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

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 106 108
Rank change year-on-year -53 +2 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Management 714 637 758
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.55% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.93% 2.79% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 389 456
10th Percentile £331 £313 £342
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £713 £675
90th Percentile £725 £875 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -7.19% -2.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 32 57
10th Percentile £15.00 £22.05 £15.52
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.11 £21.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.56 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -23.59% +17.63%
75th Percentile £49.69 £66.88 £45.00
90th Percentile £54.88 £77.25 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +17.63%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 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 23 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 23 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 -43 356 £500 -16.67% 111
South East -9 101 £450 -10.00% 78
Midlands -22 87 £513 -2.38% 52
West Midlands -27 68 £513 +7.89% 22
North of England -95 65 £450 -6.25% 39
South West -2 57 £525 +6.87% 23
North West -64 33 £500 - 23
Yorkshire -54 30 £400 -13.51% 14
East of England -42 27 £505 +22.96% 26
East Midlands -17 18 £525 -8.70% 31
North East -33 3 £425 -19.05% 2
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 43 (6.02%) SharePoint
2 28 (3.92%) Confluence
3 12 (1.68%) CMS
3 12 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.54%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.26%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.26%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.26%) SAS
6 7 (0.98%) WordPress
7 5 (0.70%) Apache
7 5 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.70%) HCL Notes
7 5 (0.70%) Mendix
8 3 (0.42%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.14%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 64 (8.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.34%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (2.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.40%) Spreadsheet
6 7 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.42%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.42%) Revit
8 2 (0.28%) Windchill
9 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.14%) CATIA
9 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.14%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.22%) Teamcenter
3 7 (0.98%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.56%) SAP ERP
5 4 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.42%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.42%) Maximo
6 3 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.28%) Sage X3
7 2 (0.28%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.14%) Oracle Utilities
Cloud Services
1 131 (18.35%) Azure
2 117 (16.39%) Power Platform
3 61 (8.54%) AWS
4 33 (4.62%) PowerApps
5 31 (4.34%) SaaS
6 29 (4.06%) GCP
7 26 (3.64%) Collibra
8 25 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
9 24 (3.36%) Azure Data Factory
9 24 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (3.22%) Dynamics 365
11 18 (2.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 18 (2.52%) Power Automate
12 17 (2.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 17 (2.38%) Entra ID
12 17 (2.38%) Snowflake
13 15 (2.10%) Serverless
14 12 (1.68%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
16 10 (1.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.54%) LAN
1 11 (1.54%) WAN
2 10 (1.40%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.40%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.98%) PSTN
4 4 (0.56%) Network Security
5 3 (0.42%) Firewall
5 3 (0.42%) Intranet
5 3 (0.42%) SMS
6 2 (0.28%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.28%) Internet
7 1 (0.14%) 2G
7 1 (0.14%) 3G
7 1 (0.14%) 4G
7 1 (0.14%) 5G
7 1 (0.14%) DWDM
7 1 (0.14%) FTP
7 1 (0.14%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.14%) SIGTRAN
7 1 (0.14%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (13.03%) Power BI
2 87 (12.18%) Metadata
3 53 (7.42%) Data Warehouse
4 46 (6.44%) Data Lake
5 38 (5.32%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.64%) Tableau
7 21 (2.94%) GIS
8 15 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.82%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.68%) Oracle Database
11 11 (1.54%) MySQL
12 10 (1.40%) Data Mining
12 10 (1.40%) Relational Database
13 9 (1.26%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.26%) Spatial Data
14 8 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.98%) OLAP
15 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 7 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 48 (6.72%) JIRA
2 17 (2.38%) Git
3 12 (1.68%) ERwin
4 10 (1.40%) Selenium
5 9 (1.26%) GitLab
5 9 (1.26%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.84%) Postman
6 6 (0.84%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.70%) JMeter
7 5 (0.70%) JUnit
7 5 (0.70%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.56%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.42%) Toad
10 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.28%) Gradle
10 2 (0.28%) Maven
10 2 (0.28%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.28%) SonarQube
General
1 225 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 206 (28.85%) Finance
3 132 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
4 66 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 51 (7.14%) Banking
6 32 (4.48%) Marketing
7 31 (4.34%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.92%) Aerospace
