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 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 122 115
Rank change year-on-year -39 -7 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Management 741 644 687
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.65% 2.34% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.94% 2.58% 2.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 426 374 406
10th Percentile £345 £296 £339
25th Percentile £413 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £788 £791
UK median daily rate £502 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -6.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 34 53
10th Percentile £16.30 £18.45 £16.67
25th Percentile £22.42 £23.84 £25.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.56 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -32.08% +36.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £70.63 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% +21.32%

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 38,210 24,959 29,249
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.22% 90.75% 85.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,914 15,999 19,151
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £512 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -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% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,365 1,791
10th Percentile £15.05 £14.22 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.75
Median hourly rate £46.62 £25.15 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.35% -39.40% -2.35%
75th Percentile £69.49 £51.65 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.10 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 29 July 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 29 July 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 29 July 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 -36 352 £540 -1.82% 188
South East -18 108 £463 +19.35% 79
Midlands -22 107 £513 +13.89% 51
West Midlands -22 83 £513 +17.14% 31
North of England -91 74 £450 - 60
South West -19 52 £530 -7.83% 30
North West -61 39 £550 +10.00% 38
Yorkshire -54 33 £400 -4.76% 16
East of England -30 26 £625 +104.58% 29
East Midlands -10 23 £525 +10.53% 20
North East -45 3 £425 -10.53% 6
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 (4.18%) Confluence
1 31 (4.18%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 14 (1.89%) CMS
3 10 (1.35%) SAS
4 9 (1.21%) ArcGIS
4 9 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
5 8 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 6 (0.81%) Apache
8 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
9 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.54%) Mule
10 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
11 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (7.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.48%) Spreadsheet
4 10 (1.35%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.40%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (4.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 16 (2.16%) Teamcenter
3 13 (1.75%) Aladdin
4 8 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.81%) Fidessa
6 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.67%) SAP MDG
8 4 (0.54%) iTrent
8 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 3 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
9 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
9 3 (0.40%) Maximo
9 3 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.40%) Sage X3
9 3 (0.40%) SAP HR
10 2 (0.27%) Oracle Utilities
10 2 (0.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 143 (19.30%) Azure
2 106 (14.30%) Power Platform
3 61 (8.23%) AWS
4 30 (4.05%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (4.05%) SaaS
5 28 (3.78%) PowerApps
6 27 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
6 27 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.51%) GCP
8 24 (3.24%) Collibra
9 20 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
10 19 (2.56%) Snowflake
11 18 (2.43%) Microsoft 365
12 17 (2.29%) Power Automate
13 15 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (1.75%) Entra ID
15 12 (1.62%) Serverless
16 11 (1.48%) PaaS
16 11 (1.48%) SuccessFactors
17 8 (1.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.67%) LAN
1 5 (0.67%) WAN
2 4 (0.54%) Firewall
2 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 4 (0.54%) Unified Communications
2 4 (0.54%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.40%) Intranet
3 3 (0.40%) PSTN
3 3 (0.40%) SMS
4 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.27%) FTP
4 2 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) DWDM
5 1 (0.13%) HTTP
5 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.13%) SDH
5 1 (0.13%) VPN
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (13.36%) Metadata
2 80 (10.80%) Power BI
3 51 (6.88%) Data Lake
4 49 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
5 36 (4.86%) SQL Server
6 22 (2.97%) Tableau
7 20 (2.70%) GIS
8 16 (2.16%) NoSQL
8 16 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.62%) Azure SQL Database
9 12 (1.62%) Delta Lake
9 12 (1.62%) MySQL
10 10 (1.35%) Big Data
10 10 (1.35%) Data Mining
10 10 (1.35%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
11 9 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.21%) Spatial Data
12 8 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 52 (7.02%) JIRA
2 18 (2.43%) Git
3 13 (1.75%) ERwin
4 11 (1.48%) Selenium
4 11 (1.48%) Visual Studio
5 7 (0.94%) ER Studio
5 7 (0.94%) GitLab
5 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.81%) Postman
7 5 (0.67%) JMeter
7 5 (0.67%) JUnit
7 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.40%) MLflow
8 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.27%) Gradle
