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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 124 117
Rank change year-on-year -41 -7 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Management 748 639 683
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.32% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.56% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 372 403
10th Percentile £345 £296 £338
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.04% -5.91% -0.90%
75th Percentile £647 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £793
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.68% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 33 53
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.38 £16.67
25th Percentile £22.42 £23.45 £25.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% -31.54% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% +21.32%

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 38,641 24,977 29,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 90.76% 85.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,154 16,016 19,101
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
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% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,371 1,780
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.92 £17.98 £17.72
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £68.75 £52.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -38 355 £540 -1.82% 227
Midlands -15 109 £513 +13.89% 53
South East -16 108 £463 +19.35% 93
West Midlands -24 83 £513 +17.14% 34
North of England -89 77 £450 - 64
South West -21 51 £525 -8.70% 32
North West -63 40 £500 - 38
Yorkshire -61 35 £400 -4.76% 20
East of England -31 26 £625 +104.58% 32
East Midlands -8 25 £525 +10.53% 19
North East -42 3 £425 -10.53% 6
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 (4.14%) Confluence
1 31 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.87%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.87%) CMS
3 10 (1.34%) SAS
4 9 (1.20%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) Apache
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.53%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.53%) Mule
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 57 (7.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.81%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.34%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.40%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.13%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (4.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.14%) Teamcenter
3 13 (1.74%) Aladdin
4 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.80%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.67%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.67%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.53%) iTrent
8 4 (0.53%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.40%) Maximo
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.40%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.40%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.27%) Primavera
10 2 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 144 (19.25%) Azure
2 109 (14.57%) Power Platform
3 61 (8.16%) AWS
4 30 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (4.01%) SaaS
5 28 (3.74%) PowerApps
6 27 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.48%) GCP
8 25 (3.34%) Collibra
9 22 (2.94%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (2.54%) Snowflake
11 18 (2.41%) Microsoft 365
11 18 (2.41%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 13 (1.74%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.60%) Serverless
15 11 (1.47%) PaaS
15 11 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
16 8 (1.07%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) LAN
1 5 (0.67%) WAN
2 4 (0.53%) Firewall
2 4 (0.53%) Network Security
2 4 (0.53%) Unified Communications
2 4 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.40%) Intranet
3 3 (0.40%) PSTN
3 3 (0.40%) SMS
4 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.27%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) SAN
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.13%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (13.90%) Metadata
2 83 (11.10%) Power BI
3 51 (6.82%) Data Lake
4 49 (6.55%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (4.81%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.07%) Tableau
7 20 (2.67%) GIS
8 17 (2.27%) NoSQL
9 16 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.60%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.60%) MySQL
11 10 (1.34%) Big Data
11 10 (1.34%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.20%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.20%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.20%) Spatial Data
13 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (6.95%) JIRA
2 18 (2.41%) Git
3 14 (1.87%) ERwin
4 11 (1.47%) Selenium
4 11 (1.47%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.07%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.94%) GitLab
6 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.80%) JMeter
7 6 (0.80%) Postman
8 5 (0.67%) JUnit
8 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.40%) MLflow
9 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.27%) Gradle
10 2 (0.27%) Maven
10 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 1 (0.13%) Cucumber
General
1 241 (32.22%) Social Skills
2 200 (26.74%) Finance
