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

6 months to
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 172 124 112
Rank change year-on-year -48 -12 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Management 733 645 675
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.33% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.57% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 372 406
10th Percentile £338 £296 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £518 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.29% -5.91% -
75th Percentile £650 £641 £688
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
UK median daily rate £510 £518 £550
% change year-on-year -1.45% -5.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 33 49
10th Percentile £16.51 £18.38 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.06 £22.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.32 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.68% -32.62% +36.36%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £60.85
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £31.66 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% -29.64% +36.36%

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 38,759 25,103 28,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.06% 90.80% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,089 16,021 18,628
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
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% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,424 1,656
10th Percentile £14.55 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +3.24%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +68.99% -39.40% -1.55%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 -58 350 £525 -4.55% 671
Midlands -16 109 £525 +16.67% 88
South East -20 99 £456 +17.74% 177
West Midlands -8 82 £513 +25.00% 55
North of England -73 80 £450 - 133
South West -25 44 £535 -6.96% 87
North West -51 41 £538 +7.50% 84
Yorkshire -47 38 £400 -2.44% 37
East of England -26 29 £613 +36.11% 80
East Midlands -13 26 £525 +16.67% 33
North East -42 2 £425 -10.53% 12
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 (4.23%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.82%) Confluence
3 13 (1.77%) CMS
4 11 (1.50%) Apache Spark
4 11 (1.50%) SAS
5 8 (1.09%) ArcGIS
5 8 (1.09%) Palantir Foundry
6 7 (0.95%) WordPress
7 6 (0.82%) Apache
8 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.55%) Mule
9 4 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 59 (8.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.64%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.23%) MS Visio
5 8 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.41%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.41%) Revit
6 3 (0.41%) Windchill
7 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 33 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.77%) Aladdin
2 13 (1.77%) Teamcenter
3 8 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.68%) Fidessa
5 5 (0.68%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 4 (0.55%) iTrent
6 4 (0.55%) SAP ERP
6 4 (0.55%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.41%) Adobe Campaign
7 3 (0.41%) Eloqua
7 3 (0.41%) Maximo
7 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
7 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
7 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.27%) Oracle Utilities
8 2 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 135 (18.42%) Azure
2 106 (14.46%) Power Platform
3 54 (7.37%) AWS
4 30 (4.09%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (4.09%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (4.09%) SaaS
5 27 (3.68%) Collibra
5 27 (3.68%) PowerApps
6 25 (3.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (2.73%) GCP
8 20 (2.73%) Power Automate
9 18 (2.46%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.32%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 12 (1.64%) GitHub
11 12 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
12 10 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
12 10 (1.36%) PaaS
12 10 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.55%) Firewall
1 4 (0.55%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Intranet
2 3 (0.41%) LAN
2 3 (0.41%) SMS
2 3 (0.41%) WAN
3 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) PSTN
3 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.14%) 2G
4 1 (0.14%) 3G
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) DWDM
4 1 (0.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.14%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (14.46%) Metadata
2 83 (11.32%) Power BI
3 46 (6.28%) Data Lake
4 44 (6.00%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (4.09%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.14%) Tableau
7 21 (2.86%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.46%) GIS
9 15 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
10 12 (1.64%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
12 10 (1.36%) Data Mining
12 10 (1.36%) MySQL
12 10 (1.36%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.23%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (1.09%) Big Data
14 8 (1.09%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.95%) Pentaho
15 7 (0.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 48 (6.55%) JIRA
2 17 (2.32%) Git
3 16 (2.18%) Selenium
4 13 (1.77%) ERwin
5 12 (1.64%) Visual Studio
6 10 (1.36%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.23%) Postman
8 8 (1.09%) ER Studio
9 6 (0.82%) GitLab
9 6 (0.82%) JMeter
10 5 (0.68%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.55%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.55%) JUnit
11 4 (0.55%) SoapUI
12 3 (0.41%) Gradle
12 3 (0.41%) Maven
