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

6 months to
11 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 91 107
Rank change year-on-year -76 +16 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Management 650 669 781
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.60% 2.73% 2.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 3.00% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 432 484
10th Percentile £345 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.73% - -
75th Percentile £588 £725 £675
90th Percentile £710 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 25 57
10th Percentile £13.13 £22.20 £15.52
25th Percentile £18.59 £25.15 £19.57
Median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -22.99% -0.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £32.75 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -0.77% -17.50% -0.44%

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 34,470 22,336 31,802
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.75% 91.22% 86.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,971 14,617 20,828
10th Percentile £319 £308 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £501 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.75% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,149 942 2,251
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.50 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £29.07 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.68% -20.36% -2.67%
75th Percentile £67.84 £63.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +46.52% -21.23% +0.69%

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 11 May 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 11 May 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 11 May 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 -49 330 £492 -21.28% 128
Midlands -27 90 £513 -2.38% 39
South East -35 83 £450 -14.29% 82
West Midlands -18 74 £513 -2.38% 23
South West -11 52 £500 -4.76% 18
North of England -87 50 £450 -10.00% 55
North West -67 29 £513 -2.84% 39
East of England -50 28 £505 +1.00% 14
Yorkshire -48 19 £355 -25.26% 13
East Midlands -33 15 £488 +2.63% 16
North East - 3 £470 - 3
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 (5.69%) SharePoint
2 29 (4.46%) Confluence
3 12 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.54%) HCL Notes
4 10 (1.54%) Mendix
5 9 (1.38%) SAS
6 8 (1.23%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.08%) ArcGIS
8 6 (0.92%) CMS
9 5 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.62%) Palantir Foundry
11 3 (0.46%) Apache
12 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
12 1 (0.15%) Moodle
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
12 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 58 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.77%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 17 (2.62%) MS Visio
5 13 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
6 9 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.62%) Windchill
8 3 (0.46%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.46%) Revit
9 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.15%) CATIA
9 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.15%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.69%) Teamcenter
2 21 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.08%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.77%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.46%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.46%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.46%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.46%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.46%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.31%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.31%) iTrent
6 2 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.31%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.15%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.15%) ContrOCC
7 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 117 (18.00%) Azure
2 109 (16.77%) Power Platform
3 54 (8.31%) AWS
4 31 (4.77%) Microsoft 365
4 31 (4.77%) PowerApps
5 28 (4.31%) GCP
6 27 (4.15%) SaaS
7 24 (3.69%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.54%) Collibra
9 21 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
10 20 (3.08%) Serverless
11 19 (2.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 19 (2.92%) Power Automate
12 18 (2.77%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.00%) Azure Functions
13 13 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (1.85%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.85%) OneDrive
15 11 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 13 (2.00%) LAN
2 11 (1.69%) WAN
3 10 (1.54%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.08%) PSTN
5 4 (0.62%) Intranet
6 2 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.31%) SMS
7 1 (0.15%) 3G
7 1 (0.15%) 4G
7 1 (0.15%) 5G
7 1 (0.15%) DWDM
7 1 (0.15%) FTP
7 1 (0.15%) HTTP
7 1 (0.15%) Internet
7 1 (0.15%) MPLS
7 1 (0.15%) NAS
7 1 (0.15%) SDH
7 1 (0.15%) SS7
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (13.85%) Power BI
2 76 (11.69%) Metadata
3 57 (8.77%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.69%) Data Lake
5 31 (4.77%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.54%) Tableau
7 16 (2.46%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.31%) GIS
9 13 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
10 11 (1.69%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.54%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.38%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.38%) Metadata Repository
12 9 (1.38%) MySQL
12 9 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.08%) Delta Lake
13 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 6 (0.92%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 51 (7.85%) JIRA
2 17 (2.62%) GitLab
3 16 (2.46%) Git
4 11 (1.69%) ERwin
4 11 (1.69%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.38%) Selenium
6 6 (0.92%) JMeter
7 5 (0.77%) Appium
7 5 (0.77%) JUnit
8 4 (0.62%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.46%) Postman