3 152 (20.32%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 48 (6.42%) Banking
6 39 (5.21%) Marketing
7 32 (4.28%) Manufacturing
8 31 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
9 25 (3.34%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.94%) Aerospace
10 22 (2.94%) Retail
11 20 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.41%) Legal
13 14 (1.87%) Front Office
14 13 (1.74%) Local Government
14 13 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.47%) Billing
15 11 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.07%) Investment Banking
16 8 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 114 (15.24%) Analyst
2 103 (13.77%) Architect
3 81 (10.83%) Lead
4 69 (9.22%) Senior
5 65 (8.69%) Data Architect
6 58 (7.75%) Data Analyst
7 50 (6.68%) Data Engineer
7 50 (6.68%) Developer
8 44 (5.88%) Consultant
9 43 (5.75%) Business Analyst
10 40 (5.35%) Administrator
11 32 (4.28%) Data Manager
12 27 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 21 (2.81%) Data Management Specialist
14 19 (2.54%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.14%) Data Administrator
15 16 (2.14%) Senior Developer
16 15 (2.01%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (2.01%) Data Consultant
16 15 (2.01%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (3.48%) REST
2 21 (2.81%) JSON
3 16 (2.14%) Middleware
3 16 (2.14%) XML
4 14 (1.87%) RESTful
5 12 (1.60%) .NET
5 12 (1.60%) Kafka
6 10 (1.34%) PySpark
7 9 (1.20%) SOAP
8 8 (1.07%) OAuth
9 6 (0.80%) FIX Protocol
9 6 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
10 5 (0.67%) JWT
10 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
11 4 (0.53%) .NET Core
11 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.53%) Microsoft Graph
11 4 (0.53%) pytest
11 4 (0.53%) SailPoint
11 4 (0.53%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.42%) Management Information System
2 42 (5.61%) Data Structures
3 34 (4.55%) Reference Data
4 33 (4.41%) Cloud Native
4 33 (4.41%) Onboarding
5 28 (3.74%) Product Ownership
6 23 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (1.87%) FMCG
9 14 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.47%) Fixed Income
10 11 (1.47%) Life Science
11 9 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.07%) Social Media
13 7 (0.94%) CMDB
13 7 (0.94%) Equities
13 7 (0.94%) Replication
13 7 (0.94%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.47%) Linux
1 11 (1.47%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) Unix
2 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (31.68%) Data Governance
2 179 (23.93%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (23.13%) Migration
4 162 (21.66%) Agile
5 152 (20.32%) Problem-Solving
6 149 (19.92%) Data Modelling
7 144 (19.25%) Analytics
8 139 (18.58%) Validation
9 116 (15.51%) AI
10 103 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 102 (13.64%) Data Architecture
12 101 (13.50%) Business Intelligence
13 94 (12.57%) Decision-Making
13 94 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 91 (12.17%) Data Migration
15 90 (12.03%) ETL
16 81 (10.83%) Roadmaps
17 78 (10.43%) DevOps
18 73 (9.76%) Data Analysis
19 68 (9.09%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 150 (20.05%) SQL
2 74 (9.89%) Python
3 33 (4.41%) Java
4 25 (3.34%) C#
5 18 (2.41%) C
6 13 (1.74%) X++
7 10 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.20%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.94%) Bicep
9 7 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.80%) VBA
11 5 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.53%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.40%) Scala
13 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.13%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 124 (16.58%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.30%) SC Cleared
3 60 (8.02%) Degree
4 25 (3.34%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.07%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.07%) OCP
8 8 (1.07%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
12 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.40%) PMP
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.13%) BC Cleared
14 1 (0.13%) CBAP
14 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (33.69%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.49%) GDPR
3 62 (8.29%) QA
4 20 (2.67%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.47%) PMO
6 5 (0.67%) NCSC
6 5 (0.67%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.53%) BS7666
7 4 (0.53%) COREP
7 4 (0.53%) FINREP
7 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) PERC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.27%) COBIT
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.60%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.07%) Docker
3 4 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.14%) Terraform
2 11 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.53%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.40%) Grafana
5 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.13%) CASB
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.63%) SAP
3 63 (8.42%) Databricks
4 59 (7.89%) Oracle
5 51 (6.82%) Salesforce
6 26 (3.48%) Informatica
7 22 (2.94%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.60%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.34%) ESRI
9 10 (1.34%) Workday
10 9 (1.20%) Charles River
10 9 (1.20%) Foundry
10 9 (1.20%) Google
10 9 (1.20%) Palantir
10 9 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 8 (1.07%) Concur
11 8 (1.07%) Talend
12 7 (0.94%) Adobe
12 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) Sitecore