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

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 119 113
Rank change year-on-year -55 -6 +40
Contract jobs citing Data Management 736 649 673
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.35% 2.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 2.59% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 372 396
10th Percentile £332 £295 £325
25th Percentile £413 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -6.59% -
75th Percentile £650 £638 £688
90th Percentile £749 £759 £788
UK median daily rate £523 £515 £550
% change year-on-year +1.46% -6.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 31 44
10th Percentile £16.58 £19.00 £21.25
25th Percentile £21.08 £22.98 £26.81
Median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -24.57% +32.58%
75th Percentile £48.75 £72.50 £57.81
90th Percentile £60.75 £77.50 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +17.65%

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 38,776 25,061 28,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.95% 90.80% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,043 15,975 18,472
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -3.77% -3.64%
75th Percentile £630 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,543 1,444 1,583
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.22 £14.05
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.88 £18.12
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.21 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.63 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +65.54% -38.57% -0.24%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -54 359 £525 -4.55% 153
Midlands -20 107 £525 +16.67% 61
South East -15 97 £471 +34.57% 105
North of England -71 80 £450 - 60
West Midlands -18 79 £550 +37.93% 43
South West -28 42 £535 -6.96% 38
North West -44 41 £538 +10.26% 30
Yorkshire -47 38 £400 -2.44% 25
East of England -19 31 £600 +20.00% 31
East Midlands -14 27 £525 +13.51% 18
North East -38 2 £425 -10.53% 5
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 (4.08%) Confluence
1 30 (4.08%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.63%) Apache Spark
2 12 (1.63%) CMS
3 8 (1.09%) ArcGIS
3 8 (1.09%) SAS
4 7 (0.95%) Palantir Foundry
4 7 (0.95%) WordPress
5 6 (0.82%) Apache
6 5 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.68%) Oracle Workflow
7 4 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 4 (0.54%) Mule
8 3 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.27%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.14%) ColdFusion
10 1 (0.14%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.14%) PowerExchange
10 1 (0.14%) Smallworld
Applications
1 59 (8.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.63%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (1.22%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.41%) Navisworks
5 3 (0.41%) Revit
5 3 (0.41%) Windchill
6 2 (0.27%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.14%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.14%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 31 (4.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.90%) Aladdin
3 12 (1.63%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.82%) Oracle EBS
5 6 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
5 6 (0.82%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 5 (0.68%) Fidessa
7 4 (0.54%) iTrent
7 4 (0.54%) SAP MDG
8 3 (0.41%) Maximo
8 3 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.41%) Sage X3
8 3 (0.41%) SAP HR
9 2 (0.27%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
9 2 (0.27%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.27%) Primavera
9 2 (0.27%) SAP ERP
9 2 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 142 (19.29%) Azure
2 109 (14.81%) Power Platform
3 54 (7.34%) AWS
4 31 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (3.94%) Dynamics 365
5 29 (3.94%) SaaS
6 28 (3.80%) Collibra
6 28 (3.80%) PowerApps
7 26 (3.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 24 (3.26%) Microsoft Purview
9 22 (2.99%) GCP
9 22 (2.99%) Power Automate
10 19 (2.58%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
12 14 (1.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 12 (1.63%) GitHub
13 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (1.63%) SuccessFactors
14 11 (1.49%) Serverless
15 10 (1.36%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (0.54%) Firewall
1 4 (0.54%) Network Security
2 3 (0.41%) Intranet
2 3 (0.41%) LAN
2 3 (0.41%) SMS
2 3 (0.41%) 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 (0.14%) 2G
4 1 (0.14%) 3G
4 1 (0.14%) 4G
4 1 (0.14%) 5G
4 1 (0.14%) DWDM
4 1 (0.14%) SAN
4 1 (0.14%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (15.08%) Metadata
2 87 (11.82%) Power BI
3 46 (6.25%) Data Lake
3 46 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (4.48%) SQL Server
5 23 (3.13%) Tableau
6 22 (2.99%) NoSQL
7 18 (2.45%) GIS
8 15 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.77%) Delta Lake
10 11 (1.49%) Azure SQL Database
11 10 (1.36%) MySQL
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.22%) Relational Database
13 8 (1.09%) Big Data
13 8 (1.09%) Spatial Data
14 7 (0.95%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.95%) Pentaho
14 7 (0.95%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 50 (6.79%) JIRA
2 14 (1.90%) Git
2 14 (1.90%) Selenium
3 13 (1.77%) ERwin
4 12 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 8 (1.09%) ER Studio
5 8 (1.09%) Postman
6 7 (0.95%) Jenkins
7 6 (0.82%) JMeter
8 5 (0.68%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 3 (0.41%) GitLab
10 3 (0.41%) Gradle
10 3 (0.41%) Maven
10 3 (0.41%) MLflow
10 3 (0.41%) REST Assured
11 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
