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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -73 +19 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Management 685 663 747
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.64% 2.75% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 3.02% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 424 452
10th Percentile £342 £322 £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 54 33 58
10th Percentile £13.69 £22.10 £15.62
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.15% -25.00% +7.24%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £59.03 £77.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £30.56 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.16% -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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £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 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -38 351 £500 -23.08% 201
South East -13 97 £450 -10.00% 81
Midlands -34 81 £513 -4.65% 43
West Midlands -35 63 £513 - 28
South West 0 56 £500 -1.96% 52
North of England -107 53 £463 -7.50% 65
North West -70 30 £500 -1.48% 37
East of England -54 26 £505 -8.18% 24
Yorkshire -67 22 £400 -11.11% 25
East Midlands -29 17 £525 -8.70% 16
North East - 2 £400 - 3
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 44 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.23%) Confluence
3 12 (1.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.61%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.61%) CMS
5 9 (1.31%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.17%) HCL Notes
6 8 (1.17%) Mendix
6 8 (1.17%) SAS
7 7 (1.02%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.88%) WordPress
9 5 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.58%) Apache
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
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 61 (8.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.48%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.44%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.44%) Revit
7 3 (0.44%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.50%) Teamcenter
2 19 (2.77%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.88%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.73%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.58%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
7 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
8 2 (0.29%) Sage X3
9 1 (0.15%) Primavera
9 1 (0.15%) SAP MDM
9 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.15%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 121 (17.66%) Azure
2 110 (16.06%) Power Platform
3 50 (7.30%) AWS
4 32 (4.67%) PowerApps
5 29 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (4.23%) SaaS
6 25 (3.65%) GCP
7 24 (3.50%) Azure DevOps
7 24 (3.50%) Collibra
8 23 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 20 (2.92%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (2.63%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (2.48%) Power Automate
11 17 (2.48%) Serverless
12 15 (2.19%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (1.75%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.75%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.61%) Azure Functions
16 10 (1.46%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.90%) LAN
2 11 (1.61%) WAN
3 10 (1.46%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.02%) PSTN
5 4 (0.58%) SMS
6 3 (0.44%) Intranet
7 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (0.29%) Network Security
7 2 (0.29%) SAN
7 2 (0.29%) WLAN
8 1 (0.15%) 3G
8 1 (0.15%) 4G
8 1 (0.15%) 5G
8 1 (0.15%) DWDM
8 1 (0.15%) FTP
8 1 (0.15%) HTTP
8 1 (0.15%) Internet
8 1 (0.15%) SDH
8 1 (0.15%) SIGTRAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (12.70%) Power BI
2 82 (11.97%) Metadata
3 56 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (6.28%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.26%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.36%) Tableau
7 19 (2.77%) GIS
8 16 (2.34%) Oracle Database
9 14 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
10 13 (1.90%) NoSQL
11 11 (1.61%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.46%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.31%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.31%) Data Mining
13 9 (1.31%) Metadata Repository
13 9 (1.31%) MySQL
13 9 (1.31%) Spatial Data
14 8 (1.17%) Delta Lake
14 8 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (6.86%) JIRA
2 15 (2.19%) Git
3 11 (1.61%) ERwin
3 11 (1.61%) GitLab
3 11 (1.61%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.31%) Selenium
5 5 (0.73%) JUnit
5 5 (0.73%) Postman
6 4 (0.58%) JMeter
6 4 (0.58%) REST Assured
6 4 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
6 4 (0.58%) Visual Studio
7 3 (0.44%) Toad
7 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.29%) MLflow
8 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 225 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 188 (27.45%) Finance
3 137 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 45 (6.57%) Banking
6 29 (4.23%) Manufacturing
6 29 (4.23%) Marketing
7 27 (3.94%) Aerospace
8 26 (3.80%) Influencing Skills
9 24 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (3.07%) Financial Institution
11 16 (2.34%) Local Government
12 14 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.90%) Legal
13 13 (1.90%) Retail
14 10 (1.46%) Aviation
