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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Management 667 681 765
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 2.78% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.05% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 451 491
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
75th Percentile £588 £713 £675
90th Percentile £705 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 25 55
10th Percentile £13.13 £19.93 £15.30
25th Percentile £18.12 £25.15 £19.57
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -22.99% -8.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £46.18
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.50 £61.85
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £32.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.92% -18.13% -8.32%

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 33,718 22,322 32,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.24% 91.07% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,550 14,669 21,082
10th Percentile £315 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -4.03% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,104 894 2,218
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.32 £18.51 £15.86
Median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67.25 £64.31 £58.75
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £72.33
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -14.29% -6.67%

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 21 April 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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -55 335 £500 -16.74% 158
Midlands -25 87 £500 -4.76% 43
South East -42 80 £463 -15.91% 81
West Midlands -20 72 £500 -6.98% 28
North of England -60 64 £425 -19.43% 47
South West +3 61 £505 -3.81% 35
North West -59 33 £500 -9.09% 33
East of England -45 30 £505 +1.00% 35
Yorkshire -51 29 £375 -21.05% 10
East Midlands -34 14 £450 -2.39% 15
North East -12 3 £470 - 4
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 37 (5.55%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.20%) Confluence
3 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.65%) HCL Notes
4 11 (1.65%) SAS
5 10 (1.50%) Mendix
6 7 (1.05%) ArcGIS
7 6 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 5 (0.75%) Apache
9 4 (0.60%) CMS
10 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (8.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
3 23 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.55%) MS Visio
5 14 (2.10%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.60%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 22 (3.30%) Teamcenter
2 21 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
4 6 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 5 (0.75%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.45%) SAP PP
7 3 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.45%) Workday HCM
8 2 (0.30%) iTrent
8 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
8 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 109 (16.34%) Azure
2 103 (15.44%) Power Platform
3 55 (8.25%) AWS
4 32 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
5 28 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.05%) Collibra
6 27 (4.05%) SaaS
7 26 (3.90%) GCP
8 25 (3.75%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.30%) Serverless
10 15 (2.25%) Azure Data Factory
10 15 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (2.25%) Power Automate
11 14 (2.10%) Azure Functions
11 14 (2.10%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 13 (1.95%) Azure Service Bus
12 13 (1.95%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.80%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.80%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.80%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.95%) LAN
2 11 (1.65%) WAN
3 10 (1.50%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.05%) PSTN
5 4 (0.60%) Intranet
6 2 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.30%) NAS
6 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) 3G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) WebEx
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (13.34%) Power BI
2 75 (11.24%) Metadata
3 55 (8.25%) Data Warehouse
4 34 (5.10%) Data Lake
5 32 (4.80%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.90%) Tableau
7 18 (2.70%) Oracle Database
8 14 (2.10%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.95%) GIS
10 12 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.80%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.50%) MySQL
11 10 (1.50%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.35%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.05%) Metadata Repository
13 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.90%) OLAP
14 6 (0.90%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 51 (7.65%) JIRA
2 23 (3.45%) GitLab
3 19 (2.85%) Git
4 13 (1.95%) ERwin
4 13 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 11 (1.65%) Selenium
6 7 (1.05%) JUnit
7 6 (0.90%) JMeter
8 5 (0.75%) Appium
9 4 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.45%) Postman
10 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.45%) Toad
10 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
11 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
12 1 (0.15%) GCC
12 1 (0.15%) Hudson
12 1 (0.15%) TestNG
General
1 230 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 195 (29.24%) Finance
3 148 (22.19%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (8.70%) Public Sector
5 49 (7.35%) Banking
6 34 (5.10%) Marketing
7 33 (4.95%) Manufacturing
8 29 (4.35%) Financial Institution
