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 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 119 105
Rank change year-on-year -46 -14 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Management 772 659 733
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.67% 2.37% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.61% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 455 371 409
10th Percentile £313 £300 £336
25th Percentile £412 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -5.41%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 37 35
10th Percentile £16.35 £13.45 £21.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £19.00 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.99 £30.32 £39.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.10% -23.59% +20.24%
75th Percentile £41.80 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £81.00 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £31.66 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.18% -9.54% +6.06%

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 39,062 25,238 28,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.72% 90.90% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,917 16,041 17,545
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,725 1,497 1,306
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £14.92
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.75 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +1.18%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -52 374 £525 -4.55% 1,051
Midlands -15 107 £550 +18.92% 134
South East -30 100 £498 +17.06% 262
North of England -70 95 £400 -9.86% 228
West Midlands -21 81 £550 +15.79% 97
North West -40 52 £443 -6.74% 133
South West -39 44 £535 +2.88% 125
Yorkshire -43 42 £400 - 75
East of England -18 30 £576 -4.00% 126
East Midlands -8 25 £525 +16.67% 37
North East -41 2 £425 -2.86% 22
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 30 (3.89%) Confluence
2 26 (3.37%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.81%) SAS
4 11 (1.42%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) CMS
6 9 (1.17%) WordPress
7 8 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
8 6 (0.78%) Apache
8 6 (0.78%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.78%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.52%) Mule
10 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Exchange
11 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 65 (8.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 27 (3.50%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.68%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.17%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
6 3 (0.39%) Revit
6 3 (0.39%) Windchill
7 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
8 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 28 (3.63%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.81%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.55%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.78%) SAP HR
6 5 (0.65%) Fidessa
6 5 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
6 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 4 (0.52%) iTrent
7 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.39%) Maximo
8 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.13%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 149 (19.30%) Azure
2 110 (14.25%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.64%) AWS
4 35 (4.53%) Collibra
5 33 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (4.02%) SaaS
7 27 (3.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (3.11%) PowerApps
11 22 (2.85%) GCP
12 21 (2.72%) Power Automate
13 20 (2.59%) Snowflake
14 18 (2.33%) GitHub
15 15 (1.94%) Alation
15 15 (1.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 14 (1.81%) SuccessFactors
17 13 (1.68%) Microsoft 365
18 12 (1.55%) Entra ID
18 12 (1.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) Internet
3 3 (0.39%) LAN
3 3 (0.39%) WAN
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
4 2 (0.26%) Diameter Protocol
4 2 (0.26%) HTTP
4 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
4 2 (0.26%) PSTN
4 2 (0.26%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 3G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (17.62%) Metadata
2 90 (11.66%) Power BI
3 51 (6.61%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.22%) Data Lake
5 38 (4.92%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.24%) Tableau
7 24 (3.11%) NoSQL
8 18 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 15 (1.94%) GIS
10 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
11 11 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
11 11 (1.42%) Relational Database
12 10 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 9 (1.17%) MySQL
13 9 (1.17%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.04%) Ataccama
14 8 (1.04%) Oracle Database
14 8 (1.04%) Spatial Data
15 7 (0.91%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 52 (6.74%) JIRA
2 17 (2.20%) Git
3 16 (2.07%) Selenium
4 12 (1.55%) ERwin
4 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.30%) Jenkins
6 9 (1.17%) Postman
7 8 (1.04%) ER Studio
8 7 (0.91%) JMeter
9 6 (0.78%) Cucumber
9 6 (0.78%) GitLab
10 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
11 4 (0.52%) SoapUI
11 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.39%) Gradle
12 3 (0.39%) JUnit
12 3 (0.39%) Maven
12 3 (0.39%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 267 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 219 (28.37%) Finance