9 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.46%) Toad
9 3 (0.46%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.31%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.31%) MLflow
10 2 (0.31%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 221 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 192 (29.54%) Finance
3 136 (20.92%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.77%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.77%) Banking
6 32 (4.92%) Manufacturing
7 29 (4.46%) Marketing
8 24 (3.69%) Aerospace
8 24 (3.69%) Financial Institution
8 24 (3.69%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.00%) Local Government
11 13 (2.00%) Retail
12 11 (1.69%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.23%) Aviation
13 8 (1.23%) Legal
13 8 (1.23%) Military
13 8 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
14 7 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 124 (19.08%) Analyst
2 85 (13.08%) Architect
3 70 (10.77%) Senior
4 67 (10.31%) Lead
5 58 (8.92%) Data Analyst
6 56 (8.62%) Business Analyst
7 54 (8.31%) Data Architect
8 38 (5.85%) Consultant
9 36 (5.54%) Data Engineer
10 35 (5.38%) Developer
11 34 (5.23%) Data Manager
12 24 (3.69%) Administrator
13 18 (2.77%) Data Business Analyst
14 16 (2.46%) Senior Analyst
14 16 (2.46%) Senior Manager
15 15 (2.31%) Project Manager
16 14 (2.15%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.15%) Configuration Specialist
16 14 (2.15%) Data Management Specialist
16 14 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
1 16 (2.46%) REST
2 13 (2.00%) .NET
3 12 (1.85%) React
4 11 (1.69%) JSON
5 10 (1.54%) HTML5 Canvas
5 10 (1.54%) Kafka
5 10 (1.54%) Microsoft Graph
6 9 (1.38%) Middleware
7 8 (1.23%) XML
8 7 (1.08%) PySpark
9 6 (0.92%) YAML
10 5 (0.77%) JDO
10 5 (0.77%) RESTful
10 5 (0.77%) Web Services
11 4 (0.62%) ADO
11 4 (0.62%) CSS
11 4 (0.62%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.62%) pytest
11 4 (0.62%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 55 (8.46%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 29 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 25 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 22 (3.38%) Cloud Native
6 21 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 20 (3.08%) Product Ownership
7 20 (3.08%) Reference Data
8 19 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.85%) FMCG
9 12 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.54%) Low-Code
11 9 (1.38%) Life Science
12 8 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.23%) IoT
13 6 (0.92%) Fixed Income
13 6 (0.92%) Marketing Technology
13 6 (0.92%) NHS
13 6 (0.92%) Replication
13 6 (0.92%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.85%) Windows
2 4 (0.62%) Android
2 4 (0.62%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.46%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (25.38%) Data Governance
2 160 (24.62%) Migration
3 152 (23.38%) Agile
4 151 (23.23%) Problem-Solving
5 137 (21.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 134 (20.62%) Data Modelling
7 126 (19.38%) Analytics
8 106 (16.31%) Business Intelligence
9 95 (14.62%) Validation
10 87 (13.38%) Decision-Making
11 86 (13.23%) AI
12 83 (12.77%) ETL
13 75 (11.54%) Data Architecture
14 72 (11.08%) Data Migration
15 69 (10.62%) Data Analysis
15 69 (10.62%) DevOps
16 66 (10.15%) CI/CD
17 65 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 64 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
19 61 (9.38%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 136 (20.92%) SQL
2 76 (11.69%) Python
3 20 (3.08%) C#
4 18 (2.77%) Java
4 18 (2.77%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.46%) PowerShell
6 10 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 10 (1.54%) Formula Language
6 10 (1.54%) LotusScript
7 9 (1.38%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.38%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.38%) VBA
8 8 (1.23%) C
8 8 (1.23%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.92%) Bicep
9 6 (0.92%) X++
10 5 (0.77%) C++
10 5 (0.77%) R
11 3 (0.46%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.46%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 96 (14.77%) SC Cleared
3 84 (12.92%) Degree
4 23 (3.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (2.31%) Master's Degree
6 8 (1.23%) CBAP
6 8 (1.23%) DV Cleared
6 8 (1.23%) IIBA
6 8 (1.23%) Oracle Certification
7 5 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (0.77%) PMI Certification
7 5 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (0.62%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.62%) OCA
8 4 (0.62%) OCP
8 4 (0.62%) PMP
9 3 (0.46%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (27.54%) Data Quality
2 59 (9.08%) QA
3 53 (8.15%) GDPR
4 16 (2.46%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.54%) PMO
6 7 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.77%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.77%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.62%) BS7666
8 4 (0.62%) COREP
8 4 (0.62%) FINREP
8 4 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.31%) DICOM
9 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.31%) HL7
9 2 (0.31%) IFRS
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (0.62%) Docker
2 2 (0.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.15%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.38%) Terraform
4 7 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.62%) Grafana
6 3 (0.46%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.46%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.31%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 113 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 66 (10.15%) Oracle
3 58 (8.92%) SAP
4 39 (6.00%) Databricks
5 31 (4.77%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.54%) Informatica
7 15 (2.31%) ServiceNow
8 13 (2.00%) Google
9 10 (1.54%) Kofax
9 10 (1.54%) Lotus
9 10 (1.54%) Talend
10 9 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.08%) Siemens
12 6 (0.92%) Adobe
12 6 (0.92%) Autodesk
13 5 (0.77%) Charles River
13 5 (0.77%) ESRI
13 5 (0.77%) GoldenSource
13 5 (0.77%) Murex
14 4 (0.62%) Sage