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

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -65 +17 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Management 697 667 747
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.75% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 3.02% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 429 454
10th Percentile £340 £320 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £725 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 58
10th Percentile £14.06 £22.10 £15.62
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £29.78 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.73% -25.00% +7.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £57.88 £77.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £30.56 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% -23.59% +7.24%

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 35,715 22,116 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.31% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,658 14,376 20,600
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,231 961 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% -0.73%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -44 362 £500 -23.08% 156
South East -13 96 £450 -10.00% 72
Midlands -30 82 £513 -4.65% 31
West Midlands -32 63 £513 - 20
South West -2 56 £500 -1.96% 36
North of England -108 53 £463 -7.50% 45
North West -72 30 £500 -1.48% 27
East of England -51 26 £505 -8.18% 14
Yorkshire -64 22 £400 -11.11% 17
East Midlands -24 18 £525 -8.70% 12
North East - 2 £400 - 1
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 47 (6.74%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.16%) Confluence
3 12 (1.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.58%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.58%) CMS
5 10 (1.43%) HCL Notes
5 10 (1.43%) Mendix
6 9 (1.29%) ArcGIS
7 8 (1.15%) SAS
8 7 (1.00%) Palantir Foundry
9 6 (0.86%) WordPress
10 5 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
11 4 (0.57%) Apache
12 1 (0.14%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.14%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.14%) Moodle
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 64 (9.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 33 (4.73%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.44%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.58%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.43%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.43%) Revit
7 3 (0.43%) Windchill
8 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.14%) CATIA
8 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.44%) Teamcenter
2 20 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.86%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.57%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.43%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.43%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.43%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.43%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.29%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.14%) Primavera
9 1 (0.14%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.14%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.14%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 124 (17.79%) Azure
2 116 (16.64%) Power Platform
3 51 (7.32%) AWS
4 35 (5.02%) PowerApps
5 32 (4.59%) Microsoft 365
6 29 (4.16%) SaaS
7 26 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 25 (3.59%) Collibra
8 25 (3.59%) GCP
9 23 (3.30%) Azure Data Factory
10 21 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.87%) Power Automate
12 19 (2.73%) Serverless
13 18 (2.58%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (2.15%) Snowflake
15 14 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
16 13 (1.87%) Azure Functions
17 12 (1.72%) Entra ID
17 12 (1.72%) OneDrive
18 11 (1.58%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.87%) LAN
2 11 (1.58%) WAN
3 10 (1.43%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.00%) PSTN
5 4 (0.57%) Intranet
5 4 (0.57%) SMS
6 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.29%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) SAN
6 2 (0.29%) WLAN
7 1 (0.14%) 3G
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) 5G
7 1 (0.14%) DWDM
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) HTTP
7 1 (0.14%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) SDH
7 1 (0.14%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.34%) Power BI
2 82 (11.76%) Metadata
3 57 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (6.17%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.16%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.87%) Tableau
7 19 (2.73%) GIS
8 18 (2.58%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.87%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (1.58%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.29%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.29%) Data Mining
13 9 (1.29%) Metadata Repository
13 9 (1.29%) MySQL
13 9 (1.29%) Spatial Data
14 8 (1.15%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (6.74%) JIRA
2 15 (2.15%) Git
3 11 (1.58%) ERwin
3 11 (1.58%) GitLab
3 11 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.29%) Selenium
5 5 (0.72%) JUnit
5 5 (0.72%) Postman
6 4 (0.57%) JMeter
6 4 (0.57%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.43%) Toad
7 3 (0.43%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) MLflow
8 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.14%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.14%) Newman
General
1 234 (33.57%) Social Skills
2 197 (28.26%) Finance
3 140 (20.09%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.74%) Banking
6 29 (4.16%) Manufacturing
6 29 (4.16%) Marketing
7 27 (3.87%) Aerospace
