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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 93 105
Rank change year-on-year -68 +12 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Management 660 674 781
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.63% 2.77% 2.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.92% 3.03% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 438 488
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% - -
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 43 25 55
10th Percentile £13.13 £19.73 £15.30
25th Percentile £17.66 £22.72 £19.57
Median hourly rate £30.49 £30.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.56% -24.20% -0.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £60.75 £80.50 £62.25
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.28% -20.24% -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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -56 330 £500 -20.00% 141
Midlands -28 90 £511 -2.62% 51
South East -38 83 £450 -18.18% 75
West Midlands -17 74 £510 -2.86% 35
North of England -69 59 £425 -17.48% 53
South West +4 58 £500 -4.76% 25
North West -57 31 £500 -7.41% 38
East of England -53 28 £505 +1.00% 21
Yorkshire -39 26 £370 -22.11% 10
East Midlands -32 15 £488 +9.06% 16
North East -17 3 £470 - 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 37 (5.61%) SharePoint
2 28 (4.24%) Confluence
3 12 (1.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.67%) HCL Notes
5 10 (1.52%) Mendix
6 9 (1.36%) SAS
7 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
7 7 (1.06%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.61%) CMS
10 3 (0.45%) Apache
10 3 (0.45%) Palantir Foundry
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Moodle
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Application Server
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (8.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 30 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 18 (2.73%) MS Visio
5 13 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.61%) Windchill
8 3 (0.45%) Navisworks
8 3 (0.45%) 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 (3.64%) Teamcenter
2 21 (3.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.06%) Oracle ERP
4 5 (0.76%) Aladdin
4 5 (0.76%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
5 3 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.45%) Eloqua
5 3 (0.45%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.45%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.45%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.45%) Temenos T24
6 2 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 2 (0.30%) iTrent
6 2 (0.30%) Markit EDM
6 2 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.30%) SAP PP
6 2 (0.30%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 115 (17.42%) Azure
2 109 (16.52%) Power Platform
3 53 (8.03%) AWS
4 32 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (4.39%) PowerApps
6 28 (4.24%) GCP
7 26 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
7 26 (3.94%) SaaS
8 25 (3.79%) Collibra
9 21 (3.18%) Serverless
10 19 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
10 19 (2.88%) Power Automate
11 16 (2.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 16 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
12 14 (2.12%) Azure Functions
12 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Purview
13 12 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
13 12 (1.82%) Entra ID
13 12 (1.82%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.97%) LAN
2 11 (1.67%) WAN
3 10 (1.52%) Unified Communications
3 10 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (1.06%) PSTN
5 4 (0.61%) Intranet
6 2 (0.30%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.30%) 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%) WebEx
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (14.09%) Power BI
2 77 (11.67%) Metadata
3 54 (8.18%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (5.61%) Data Lake
5 31 (4.70%) SQL Server
6 24 (3.64%) Tableau
7 17 (2.58%) Oracle Database
8 15 (2.27%) GIS
9 13 (1.97%) Oracle Reports
10 11 (1.67%) Relational Database
11 10 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (1.36%) Data Mining
12 9 (1.36%) MySQL
12 9 (1.36%) NoSQL
12 9 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (1.21%) Metadata Repository
14 7 (1.06%) Delta Lake
14 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 6 (0.91%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 49 (7.42%) JIRA
2 17 (2.58%) Git
2 17 (2.58%) GitLab
3 11 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 10 (1.52%) ERwin
5 9 (1.36%) Selenium
6 6 (0.91%) JMeter
7 5 (0.76%) Appium
7 5 (0.76%) JUnit
8 4 (0.61%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.45%) Postman
9 3 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.45%) Toad
9 3 (0.45%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.45%) Zephyr
10 2 (0.30%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.30%) MLflow
10 2 (0.30%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.15%) ER Studio
11 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 228 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 197 (29.85%) Finance
3 141 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 57 (8.64%) Public Sector
5 52 (7.88%) Banking
6 33 (5.00%) Marketing
7 31 (4.70%) Manufacturing
8 28 (4.24%) Financial Institution
9 26 (3.94%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.48%) Aerospace
11 16 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
