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 7 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 122 116
Rank change year-on-year -40 -6 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Management 742 646 678
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.34% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.91% 2.58% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 371 407
10th Percentile £341 £296 £328
25th Percentile £413 £400 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -6.36% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £746 £775 £780
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -2.63% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 33 48
10th Percentile £16.15 £18.38 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £23.45 £26.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.73% -31.54% +32.35%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £59.60 £77.50 £61.28
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -26.67% +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 38,882 25,041 28,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.21% 90.76% 85.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,206 16,026 18,694
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £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 2,519 1,388 1,683
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.01 £17.88 £18.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.27 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.68 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +69.69% -37.63% -5.12%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 -44 354 £525 -4.55% 329
Midlands -21 109 £525 +16.67% 59
South East -26 102 £450 +16.13% 103
West Midlands -26 83 £513 +20.59% 38
North of England -88 77 £450 - 91
South West -16 48 £525 -8.70% 50
North West -49 41 £538 +7.50% 53
Yorkshire -50 35 £400 -2.44% 30
East of England -31 28 £625 +104.58% 35
East Midlands -10 25 £525 +13.51% 21
North East -42 2 £425 -10.53% 8
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 (4.04%) SharePoint
2 29 (3.91%) Confluence
3 14 (1.89%) CMS
4 12 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.48%) SAS
6 8 (1.08%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.08%) Palantir Foundry
7 7 (0.94%) WordPress
8 6 (0.81%) Apache
8 6 (0.81%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.54%) Mule
10 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
10 3 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
11 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
12 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
12 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 63 (8.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 25 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.75%) Spreadsheet
4 11 (1.48%) MS Visio
5 9 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.40%) Revit
7 3 (0.40%) Windchill
8 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 32 (4.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (2.02%) Teamcenter
3 14 (1.89%) 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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.54%) iTrent
8 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
8 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
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
1 134 (18.06%) Azure
2 107 (14.42%) Power Platform
3 54 (7.28%) AWS
4 30 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
4 30 (4.04%) SaaS
5 27 (3.64%) Collibra
5 27 (3.64%) PowerApps
6 25 (3.37%) Azure Data Factory
7 24 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
8 20 (2.70%) GCP
9 19 (2.56%) Power Automate
9 19 (2.56%) Snowflake
10 17 (2.29%) Microsoft 365
11 14 (1.89%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 12 (1.62%) SuccessFactors
13 11 (1.48%) Entra ID
14 10 (1.35%) PaaS
14 10 (1.35%) Serverless
15 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
1 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.40%) Intranet
2 3 (0.40%) LAN
2 3 (0.40%) SMS
2 3 (0.40%) WAN
3 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
3 2 (0.27%) FTP
3 2 (0.27%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.27%) Internet
3 2 (0.27%) PSTN
3 2 (0.27%) Unified Communications
3 2 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.13%) 2G
4 1 (0.13%) 3G
4 1 (0.13%) 4G
4 1 (0.13%) 5G
4 1 (0.13%) DWDM
4 1 (0.13%) SAN
4 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (14.15%) Metadata
2 82 (11.05%) Power BI
3 47 (6.33%) Data Lake
3 47 (6.33%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (4.31%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.10%) Tableau
6 21 (2.83%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.43%) GIS
8 14 (1.89%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.62%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.48%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.35%) Data Mining
11 10 (1.35%) MySQL
12 9 (1.21%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
13 8 (1.08%) Big Data
13 8 (1.08%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.08%) Spatial Data
14 7 (0.94%) Pentaho
15 6 (0.81%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 50 (6.74%) JIRA
2 17 (2.29%) Git
3 14 (1.89%) ERwin
4 13 (1.75%) Selenium
5 12 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 8 (1.08%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
8 6 (0.81%) GitLab
8 6 (0.81%) JMeter
8 6 (0.81%) Postman
9 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.54%) JUnit
11 3 (0.40%) Gradle
11 3 (0.40%) Maven
11 3 (0.40%) MLflow
11 3 (0.40%) REST Assured
12 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.27%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 243 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 204 (27.49%) Finance
