Data Management Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Data Management UK / England
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	172	146	166
Rank change year-on-year	-26	+20
Contract jobs citing Data Management	616	845	716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	1.45%	1.73%	1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.71%	2.08%	1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted	402	581	464
Median daily rate	£475	£475	£465
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+2.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£325	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£633	£614
UK excluding London median daily rate	£439	£440	£430
% change year-on-year	-0.28%	+2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted	9	20	13
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£18.15	£24.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-0.82%	-24.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.50	£11.00	£22.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£59.70	£43.30	£49.47
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£18.00	£16.09	£35.00
% change year-on-year	+11.87%	-54.02%

Data Management is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Contract Process & Methodology Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	36004	40667	41211
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	84.73%	83.47%	80.82%
Number of daily rates quoted	23651	27315	26961
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£415
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+8.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£313	£300	£288
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£588
UK excluding London median daily rate	£415	£400	£380
% change year-on-year	+3.75%	+5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	936	954	1137
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.50	£26.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.18%	+5.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.53	£12.58	£12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£49.46	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£34.00	£28.50	£30.00
% change year-on-year	+19.29%	-5.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing Data Management as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Data Management in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Management in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Management in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Data Management in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-28	327	£500	-4.76%	62
South East	+63	122	£430	+6.17%	23
North West	-7	42	£400	-3.61%	26
Yorkshire	-13	36	£426	-14.75%	10
West Midlands	+7	26	£450	+5.89%	13
South West	0	23	£425	+13.33%	5
East Midlands	-7	20	£450	+5.88%	6
East of England	-45	11	£425	+13.33%	11
North East	+38	8	£519	+10.37%	7
Midlands	-8	1	£180	-64.00%	19
Data Management UK

Data Management
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Data Management also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for Data Management.

1	416 (31.66%)	Finance
2	346 (26.33%)	SQL
3	287 (21.84%)	Data Modelling
4	259 (19.71%)	Agile Software Development
5	254 (19.33%)	Data Quality
6	222 (16.89%)	Master Data Management
6	222 (16.89%)	Business Intelligence
7	207 (15.75%)	Oracle
7	207 (15.75%)	Analytical Skills
8	204 (15.53%)	Data Warehouse
9	203 (15.45%)	SQL Server
10	194 (14.76%)	Analytics
11	191 (14.54%)	ETL
12	180 (13.70%)	Banking
13	174 (13.24%)	Migration

14	171 (13.01%)	Microsoft
15	150 (11.42%)	Data Governance
16	148 (11.26%)	Data Architecture
17	146 (11.11%)	Data Analysis
18	143 (10.88%)	Management Information System
19	142 (10.81%)	Degree
20	136 (10.35%)	Microsoft Excel
21	128 (9.74%)	CRM
22	120 (9.13%)	SAP
23	119 (9.06%)	Java
24	118 (8.98%)	Stakeholder Management
25	112 (8.52%)	Project Management
26	110 (8.37%)	Data Migration
27	108 (8.22%)	Data Integration
28	104 (7.91%)	Python

Data Management
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	54 (4.11%)	SAS
2	43 (3.27%)	SharePoint
3	22 (1.67%)	BizTalk Server
4	21 (1.60%)	Confluence
5	19 (1.45%)	Skype for Business
6	18 (1.37%)	CMS
7	16 (1.22%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	13 (0.99%)	Apache
9	12 (0.91%)	Apache Spark
10	9 (0.68%)	Apache Solr
10	9 (0.68%)	ArcGIS
10	9 (0.68%)	Elasticsearch
10	9 (0.68%)	WebLogic
11	8 (0.61%)	Adobe Experience Manager
11	8 (0.61%)	Oracle Service Bus
12	6 (0.46%)	Drupal
12	6 (0.46%)	Tuxedo
13	5 (0.38%)	Apache Pig
13	5 (0.38%)	IBM HTTP Server
13	5 (0.38%)	JBoss

Applications
1	136 (10.35%)	Microsoft Excel
2	43 (3.27%)	Microsoft Office
3	38 (2.89%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
4	32 (2.44%)	MS Visio
5	18 (1.37%)	Spreadsheet
6	15 (1.14%)	Microsoft Project
6	15 (1.14%)	SPSS
7	3 (0.23%)	Pro/ENGINEER
7	3 (0.23%)	PTC Creo
7	3 (0.23%)	Windchill
8	1 (0.076%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	33 (2.51%)	Dynamics CRM
2	27 (2.05%)	Markit EDM
3	18 (1.37%)	SAP ERP
4	13 (0.99%)	Dynamics AX
5	10 (0.76%)	SAP PSCD
6	9 (0.68%)	SAP MDM
7	8 (0.61%)	Oracle Applications
8	7 (0.53%)	Oracle Utilities
8	7 (0.53%)	Salesforce.com CRM
8	7 (0.53%)	SAP CO
8	7 (0.53%)	SAP FI
8	7 (0.53%)	SAP FI/CO
8	7 (0.53%)	SimCorp Dimension
8	7 (0.53%)	thinkFolio
9	6 (0.46%)	Eloqua
9	6 (0.46%)	SAP MDG
10	5 (0.38%)	Dynamics NAV
10	5 (0.38%)	SAP IS-U
10	5 (0.38%)	SAP Oil and Gas
10	5 (0.38%)	Siebel CRM

