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 10 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 91 104
Rank change year-on-year -72 +13 +61
Contract jobs citing Data Management 659 669 777
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.73% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 3.00% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 402 432 482
10th Percentile £345 £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 £725 £675
90th Percentile £705 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 56
10th Percentile £13.13 £22.20 £15.41
25th Percentile £18.59 £25.15 £19.57
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -22.99% -0.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £50.94
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% -17.50% -0.44%

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 34,606 22,325 31,829
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 91.23% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,091 14,613 20,852
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,151 936 2,252
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.56 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £29.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.55% -20.14% -2.14%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.29 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.00 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.09% -21.23% +1.39%

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 10 May 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 10 May 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 10 May 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 -47 334 £492 -21.28% 146
Midlands -26 91 £513 -2.38% 42
South East -41 84 £450 -14.29% 76
West Midlands -16 75 £511 -2.62% 25
North of England -76 53 £450 -10.00% 55
South West -14 52 £500 -4.76% 19
North West -61 31 £500 -5.21% 37
East of England -53 28 £505 +1.00% 16
Yorkshire -51 20 £355 -25.26% 13
East Midlands -34 15 £488 +2.63% 17
North East - 3 £470 - 5
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 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.40%) Confluence
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.52%) HCL Notes
4 10 (1.52%) Mendix
5 9 (1.37%) SAS
6 8 (1.21%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.06%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.91%) CMS
9 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.61%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.46%) Apache
12 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.15%) Moodle
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 59 (8.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.70%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.73%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.61%) Windchill
8 3 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.46%) Revit
9 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.15%) CATIA
9 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.64%) Teamcenter
2 21 (3.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.46%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.46%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.30%) iTrent
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.30%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 119 (18.06%) Azure
2 111 (16.84%) Power Platform
3 55 (8.35%) AWS
4 32 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 31 (4.70%) PowerApps
6 28 (4.25%) GCP
7 27 (4.10%) SaaS
8 26 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (3.49%) Collibra
10 22 (3.34%) Azure Data Factory
11 20 (3.03%) Serverless
12 19 (2.88%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 19 (2.88%) Dynamics 365
12 19 (2.88%) Power Automate
13 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.97%) Azure Functions
15 12 (1.82%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.82%) OneDrive
16 11 (1.67%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.97%) LAN
2 11 (1.67%) WAN
3 10 (1.52%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.06%) PSTN
5 4 (0.61%) Intranet
6 2 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) 3G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) DWDM
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) NAS
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) SS7
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (13.96%) Power BI
2 76 (11.53%) Metadata
3 57 (8.65%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.61%) Data Lake
5 31 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.64%) Tableau
7 16 (2.43%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.28%) GIS
9 13 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.52%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.37%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.37%) Metadata Repository
12 9 (1.37%) MySQL
12 9 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.06%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.91%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 51 (7.74%) JIRA
2 17 (2.58%) Git
2 17 (2.58%) GitLab
3 11 (1.67%) ERwin
3 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.37%) Selenium
5 6 (0.91%) JMeter
6 5 (0.76%) Appium
6 5 (0.76%) JUnit
7 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.46%) Postman
8 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.46%) Toad
8 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.30%) MLflow
