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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 91 109
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Management 662 698 793
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.80% 2.84% 2.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 3.13% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 483 521
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £413 £413 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £588 £713 £658
90th Percentile £705 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £498 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 26 58
10th Percentile £13.13 £20.36 £15.62
25th Percentile £16.74 £25.43 £20.08
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.51 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.42% -28.22% -34.11%
75th Percentile £49.06 £53.75 £46.18
90th Percentile £52.63 £88.13 £57.95
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £31.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -3.67% -29.66% -28.57%

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 31,848 22,266 32,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.46% 90.63% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,386 14,474 21,796
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £640 £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 1,978 815 2,152
10th Percentile £15.29 £15.18 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £16.06
Median hourly rate £30.79 £34.11 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.73% +4.95% -12.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £70.50
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -7.69% - -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 17 March 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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -51 341 £500 -16.67% 131
Midlands -15 89 £481 +1.29% 54
West Midlands -19 75 £492 -6.29% 31
South East -48 70 £475 -9.52% 111
North of England -69 62 £450 -11.33% 58
South West +9 59 £500 +11.11% 38
Yorkshire -40 32 £404 -17.23% 23
East of England -43 30 £505 +7.68% 42
North West -52 27 £500 -7.41% 30
East Midlands -32 14 £413 -3.96% 23
North East -12 3 £540 +8.00% 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 39 (5.89%) SharePoint
2 27 (4.08%) Confluence
3 22 (3.32%) SAS
4 11 (1.66%) HCL Notes
5 10 (1.51%) Mendix
5 10 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (1.21%) Apache
6 8 (1.21%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.60%) CMS
9 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.45%) WordPress
10 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.15%) Moodle
10 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
10 1 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 58 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (5.59%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (2.42%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.96%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.60%) Windchill
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.15%) CATIA
9 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.15%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) Revit
9 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 20 (3.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.27%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.76%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 3 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.45%) SAP PP
6 3 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
7 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
7 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.30%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
Cloud Services
1 112 (16.92%) Azure
2 98 (14.80%) Power Platform
3 59 (8.91%) AWS
4 31 (4.68%) Microsoft 365
5 30 (4.53%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.53%) GCP
6 28 (4.23%) Collibra
7 24 (3.63%) PowerApps
8 23 (3.47%) Serverless
9 22 (3.32%) OpenShift
10 20 (3.02%) SaaS
11 16 (2.42%) Power Automate
12 15 (2.27%) Azure Functions
13 14 (2.11%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (2.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (2.11%) Microsoft Purview
13 14 (2.11%) Snowflake
14 13 (1.96%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.96%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.66%) LAN
2 9 (1.36%) WAN
3 8 (1.21%) Unified Communications
3 8 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (0.76%) PSTN
5 4 (0.60%) Intranet
6 2 (0.30%) Firewall
6 2 (0.30%) HTTP
6 2 (0.30%) NAS
6 2 (0.30%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) 2G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) MQTT
7 1 (0.15%) NetScaler
7 1 (0.15%) Radio Access Network
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) WebEx
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (13.29%) Power BI
2 63 (9.52%) Metadata
3 53 (8.01%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.83%) SQL Server
5 28 (4.23%) Data Lake
6 25 (3.78%) Tableau
7 23 (3.47%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.27%) MySQL
8 15 (2.27%) PostgreSQL
8 15 (2.27%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.96%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (1.66%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.36%) Big Data
13 8 (1.21%) BigQuery
13 8 (1.21%) GIS
13 8 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 7 (1.06%) SAS Enterprise Guide
14 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.91%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 55 (8.31%) JIRA
2 40 (6.04%) GitLab
3 39 (5.89%) Git
4 27 (4.08%) Jenkins
5 21 (3.17%) Selenium
6 17 (2.57%) JUnit
7 12 (1.81%) ERwin
8 5 (0.76%) Appium
8 5 (0.76%) JMeter
9 3 (0.45%) Postman
9 3 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.45%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.45%) Toad
10 2 (0.30%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.30%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.15%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.15%) GCC
