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

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 124 101
Rank change year-on-year -42 -23 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Management 776 644 753
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.68% 2.32% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.55% 2.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 456 371 409
10th Percentile £303 £294 £313
25th Percentile £407 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.50% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £625 £675
90th Percentile £750 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 37
10th Percentile £16.50 £13.04 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £17.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.92 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -30.21% +21.21%
75th Percentile £41.44 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £58.45 £81.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £29.33 £37.34
% change year-on-year -0.89% -21.45% +13.15%

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 39,007 25,232 28,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.55% 90.97% 86.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,733 16,031 17,231
10th Percentile £325 £295 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
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 2,853 1,544 1,222
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.85 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.02% -41.51% -3.37%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +55.07% -40.82% -1.16%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -46 373 £525 -1.87% 622
Midlands -14 107 £525 +16.67% 101
North of England -56 100 £400 -8.57% 176
South East -24 98 £500 +25.00% 190
West Midlands -11 82 £531 +11.84% 64
North West -42 56 £385 -17.20% 112
South West -28 45 £525 +0.96% 85
Yorkshire -38 43 £400 - 50
East of England -18 26 £576 -4.00% 72
East Midlands -13 25 £525 +16.67% 36
North East -41 2 £425 -2.86% 15
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 (3.74%) Confluence
2 26 (3.35%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.80%) SAS
4 12 (1.55%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.55%) CMS
5 9 (1.16%) WordPress
6 8 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.77%) Apache
7 6 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
7 6 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
8 4 (0.52%) Anypoint
8 4 (0.52%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.52%) Mule
9 3 (0.39%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 68 (8.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 32 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.55%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.52%) Revit
8 3 (0.39%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.39%) Windchill
9 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
10 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
10 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.68%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.55%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.03%) SAP HR
5 7 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.77%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.64%) Fidessa
7 5 (0.64%) Oracle EBS
7 5 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
9 3 (0.39%) iTrent
9 3 (0.39%) Maximo
9 3 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
9 3 (0.39%) Sage X3
10 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
10 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
11 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
11 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 152 (19.59%) Azure
2 105 (13.53%) Power Platform
3 58 (7.47%) AWS
4 33 (4.25%) Collibra
5 32 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (3.99%) Microsoft Purview
7 29 (3.74%) SaaS
8 27 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
9 26 (3.35%) Azure Data Factory
10 25 (3.22%) PowerApps
11 23 (2.96%) Power Automate
12 22 (2.84%) GCP
13 20 (2.58%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.45%) GitHub
15 17 (2.19%) Alation
16 15 (1.93%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 15 (1.93%) SuccessFactors
17 14 (1.80%) Microsoft 365
17 14 (1.80%) Microsoft Copilot
18 12 (1.55%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (0.64%) Firewall
2 4 (0.52%) Network Security
2 4 (0.52%) SMS
3 3 (0.39%) Internet
4 2 (0.26%) Broadband
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%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.13%) FTP
5 1 (0.13%) PSTN
5 1 (0.13%) SAN
5 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.13%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.13%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 136 (17.53%) Metadata
2 84 (10.82%) Power BI
3 51 (6.57%) Data Warehouse
4 48 (6.19%) Data Lake
5 42 (5.41%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.09%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.84%) Tableau
8 18 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (1.68%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.55%) Delta Lake
10 12 (1.55%) GIS
11 9 (1.16%) Amazon Redshift
11 9 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.16%) MySQL
11 9 (1.16%) Pentaho
12 8 (1.03%) Ataccama
12 8 (1.03%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.90%) Metadata Repository
13 7 (0.90%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 47 (6.06%) JIRA
2 17 (2.19%) Git
2 17 (2.19%) Selenium
3 12 (1.55%) Visual Studio
4 11 (1.42%) ERwin
4 11 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.29%) Postman
6 8 (1.03%) ER Studio
7 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.90%) JMeter
8 6 (0.77%) GitLab
