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

6 months to
20 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 124 103
Rank change year-on-year -47 -21 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Management 768 656 737
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.36% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.96% 2.60% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 370 408
10th Percentile £308 £295 £321
25th Percentile £410 £400 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -5.41%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £681
90th Percentile £750 £731 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 35
10th Percentile £16.45 £13.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £18.69 £18.50 £25.82
Median hourly rate £29.07 £29.83 £39.68
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% -24.84% +20.24%
75th Percentile £41.56 £73.13 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.75 £81.00 £66.95
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £30.32 £35.00
% change year-on-year -4.12% -13.37% +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 39,208 25,244 28,362
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 90.88% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,936 16,028 17,611
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £626 £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 2,812 1,512 1,298
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.74 £17.77 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.41 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.61% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £68.00 £49.56 £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% -1.91%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -54 372 £525 -4.55% 823
Midlands -25 105 £525 +13.51% 107
South East -25 99 £500 +17.65% 206
North of England -60 98 £400 -9.86% 171
West Midlands -20 81 £550 +15.79% 77
North West -39 55 £406 -14.63% 113
South West -27 44 £530 +1.92% 91
Yorkshire -44 42 £400 - 41
East of England -27 26 £576 -4.00% 92
East Midlands -17 24 £525 +16.67% 30
North East -44 2 £425 -2.86% 18
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 29 (3.78%) Confluence
2 26 (3.39%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.82%) SAS
4 11 (1.43%) 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%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.78%) Palantir Foundry
9 5 (0.65%) ArcGIS
10 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
10 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
10 4 (0.52%) Mule
11 2 (0.26%) 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 66 (8.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.91%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.39%) Revit
7 3 (0.39%) Windchill
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 26 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.69%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.56%) Teamcenter
4 7 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.91%) SAP HR
5 6 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
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 Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
10 1 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
10 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 146 (19.01%) Azure
2 105 (13.67%) Power Platform
3 59 (7.68%) AWS
4 32 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
5 31 (4.04%) Collibra
6 29 (3.78%) SaaS
7 27 (3.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 26 (3.39%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
10 23 (2.99%) PowerApps
11 22 (2.86%) GCP
12 21 (2.73%) Power Automate
13 19 (2.47%) GitHub
13 19 (2.47%) Snowflake
14 15 (1.95%) Alation
14 15 (1.95%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 15 (1.95%) SuccessFactors
15 14 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
16 12 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (1.43%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.65%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) Internet
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%) LAN
4 2 (0.26%) VPN
4 2 (0.26%) WAN
5 1 (0.13%) 2G
5 1 (0.13%) 4G
5 1 (0.13%) 5G
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) PSTN
5 1 (0.13%) SAN
5 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (17.32%) Metadata
2 86 (11.20%) Power BI
3 51 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.12%) Data Lake
5 38 (4.95%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.13%) NoSQL
6 24 (3.13%) Tableau
7 18 (2.34%) PostgreSQL
8 14 (1.82%) GIS
9 13 (1.69%) Oracle Reports
10 12 (1.56%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.17%) MySQL
11 9 (1.17%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.04%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.04%) Spatial Data
13 7 (0.91%) Big Data
13 7 (0.91%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 49 (6.38%) JIRA
2 17 (2.21%) Git
2 17 (2.21%) Selenium
3 12 (1.56%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.43%) ERwin
4 11 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.30%) Postman
6 8 (1.04%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.91%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.91%) JMeter
8 6 (0.78%) GitLab
9 5 (0.65%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.65%) SoapUI
10 4 (0.52%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.39%) Gradle
11 3 (0.39%) JUnit
11 3 (0.39%) Maven
11 3 (0.39%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 272 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 216 (28.13%) Finance
3 160 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 82 (10.68%) Public Sector
