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

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 94 114
Rank change year-on-year -60 +20 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Management 677 684 769
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.73% 2.81% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.02% 3.09% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 465 506
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £462
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 £495 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 57
10th Percentile £13.13 £20.36 £15.52
25th Percentile £16.74 £25.43 £19.57
Median hourly rate £29.52 £31.65 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.74% -29.66% -28.29%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.00 £63.95
UK median hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.54% -27.78% -28.29%

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 33,512 22,139 32,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.65% 90.95% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,469 14,586 21,356
10th Percentile £313 £313 £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 £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,076 869 2,188
10th Percentile £15.44 £14.84 £12.86
25th Percentile £19.91 £18.87 £15.85
Median hourly rate £40.52 £32.05 £33.78
Median % change year-on-year +26.43% -5.11% -9.93%
75th Percentile £66.00 £64.52 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.50 £76.25 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.71 £31.04 £33.07
% change year-on-year +18.27% -6.12% -8.15%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -55 337 £492 -18.00% 102
Midlands -18 94 £492 -6.29% 51
West Midlands -14 79 £492 -8.47% 28
South East -45 78 £463 -15.91% 94
North of England -60 63 £425 -19.43% 46
South West -3 61 £535 +4.39% 32
East of England -39 35 £505 +1.00% 26
North West -35 33 £500 -9.09% 30
Yorkshire -38 29 £375 -21.05% 13
East Midlands -40 14 £449 -2.71% 23
North East -15 2 £540 - 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 38 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.14%) Confluence
3 21 (3.10%) SAS
4 12 (1.77%) Microsoft Exchange
5 11 (1.62%) HCL Notes
6 10 (1.48%) Mendix
7 8 (1.18%) Apache Spark
8 7 (1.03%) Apache
8 7 (1.03%) ArcGIS
9 6 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.59%) CMS
11 3 (0.44%) Palantir Foundry
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
12 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 60 (8.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 34 (5.02%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (3.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (2.81%) MS Visio
5 15 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.59%) 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 21 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 20 (2.95%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.89%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.89%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.74%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.74%) Salesforce CRM
5 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.44%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.44%) SAP PP
5 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.44%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.30%) iTrent
6 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 110 (16.25%) Azure
2 99 (14.62%) Power Platform
3 58 (8.57%) AWS
4 31 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.43%) GCP
6 29 (4.28%) Collibra
7 27 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
7 27 (3.99%) SaaS
8 24 (3.55%) PowerApps
9 22 (3.25%) OpenShift
10 21 (3.10%) Serverless
11 15 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (2.07%) Azure Functions
12 14 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 14 (2.07%) Power Automate
13 13 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (1.77%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.77%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.92%) LAN
2 11 (1.62%) WAN
3 10 (1.48%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.03%) PSTN
5 4 (0.59%) 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 86 (12.70%) Power BI
2 71 (10.49%) Metadata
3 53 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
4 31 (4.58%) Data Lake
4 31 (4.58%) SQL Server
5 25 (3.69%) Tableau
6 23 (3.40%) Oracle Database
7 14 (2.07%) Oracle Reports
8 13 (1.92%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.62%) GIS
10 11 (1.62%) MySQL
11 10 (1.48%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.18%) Big Data
13 8 (1.18%) Data Mining
14 7 (1.03%) BigQuery
14 7 (1.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 51 (7.53%) JIRA
2 37 (5.47%) GitLab
3 33 (4.87%) Git
4 27 (3.99%) Jenkins
5 22 (3.25%) Selenium
6 18 (2.66%) JUnit
7 13 (1.92%) ERwin
8 6 (0.89%) JMeter
9 5 (0.74%) Appium
10 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.44%) Postman
11 3 (0.44%) PowerDesigner
11 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.44%) Toad
11 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
13 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
13 1 (0.15%) GCC
13 1 (0.15%) Hudson
General
1 245 (36.19%) Social Skills
2 199 (29.39%) Finance
3 153 (22.60%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.68%) Banking
6 38 (5.61%) Marketing
7 37 (5.47%) Manufacturing
8 29 (4.28%) Financial Institution
9 25 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.55%) Aerospace
11 20 (2.95%) Organisational Skills
12 18 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (2.36%) Telecoms
