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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 124 104
Rank change year-on-year -47 -20 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Management 765 657 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.36% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.60% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 371 409
10th Percentile £313 £300 £329
25th Percentile £410 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -5.83%
75th Percentile £641 £625 £688
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 36 35
10th Percentile £16.40 £13.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.02 £18.50 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.83 £39.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -24.84% +20.24%
75th Percentile £41.68 £73.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £81.00 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £30.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -13.37% +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 39,123 25,281 28,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.74% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,918 16,062 17,635
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -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 2,776 1,509 1,303
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.75 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.55
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -1.91%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -51 370 £525 -4.55% 768
Midlands -18 107 £550 +15.79% 117
South East -28 97 £498 +17.06% 209
North of England -57 97 £400 -11.11% 185
West Midlands -15 82 £550 +15.79% 82
North West -42 54 £406 -14.63% 112
South West -27 44 £530 +1.92% 91
Yorkshire -34 42 £400 - 55
East of England -28 27 £576 -4.00% 105
East Midlands -13 24 £525 +16.67% 35
North East -48 2 £425 -2.86% 20
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 (3.92%) Confluence
2 26 (3.40%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.83%) SAS
4 11 (1.44%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.31%) CMS
6 9 (1.18%) WordPress
7 8 (1.05%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.78%) Apache
8 6 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.52%) Mule
11 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 65 (8.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.66%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.70%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.39%) Revit
6 3 (0.39%) Windchill
7 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (3.40%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.70%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.57%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.92%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.65%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.52%) iTrent
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.39%) Maximo
8 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 147 (19.22%) Azure
2 106 (13.86%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.71%) AWS
4 33 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
4 33 (4.31%) Collibra
5 30 (3.92%) SaaS
6 27 (3.53%) Microsoft Purview
7 26 (3.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 25 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
9 24 (3.14%) PowerApps
10 22 (2.88%) GCP
11 21 (2.75%) Power Automate
12 20 (2.61%) Snowflake
13 18 (2.35%) GitHub
14 15 (1.96%) Alation
14 15 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (1.96%) SuccessFactors
15 13 (1.70%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.57%) Entra ID
16 12 (1.57%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) Internet
3 3 (0.39%) LAN
3 3 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
4 2 (0.26%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) PSTN
4 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 3G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (17.39%) Metadata
2 86 (11.24%) Power BI
3 51 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.27%) Data Lake
5 38 (4.97%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.27%) Tableau
7 24 (3.14%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
9 14 (1.83%) GIS
10 13 (1.70%) Oracle Reports
11 12 (1.57%) Delta Lake
11 12 (1.57%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.31%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.18%) MySQL
13 9 (1.18%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.05%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.05%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.92%) Big Data
15 7 (0.92%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 52 (6.80%) JIRA
2 17 (2.22%) Git
3 16 (2.09%) Selenium
4 12 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.44%) ERwin
6 10 (1.31%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.18%) Postman
8 8 (1.05%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.92%) JMeter
10 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.78%) GitLab
11 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.52%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
13 3 (0.39%) Gradle
13 3 (0.39%) JUnit
13 3 (0.39%) Maven
13 3 (0.39%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 268 (35.03%) Social Skills