9 26 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.38%) Financial Institution
11 17 (2.38%) Legal
12 16 (2.24%) Local Government
13 15 (2.10%) Retail
14 14 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.40%) Aviation
15 10 (1.40%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.12%) Front Office
16 8 (1.12%) Military
17 7 (0.98%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 125 (17.51%) Analyst
2 96 (13.45%) Architect
3 74 (10.36%) Senior
4 71 (9.94%) Lead
5 64 (8.96%) Data Analyst
5 64 (8.96%) Data Architect
6 48 (6.72%) Business Analyst
7 42 (5.88%) Data Engineer
7 42 (5.88%) Developer
8 38 (5.32%) Consultant
9 34 (4.76%) Data Manager
10 33 (4.62%) Administrator
11 25 (3.50%) Data Management Specialist
12 19 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.52%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.38%) Data Business Analyst
14 17 (2.38%) Senior Analyst
15 14 (1.96%) Configuration Management Specialist
15 14 (1.96%) Configuration Specialist
15 14 (1.96%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.24%) JSON
1 16 (2.24%) REST
1 16 (2.24%) XML
2 12 (1.68%) Middleware
3 10 (1.40%) .NET
3 10 (1.40%) Microsoft Graph
4 9 (1.26%) Kafka
5 8 (1.12%) RESTful
6 7 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 7 (0.98%) PySpark
7 6 (0.84%) Web Services
7 6 (0.84%) YAML
8 5 (0.70%) HTML5 Canvas
8 5 (0.70%) JDO
8 5 (0.70%) React
8 5 (0.70%) SailPoint
9 4 (0.56%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.56%) FIX Protocol
9 4 (0.56%) pytest
9 4 (0.56%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 66 (9.24%) Management Information System
2 40 (5.60%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.50%) Cloud Native
3 25 (3.50%) Data Structures
4 23 (3.22%) Reference Data
5 19 (2.66%) Analytical Mindset
5 19 (2.66%) Legacy Systems
5 19 (2.66%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (1.82%) FMCG
8 12 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
9 11 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.54%) Life Science
10 8 (1.12%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (1.12%) IoT
11 7 (0.98%) Fixed Income
11 7 (0.98%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.84%) Replication
12 6 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.54%) Windows
2 5 (0.70%) Linux
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
1 209 (29.27%) Data Governance
2 178 (24.93%) Migration
3 168 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 167 (23.39%) Agile
5 148 (20.73%) Data Modelling
6 142 (19.89%) Problem-Solving
7 137 (19.19%) Analytics
8 112 (15.69%) Validation
9 105 (14.71%) AI
10 103 (14.43%) Business Intelligence
11 92 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 92 (12.89%) Decision-Making
11 92 (12.89%) ETL
12 90 (12.61%) Data Architecture
13 86 (12.04%) Data Migration
13 86 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 77 (10.78%) Data Analysis
15 72 (10.08%) DevOps
16 70 (9.80%) Roadmaps
17 60 (8.40%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 148 (20.73%) SQL
2 78 (10.92%) Python
3 25 (3.50%) Java
4 19 (2.66%) C#
5 16 (2.24%) PowerShell
6 13 (1.82%) C
7 12 (1.68%) JavaScript
8 10 (1.40%) T-SQL
9 8 (1.12%) X++
10 7 (0.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.98%) VBA
11 6 (0.84%) Bicep
11 6 (0.84%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.70%) Formula Language
12 5 (0.70%) LotusScript
13 3 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.42%) Scala
13 3 (0.42%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.28%) C++
15 1 (0.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 124 (17.37%) Security Cleared
2 100 (14.01%) SC Cleared
3 82 (11.48%) Degree
4 20 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.96%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 7 (0.98%) CBAP
8 7 (0.98%) IIBA
9 6 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (0.56%) AWS Certification
10 4 (0.56%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.56%) OCP
10 4 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 4 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 3 (0.42%) PMP
11 3 (0.42%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (0.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 1 (0.14%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 220 (30.81%) Data Quality
2 71 (9.94%) GDPR
3 58 (8.12%) QA
4 16 (2.24%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.12%) PMO
6 6 (0.84%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.70%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.70%) NCSC
8 4 (0.56%) BS7666
8 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.56%) COREP
8 4 (0.56%) FINREP
8 4 (0.56%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.42%) PERC
9 3 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.28%) MiFID
10 2 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (1.12%) Active Directory
2 4 (0.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (1.68%) Terraform
2 11 (1.54%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.54%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.56%) Grafana
5 3 (0.42%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.28%) Ansible
7 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.14%) CASB
7 1 (0.14%) Kibana
7 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (16.81%) Microsoft
2 66 (9.24%) SAP
3 55 (7.70%) Oracle
4 53 (7.42%) Databricks
5 47 (6.58%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.50%) Informatica
7 19 (2.66%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.68%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.68%) Google
9 10 (1.40%) ESRI
10 9 (1.26%) Foundry
10 9 (1.26%) Palantir
10 9 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 7 (0.98%) Sitecore
11 7 (0.98%) Talend
12 6 (0.84%) Charles River
12 6 (0.84%) Concur
12 6 (0.84%) Siemens
13 5 (0.70%) Lotus
13 5 (0.70%) Refinitiv