11 16 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.12%) Retail
13 13 (1.97%) Local Government
14 12 (1.82%) Legal
15 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
16 10 (1.52%) Military
17 8 (1.21%) Aviation
17 8 (1.21%) Back Office
17 8 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 127 (19.24%) Analyst
2 82 (12.42%) Architect
3 72 (10.91%) Senior
4 66 (10.00%) Lead
5 58 (8.79%) Data Analyst
6 57 (8.64%) Business Analyst
7 50 (7.58%) Data Architect
8 39 (5.91%) Consultant
9 38 (5.76%) Data Manager
10 35 (5.30%) Data Engineer
10 35 (5.30%) Developer
11 23 (3.48%) Administrator
12 18 (2.73%) Project Manager
12 18 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
13 16 (2.42%) Data Business Analyst
13 16 (2.42%) Senior Manager
14 14 (2.12%) Configuration Management Specialist
14 14 (2.12%) Configuration Specialist
14 14 (2.12%) Data Management Specialist
15 12 (1.82%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.58%) REST
2 16 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 15 (2.27%) .NET
4 12 (1.82%) React
5 11 (1.67%) JSON
6 10 (1.52%) HTML5 Canvas
6 10 (1.52%) Kafka
6 10 (1.52%) Microsoft Graph
7 8 (1.21%) Middleware
7 8 (1.21%) XML
8 7 (1.06%) PySpark
9 6 (0.91%) YAML
10 5 (0.76%) JDO
10 5 (0.76%) SOAP
10 5 (0.76%) Web Services
11 4 (0.61%) ADO
11 4 (0.61%) CSS
11 4 (0.61%) Elastic Stack
11 4 (0.61%) pytest
11 4 (0.61%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (8.48%) Management Information System
2 38 (5.76%) Onboarding
3 30 (4.55%) Data Structures
4 27 (4.09%) Legacy Systems
5 21 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
5 21 (3.18%) Cloud Native
5 21 (3.18%) Product Ownership
6 20 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 20 (3.03%) Reference Data
7 12 (1.82%) FMCG
7 12 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (1.52%) Low-Code
9 9 (1.36%) Life Science
10 8 (1.21%) IoT
11 7 (1.06%) Fixed Income
12 6 (0.91%) Marketing Technology
12 6 (0.91%) Wiki
13 5 (0.76%) Replication
13 5 (0.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.82%) Windows
2 4 (0.61%) Android
2 4 (0.61%) Apple iOS
3 3 (0.45%) Linux
4 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (26.67%) Data Governance
2 160 (24.24%) Migration
3 156 (23.64%) Agile
4 154 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (21.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 131 (19.85%) Data Modelling
7 128 (19.39%) Analytics
8 110 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
9 98 (14.85%) Validation
10 88 (13.33%) Decision-Making
11 87 (13.18%) AI
12 83 (12.58%) ETL
13 74 (11.21%) Data Analysis
14 73 (11.06%) Data Architecture
14 73 (11.06%) Data Migration
15 72 (10.91%) DevOps
16 69 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 68 (10.30%) CI/CD
18 64 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 60 (9.09%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 134 (20.30%) SQL
2 73 (11.06%) Python
3 21 (3.18%) C#
4 18 (2.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (2.42%) Java
5 16 (2.42%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 11 (1.67%) Formula Language
6 11 (1.67%) LotusScript
7 9 (1.36%) T-SQL
7 9 (1.36%) TypeScript
7 9 (1.36%) VBA
8 8 (1.21%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.91%) Bicep
9 6 (0.91%) C
10 5 (0.76%) C++
10 5 (0.76%) R
10 5 (0.76%) X++
11 3 (0.45%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 123 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 100 (15.15%) SC Cleared
3 86 (13.03%) Degree
4 25 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.27%) Master's Degree
6 14 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (1.21%) CBAP
7 8 (1.21%) IIBA
7 8 (1.21%) Oracle Certification
8 7 (1.06%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 7 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 6 (0.91%) PMP
10 5 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
11 4 (0.61%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.61%) OCA
11 4 (0.61%) OCP
12 3 (0.45%) ISTQB
12 3 (0.45%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.45%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 181 (27.42%) Data Quality
2 60 (9.09%) QA
3 53 (8.03%) GDPR
4 16 (2.42%) Accessibility
5 11 (1.67%) PMO
6 7 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.76%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.76%) Solvency II
8 4 (0.61%) BS7666
8 4 (0.61%) COREP
8 4 (0.61%) FINREP
8 4 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.45%) IFRS
10 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.30%) Basel III
10 2 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.30%) HL7
10 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
10 2 (0.30%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (0.61%) Docker
2 2 (0.30%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.36%) Terraform
4 7 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
5 4 (0.61%) Grafana
6 3 (0.45%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.45%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.15%) Kibana
Vendors
1 118 (17.88%) Microsoft
2 67 (10.15%) Oracle
3 58 (8.79%) SAP
4 37 (5.61%) Databricks
5 34 (5.15%) Salesforce
6 24 (3.64%) Informatica
7 17 (2.58%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.97%) Google
9 11 (1.67%) Lotus
10 10 (1.52%) Kofax
10 10 (1.52%) Talend
11 9 (1.36%) Bloomberg
12 7 (1.06%) Siemens
13 6 (0.91%) Adobe
13 6 (0.91%) Autodesk
13 6 (0.91%) GoldenSource
13 6 (0.91%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 5 (0.76%) Alteryx
14 5 (0.76%) Charles River
14 5 (0.76%) Murex