11 2 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 241 (32.74%) Social Skills
2 210 (28.53%) Finance
3 147 (19.97%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 55 (7.47%) Banking
6 34 (4.62%) Manufacturing
6 34 (4.62%) Organisational Skills
7 31 (4.21%) Marketing
8 27 (3.67%) Influencing Skills
9 26 (3.53%) Retail
10 20 (2.72%) Aerospace
11 19 (2.58%) Legal
12 17 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
13 14 (1.90%) Local Government
14 13 (1.77%) Front Office
14 13 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
15 11 (1.49%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 10 (1.36%) Billing
16 10 (1.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 112 (15.22%) Analyst
2 103 (13.99%) Architect
3 84 (11.41%) Lead
4 66 (8.97%) Senior
5 65 (8.83%) Data Architect
6 56 (7.61%) Data Analyst
7 53 (7.20%) Developer
8 46 (6.25%) Consultant
9 44 (5.98%) Data Engineer
10 39 (5.30%) Administrator
10 39 (5.30%) Business Analyst
11 31 (4.21%) Data Manager
12 29 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
13 19 (2.58%) Data Consultant
14 17 (2.31%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.17%) Data Management Specialist
16 15 (2.04%) Data Administrator
16 15 (2.04%) Senior Developer
17 14 (1.90%) Senior Manager
17 14 (1.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (3.94%) REST
2 19 (2.58%) JSON
2 19 (2.58%) Terraform
3 18 (2.45%) Kafka
4 17 (2.31%) Middleware
5 16 (2.17%) XML
6 15 (2.04%) .NET
7 14 (1.90%) RESTful
8 12 (1.63%) PySpark
9 9 (1.22%) Oracle Fusion
9 9 (1.22%) SOAP
10 8 (1.09%) OAuth
11 6 (0.82%) .NET Core
11 6 (0.82%) FIX Protocol
11 6 (0.82%) HTML
12 5 (0.68%) JWT
12 5 (0.68%) OAuth2
13 4 (0.54%) LDAP
13 4 (0.54%) SailPoint
13 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.83%) Management Information System
2 47 (6.39%) Data Structures
3 38 (5.16%) Cloud Native
4 36 (4.89%) Onboarding
5 33 (4.48%) Reference Data
6 27 (3.67%) Product Ownership
7 20 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
8 17 (2.31%) Legacy Systems
9 14 (1.90%) FMCG
10 13 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
11 12 (1.63%) Life Science
12 11 (1.49%) Fixed Income
12 11 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.22%) Distributed Systems
14 8 (1.09%) CMDB
15 7 (0.95%) Autonomous Agent
15 7 (0.95%) Replication
16 6 (0.82%) Equities
16 6 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.63%) Linux
2 9 (1.22%) Windows
3 1 (0.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.14%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (33.83%) Data Governance
2 179 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
3 169 (22.96%) Migration
4 155 (21.06%) Agile
5 154 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (20.79%) Data Modelling
7 151 (20.52%) Analytics
8 131 (17.80%) Validation
9 124 (16.85%) AI
10 106 (14.40%) Continuous Improvement
11 103 (13.99%) Business Intelligence
12 99 (13.45%) Data Architecture
13 97 (13.18%) Decision-Making
14 95 (12.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 92 (12.50%) ETL
16 85 (11.55%) Data Migration
17 80 (10.87%) Roadmaps
18 79 (10.73%) DevOps
19 71 (9.65%) Data Analysis
20 70 (9.51%) Metadata Management
Programming Languages
1 158 (21.47%) SQL
2 77 (10.46%) Python
3 38 (5.16%) Java
4 26 (3.53%) C#
5 17 (2.31%) C
6 14 (1.90%) X++
7 12 (1.63%) JavaScript
8 8 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.95%) T-SQL
9 7 (0.95%) VBA
10 6 (0.82%) Bicep
11 4 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.54%) PowerShell
12 3 (0.41%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) Scala
14 1 (0.14%) C++
14 1 (0.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.14%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 127 (17.26%) Security Cleared
2 95 (12.91%) SC Cleared
3 61 (8.29%) Degree
4 27 (3.67%) DV Cleared
5 17 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
6 13 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (1.09%) OCP
8 8 (1.09%) Oracle Certification
9 7 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 6 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (0.68%) Azure Certification
12 4 (0.54%) Master's Degree
13 3 (0.41%) ISEB
13 3 (0.41%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.27%) CBAP
14 2 (0.27%) IIBA
14 2 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 259 (35.19%) Data Quality
2 68 (9.24%) GDPR
3 50 (6.79%) QA
4 19 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.49%) PMO
6 7 (0.95%) ISO 20022
7 6 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.68%) NCSC
8 5 (0.68%) Solvency II
9 4 (0.54%) BS7666
9 4 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.41%) COREP
10 3 (0.41%) FINREP
10 3 (0.41%) PERC
10 3 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.27%) EMIR
11 2 (0.27%) NIST
11 2 (0.27%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (1.63%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.36%) Docker
3 4 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.14%) Firmware
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 8 (1.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.41%) Prometheus
3 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.27%) Ansible
4 2 (0.27%) Grafana
4 2 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.14%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.14%) CASB
5 1 (0.14%) MOM
5 1 (0.14%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (16.44%) Microsoft
2 71 (9.65%) SAP
3 64 (8.70%) Databricks
4 61 (8.29%) Oracle
5 46 (6.25%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.26%) Informatica
7 18 (2.45%) ServiceNow
8 11 (1.49%) Google
9 10 (1.36%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.36%) ESRI
9 10 (1.36%) Workday
10 8 (1.09%) Charles River
10 8 (1.09%) Concur
11 7 (0.95%) Denodo
11 7 (0.95%) Foundry
11 7 (0.95%) IBM
11 7 (0.95%) MuleSoft
11 7 (0.95%) Palantir
11 7 (0.95%) Sitecore
12 6 (0.82%) Sparx