15 8 (1.17%) Military
15 8 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.17%) Telecoms
16 7 (1.02%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 125 (18.25%) Analyst
2 95 (13.87%) Architect
3 75 (10.95%) Lead
4 72 (10.51%) Senior
5 66 (9.64%) Data Architect
6 61 (8.91%) Data Analyst
7 53 (7.74%) Business Analyst
8 39 (5.69%) Developer
9 38 (5.55%) Consultant
10 36 (5.26%) Administrator
10 36 (5.26%) Data Engineer
11 32 (4.67%) Data Manager
12 18 (2.63%) Data Management Specialist
13 17 (2.48%) Data Business Analyst
13 17 (2.48%) Project Manager
13 17 (2.48%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.34%) Data Administrator
14 16 (2.34%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.19%) Governance Analyst
16 14 (2.04%) Configuration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.48%) REST
2 13 (1.90%) JSON
2 13 (1.90%) XML
3 12 (1.75%) .NET
4 10 (1.46%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (1.31%) Middleware
6 8 (1.17%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (1.17%) Kafka
6 8 (1.17%) Oracle Fusion
6 8 (1.17%) PySpark
6 8 (1.17%) React
7 7 (1.02%) RESTful
8 6 (0.88%) Web Services
8 6 (0.88%) YAML
9 5 (0.73%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (0.73%) HTML
9 5 (0.73%) JDO
10 4 (0.58%) CSS
10 4 (0.58%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.58%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.78%) Management Information System
2 38 (5.55%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.65%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.65%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.36%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.21%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
7 19 (2.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 15 (2.19%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.61%) FMCG
11 10 (1.46%) Life Science
12 8 (1.17%) IoT
12 8 (1.17%) Low-Code
13 7 (1.02%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (1.02%) Replication
14 6 (0.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 6 (0.88%) NHS
14 6 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.75%) Windows
2 1 (0.15%) Linux
2 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (26.72%) Data Governance
2 172 (25.11%) Migration
3 154 (22.48%) Agile
4 147 (21.46%) Data Modelling
5 146 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 143 (20.88%) Problem-Solving
7 127 (18.54%) Analytics
8 99 (14.45%) Business Intelligence
9 97 (14.16%) AI
10 95 (13.87%) Validation
11 91 (13.28%) Decision-Making
11 91 (13.28%) ETL
12 84 (12.26%) Data Architecture
13 81 (11.82%) Data Migration
14 78 (11.39%) Continuous Improvement
15 76 (11.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 74 (10.80%) Data Analysis
17 70 (10.22%) DevOps
18 61 (8.91%) Data Engineering
19 58 (8.47%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 140 (20.44%) SQL
2 77 (11.24%) Python
3 22 (3.21%) Java
4 18 (2.63%) C#
5 16 (2.34%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.46%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.31%) C
9 8 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 8 (1.17%) Formula Language
9 8 (1.17%) LotusScript
10 7 (1.02%) PL/SQL
10 7 (1.02%) X++
11 6 (0.88%) Bicep
11 6 (0.88%) VBA
12 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.44%) Scala
12 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 121 (17.66%) Security Cleared
2 101 (14.74%) SC Cleared
3 86 (12.55%) Degree
4 21 (3.07%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.34%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (2.04%) Master's Degree
7 10 (1.46%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.17%) CBAP
8 8 (1.17%) IIBA
9 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.73%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.73%) PMI Certification
10 5 (0.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.58%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.58%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.58%) OCP
11 4 (0.58%) PMP
12 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 2 (0.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (28.18%) Data Quality
2 64 (9.34%) GDPR
3 55 (8.03%) QA
4 16 (2.34%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.17%) PMO
6 5 (0.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.73%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.58%) BS7666
7 4 (0.58%) COREP
7 4 (0.58%) FINREP
7 4 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.44%) Solvency II
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%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (0.58%) Docker
2 3 (0.44%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.75%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.61%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (1.17%) Terraform
4 7 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (0.73%) Grafana
6 4 (0.58%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.29%) Ansible
8 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 116 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 59 (8.61%) Oracle
3 51 (7.45%) Databricks
3 51 (7.45%) SAP
4 42 (6.13%) Salesforce
5 19 (2.77%) Informatica
6 12 (1.75%) Google
6 12 (1.75%) ServiceNow
7 10 (1.46%) Bloomberg
8 9 (1.31%) ESRI
9 8 (1.17%) Kofax
9 8 (1.17%) Lotus
10 7 (1.02%) Foundry
10 7 (1.02%) Palantir
10 7 (1.02%) Siemens
11 6 (0.88%) Adobe
11 6 (0.88%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.73%) GoldenSource