2 215 (28.10%) Finance
3 156 (20.39%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.72%) Public Sector
5 57 (7.45%) Banking
6 42 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.44%) Marketing
10 29 (3.79%) Retail
11 23 (3.01%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.75%) Local Government
13 20 (2.61%) Legal
14 18 (2.35%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.96%) Front Office
16 13 (1.70%) Billing
16 13 (1.70%) Investment Banking
16 13 (1.70%) Military
17 9 (1.18%) Automotive
17 9 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 112 (14.64%) Analyst
2 107 (13.99%) Architect
3 88 (11.50%) Lead
4 74 (9.67%) Data Architect
5 73 (9.54%) Senior
6 60 (7.84%) Developer
7 48 (6.27%) Administrator
7 48 (6.27%) Data Analyst
8 45 (5.88%) Consultant
9 44 (5.75%) Business Analyst
9 44 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.66%) Data Manager
11 24 (3.14%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (2.88%) Data Consultant
13 16 (2.09%) Senior Developer
14 15 (1.96%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.83%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (1.83%) Data Management Specialist
15 14 (1.83%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.70%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.31%) REST
2 22 (2.88%) JSON
2 22 (2.88%) Middleware
2 22 (2.88%) Terraform
3 21 (2.75%) XML
4 20 (2.61%) Kafka
5 16 (2.09%) .NET
6 15 (1.96%) RESTful
7 12 (1.57%) PySpark
7 12 (1.57%) SOAP
8 11 (1.44%) HTML
8 11 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
9 8 (1.05%) FIX Protocol
9 8 (1.05%) OAuth
10 7 (0.92%) LDAP
10 7 (0.92%) OpenTofu
10 7 (0.92%) Web Services
11 6 (0.78%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.78%) Playwright
12 5 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 76 (9.93%) Management Information System
2 50 (6.54%) Onboarding
3 49 (6.41%) Data Structures
4 38 (4.97%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.44%) Product Ownership
5 34 (4.44%) Reference Data
6 28 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
7 18 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
10 12 (1.57%) Life Science
11 11 (1.44%) FMCG
12 10 (1.31%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.31%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.18%) Autonomous Agent
13 9 (1.18%) CMDB
13 9 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.18%) Social Media
14 8 (1.05%) Taxonomies
15 7 (0.92%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.96%) Linux
2 11 (1.44%) 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 10
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 214 (27.97%) Stakeholder Management
3 177 (23.14%) Agile
4 168 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (21.57%) Migration
6 161 (21.05%) Analytics
7 157 (20.52%) Data Modelling
8 137 (17.91%) Validation
9 135 (17.65%) AI
10 120 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (15.56%) Decision-Making
12 110 (14.38%) Data Architecture
13 106 (13.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 101 (13.20%) Business Intelligence
15 94 (12.29%) Roadmaps
16 93 (12.16%) ETL
17 88 (11.50%) DevOps
18 84 (10.98%) Data Migration
19 83 (10.85%) Metadata Management
20 72 (9.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 167 (21.83%) SQL
2 76 (9.93%) Python
3 42 (5.49%) Java
4 30 (3.92%) C#
5 17 (2.22%) C
5 17 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 13 (1.70%) X++
7 7 (0.92%) PL/SQL
7 7 (0.92%) VBA
8 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 5 (0.65%) Bicep
10 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.52%) R
11 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 141 (18.43%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.38%) SC Cleared
3 69 (9.02%) Degree
4 27 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.92%) OCP
8 7 (0.92%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (0.92%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.78%) PMP
9 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (0.65%) CIPD
10 5 (0.65%) DBS Check
11 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.39%) ISEB
12 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 278 (36.34%) Data Quality
2 80 (10.46%) GDPR
3 53 (6.93%) QA
4 22 (2.88%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.83%) PMO
6 7 (0.92%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.39%) PERC
10 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.26%) COREP
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FINREP
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 16 (2.09%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.31%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (1.18%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.39%) MOM
3 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 135 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 69 (9.02%) SAP
3 67 (8.76%) Oracle
4 66 (8.63%) Databricks
5 44 (5.75%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.44%) Informatica
7 21 (2.75%) Google
8 19 (2.48%) ServiceNow
9 14 (1.83%) Workday
10 11 (1.44%) Bloomberg
11 10 (1.31%) IBM
12 9 (1.18%) Denodo
13 8 (1.05%) Charles River
13 8 (1.05%) Concur
13 8 (1.05%) Foundry
13 8 (1.05%) Talend
14 7 (0.92%) ESRI
14 7 (0.92%) MuleSoft
14 7 (0.92%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.78%) Palantir