9 5 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 5 (0.64%) 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%) MLflow
11 3 (0.39%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.39%) WebDriver
General
1 276 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.09%) Finance
3 163 (21.01%) Analytical Skills
4 85 (10.95%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.86%) Banking
6 45 (5.80%) Organisational Skills
7 40 (5.15%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
9 34 (4.38%) Marketing
10 30 (3.87%) Retail
11 26 (3.35%) Aerospace
12 24 (3.09%) Local Government
13 22 (2.84%) Legal
14 19 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
15 16 (2.06%) Front Office
16 14 (1.80%) Investment Banking
16 14 (1.80%) Military
17 13 (1.68%) Billing
18 9 (1.16%) Automotive
18 9 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 111 (14.30%) Analyst
2 108 (13.92%) Architect
3 82 (10.57%) Lead
4 74 (9.54%) Senior
5 73 (9.41%) Data Architect
6 64 (8.25%) Developer
7 58 (7.47%) Administrator
8 47 (6.06%) Data Analyst
9 46 (5.93%) Data Engineer
10 44 (5.67%) Business Analyst
11 43 (5.54%) Consultant
12 28 (3.61%) Data Manager
13 23 (2.96%) Solutions Architect
14 22 (2.84%) Data Consultant
15 16 (2.06%) Senior Developer
16 15 (1.93%) Project Manager
17 14 (1.80%) Data Business Analyst
17 14 (1.80%) Data Management Specialist
18 13 (1.68%) Data Administrator
18 13 (1.68%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (4.51%) REST
2 24 (3.09%) Middleware
3 23 (2.96%) XML
4 22 (2.84%) Terraform
5 20 (2.58%) JSON
5 20 (2.58%) Kafka
6 19 (2.45%) .NET
7 15 (1.93%) RESTful
8 14 (1.80%) HTML
8 14 (1.80%) SOAP
9 12 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (1.55%) PySpark
10 8 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
10 8 (1.03%) OAuth
11 7 (0.90%) .NET Core
11 7 (0.90%) LDAP
11 7 (0.90%) OpenTofu
11 7 (0.90%) Web Services
12 6 (0.77%) Playwright
13 5 (0.64%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 83 (10.70%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.57%) Data Structures
3 49 (6.31%) Onboarding
4 40 (5.15%) Cloud Native
5 35 (4.51%) Reference Data
6 33 (4.25%) Product Ownership
7 27 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
8 18 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.42%) Life Science
11 10 (1.29%) CMDB
11 10 (1.29%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.29%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.29%) FMCG
12 9 (1.16%) Autonomous Agent
12 9 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
12 9 (1.16%) Social Media
12 9 (1.16%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 15 (1.93%) Linux
2 9 (1.16%) 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 Server 2003
4 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (32.86%) Data Governance
2 219 (28.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 183 (23.58%) Agile
4 172 (22.16%) Problem-Solving
5 165 (21.26%) Migration
6 163 (21.01%) Data Modelling
7 160 (20.62%) Analytics
8 142 (18.30%) AI
9 141 (18.17%) Validation
10 125 (16.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 117 (15.08%) Decision-Making
12 111 (14.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 109 (14.05%) Data Architecture
14 98 (12.63%) Business Intelligence
15 97 (12.50%) Roadmaps
16 93 (11.98%) ETL
17 90 (11.60%) DevOps
18 87 (11.21%) Data Migration
19 84 (10.82%) Metadata Management
20 77 (9.92%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 168 (21.65%) SQL
2 77 (9.92%) Python
3 43 (5.54%) Java
4 32 (4.12%) C#
5 20 (2.58%) JavaScript
6 16 (2.06%) C
7 13 (1.68%) X++
8 6 (0.77%) PL/SQL
8 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
8 6 (0.77%) TypeScript
8 6 (0.77%) VBA
9 5 (0.64%) Bicep
9 5 (0.64%) R
10 4 (0.52%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
11 3 (0.39%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 150 (19.33%) Security Cleared
2 118 (15.21%) SC Cleared
3 75 (9.66%) Degree
4 27 (3.48%) DV Cleared
5 23 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 17 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.03%) DBS Check
8 8 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 7 (0.90%) OCP
9 7 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.90%) PMP
10 6 (0.77%) CIPD
10 6 (0.77%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.52%) Azure Certification
12 3 (0.39%) AWS Certification
12 3 (0.39%) ISEB
12 3 (0.39%) Master's Degree
13 2 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 276 (35.57%) Data Quality
2 83 (10.70%) GDPR
3 53 (6.83%) QA
4 21 (2.71%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.93%) PMO
6 7 (0.90%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 5 (0.64%) NCSC
9 4 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
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%) EMIR
11 2 (0.26%) FATCA
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS
11 2 (0.26%) IFRS 17
11 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 16 (2.06%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.42%) Docker
3 4 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 10 (1.29%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.90%) 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
5 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.13%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 145 (18.69%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.15%) SAP
3 67 (8.63%) Databricks
4 66 (8.51%) Oracle
5 45 (5.80%) Salesforce
6 32 (4.12%) Informatica
7 25 (3.22%) Google
8 21 (2.71%) ServiceNow
9 15 (1.93%) Workday
10 12 (1.55%) IBM
11 11 (1.42%) Bloomberg
12 9 (1.16%) Denodo
13 8 (1.03%) Charles River
13 8 (1.03%) Concur
13 8 (1.03%) Foundry
14 7 (0.90%) Sitecore
15 6 (0.77%) ESRI
15 6 (0.77%) Palantir
15 6 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 6 (0.77%) Talend