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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 123 115
Rank change year-on-year -38 -8 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Management 751 642 691
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.33% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.56% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 369 410
10th Percentile £331 £296 £343
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £636 £638 £688
90th Percentile £744 £800 £794
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 34 54
10th Percentile £16.37 £18.45 £17.03
25th Percentile £23.08 £23.84 £25.00
Median hourly rate £38.75 £30.56 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.79% -30.14% +32.58%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +21.21%

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 38,369 25,044 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 90.72% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,058 16,057 19,314
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £423 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,388 1,359 1,834
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.56 £51.77 £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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -33 358 £525 -4.55% 156
South East -21 111 £463 +15.63% 76
Midlands -17 107 £513 +13.89% 47
West Midlands -15 83 £513 +20.59% 26
North of England -89 74 £425 -8.11% 59
South West -18 54 £525 -8.70% 28
North West -61 38 £550 +10.00% 36
Yorkshire -55 34 £400 -5.33% 16
East of England -31 26 £625 +104.58% 26
East Midlands -10 23 £525 +10.53% 21
North East -39 3 £425 -10.53% 7
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 40 (5.33%) Confluence
2 36 (4.79%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.86%) Apache Spark
4 13 (1.73%) CMS
5 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
6 10 (1.33%) SAS
7 9 (1.20%) ArcGIS
7 9 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
8 8 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.93%) WordPress
10 6 (0.80%) Apache
11 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
13 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
13 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
13 1 (0.13%) Mule
13 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
13 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 59 (7.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.06%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 11 (1.46%) Spreadsheet
5 10 (1.33%) 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%) CATIA
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 31 (4.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 18 (2.40%) Teamcenter
3 13 (1.73%) Aladdin
4 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.93%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.93%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.67%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.53%) iTrent
8 4 (0.53%) Sage X3
8 4 (0.53%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
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%) SAP HR
9 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
10 2 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 148 (19.71%) Azure
2 113 (15.05%) Power Platform
3 64 (8.52%) AWS
4 37 (4.93%) SaaS
5 33 (4.39%) PowerApps
6 29 (3.86%) Azure Data Factory
6 29 (3.86%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (3.73%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (3.46%) GCP
9 24 (3.20%) Collibra
10 23 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (2.80%) Microsoft Purview
12 19 (2.53%) Entra ID
12 19 (2.53%) Snowflake
13 18 (2.40%) Power Automate
14 16 (2.13%) PaaS
15 15 (2.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 12 (1.60%) OneDrive
16 12 (1.60%) Serverless
17 11 (1.46%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.46%) LAN
1 11 (1.46%) WAN
2 10 (1.33%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.93%) PSTN
4 4 (0.53%) Network Security
5 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 3 (0.40%) Intranet
5 3 (0.40%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.27%) FTP
6 2 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) 5G
7 1 (0.13%) HTTP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) SAN
7 1 (0.13%) SDH
7 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.18%) Metadata
2 83 (11.05%) Power BI
3 51 (6.79%) Data Lake
3 51 (6.79%) Data Warehouse
4 36 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 22 (2.93%) Tableau
6 20 (2.66%) GIS
7 17 (2.26%) NoSQL
8 15 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.60%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (1.46%) MySQL
11 10 (1.33%) Big Data
11 10 (1.33%) Data Mining
11 10 (1.33%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.20%) Spatial Data
13 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 60 (7.99%) JIRA
2 18 (2.40%) Git
3 15 (2.00%) ERwin
4 11 (1.46%) Selenium
5 10 (1.33%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.93%) ER Studio
6 7 (0.93%) GitLab
6 7 (0.93%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.80%) Postman
8 5 (0.67%) JMeter
8 5 (0.67%) JUnit
8 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.40%) MLflow
11 2 (0.27%) Gradle
11 2 (0.27%) Maven
11 2 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 237 (31.56%) Social Skills
2 204 (27.16%) Finance
3 151 (20.11%) Analytical Skills
4 74 (9.85%) Public Sector
5 49 (6.52%) Banking
