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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 119 116
Rank change year-on-year -42 -3 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Management 745 647 716
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.66% 2.36% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.95% 2.60% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 379 429
10th Percentile £324 £311 £340
25th Percentile £400 £406 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £688
90th Percentile £745 £816 £789
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 35 58
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.90 £17.56
25th Percentile £21.70 £25.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £38.75 £30.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.79% -22.99% +21.21%
75th Percentile £49.69 £72.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £56.73 £79.60 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +21.21%

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 38,301 24,864 30,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.33% 90.66% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,041 15,953 19,995
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,379 1,324 2,046
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.23 £13.22
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.90
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -36.33% -7.06%
75th Percentile £69.10 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.39 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -35 357 £525 -4.55% 108
South East -17 111 £450 +9.09% 62
Midlands -11 104 £513 +7.89% 33
West Midlands -26 78 £513 +7.89% 16
North of England -90 70 £400 -15.79% 51
South West -15 57 £525 +0.96% 15
Yorkshire -55 34 £400 -8.57% 17
North West -66 34 £513 +2.50% 25
East Midlands -10 25 £525 +10.53% 17
East of England -29 25 £631 +65.03% 19
North East -34 3 £425 -19.05% 9
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 37 (4.97%) Confluence
2 36 (4.83%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.74%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.61%) CMS
4 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (1.21%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.21%) Palantir Foundry
6 8 (1.07%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (1.07%) SAS
7 7 (0.94%) WordPress
8 6 (0.81%) Apache
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.13%) Mule
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 63 (8.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 28 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.74%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.07%) 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%) CATIA
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 29 (3.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 22 (2.95%) Teamcenter
3 12 (1.61%) Aladdin
4 8 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.94%) Fidessa
5 7 (0.94%) Oracle EBS
6 6 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.54%) iTrent
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
7 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.40%) Maximo
8 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.40%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.27%) Primavera
9 2 (0.27%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 140 (18.79%) Azure
2 111 (14.90%) Power Platform
3 65 (8.72%) AWS
4 37 (4.97%) SaaS
5 31 (4.16%) PowerApps
6 27 (3.62%) Collibra
7 26 (3.49%) Dynamics 365
7 26 (3.49%) GCP
8 25 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 24 (3.22%) Azure Data Factory
10 23 (3.09%) Microsoft 365
11 21 (2.82%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 17 (2.28%) Entra ID
14 16 (2.15%) Power Automate
15 15 (2.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 13 (1.74%) PaaS
17 12 (1.61%) OneDrive
17 12 (1.61%) Serverless
18 9 (1.21%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.48%) LAN
1 11 (1.48%) WAN
2 10 (1.34%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.94%) PSTN
4 4 (0.54%) Network Security
5 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 3 (0.40%) Intranet
5 3 (0.40%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.27%) FTP
6 2 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) 5G
7 1 (0.13%) DWDM
7 1 (0.13%) HTTP
7 1 (0.13%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.13%) SDH
7 1 (0.13%) VPN
7 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (12.35%) Metadata
2 83 (11.14%) Power BI
3 50 (6.71%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.58%) Data Lake
5 38 (5.10%) SQL Server
6 25 (3.36%) Tableau
7 20 (2.68%) GIS
8 16 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
9 12 (1.61%) MySQL
9 12 (1.61%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.34%) Data Mining
10 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.21%) Big Data
11 9 (1.21%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.21%) Spatial Data
12 8 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 59 (7.92%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) Git
3 12 (1.61%) ERwin
4 10 (1.34%) Selenium
5 8 (1.07%) Visual Studio
6 7 (0.94%) GitLab
6 7 (0.94%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.81%) Postman
8 5 (0.67%) JMeter
8 5 (0.67%) JUnit
8 5 (0.67%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.54%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.40%) ER Studio
11 2 (0.27%) Gradle
11 2 (0.27%) Maven
11 2 (0.27%) MLflow
11 2 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.27%) Toad
General