5 58 (7.55%) Banking
6 44 (5.73%) Organisational Skills
7 42 (5.47%) Manufacturing
8 37 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.43%) Marketing
10 29 (3.78%) Retail
11 25 (3.26%) Aerospace
12 21 (2.73%) Legal
12 21 (2.73%) Local Government
13 18 (2.34%) Documentation Skills
14 16 (2.08%) Front Office
15 13 (1.69%) Billing
15 13 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.69%) Military
16 9 (1.17%) Automotive
16 9 (1.17%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 110 (14.32%) Analyst
2 107 (13.93%) Architect
3 88 (11.46%) Lead
4 74 (9.64%) Data Architect
5 72 (9.38%) Senior
6 62 (8.07%) Developer
7 50 (6.51%) Administrator
8 48 (6.25%) Data Analyst
9 44 (5.73%) Consultant
9 44 (5.73%) Data Engineer
10 42 (5.47%) Business Analyst
11 28 (3.65%) Data Manager
12 24 (3.13%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.86%) Data Consultant
14 16 (2.08%) Project Manager
14 16 (2.08%) Senior Developer
15 14 (1.82%) Data Business Analyst
15 14 (1.82%) Data Management Specialist
15 14 (1.82%) Senior Manager
16 13 (1.69%) Data Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (4.30%) REST
2 23 (2.99%) Middleware
3 22 (2.86%) Terraform
4 21 (2.73%) JSON
4 21 (2.73%) XML
5 20 (2.60%) Kafka
6 17 (2.21%) .NET
7 15 (1.95%) RESTful
8 12 (1.56%) HTML
8 12 (1.56%) PySpark
8 12 (1.56%) SOAP
9 11 (1.43%) Oracle Fusion
10 8 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.04%) OAuth
11 7 (0.91%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.91%) LDAP
11 7 (0.91%) OpenTofu
11 7 (0.91%) Web Services
12 6 (0.78%) Playwright
13 5 (0.65%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 77 (10.03%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.38%) Data Structures
2 49 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 38 (4.95%) Cloud Native
4 34 (4.43%) Product Ownership
4 34 (4.43%) Reference Data
5 26 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 18 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 13 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
9 12 (1.56%) Life Science
10 11 (1.43%) CMDB
10 11 (1.43%) FMCG
11 10 (1.30%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.30%) Fixed Income
12 9 (1.17%) Autonomous Agent
12 9 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (1.17%) Social Media
13 8 (1.04%) Taxonomies
14 7 (0.91%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.95%) 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
1 254 (33.07%) Data Governance
2 214 (27.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 178 (23.18%) Agile
4 170 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
5 164 (21.35%) Migration
6 160 (20.83%) Analytics
6 160 (20.83%) Data Modelling
7 136 (17.71%) Validation
8 134 (17.45%) AI
9 123 (16.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 119 (15.49%) Decision-Making
11 112 (14.58%) Data Architecture
12 107 (13.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 101 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
14 96 (12.50%) Roadmaps
15 92 (11.98%) ETL
16 87 (11.33%) DevOps
17 83 (10.81%) Data Migration
18 81 (10.55%) Metadata Management
19 73 (9.51%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 168 (21.88%) SQL
2 76 (9.90%) Python
3 43 (5.60%) Java
4 30 (3.91%) C#
5 18 (2.34%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.21%) C
7 13 (1.69%) X++
8 7 (0.91%) VBA
9 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
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%) R
12 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
12 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
13 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 145 (18.88%) Security Cleared
2 114 (14.84%) SC Cleared
3 72 (9.38%) Degree
4 27 (3.52%) DV Cleared
5 19 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.21%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.04%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.91%) OCP
9 7 (0.91%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.91%) PMP
10 6 (0.78%) DBS Check
10 6 (0.78%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.78%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.65%) CIPD
12 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
13 3 (0.39%) ISEB
13 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.26%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 277 (36.07%) Data Quality
2 79 (10.29%) GDPR
3 51 (6.64%) QA
4 22 (2.86%) Accessibility
5 14 (1.82%) PMO
6 7 (0.91%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.78%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.65%) NCSC
9 4 (0.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.39%) GRC
10 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.39%) PERC
10 3 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
11 2 (0.26%) COREP
11 2 (0.26%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FINREP
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 16 (2.08%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.43%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.39%) MOM
3 3 (0.39%) Prometheus
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%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 136 (17.71%) Microsoft
2 69 (8.98%) SAP
3 66 (8.59%) Databricks
3 66 (8.59%) Oracle
4 44 (5.73%) Salesforce
5 33 (4.30%) Informatica
6 22 (2.86%) Google
7 21 (2.73%) ServiceNow
8 14 (1.82%) Workday
9 11 (1.43%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.43%) IBM
10 9 (1.17%) Denodo
11 8 (1.04%) Charles River
11 8 (1.04%) Concur
11 8 (1.04%) Foundry
12 7 (0.91%) ESRI
12 7 (0.91%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.91%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.91%) Talend
13 6 (0.78%) Palantir