6 38 (5.06%) Marketing
7 33 (4.39%) Manufacturing
8 29 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.06%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.80%) Retail
12 20 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.40%) Legal
14 14 (1.86%) Front Office
14 14 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
15 13 (1.73%) Local Government
16 10 (1.33%) Billing
16 10 (1.33%) Financial Institution
17 8 (1.07%) Investment Banking
17 8 (1.07%) Military
Job Titles
1 119 (15.85%) Analyst
2 104 (13.85%) Architect
3 81 (10.79%) Lead
4 74 (9.85%) Senior
5 67 (8.92%) Data Architect
6 61 (8.12%) Data Analyst
7 50 (6.66%) Data Engineer
8 48 (6.39%) Business Analyst
9 46 (6.13%) Developer
10 44 (5.86%) Consultant
11 38 (5.06%) Administrator
12 32 (4.26%) Data Manager
13 26 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.80%) Data Management Specialist
15 19 (2.53%) Project Manager
16 18 (2.40%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (2.13%) Senior Developer
18 15 (2.00%) Data Administrator
18 15 (2.00%) Senior Manager
19 14 (1.86%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.80%) REST
2 18 (2.40%) JSON
3 15 (2.00%) XML
4 14 (1.86%) Middleware
4 14 (1.86%) RESTful
5 12 (1.60%) .NET
5 12 (1.60%) Kafka
6 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 10 (1.33%) PySpark
7 7 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.67%) JDO
8 5 (0.67%) OAuth
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.67%) SOAP
9 4 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.53%) HTML
9 4 (0.53%) LDAP
9 4 (0.53%) SAP CAF
9 4 (0.53%) Web Services
9 4 (0.53%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.26%) Management Information System
2 41 (5.46%) Data Structures
3 35 (4.66%) Reference Data
4 33 (4.39%) Cloud Native
4 33 (4.39%) Onboarding
5 26 (3.46%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.93%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 18 (2.40%) Legacy Systems
9 16 (2.13%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (2.00%) FMCG
11 13 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 12 (1.60%) Life Science
13 9 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 8 (1.07%) IoT
15 7 (0.93%) CMDB
15 7 (0.93%) Equities
15 7 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.00%) Windows
2 10 (1.33%) Linux
3 1 (0.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (31.29%) Data Governance
2 186 (24.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 173 (23.04%) Agile
3 173 (23.04%) Migration
4 152 (20.24%) Data Modelling
5 146 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
6 139 (18.51%) Analytics
6 139 (18.51%) Validation
7 114 (15.18%) AI
8 103 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 102 (13.58%) Data Architecture
10 100 (13.32%) Business Intelligence
11 96 (12.78%) Decision-Making
11 96 (12.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 92 (12.25%) ETL
13 90 (11.98%) Data Migration
14 80 (10.65%) Roadmaps
15 75 (9.99%) DevOps
16 72 (9.59%) Data Analysis
17 68 (9.05%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 149 (19.84%) SQL
2 80 (10.65%) Python
3 29 (3.86%) Java
4 25 (3.33%) C#
5 18 (2.40%) C
6 15 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 12 (1.60%) X++
8 10 (1.33%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.33%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.93%) Bicep
9 7 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.93%) VBA
10 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
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%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 125 (16.64%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.25%) SC Cleared
3 68 (9.05%) Degree
4 26 (3.46%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 15 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.20%) Master's Degree
9 7 (0.93%) OCP
9 7 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.80%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.53%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.40%) PMP
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.13%) NVQ Level 3
15 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (33.56%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.59%) GDPR
3 64 (8.52%) QA
4 21 (2.80%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.60%) PMO
6 5 (0.67%) NCSC
7 4 (0.53%) BS7666
7 4 (0.53%) COREP
7 4 (0.53%) FINREP
7 4 (0.53%) ISO 20022
7 4 (0.53%) Solvency II
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) PERC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) Def Stans
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%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (2.00%) Terraform
2 11 (1.46%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.53%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.40%) Grafana
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
1 123 (16.38%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.72%) SAP
3 66 (8.79%) Databricks
4 55 (7.32%) Oracle
5 49 (6.52%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.73%) Informatica
7 22 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.73%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.46%) Charles River
10 10 (1.33%) ESRI
11 9 (1.20%) Foundry
11 9 (1.20%) Google
11 9 (1.20%) Palantir
11 9 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 9 (1.20%) Workday
12 8 (1.07%) Concur
12 8 (1.07%) Talend
13 7 (0.93%) Adobe
13 7 (0.93%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.80%) Refinitiv