7 27 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
8 24 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (3.30%) Financial Institution
10 17 (2.44%) Local Government
11 16 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.87%) Legal
12 13 (1.87%) Retail
13 10 (1.43%) Aviation
14 8 (1.15%) Military
14 8 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.15%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 127 (18.22%) Analyst
2 96 (13.77%) Architect
3 75 (10.76%) Lead
4 72 (10.33%) Senior
5 67 (9.61%) Data Architect
6 62 (8.90%) Data Analyst
7 53 (7.60%) Business Analyst
8 41 (5.88%) Consultant
8 41 (5.88%) Developer
9 37 (5.31%) Administrator
10 36 (5.16%) Data Engineer
11 32 (4.59%) Data Manager
12 17 (2.44%) Data Business Analyst
12 17 (2.44%) Data Management Specialist
12 17 (2.44%) Project Manager
12 17 (2.44%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (2.30%) Data Administrator
13 16 (2.30%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (2.15%) Governance Analyst
15 14 (2.01%) Configuration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.44%) REST
2 14 (2.01%) .NET
3 13 (1.87%) JSON
3 13 (1.87%) XML
4 10 (1.43%) HTML5 Canvas
4 10 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
4 10 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
4 10 (1.43%) React
5 9 (1.29%) Middleware
6 8 (1.15%) Kafka
6 8 (1.15%) PySpark
7 7 (1.00%) RESTful
8 6 (0.86%) Web Services
8 6 (0.86%) YAML
9 5 (0.72%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.72%) HTML
9 5 (0.72%) JDO
10 4 (0.57%) CSS
10 4 (0.57%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.57%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.61%) Management Information System
2 39 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.87%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.59%) Cloud Native
5 23 (3.30%) Legacy Systems
6 22 (3.16%) Reference Data
7 20 (2.87%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.15%) Product Ownership
9 14 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.58%) FMCG
11 10 (1.43%) Life Science
11 10 (1.43%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.15%) IoT
13 7 (1.00%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (1.00%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.00%) Replication
14 6 (0.86%) NHS
14 6 (0.86%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.72%) Windows
2 1 (0.14%) Linux
2 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 186 (26.69%) Data Governance
2 173 (24.82%) Migration
3 158 (22.67%) Agile
4 149 (21.38%) Data Modelling
4 149 (21.38%) Problem-Solving
5 148 (21.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 128 (18.36%) Analytics
7 106 (15.21%) Business Intelligence
8 99 (14.20%) AI
9 97 (13.92%) Validation
10 93 (13.34%) Decision-Making
11 92 (13.20%) ETL
12 85 (12.20%) Data Architecture
13 81 (11.62%) Data Migration
14 78 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
15 77 (11.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 76 (10.90%) Data Analysis
17 72 (10.33%) DevOps
18 62 (8.90%) Data Engineering
19 61 (8.75%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 145 (20.80%) SQL
2 80 (11.48%) Python
3 22 (3.16%) Java
4 20 (2.87%) C#
5 16 (2.30%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.30%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.43%) Formula Language
6 10 (1.43%) LotusScript
6 10 (1.43%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.29%) C
7 9 (1.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.15%) VBA
9 7 (1.00%) PL/SQL
9 7 (1.00%) X++
10 6 (0.86%) Bicep
11 4 (0.57%) R
12 3 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.43%) Scala
12 3 (0.43%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.29%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 121 (17.36%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.35%) SC Cleared
3 88 (12.63%) Degree
4 22 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.01%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.43%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.15%) CBAP
8 8 (1.15%) IIBA
9 6 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.72%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.72%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.57%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.57%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.57%) OCP
11 4 (0.57%) PMP
12 3 (0.43%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 196 (28.12%) Data Quality
2 65 (9.33%) GDPR
3 56 (8.03%) QA
4 16 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.43%) PMO
6 5 (0.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.72%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.57%) BS7666
7 4 (0.57%) COREP
7 4 (0.57%) FINREP
7 4 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.57%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) DICOM
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) PERC
System Software
1 4 (0.57%) Docker
2 3 (0.43%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.72%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.15%) Terraform
4 7 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.72%) Grafana
6 4 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.43%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.29%) Ansible
8 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.14%) Kibana
9 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 63 (9.04%) Oracle
3 52 (7.46%) SAP
4 50 (7.17%) Databricks
5 42 (6.03%) Salesforce
6 21 (3.01%) Informatica
7 12 (1.72%) Google
7 12 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 10 (1.43%) Bloomberg
8 10 (1.43%) Kofax
8 10 (1.43%) Lotus
9 9 (1.29%) ESRI
10 7 (1.00%) Foundry
10 7 (1.00%) Palantir
10 7 (1.00%) Siemens
11 6 (0.86%) Adobe
11 6 (0.86%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.86%) Charles River
11 6 (0.86%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.86%) Sitecore