14 15 (2.22%) Retail
15 13 (1.92%) Legal
16 12 (1.77%) Local Government
16 12 (1.77%) Military
16 12 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.62%) Aviation
18 10 (1.48%) Law
Job Titles
1 126 (18.61%) Analyst
2 74 (10.93%) Architect
3 69 (10.19%) Senior
4 63 (9.31%) Data Analyst
4 63 (9.31%) Lead
5 57 (8.42%) Business Analyst
6 47 (6.94%) Data Architect
7 37 (5.47%) Consultant
7 37 (5.47%) Developer
8 35 (5.17%) Data Manager
9 34 (5.02%) Data Engineer
10 23 (3.40%) Administrator
11 18 (2.66%) Data Business Analyst
11 18 (2.66%) Project Manager
11 18 (2.66%) Test Specialist
12 17 (2.51%) Senior Analyst
13 15 (2.22%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.07%) Configuration Specialist
14 14 (2.07%) Data Modeller
14 14 (2.07%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.58%) REST
2 18 (2.66%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (2.51%) pytest
4 15 (2.22%) .NET
4 15 (2.22%) Kafka
4 15 (2.22%) React
5 10 (1.48%) HTML5 Canvas
5 10 (1.48%) JSON
5 10 (1.48%) Microsoft Graph
6 8 (1.18%) PySpark
6 8 (1.18%) XML
7 7 (1.03%) YAML
8 5 (0.74%) JDO
8 5 (0.74%) Node.js
8 5 (0.74%) NumPy
8 5 (0.74%) Pandas
8 5 (0.74%) SOAP
9 4 (0.59%) ADO
9 4 (0.59%) CSS
9 4 (0.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (7.83%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.91%) Onboarding
3 37 (5.47%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.43%) Legacy Systems
5 24 (3.55%) Reference Data
6 20 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 19 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
8 17 (2.51%) Cloud Native
8 17 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
9 12 (1.77%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.62%) FMCG
11 10 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 10 (1.48%) Life Science
11 10 (1.48%) Low-Code
12 8 (1.18%) IoT
13 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.03%) Synthetic Data
14 6 (0.89%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (0.89%) Wiki
15 5 (0.74%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (2.07%) Windows
2 6 (0.89%) Linux
3 4 (0.59%) Android
3 4 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.15%) Unix
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 183 (27.03%) Data Governance
2 182 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
3 174 (25.70%) Agile
4 159 (23.49%) Stakeholder Management
5 151 (22.30%) Analytics
6 143 (21.12%) Migration
7 131 (19.35%) Data Modelling
8 111 (16.40%) Business Intelligence
9 106 (15.66%) Validation
10 87 (12.85%) Decision-Making
11 82 (12.11%) DevOps
12 81 (11.96%) AI
12 81 (11.96%) CI/CD
13 72 (10.64%) ETL
13 72 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 70 (10.34%) Data Analysis
15 69 (10.19%) Data Architecture
16 67 (9.90%) Project Management
17 66 (9.75%) Data Migration
18 61 (9.01%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 140 (20.68%) SQL
2 86 (12.70%) Python
3 18 (2.66%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.51%) C#
5 16 (2.36%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.07%) Java
7 11 (1.62%) Formula Language
7 11 (1.62%) LotusScript
8 10 (1.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.48%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.33%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.33%) VBA
10 8 (1.18%) T-SQL
11 6 (0.89%) C
12 5 (0.74%) Bicep
12 5 (0.74%) C++
12 5 (0.74%) Groovy
12 5 (0.74%) R
13 4 (0.59%) Scala
14 2 (0.30%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 137 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 112 (16.54%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.26%) Degree
4 22 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.22%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.48%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.18%) IIBA
9 7 (1.03%) CBAP
9 7 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.89%) OCA
11 5 (0.74%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.74%) PMP
12 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.59%) OCP
13 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.44%) PhD
13 3 (0.44%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (27.47%) Data Quality
2 66 (9.75%) QA
3 58 (8.57%) GDPR
4 16 (2.36%) PMO
5 14 (2.07%) Accessibility
6 10 (1.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 6 (0.89%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.74%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.59%) BS7666
9 4 (0.59%) COREP
9 4 (0.59%) FINREP
9 4 (0.59%) IFRS
9 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.44%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) Basel III
11 2 (0.30%) DICOM
11 2 (0.30%) HL7
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.30%) PERC
System Software
1 21 (3.10%) 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 31 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (1.48%) Terraform
4 7 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.59%) Grafana
6 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.30%) Consul
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 124 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 74 (10.93%) Oracle
3 58 (8.57%) SAP
4 36 (5.32%) Salesforce
5 34 (5.02%) Databricks
6 25 (3.69%) Informatica
7 14 (2.07%) Google
7 14 (2.07%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.62%) Lotus
9 10 (1.48%) Kofax
9 10 (1.48%) Talend
10 9 (1.33%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.03%) Siemens
12 6 (0.89%) Adobe
12 6 (0.89%) GoldenSource
12 6 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
13 5 (0.74%) Alteryx
13 5 (0.74%) Charles River
13 5 (0.74%) Murex
13 5 (0.74%) Palantir