3 153 (20.62%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.84%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.87%) Banking
6 36 (4.85%) Marketing
7 35 (4.72%) Manufacturing
8 33 (4.45%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
10 24 (3.23%) Retail
11 21 (2.83%) Aerospace
12 18 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.43%) Legal
13 13 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
14 12 (1.62%) Financial Institution
14 12 (1.62%) Front Office
14 12 (1.62%) Local Government
15 11 (1.48%) Billing
16 9 (1.21%) Investment Banking
16 9 (1.21%) Military
Job Titles
1 117 (15.77%) Analyst
2 103 (13.88%) Architect
3 82 (11.05%) Lead
4 66 (8.89%) Data Architect
4 66 (8.89%) Senior
5 59 (7.95%) Data Analyst
6 50 (6.74%) Developer
7 47 (6.33%) Data Engineer
8 45 (6.06%) Consultant
9 43 (5.80%) Business Analyst
10 40 (5.39%) Administrator
11 32 (4.31%) Data Manager
12 28 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (2.43%) Data Management Specialist
14 17 (2.29%) Data Consultant
14 17 (2.29%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.16%) Data Administrator
15 16 (2.16%) Data Business Analyst
16 15 (2.02%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.89%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (3.64%) REST
2 19 (2.56%) JSON
3 17 (2.29%) XML
4 16 (2.16%) Middleware
5 14 (1.89%) Kafka
5 14 (1.89%) RESTful
6 12 (1.62%) .NET
7 10 (1.35%) PySpark
8 9 (1.21%) SOAP
9 8 (1.08%) OAuth
10 7 (0.94%) Oracle Fusion
11 6 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
12 5 (0.67%) JWT
12 5 (0.67%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.54%) .NET Core
13 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
13 4 (0.54%) HTML
13 4 (0.54%) LDAP
13 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
13 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 63 (8.49%) Management Information System
2 43 (5.80%) Data Structures
3 37 (4.99%) Cloud Native
4 31 (4.18%) Onboarding
4 31 (4.18%) Reference Data
5 27 (3.64%) Product Ownership
6 22 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
7 19 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 15 (2.02%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.89%) FMCG
10 14 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (1.62%) Life Science
12 10 (1.35%) Fixed Income
13 9 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.08%) Social Media
15 7 (0.94%) Autonomous Agent
15 7 (0.94%) CMDB
15 7 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 7 (0.94%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.62%) Linux
2 9 (1.21%) Windows
3 1 (0.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 234 (31.54%) Data Governance
2 174 (23.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 171 (23.05%) Migration
4 157 (21.16%) Agile
5 149 (20.08%) Data Modelling
6 147 (19.81%) Problem-Solving
7 146 (19.68%) Analytics
8 135 (18.19%) Validation
9 117 (15.77%) AI
10 102 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
10 102 (13.75%) Data Architecture
11 99 (13.34%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (12.80%) Decision-Making
13 93 (12.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 89 (11.99%) Data Migration
14 89 (11.99%) ETL
15 82 (11.05%) Roadmaps
16 78 (10.51%) DevOps
17 73 (9.84%) Data Analysis
18 65 (8.76%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 150 (20.22%) SQL
2 68 (9.16%) Python
3 36 (4.85%) Java
4 23 (3.10%) C#
5 17 (2.29%) C
6 14 (1.89%) X++
7 12 (1.62%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.08%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
9 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.81%) VBA
10 5 (0.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 5 (0.67%) PowerShell
11 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.13%) C++
14 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 124 (16.71%) Security Cleared
2 91 (12.26%) SC Cleared
3 59 (7.95%) Degree
4 25 (3.37%) DV Cleared
5 16 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
6 14 (1.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.08%) OCP
8 8 (1.08%) Oracle Certification
9 6 (0.81%) Azure Certification
9 6 (0.81%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.67%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (0.40%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.27%) PMP
13 1 (0.13%) PRINCE2 Certification
13 1 (0.13%) RIBA
13 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 252 (33.96%) Data Quality
2 69 (9.30%) GDPR
3 56 (7.55%) QA
4 17 (2.29%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.62%) PMO
6 7 (0.94%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.81%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.67%) NCSC
9 4 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
9 4 (0.54%) COREP
9 4 (0.54%) FINREP
9 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.40%) PERC
10 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.27%) COBIT
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.62%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.94%) 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 17 (2.29%) Terraform
2 9 (1.21%) Kubernetes
3 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.40%) Grafana
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 2 (0.27%) Ansible
5 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.13%) CASB
6 1 (0.13%) Kibana
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (16.04%) Microsoft
2 72 (9.70%) SAP
3 62 (8.36%) Databricks
4 59 (7.95%) Oracle
5 50 (6.74%) Salesforce
6 22 (2.96%) Informatica
7 18 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.62%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.35%) ESRI
9 10 (1.35%) Workday
10 9 (1.21%) Charles River
10 9 (1.21%) Google
11 8 (1.08%) Concur
11 8 (1.08%) Foundry
11 8 (1.08%) Palantir
11 8 (1.08%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.94%) Adobe
12 7 (0.94%) Denodo
12 7 (0.94%) MuleSoft
12 7 (0.94%) Sitecore