1 237 (31.81%) Social Skills
2 205 (27.52%) Finance
3 151 (20.27%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.85%) Banking
6 36 (4.83%) Marketing
7 35 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 28 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (3.49%) Aerospace
10 23 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.68%) Retail
12 19 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (2.42%) Legal
14 14 (1.88%) Front Office
15 13 (1.74%) Local Government
15 13 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
16 11 (1.48%) Financial Institution
17 10 (1.34%) Billing
18 9 (1.21%) Aviation
19 8 (1.07%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 124 (16.64%) Analyst
2 100 (13.42%) Architect
3 80 (10.74%) Lead
4 76 (10.20%) Senior
5 64 (8.59%) Data Architect
6 61 (8.19%) Data Analyst
7 52 (6.98%) Business Analyst
8 48 (6.44%) Data Engineer
9 43 (5.77%) Consultant
10 42 (5.64%) Developer
11 37 (4.97%) Administrator
12 32 (4.30%) Data Manager
13 26 (3.49%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.95%) Data Management Specialist
15 19 (2.55%) Project Manager
16 17 (2.28%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (2.15%) Senior Developer
17 16 (2.15%) Senior Manager
18 15 (2.01%) Data Administrator
19 13 (1.74%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.28%) REST
2 16 (2.15%) JSON
3 15 (2.01%) XML
4 14 (1.88%) Middleware
5 12 (1.61%) RESTful
6 11 (1.48%) Kafka
7 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
8 9 (1.21%) .NET
9 7 (0.94%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
10 6 (0.81%) PySpark
11 5 (0.67%) JDO
11 5 (0.67%) LDAP
11 5 (0.67%) SailPoint
11 5 (0.67%) SOAP
11 5 (0.67%) Web Services
12 4 (0.54%) HTML
12 4 (0.54%) pytest
12 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
12 4 (0.54%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 61 (8.19%) Management Information System
2 33 (4.43%) Onboarding
3 32 (4.30%) Data Structures
4 30 (4.03%) Cloud Native
4 30 (4.03%) Reference Data
5 23 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 23 (3.09%) Product Ownership
6 19 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 19 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
7 16 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (1.88%) FMCG
9 12 (1.61%) Fixed Income
9 12 (1.61%) Life Science
9 12 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 8 (1.07%) IoT
12 7 (0.94%) Equities
12 7 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
12 7 (0.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (2.01%) Windows
2 10 (1.34%) Linux
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
1 236 (31.68%) Data Governance
2 187 (25.10%) Stakeholder Management
3 178 (23.89%) Migration
4 175 (23.49%) Agile
5 153 (20.54%) Data Modelling
6 150 (20.13%) Problem-Solving
7 139 (18.66%) Analytics
8 135 (18.12%) Validation
9 112 (15.03%) AI
10 100 (13.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 98 (13.15%) Business Intelligence
12 97 (13.02%) Data Architecture
13 96 (12.89%) Decision-Making
14 94 (12.62%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 93 (12.48%) ETL
16 90 (12.08%) Data Migration
17 77 (10.34%) Roadmaps
18 75 (10.07%) DevOps
19 74 (9.93%) Data Analysis
20 65 (8.72%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 144 (19.33%) SQL
2 78 (10.47%) Python
3 27 (3.62%) Java
4 20 (2.68%) C#
5 18 (2.42%) C
6 15 (2.01%) PowerShell
7 10 (1.34%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.34%) X++
8 7 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (0.94%) VBA
9 6 (0.81%) Bicep
9 6 (0.81%) PL/SQL
10 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
10 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
11 3 (0.40%) Scala
11 3 (0.40%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.27%) C++
12 2 (0.27%) R
13 1 (0.13%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 125 (16.78%) Security Cleared
2 93 (12.48%) SC Cleared
3 78 (10.47%) Degree
4 24 (3.22%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.28%) BPSS Clearance
7 11 (1.48%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (0.94%) OCP
9 7 (0.94%) Oracle Certification
10 5 (0.67%) Azure Certification
10 5 (0.67%) CBAP
10 5 (0.67%) ISTQB
10 5 (0.67%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.54%) IIBA
12 3 (0.40%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.27%) PMP
14 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 241 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 76 (10.20%) GDPR
3 63 (8.46%) QA
4 20 (2.68%) Accessibility
5 12 (1.61%) PMO
6 6 (0.81%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) BS7666
8 4 (0.54%) COREP
8 4 (0.54%) Def Stans
8 4 (0.54%) FINREP
8 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.40%) PERC
9 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 8 (1.07%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (1.74%) Terraform
2 11 (1.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.40%) Grafana
5 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
6 2 (0.27%) Prometheus
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
1 126 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.53%) SAP
3 59 (7.92%) Databricks
4 57 (7.65%) Oracle
5 49 (6.58%) Salesforce
6 28 (3.76%) Informatica
7 22 (2.95%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.74%) Bloomberg
9 11 (1.48%) Charles River
10 10 (1.34%) ESRI
10 10 (1.34%) Google
11 9 (1.21%) Foundry
11 9 (1.21%) Palantir
11 9 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 8 (1.07%) Concur
12 8 (1.07%) Workday
13 7 (0.94%) Adobe
13 7 (0.94%) Sitecore
13 7 (0.94%) Talend
14 6 (0.81%) Siemens