3 157 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.62%) Public Sector
5 59 (7.64%) Banking
6 42 (5.44%) Manufacturing
6 42 (5.44%) Organisational Skills
7 36 (4.66%) Influencing Skills
8 34 (4.40%) Marketing
9 29 (3.76%) Retail
10 26 (3.37%) Aerospace
11 21 (2.72%) Legal
12 19 (2.46%) Local Government
13 18 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
14 14 (1.81%) Front Office
15 13 (1.68%) Billing
15 13 (1.68%) Investment Banking
16 12 (1.55%) Military
17 11 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
18 9 (1.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 118 (15.28%) Analyst
2 110 (14.25%) Architect
3 87 (11.27%) Lead
4 74 (9.59%) Data Architect
5 72 (9.33%) Senior
6 58 (7.51%) Developer
7 53 (6.87%) Data Analyst
8 45 (5.83%) Administrator
8 45 (5.83%) Consultant
8 45 (5.83%) Data Engineer
9 44 (5.70%) Business Analyst
10 28 (3.63%) Data Manager
11 27 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 22 (2.85%) Data Consultant
13 16 (2.07%) Project Manager
13 16 (2.07%) Senior Developer
14 14 (1.81%) Data Business Analyst
14 14 (1.81%) Data Management Specialist
15 13 (1.68%) Data Administrator
15 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.15%) REST
2 22 (2.85%) JSON
2 22 (2.85%) Middleware
3 21 (2.72%) Terraform
3 21 (2.72%) XML
4 20 (2.59%) Kafka
5 16 (2.07%) .NET
6 15 (1.94%) RESTful
7 12 (1.55%) PySpark
8 11 (1.42%) HTML
8 11 (1.42%) SOAP
9 10 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.04%) OAuth
11 7 (0.91%) Web Services
12 6 (0.78%) .NET Core
12 6 (0.78%) LDAP
12 6 (0.78%) OpenTofu
12 6 (0.78%) Playwright
13 5 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 72 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.61%) Data Structures
3 50 (6.48%) Onboarding
4 38 (4.92%) Cloud Native
5 35 (4.53%) Reference Data
6 34 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 28 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.55%) FMCG
10 12 (1.55%) Life Science
11 11 (1.42%) Fixed Income
12 10 (1.30%) Data Fabric
12 10 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (1.17%) Autonomous Agent
13 9 (1.17%) CMDB
13 9 (1.17%) Social Media
13 9 (1.17%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 14 (1.81%) Linux
2 10 (1.30%) Windows
3 2 (0.26%) Unix
3 2 (0.26%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.13%) Android
4 1 (0.13%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (33.68%) Data Governance
2 211 (27.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 176 (22.80%) Agile
4 168 (21.76%) Problem-Solving
5 167 (21.63%) Migration
6 166 (21.50%) Analytics
7 158 (20.47%) Data Modelling
8 141 (18.26%) Validation
9 136 (17.62%) AI
10 120 (15.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 119 (15.41%) Decision-Making
12 112 (14.51%) Data Architecture
13 108 (13.99%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 105 (13.60%) Business Intelligence
15 96 (12.44%) Roadmaps
16 94 (12.18%) ETL
17 88 (11.40%) DevOps
18 85 (11.01%) Metadata Management
19 84 (10.88%) Data Migration
20 74 (9.59%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 168 (21.76%) SQL
2 77 (9.97%) Python
3 42 (5.44%) Java
4 30 (3.89%) C#
5 19 (2.46%) C
6 17 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 13 (1.68%) X++
8 7 (0.91%) PL/SQL
8 7 (0.91%) VBA
9 6 (0.78%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 5 (0.65%) Bicep
11 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.52%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.52%) R
12 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
13 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 144 (18.65%) Security Cleared
2 112 (14.51%) SC Cleared
3 66 (8.55%) Degree
4 27 (3.50%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.72%) BPSS Clearance
6 16 (2.07%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (0.91%) OCP
8 7 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (0.91%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
9 6 (0.78%) PMP
9 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
10 4 (0.52%) CIPD
10 4 (0.52%) DBS Check
11 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.39%) ISEB
11 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (36.14%) Data Quality
2 77 (9.97%) GDPR
3 54 (6.99%) QA
4 23 (2.98%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.81%) PMO
6 8 (1.04%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.39%) BS7666
9 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.39%) PERC
9 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
10 2 (0.26%) COBIT
10 2 (0.26%) GMP
10 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
10 2 (0.26%) MiFID
10 2 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.30%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.39%) MOM
3 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.26%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) CASB
4 2 (0.26%) Grafana
4 2 (0.26%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 70 (9.07%) SAP
3 67 (8.68%) Databricks
4 65 (8.42%) Oracle
5 45 (5.83%) Salesforce
6 34 (4.40%) Informatica
7 19 (2.46%) Google
7 19 (2.46%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.68%) Workday
9 10 (1.30%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.30%) IBM
10 9 (1.17%) Denodo
11 8 (1.04%) Charles River
11 8 (1.04%) Concur
11 8 (1.04%) ESRI
11 8 (1.04%) Foundry
11 8 (1.04%) Talend
12 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.91%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.78%) Palantir