Cloud Services
1	52 (3.96%)	Microsoft Azure
2	41 (3.12%)	Amazon AWS
3	21 (1.60%)	Office 365
4	18 (1.37%)	SaaS
4	18 (1.37%)	Yammer
5	13 (0.99%)	Adobe Analytics
6	9 (0.68%)	Cloud Computing
7	6 (0.46%)	IaaS
7	6 (0.46%)	SuccessFactors
8	5 (0.38%)	BlueKai
8	5 (0.38%)	Google Analytics
8	5 (0.38%)	PaaS
9	4 (0.30%)	Heroku
10	3 (0.23%)	Azure Data Factory
10	3 (0.23%)	CloudSense
10	3 (0.23%)	GitHub
10	3 (0.23%)	Google Tag Manager
10	3 (0.23%)	Veeva
11	2 (0.15%)	IBM Blueworks
11	2 (0.15%)	Oracle CX

Communications & Networking
1	9 (0.68%)	Network Security
2	8 (0.61%)	Firewall
3	7 (0.53%)	3G
3	7 (0.53%)	Intranet
3	7 (0.53%)	SAN
4	5 (0.38%)	4G
4	5 (0.38%)	LDAP
5	4 (0.30%)	Cisco Nexus
5	4 (0.30%)	Diameter Protocol
5	4 (0.30%)	INAP
5	4 (0.30%)	SIGTRAN
5	4 (0.30%)	SSL
6	3 (0.23%)	HTTP
6	3 (0.23%)	LTE
6	3 (0.23%)	NAS
6	3 (0.23%)	VLAN
6	3 (0.23%)	Wi-Fi
7	2 (0.15%)	FTP
7	2 (0.15%)	RTP
7	2 (0.15%)	TCP/IP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	204 (15.53%)	Data Warehouse
2	203 (15.45%)	SQL Server
3	101 (7.69%)	Big Data
4	94 (7.15%)	Hadoop
5	74 (5.63%)	SQL Server Integration Services
6	67 (5.10%)	Relational Database
7	54 (4.11%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
8	43 (3.27%)	BusinessObjects
9	37 (2.82%)	HBase
10	34 (2.59%)	Apache Hive
10	34 (2.59%)	MongoDB
10	34 (2.59%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
11	31 (2.36%)	QlikView
12	28 (2.13%)	Data Mining
13	27 (2.05%)	GIS
14	25 (1.90%)	RDBMS
15	24 (1.83%)	NoSQL
15	24 (1.83%)	Power BI
15	24 (1.83%)	SQL Server 2012
16	23 (1.75%)	Oracle Database

Development Applications
1	73 (5.56%)	Team Foundation Server
2	33 (2.51%)	JIRA
3	24 (1.83%)	ERwin
4	20 (1.52%)	Talend Open Studio
5	15 (1.14%)	Jenkins
6	9 (0.68%)	Git (software)
7	8 (0.61%)	Maven
8	7 (0.53%)	SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9	6 (0.46%)	Bitbucket
9	6 (0.46%)	Grunt
9	6 (0.46%)	Subversion
9	6 (0.46%)	Visual Studio
10	5 (0.38%)	Jasmine
10	5 (0.38%)	MagicDraw
10	5 (0.38%)	PowerDesigner
10	5 (0.38%)	Selenium
10	5 (0.38%)	Sonatype Nexus
11	4 (0.30%)	Appcelerator Titanium
11	4 (0.30%)	Hudson
11	4 (0.30%)	webpack

General
1	416 (31.66%)	Finance
2	180 (13.70%)	Banking
3	83 (6.32%)	Investment Banking
4	67 (5.10%)	Retail
5	61 (4.64%)	Marketing
6	43 (3.27%)	Legal
7	42 (3.20%)	Front Office
8	32 (2.44%)	Telecoms
9	20 (1.52%)	Back Office
10	19 (1.45%)	Manufacturing
11	16 (1.22%)	General Ledger
11	16 (1.22%)	Pharmaceutical
12	12 (0.91%)	Billing
13	10 (0.76%)	Publishing
14	8 (0.61%)	Financial Institution
15	7 (0.53%)	French Language
15	7 (0.53%)	Law
16	6 (0.46%)	Automotive
16	6 (0.46%)	Electronics
17	4 (0.30%)	Games