9 2 (0.27%) Maven
9 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
9 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.13%) TestNG
General
1 238 (32.12%) Social Skills
2 200 (26.99%) Finance
3 150 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.58%) Public Sector
5 47 (6.34%) Banking
6 39 (5.26%) Marketing
7 31 (4.18%) Manufacturing
8 30 (4.05%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (2.97%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.83%) Retail
12 20 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.43%) Legal
14 14 (1.89%) Front Office
15 13 (1.75%) Local Government
15 13 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.48%) Billing
17 10 (1.35%) Financial Institution
18 8 (1.08%) Investment Banking
18 8 (1.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (15.11%) Analyst
2 103 (13.90%) Architect
3 80 (10.80%) Lead
4 69 (9.31%) Senior
5 65 (8.77%) Data Architect
6 57 (7.69%) Data Analyst
7 50 (6.75%) Developer
8 49 (6.61%) Data Engineer
9 45 (6.07%) Consultant
10 43 (5.80%) Business Analyst
11 40 (5.40%) Administrator
12 32 (4.32%) Data Manager
13 27 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
14 21 (2.83%) Data Management Specialist
15 19 (2.56%) Project Manager
16 16 (2.16%) Data Administrator
16 16 (2.16%) Senior Developer
17 15 (2.02%) Data Business Analyst
17 15 (2.02%) Data Consultant
17 15 (2.02%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (3.37%) REST
2 21 (2.83%) JSON
3 16 (2.16%) Middleware
3 16 (2.16%) XML
4 14 (1.89%) RESTful
5 12 (1.62%) .NET
5 12 (1.62%) Kafka
6 10 (1.35%) PySpark
7 8 (1.08%) OAuth
7 8 (1.08%) SOAP
8 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
9 5 (0.67%) JWT
9 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
9 5 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
10 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Graph
10 4 (0.54%) pytest
10 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
10 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 62 (8.37%) Management Information System
2 41 (5.53%) Data Structures
3 34 (4.59%) Reference Data
4 32 (4.32%) Cloud Native
4 32 (4.32%) Onboarding
5 27 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.43%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (1.89%) FMCG
11 11 (1.48%) Fixed Income
11 11 (1.48%) Life Science
12 9 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 8 (1.08%) Social Media
14 7 (0.94%) CMDB
14 7 (0.94%) Equities
14 7 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 7 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.48%) Linux
1 11 (1.48%) Windows
2 1 (0.13%) Unix
2 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (31.58%) Data Governance
2 176 (23.75%) Stakeholder Management
3 172 (23.21%) Migration
4 163 (22.00%) Agile
5 148 (19.97%) Problem-Solving
6 146 (19.70%) Data Modelling
7 141 (19.03%) Analytics
8 136 (18.35%) Validation
9 113 (15.25%) AI
10 102 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (13.63%) Data Architecture
12 98 (13.23%) Business Intelligence
13 92 (12.42%) Decision-Making
14 91 (12.28%) ETL
14 91 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 89 (12.01%) Data Migration
16 78 (10.53%) Roadmaps
17 77 (10.39%) DevOps
18 71 (9.58%) Data Analysis
19 68 (9.18%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 147 (19.84%) SQL
2 73 (9.85%) Python
3 31 (4.18%) Java
4 25 (3.37%) C#
5 18 (2.43%) C
6 13 (1.75%) X++
7 10 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.35%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.21%) PowerShell
9 7 (0.94%) Bicep
9 7 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.81%) VBA
11 5 (0.67%) TypeScript
12 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
13 3 (0.40%) Scala
13 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
14 2 (0.27%) C++
14 2 (0.27%) R
15 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 123 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 92 (12.42%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.23%) Degree
4 25 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 18 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.21%) Master's Degree
9 8 (1.08%) OCP
9 8 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
10 6 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
13 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.40%) PMP
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 1 (0.13%) BC Cleared
15 1 (0.13%) NVQ Level 3
15 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 251 (33.87%) Data Quality
2 72 (9.72%) GDPR
3 62 (8.37%) QA
4 20 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.48%) PMO
6 5 (0.67%) NCSC
6 5 (0.67%) Solvency II
7 4 (0.54%) BS7666
7 4 (0.54%) COREP
7 4 (0.54%) FINREP
7 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.40%) PERC
8 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.27%) EMIR
9 2 (0.27%) NIST
9 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.08%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (2.16%) Terraform
2 11 (1.48%) Kubernetes
3 5 (0.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.40%) Grafana
5 3 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
5 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.13%) CASB
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.72%) SAP
3 63 (8.50%) Databricks
4 58 (7.83%) Oracle
5 52 (7.02%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.64%) Informatica
7 22 (2.97%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.62%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.35%) ESRI
10 9 (1.21%) Charles River
10 9 (1.21%) Foundry
10 9 (1.21%) Google
10 9 (1.21%) Palantir
10 9 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 9 (1.21%) Workday
11 8 (1.08%) Concur
11 8 (1.08%) Talend
12 7 (0.94%) Adobe
12 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) Sitecore