9 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
10 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 228 (34.60%) Social Skills
2 195 (29.59%) Finance
3 140 (21.24%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 47 (7.13%) Banking
6 32 (4.86%) Manufacturing
7 30 (4.55%) Marketing
8 24 (3.64%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.64%) Financial Institution
8 24 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (1.97%) Local Government
11 13 (1.97%) Retail
12 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.37%) Legal
14 8 (1.21%) Aviation
14 8 (1.21%) Military
14 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 126 (19.12%) Analyst
2 86 (13.05%) Architect
3 70 (10.62%) Senior
4 68 (10.32%) Lead
5 59 (8.95%) Data Analyst
6 57 (8.65%) Business Analyst
7 54 (8.19%) Data Architect
8 38 (5.77%) Consultant
9 36 (5.46%) Data Engineer
10 35 (5.31%) Developer
11 34 (5.16%) Data Manager
12 24 (3.64%) Administrator
13 18 (2.73%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.58%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
15 16 (2.43%) Senior Manager
16 14 (2.12%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.12%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.12%) Data Management Specialist
16 14 (2.12%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) REST
2 16 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
3 14 (2.12%) .NET
4 12 (1.82%) React
5 11 (1.67%) JSON
6 10 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
6 10 (1.52%) Kafka
6 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 9 (1.37%) Middleware
8 8 (1.21%) XML
9 7 (1.06%) PySpark
10 6 (0.91%) YAML
11 5 (0.76%) JDO
11 5 (0.76%) RESTful
11 5 (0.76%) SOAP
11 5 (0.76%) Web Services
12 4 (0.61%) ADO
12 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
12 4 (0.61%) pytest
12 4 (0.61%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.50%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.95%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.34%) Cloud Native
5 22 (3.34%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (3.03%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 12 (1.82%) FMCG
7 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.37%) Life Science
10 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.21%) IoT
11 6 (0.91%) Fixed Income
11 6 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
11 6 (0.91%) NHS
11 6 (0.91%) Replication
11 6 (0.91%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.82%) Windows
2 4 (0.61%) Android
2 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.46%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (25.34%) Data Governance
2 162 (24.58%) Migration
3 156 (23.67%) Agile
4 154 (23.37%) Problem-Solving
5 141 (21.40%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (20.33%) Data Modelling
7 127 (19.27%) Analytics
8 108 (16.39%) Business Intelligence
9 96 (14.57%) Validation
10 88 (13.35%) Decision-Making
11 87 (13.20%) AI
12 83 (12.59%) ETL
13 75 (11.38%) Data Architecture
14 73 (11.08%) Data Migration
15 72 (10.93%) DevOps
16 70 (10.62%) Data Analysis
17 67 (10.17%) CI/CD
17 67 (10.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 66 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (9.26%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 137 (20.79%) SQL
2 77 (11.68%) Python
3 21 (3.19%) C#
4 18 (2.73%) Java
4 18 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.43%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.52%) Formula Language
6 10 (1.52%) LotusScript
7 9 (1.37%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.37%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.37%) VBA
8 8 (1.21%) C
8 8 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.91%) Bicep
9 6 (0.91%) X++
10 5 (0.76%) C++
10 5 (0.76%) R
11 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 118 (17.91%) Security Cleared
2 97 (14.72%) SC Cleared
3 86 (13.05%) Degree
4 25 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (2.43%) Master's Degree
6 15 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.21%) CBAP
7 8 (1.21%) DV Cleared
7 8 (1.21%) IIBA
7 8 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (0.91%) PMP
10 5 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.61%) OCA
11 4 (0.61%) OCP
12 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.47%) Data Quality
2 61 (9.26%) QA
3 55 (8.35%) GDPR
4 16 (2.43%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.52%) PMO
6 7 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.61%) BS7666
8 4 (0.61%) COREP
8 4 (0.61%) FINREP
8 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.30%) DICOM
9 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.30%) HL7
9 2 (0.30%) IFRS
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) MiFID
9 2 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.37%) Terraform
4 7 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.61%) Grafana
6 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 115 (17.45%) Microsoft
2 66 (10.02%) Oracle
3 59 (8.95%) SAP
4 39 (5.92%) Databricks
5 32 (4.86%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.49%) Informatica
7 16 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.97%) Google
9 10 (1.52%) Kofax
9 10 (1.52%) Lotus
9 10 (1.52%) Talend
10 9 (1.37%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.06%) Siemens
12 6 (0.91%) Adobe
12 6 (0.91%) Autodesk
13 5 (0.76%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.76%) Charles River
13 5 (0.76%) ESRI
13 5 (0.76%) GoldenSource
13 5 (0.76%) Murex