9 28 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.45%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.25%) Retail
14 14 (2.10%) Legal
15 13 (1.95%) Local Government
16 12 (1.80%) Military
17 11 (1.65%) Telecoms
18 9 (1.35%) Aviation
18 9 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 9 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 125 (18.74%) Analyst
2 77 (11.54%) Architect
3 72 (10.79%) Senior
4 65 (9.75%) Lead
5 58 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 57 (8.55%) Data Analyst
7 49 (7.35%) Data Architect
8 39 (5.85%) Consultant
9 37 (5.55%) Data Manager
10 35 (5.25%) Developer
11 33 (4.95%) Data Engineer
12 22 (3.30%) Administrator
13 18 (2.70%) Data Business Analyst
13 18 (2.70%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.55%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.40%) Senior Manager
16 14 (2.10%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.10%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.10%) Data Management Specialist
17 12 (1.80%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (2.85%) REST
2 18 (2.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 16 (2.40%) .NET
4 13 (1.95%) React
5 11 (1.65%) JSON
5 11 (1.65%) Kafka
6 10 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
6 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (1.20%) XML
8 7 (1.05%) YAML
9 6 (0.90%) PySpark
9 6 (0.90%) pytest
10 5 (0.75%) JDO
10 5 (0.75%) Middleware
10 5 (0.75%) SOAP
10 5 (0.75%) Web Services
11 4 (0.60%) ADO
11 4 (0.60%) CSS
11 4 (0.60%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.60%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.95%) Management Information System
2 39 (5.85%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.50%) Data Structures
4 29 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (3.60%) Reference Data
6 22 (3.30%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (3.00%) Cloud Native
8 18 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.80%) FMCG
9 12 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (1.50%) Life Science
10 10 (1.50%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.20%) IoT
12 7 (1.05%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.05%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.90%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.90%) Wiki
14 5 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.95%) Windows
2 4 (0.60%) Android
2 4 (0.60%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 177 (26.54%) Data Governance
2 167 (25.04%) Agile
3 166 (24.89%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (23.09%) Migration
5 148 (22.19%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (20.09%) Analytics
7 131 (19.64%) Data Modelling
8 108 (16.19%) Business Intelligence
9 99 (14.84%) Validation
10 87 (13.04%) Decision-Making
11 85 (12.74%) AI
12 78 (11.69%) ETL
13 75 (11.24%) DevOps
14 72 (10.79%) Data Analysis
14 72 (10.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 71 (10.64%) Data Migration
16 70 (10.49%) CI/CD
17 67 (10.04%) Data Architecture
18 63 (9.45%) Project Management
19 60 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.54%) SQL
2 72 (10.79%) Python
3 20 (3.00%) C#
4 18 (2.70%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.40%) Java
5 16 (2.40%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.65%) Formula Language
6 11 (1.65%) LotusScript
6 11 (1.65%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 9 (1.35%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.35%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.35%) VBA
9 6 (0.90%) Bicep
9 6 (0.90%) C
10 5 (0.75%) C++
10 5 (0.75%) Groovy
10 5 (0.75%) R
11 3 (0.45%) Scala
11 3 (0.45%) X++
Qualifications
1 126 (18.89%) Security Cleared
2 103 (15.44%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.44%) Degree
4 22 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.25%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.50%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.20%) IIBA
9 7 (1.05%) CBAP
9 7 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.90%) OCA
11 5 (0.75%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.75%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.75%) PMP
12 4 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.60%) OCP
13 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.45%) PhD
13 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 180 (26.99%) Data Quality
2 63 (9.45%) QA
3 56 (8.40%) GDPR
4 15 (2.25%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.95%) PMO
6 7 (1.05%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.90%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.75%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.60%) BS7666
9 4 (0.60%) COREP
9 4 (0.60%) FINREP
9 4 (0.60%) IFRS
9 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) DICOM
11 2 (0.30%) HL7
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) NIST
11 2 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 7 (1.05%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 18 (2.70%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.50%) Terraform
4 7 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.60%) Grafana
6 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 120 (17.99%) Microsoft
2 71 (10.64%) Oracle
3 57 (8.55%) SAP
4 35 (5.25%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.95%) Databricks
6 24 (3.60%) Informatica
7 17 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.95%) Google
9 11 (1.65%) Lotus
10 10 (1.50%) Kofax
10 10 (1.50%) Talend
11 9 (1.35%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.05%) Siemens
13 6 (0.90%) Adobe
13 6 (0.90%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.75%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.75%) Charles River
14 5 (0.75%) Murex
14 5 (0.75%) Palantir