12 3 (0.41%) MLflow
12 3 (0.41%) Oracle Forms
12 3 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
General
1 242 (33.02%) Social Skills
2 200 (27.29%) Finance
3 146 (19.92%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 54 (7.37%) Banking
6 36 (4.91%) Marketing
7 35 (4.77%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (4.64%) Manufacturing
9 27 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.27%) Retail
11 19 (2.59%) Aerospace
12 18 (2.46%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.46%) Legal
13 14 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
14 13 (1.77%) Local Government
15 12 (1.64%) Front Office
16 10 (1.36%) Billing
16 10 (1.36%) Financial Institution
16 10 (1.36%) Military
17 9 (1.23%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (15.55%) Analyst
2 102 (13.92%) Architect
3 80 (10.91%) Lead
4 65 (8.87%) Senior
5 64 (8.73%) Data Architect
6 60 (8.19%) Data Analyst
7 50 (6.82%) Developer
8 46 (6.28%) Consultant
9 44 (6.00%) Data Engineer
10 41 (5.59%) Business Analyst
11 39 (5.32%) Administrator
12 32 (4.37%) Data Manager
13 29 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.32%) Data Consultant
14 17 (2.32%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.18%) Data Business Analyst
15 16 (2.18%) Data Management Specialist
16 15 (2.05%) Data Administrator
16 15 (2.05%) Senior Developer
17 13 (1.77%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (3.82%) REST
2 19 (2.59%) JSON
3 17 (2.32%) Kafka
3 17 (2.32%) Middleware
4 16 (2.18%) XML
5 14 (1.91%) RESTful
6 12 (1.64%) .NET
7 10 (1.36%) PySpark
8 9 (1.23%) SOAP
9 8 (1.09%) OAuth
9 8 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (0.82%) HTML
11 5 (0.68%) JWT
11 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
12 4 (0.55%) .NET Core
12 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.55%) LDAP
12 4 (0.55%) SailPoint
12 4 (0.55%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (8.73%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.87%) Data Structures
3 37 (5.05%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.64%) Onboarding
5 32 (4.37%) Reference Data
6 26 (3.55%) Product Ownership
7 21 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
8 20 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (2.32%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.91%) FMCG
12 13 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
13 12 (1.64%) Life Science
14 10 (1.36%) Fixed Income
15 9 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
16 7 (0.95%) Autonomous Agent
16 7 (0.95%) CMDB
16 7 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 7 (0.95%) Marketing Technology
16 7 (0.95%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.64%) Linux
2 9 (1.23%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (32.33%) Data Governance
2 173 (23.60%) Migration
2 173 (23.60%) Stakeholder Management
3 155 (21.15%) Agile
4 150 (20.46%) Problem-Solving
5 149 (20.33%) Data Modelling
6 147 (20.05%) Analytics
7 133 (18.14%) Validation
8 120 (16.37%) AI
9 102 (13.92%) Business Intelligence
9 102 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
10 99 (13.51%) Data Architecture
11 94 (12.82%) Decision-Making
12 93 (12.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 91 (12.41%) Data Migration
14 88 (12.01%) ETL
15 81 (11.05%) Roadmaps
16 79 (10.78%) DevOps
17 74 (10.10%) Data Analysis
18 68 (9.28%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (20.46%) SQL
2 72 (9.82%) Python
3 39 (5.32%) Java
4 22 (3.00%) C#
5 17 (2.32%) C
6 14 (1.91%) X++
7 12 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 7 (0.95%) VBA
9 6 (0.82%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.68%) Bicep
10 5 (0.68%) T-SQL
11 4 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.55%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.41%) Scala
12 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.27%) R
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 125 (17.05%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.69%) SC Cleared
3 57 (7.78%) Degree
4 26 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.09%) OCP
8 8 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.82%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.55%) Master's Degree
12 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
14 1 (0.14%) DBS Check
14 1 (0.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.14%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 254 (34.65%) Data Quality
2 68 (9.28%) GDPR
3 52 (7.09%) QA
4 17 (2.32%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.50%) PMO
6 7 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.82%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
9 4 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.55%) BS7666
10 3 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) COREP
10 3 (0.41%) FINREP
10 3 (0.41%) PERC
10 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.64%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (2.32%) Terraform
2 11 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.55%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.41%) Grafana
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.14%) CASB
6 1 (0.14%) Kibana
6 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 117 (15.96%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.96%) SAP
3 60 (8.19%) Databricks
3 60 (8.19%) Oracle
4 51 (6.96%) Salesforce
5 23 (3.14%) Informatica
6 18 (2.46%) ServiceNow
7 11 (1.50%) Bloomberg
8 10 (1.36%) ESRI
8 10 (1.36%) Google
8 10 (1.36%) Workday
9 8 (1.09%) Charles River
9 8 (1.09%) Concur
9 8 (1.09%) Foundry
9 8 (1.09%) Palantir
9 8 (1.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 7 (0.95%) Adobe
10 7 (0.95%) IBM
10 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
10 7 (0.95%) Sitecore