77%) CIPD
10 6 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.64%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.38%) ISEB
12 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (35.46%) Data Quality
2 83 (10.59%) GDPR
3 53 (6.76%) QA
4 24 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.91%) PMO
6 7 (0.89%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.64%) NCSC
9 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.38%) GRC
10 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.38%) PERC
10 3 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
10 3 (0.38%) WCAG
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FATCA
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.30%) Active Directory
2 12 (1.53%) Docker
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (1.40%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.38%) MOM
3 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 148 (18.88%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.31%) SAP
3 70 (8.93%) Databricks
4 66 (8.42%) Oracle
5 45 (5.74%) Salesforce
6 32 (4.08%) Informatica
7 26 (3.32%) Google
8 21 (2.68%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.91%) Workday
10 12 (1.53%) IBM
11 11 (1.40%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.15%) Denodo
13 8 (1.02%) Charles River
13 8 (1.02%) Concur
13 8 (1.02%) Foundry
14 7 (0.89%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.77%) ESRI
15 6 (0.77%) Palantir
15 6 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 6 (0.77%) Talend