11 1 (0.15%) Hudson
11 1 (0.15%) SoapUI
General
1 262 (39.58%) Social Skills
2 209 (31.57%) Finance
3 157 (23.72%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.06%) Banking
5 53 (8.01%) Public Sector
6 42 (6.34%) Marketing
7 30 (4.53%) Financial Institution
8 29 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 25 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
10 22 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 19 (2.87%) Aerospace
13 17 (2.57%) Retail
14 13 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.96%) Telecoms
15 12 (1.81%) Military
16 11 (1.66%) Legal
17 10 (1.51%) Aviation
17 10 (1.51%) Local Government
18 9 (1.36%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 126 (19.03%) Analyst
2 70 (10.57%) Architect
3 65 (9.82%) Data Analyst
4 61 (9.21%) Lead
5 59 (8.91%) Senior
6 58 (8.76%) Business Analyst
7 43 (6.50%) Developer
8 41 (6.19%) Data Architect
9 39 (5.89%) Consultant
10 32 (4.83%) Data Engineer
11 27 (4.08%) Data Manager
12 23 (3.47%) Administrator
13 18 (2.72%) Data Business Analyst
13 18 (2.72%) Test Specialist
14 17 (2.57%) Senior Analyst
15 15 (2.27%) Data Modeller
15 15 (2.27%) Project Manager
16 14 (2.11%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.11%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.11%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (5.44%) REST
2 23 (3.47%) Oracle Fusion
3 19 (2.87%) pytest
4 17 (2.57%) React
5 14 (2.11%) .NET
6 13 (1.96%) Kafka
7 12 (1.81%) JSON
8 11 (1.66%) SOAP
9 10 (1.51%) HTML5 Canvas
10 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Graph
10 9 (1.36%) XML
11 8 (1.21%) Lightning Web Components
11 8 (1.21%) YAML
12 7 (1.06%) PySpark
13 6 (0.91%) Middleware
13 6 (0.91%) Node.js
13 6 (0.91%) Visualforce
14 5 (0.76%) JDO
14 5 (0.76%) NumPy
14 5 (0.76%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 49 (7.40%) Management Information System
2 35 (5.29%) Data Structures
3 34 (5.14%) Onboarding
4 27 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.32%) Product Ownership
5 22 (3.32%) Reference Data
6 20 (3.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.72%) Data Protection Act
8 13 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.81%) Cloud Native
10 10 (1.51%) Low-Code
11 8 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.21%) Life Science
11 8 (1.21%) Social Media
12 7 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 7 (1.06%) IoT
13 6 (0.91%) CMDB
13 6 (0.91%) Synthetic Data
13 6 (0.91%) Wiki
14 5 (0.76%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.81%) Windows
2 6 (0.91%) Linux
3 5 (0.76%) Android
3 5 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.30%) Unix
5 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
2 190 (28.70%) Agile
3 168 (25.38%) Data Governance
4 154 (23.26%) Stakeholder Management
5 143 (21.60%) Analytics
6 127 (19.18%) Data Modelling
7 124 (18.73%) Migration
8 109 (16.47%) Business Intelligence
9 91 (13.75%) Validation
10 85 (12.84%) DevOps
11 82 (12.39%) CI/CD
12 76 (11.48%) Decision-Making
12 76 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 72 (10.88%) AI
14 71 (10.73%) Project Management
15 68 (10.27%) Data Analysis
16 67 (10.12%) ETL
17 63 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 62 (9.37%) Data Architecture
19 60 (9.06%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 142 (21.45%) SQL
2 89 (13.44%) Python
3 26 (3.93%) JavaScript
4 17 (2.57%) C#
5 16 (2.42%) Java
6 15 (2.27%) PowerShell
7 11 (1.66%) Formula Language
7 11 (1.66%) LotusScript
8 10 (1.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 10 (1.51%) TypeScript
9 9 (1.36%) PL/SQL
10 8 (1.21%) VBA
11 7 (1.06%) Apex Code
11 7 (1.06%) Groovy
11 7 (1.06%) T-SQL
12 6 (0.91%) R
13 5 (0.76%) C++
14 4 (0.60%) Bicep
14 4 (0.60%) Scala
15 3 (0.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 143 (21.60%) Security Cleared
2 116 (17.52%) SC Cleared
3 91 (13.75%) Degree
4 22 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
5 20 (3.02%) Master's Degree
6 12 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (1.51%) Oracle Certification
8 8 (1.21%) IIBA
9 7 (1.06%) CBAP
9 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 6 (0.91%) OCA
11 5 (0.76%) DV Cleared
11 5 (0.76%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.76%) PMP
12 4 (0.60%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.60%) OCP
13 3 (0.45%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 3 (0.45%) PhD
13 3 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 165 (24.92%) Data Quality
2 65 (9.82%) QA
3 60 (9.06%) GDPR
4 15 (2.27%) PMO
5 13 (1.96%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.81%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 7 (1.06%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.76%) Def Stans
9 4 (0.60%) IFRS
9 4 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.45%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.30%) Basel III
11 2 (0.30%) COREP
11 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.30%) EMIR
11 2 (0.30%) FINREP
11 2 (0.30%) MiFID
11 2 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (3.17%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (4.68%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.36%) Terraform
3 5 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.60%) Grafana
4 4 (0.60%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.45%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.30%) Consul
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 123 (18.58%) Microsoft
2 80 (12.08%) Oracle
3 49 (7.40%) SAP
4 40 (6.04%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.98%) Databricks
6 30 (4.53%) Informatica
7 20 (3.02%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.57%) Google
9 13 (1.96%) Talend
10 11 (1.66%) Lotus
11 10 (1.51%) Kofax
12 9 (1.36%) Bloomberg
13 8 (1.21%) Workday
14 7 (1.06%) Siemens
15 6 (0.91%) Adobe
15 6 (0.91%) Charles River
15 6 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
16 5 (0.76%) Murex
16 5 (0.76%) Palantir
17 4 (0.60%) HP