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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 124 113
Rank change year-on-year -48 -11 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Management 738 641 672
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.62% 2.32% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.55% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 369 404
10th Percentile £339 £296 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £700
90th Percentile £750 £752 £792
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 32 48
10th Percentile £16.58 £19.23 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £23.21 £26.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £31.66 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.45% -29.64% +36.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £61.28
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% +36.36%

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 38,785 25,097 28,627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.81% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,091 16,007 18,621
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,429 1,649
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.19% -39.40% -2.35%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -42 354 £525 -4.55% 579
Midlands -11 109 £525 +16.67% 67
South East -25 99 £456 +17.74% 153
West Midlands -16 82 £513 +25.00% 42
North of England -74 80 £450 - 99
South West -34 44 £535 -6.96% 63
North West -48 41 £538 +7.50% 60
Yorkshire -46 38 £400 -2.44% 31
East of England -23 30 £613 +36.11% 71
East Midlands -17 26 £525 +16.67% 25
North East -43 2 £425 -10.53% 8
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 31 (4.20%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.79%) Confluence
3 13 (1.76%) CMS
4 12 (1.63%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.49%) SAS
6 8 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.95%) WordPress
8 6 (0.81%) Apache
9 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.54%) Mule
10 4 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
11 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
12 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.14%) Mendix
13 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.14%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 59 (7.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) Navisworks
5 3 (0.41%) Revit
5 3 (0.41%) Windchill
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 32 (4.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.90%) Aladdin
3 13 (1.76%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.68%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.54%) iTrent
7 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.41%) Maximo
8 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.41%) SAP ERP
8 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 137 (18.56%) Azure
2 107 (14.50%) Power Platform
3 55 (7.45%) AWS
4 30 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (4.07%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (3.93%) SaaS
6 27 (3.66%) PowerApps
7 26 (3.52%) Collibra
8 25 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (3.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 21 (2.85%) GCP
11 20 (2.71%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.44%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
14 13 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 12 (1.63%) GitHub
15 12 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
16 11 (1.49%) Serverless
17 10 (1.36%) Entra ID
17 10 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
1 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Intranet
2 3 (0.41%) LAN
2 3 (0.41%) SMS
2 3 (0.41%) WAN
3 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) PSTN
3 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.14%) 2G
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) SDH
4 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.14%) SIGTRAN
4 1 (0.14%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.36%) Metadata
2 84 (11.38%) Power BI
3 46 (6.23%) Data Lake
4 45 (6.10%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.07%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.12%) Tableau
7 21 (2.85%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.44%) GIS
9 15 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.63%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.36%) Data Mining
12 10 (1.36%) MySQL
12 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (1.08%) Big Data
14 8 (1.08%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.95%) Pentaho
15 7 (0.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (6.50%) JIRA
2 18 (2.44%) Git
3 16 (2.17%) Selenium
4 13 (1.76%) ERwin
5 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.22%) Postman
8 8 (1.08%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.81%) GitLab
9 6 (0.81%) JMeter
10 5 (0.68%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.54%) JUnit
11 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.41%) Gradle
12 3 (0.41%) Maven
12 3 (0.41%) MLflow
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 242 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 202 (27.37%) Finance
3 145 (19.65%) Analytical Skills
4 72 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.32%) Banking
6 36 (4.88%) Marketing
7 35 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 35 (4.74%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (3.66%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.25%) Retail
10 20 (2.71%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.57%) Legal
12 17 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.90%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.76%) Local Government
15 12 (1.63%) Front Office
16 10 (1.36%) Billing
16 10 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.36%) Military
17 9 (1.22%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (15.72%) Analyst
2 104 (14.09%) Architect
3 81 (10.98%) Lead
4 65 (8.81%) Data Architect
4 65 (8.81%) Senior
5 60 (8.13%) Data Analyst
6 50 (6.78%) Developer
7 46 (6.23%) Consultant
8 45 (6.10%) Data Engineer
9 42 (5.69%) Business Analyst
10 39 (5.28%) Administrator
11 32 (4.34%) Data Manager
12 29 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.57%) Data Consultant
14 17 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.30%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.17%) Data Management Specialist
16 15 (2.03%) Data Administrator
16 15 (2.03%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.76%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.79%) REST
2 19 (2.57%) JSON
3 18 (2.44%) Kafka
4 17 (2.30%) Middleware
5 16 (2.17%) XML
6 14 (1.90%) RESTful
7 12 (1.63%) .NET
8 11 (1.49%) PySpark
9 9 (1.22%) SOAP
10 8 (1.08%) OAuth
10 8 (1.08%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.81%) HTML
12 5 (0.68%) JWT
12 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.54%) LDAP
13 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
13 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.81%) Management Information System
2 45 (6.10%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.01%) Cloud Native
4 36 (4.88%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.47%) Reference Data
6 25 (3.39%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.71%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (2.44%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.90%) FMCG
12 13 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.63%) Life Science
14 10 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
16 8 (1.08%) CMDB
17 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 7 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
17 7 (0.95%) Replication
17 7 (0.95%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.63%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (32.52%) Data Governance
2 178 (24.12%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (23.44%) Migration
4 157 (21.27%) Agile
5 152 (20.60%) Data Modelling
6 151 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
7 148 (20.05%) Analytics
8 134 (18.16%) Validation
9 120 (16.26%) AI
10 103 (13.96%) Business Intelligence
11 102 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (13.55%) Data Architecture
13 94 (12.74%) Decision-Making
14 92 (12.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 91 (12.33%) Data Migration
16 89 (12.06%) ETL
17 82 (11.11%) Roadmaps
18 79 (10.70%) DevOps
19 75 (10.16%) Data Analysis
20 67 (9.08%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 153 (20.73%) SQL
2 74 (10.03%) Python
3 39 (5.28%) Java
4 22 (2.98%) C#
5 17 (2.30%) C
6 14 (1.90%) X++
7 12 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.95%) VBA
9 5 (0.68%) Bicep
9 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.54%) PowerShell
10 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.41%) Scala
11 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.14%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 129 (17.48%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.87%) SC Cleared
3 58 (7.86%) Degree
4 27 (3.66%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.08%) OCP
8 8 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) ISEB
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
14 1 (0.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
14 1 (0.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 257 (34.82%) Data Quality
2 67 (9.08%) GDPR
3 53 (7.18%) QA
4 18 (2.44%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.49%) PMO
6 7 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
8 5 (0.68%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) COREP
10 3 (0.41%) FINREP
10 3 (0.41%) PERC
10 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) MiFID
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 18 (2.44%) Terraform
2 11 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.14%) CASB
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (16.12%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.89%) SAP
3 62 (8.40%) Databricks
4 61 (8.27%) Oracle
5 51 (6.91%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.25%) Informatica
7 18 (2.44%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.49%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.36%) ESRI
9 10 (1.36%) Google
9 10 (1.36%) Workday
10 8 (1.08%) Charles River
10 8 (1.08%) Concur
10 8 (1.08%) Foundry
10 8 (1.08%) Palantir
10 8 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.95%) Adobe
11 7 (0.95%) IBM
11 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.95%) Sitecore