Job Titles
1	357 (27.17%)	Analyst
2	213 (16.21%)	Developer
3	207 (15.75%)	Architect
4	166 (12.63%)	Data Analyst
5	136 (10.35%)	Business Analyst
6	129 (9.82%)	Data Architect
7	110 (8.37%)	Consultant
8	59 (4.49%)	Project Manager
9	53 (4.03%)	Data Manager
10	48 (3.65%)	SQL Developer
11	41 (3.12%)	Data Business Analyst
12	40 (3.04%)	Java Developer
12	40 (3.04%)	Solutions Architect
13	30 (2.28%)	Administrator
14	29 (2.21%)	C# Developer
14	29 (2.21%)	Data Consultant
15	28 (2.13%)	SAP Consultant
16	26 (1.98%)	.NET Developer
17	25 (1.90%)	Senior Analyst
18	23 (1.75%)	DBA

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	92 (7.00%)	Web Services
2	85 (6.47%)	.NET
3	56 (4.26%)	XML
4	47 (3.58%)	JSON
5	42 (3.20%)	HTML
6	41 (3.12%)	Entity Framework
7	39 (2.97%)	.NET Framework
8	31 (2.36%)	Middleware
9	30 (2.28%)	AngularJS
10	29 (2.21%)	CSS
11	26 (1.98%)	HTML5
12	24 (1.83%)	REST
13	23 (1.75%)	LINQ
14	22 (1.67%)	LINQ to SQL
15	17 (1.29%)	COM
15	17 (1.29%)	RESTful
15	17 (1.29%)	SOAP
16	16 (1.22%)	jQuery
16	16 (1.22%)	Spring
17	14 (1.07%)	D3.js

Miscellaneous
1	207 (15.75%)	Analytical Skills
2	143 (10.88%)	Management Information System
3	93 (7.08%)	Fintech
4	92 (7.00%)	Data Structures
5	69 (5.25%)	Reference Data
6	63 (4.79%)	Algorithms
7	45 (3.42%)	Equities
8	44 (3.35%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	33 (2.51%)	Computer Science
10	30 (2.28%)	Fixed Income
11	27 (2.05%)	User Experience
12	25 (1.90%)	Derivative
13	23 (1.75%)	Enterprise Software
14	22 (1.67%)	NHS
15	20 (1.52%)	Credit Risk
16	19 (1.45%)	Virtual Team
17	17 (1.29%)	Greenfield Project
17	17 (1.29%)	Hedge funds
18	15 (1.14%)	Taxonomies
18	15 (1.14%)	VWAP

Operating Systems
1	74 (5.63%)	Linux
2	66 (5.02%)	Windows
3	56 (4.26%)	Unix
4	14 (1.07%)	CentOS
5	10 (0.76%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6	7 (0.53%)	AIX
7	6 (0.46%)	VME
8	5 (0.38%)	Windows Server
8	5 (0.38%)	Windows Server 2008
9	4 (0.30%)	Windows Server 2012
10	3 (0.23%)	Apple iOS
10	3 (0.23%)	Windows 7
11	2 (0.15%)	Android
12	1 (0.076%)	Fedora
12	1 (0.076%)	Solaris
12	1 (0.076%)	Windows 10
12	1 (0.076%)	Windows 8
12	1 (0.076%)	Windows Server 2003
12	1 (0.076%)	zOS

Processes & Methodologies
1	287 (21.84%)	Data Modelling
2	259 (19.71%)	Agile Software Development
3	222 (16.89%)	Business Intelligence
3	222 (16.89%)	Master Data Management
4	194 (14.76%)	Analytics
5	191 (14.54%)	ETL
6	174 (13.24%)	Migration
7	150 (11.42%)	Data Governance
8	148 (11.26%)	Data Architecture
9	146 (11.11%)	Data Analysis
10	128 (9.74%)	CRM
11	118 (8.98%)	Stakeholder Management
12	112 (8.52%)	Project Management
13	110 (8.37%)	Data Migration
14	108 (8.22%)	Data Integration
15	103 (7.84%)	SDLC
16	86 (6.54%)	Business Analysis
17	73 (5.56%)	Change Management
17	73 (5.56%)	TOGAF
18	71 (5.40%)	Asset Management

Programming Languages
1	346 (26.33%)	SQL
2	119 (9.06%)	Java
3	104 (7.91%)	Python
4	83 (6.32%)	C#
5	60 (4.57%)	JavaScript
6	42 (3.20%)	C++
7	37 (2.82%)	PL/SQL
8	35 (2.66%)	T-SQL
9	34 (2.59%)	VBA
10	31 (2.36%)	Perl
11	29 (2.21%)	R
12	21 (1.60%)	C
13	16 (1.22%)	Ruby
14	14 (1.07%)	VB
15	13 (0.99%)	Apex Code
16	12 (0.91%)	Scala
17	9 (0.68%)	PHP
17	9 (0.68%)	Shell Script
18	8 (0.61%)	COBOL
19	7 (0.53%)	Bash Shell

Qualifications
1	142 (10.81%)	Degree
2	78 (5.94%)	Security Cleared
3	56 (4.26%)	SC Cleared
4	15 (1.14%)	ISEB
4	15 (1.14%)	Master's Degree
5	13 (0.99%)	BPSS Clearance
5	13 (0.99%)	RHCE
6	12 (0.91%)	CISM
6	12 (0.91%)	CISSP
6	12 (0.91%)	Computer Science Degree
7	10 (0.76%)	CCA
7	10 (0.76%)	CCNP
7	10 (0.76%)	Cisco Certification
8	9 (0.68%)	CCNA
9	7 (0.53%)	CISA
9	7 (0.53%)	RHCSA
10	6 (0.46%)	ISTQB
10	6 (0.46%)	Postgraduate
10	6 (0.46%)	RHCA
11	5 (0.38%)	IIBA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	254 (19.33%)	Data Quality
2	41 (3.12%)	GDPR
3	40 (3.04%)	QA
4	37 (2.82%)	MiFID
5	18 (1.37%)	PMO
6	13 (0.99%)	Disclosure Scotland
7	9 (0.68%)	SLA
8	5 (0.38%)	PCI DSS
8	5 (0.38%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
9	4 (0.30%)	ISO 20022
9	4 (0.30%)	Solvency II
10	3 (0.23%)	Basel III
10	3 (0.23%)	FedRAMP
10	3 (0.23%)	ISO/IEC 27001
11	2 (0.15%)	Actionable Recommendations
11	2 (0.15%)	BS7666
11	2 (0.15%)	COBIT
11	2 (0.15%)	CRD IV
11	2 (0.15%)	GMP
11	2 (0.15%)	IFRS

System Software
1	21 (1.60%)	Active Directory
2	12 (0.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	10 (0.76%)	Docker
4	7 (0.53%)	Oracle RAC
5	6 (0.46%)	HDFS
6	5 (0.38%)	vSphere
7	4 (0.30%)	Hyper-V
8	3 (0.23%)	Apache Flume
8	3 (0.23%)	Virtual Machines
9	2 (0.15%)	KVM
9	2 (0.15%)	LXC
9	2 (0.15%)	Microsoft App-V
9	2 (0.15%)	SAP ITS
9	2 (0.15%)	Virtual Desktop
9	2 (0.15%)	Xen
10	1 (0.076%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	1 (0.076%)	Platform Symphony
10	1 (0.076%)	Slurm Workload Manager
10	1 (0.076%)	Veritas Cluster Server
10	1 (0.076%)	XenApp

Systems Management
1	19 (1.45%)	Ansible
1	19 (1.45%)	Puppet
2	18 (1.37%)	Opscode Chef
3	10 (0.76%)	Nagios
4	7 (0.53%)	Kubernetes
5	5 (0.38%)	Oracle Identity Management
6	4 (0.30%)	Kibana
6	4 (0.30%)	NetBackup
6	4 (0.30%)	vCenter Server
7	3 (0.23%)	HP Quality Center
7	3 (0.23%)	logstash
7	3 (0.23%)	Oracle EDQ
7	3 (0.23%)	Oracle RMAN
7	3 (0.23%)	SCCM
8	2 (0.15%)	Control-M
8	2 (0.15%)	ITRS Geneos
8	2 (0.15%)	Mesos
8	2 (0.15%)	SCOM
9	1 (0.076%)	BMC PATROL
9	1 (0.076%)	OpenView

Vendors
1	207 (15.75%)	Oracle
2	171 (13.01%)	Microsoft
3	120 (9.13%)	SAP
4	69 (5.25%)	Informatica
5	63 (4.79%)	Salesforce.com
6	46 (3.50%)	IBM
7	44 (3.35%)	Tableau
8	33 (2.51%)	Cloudera
9	25 (1.90%)	MapR
10	22 (1.67%)	Adobe
10	22 (1.67%)	Splunk
11	21 (1.60%)	Red Hat
11	21 (1.60%)	Teradata
12	20 (1.52%)	Nuix
12	20 (1.52%)	Talend
13	17 (1.29%)	Infor
14	16 (1.22%)	Ab Initio
14	16 (1.22%)	TIBCO
15	15 (1.14%)	Cisco
16	14 (1.07%)	Cognos