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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 89 108
Rank change year-on-year -70 +19 +66
Contract jobs citing Data Management 680 663 750
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.61% 2.71% 2.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 2.97% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 412 453
10th Percentile £345 £322 £345
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £625 £725 £675
90th Percentile £738 £875 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 59
10th Percentile £14.06 £22.10 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.02 £25.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.32 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.08% -24.20% +17.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £57.88 £77.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £31.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +12.84% -20.24% +17.63%

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 35,948 22,351 32,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.10% 91.35% 85.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,764 14,463 20,809
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,246 1,016 2,371
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.75 £18.12 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.86% -25.33% +4.17%
75th Percentile £68.00 £58.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.28 £36.50
% change year-on-year +61.14% -25.26% +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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -58 343 £500 -20.00% 92
South East -21 99 £450 -10.00% 60
Midlands -40 82 £513 -4.65% 37
West Midlands -28 64 £513 - 22
North of England -106 57 £450 -10.00% 44
South West +4 53 £510 -1.92% 35
North West -67 32 £500 -2.91% 23
East of England -44 25 £505 +1.00% 21
Yorkshire -61 23 £400 -15.79% 20
East Midlands -28 17 £525 -8.70% 16
North East - 3 £425 - 1
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 41 (6.03%) SharePoint
2 27 (3.97%) Confluence
3 12 (1.76%) CMS
3 12 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.62%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.32%) ArcGIS
6 8 (1.18%) SAS
7 7 (1.03%) Palantir Foundry
8 6 (0.88%) HCL Notes
8 6 (0.88%) Mendix
8 6 (0.88%) WordPress
9 5 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
10 4 (0.59%) Apache
11 1 (0.15%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.15%) Smallworld
Applications
1 61 (8.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 29 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.91%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.44%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.44%) Revit
7 3 (0.44%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.15%) CATIA
8 1 (0.15%) MicroStation
8 1 (0.15%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 24 (3.53%) Teamcenter
2 22 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (0.88%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.59%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.44%) Adobe Campaign
6 3 (0.44%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.44%) Maximo
6 3 (0.44%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.44%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
7 2 (0.29%) Sage X3
8 1 (0.15%) iTrent
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle Utilities
8 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
8 1 (0.15%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 119 (17.50%) Azure
2 108 (15.88%) Power Platform
3 53 (7.79%) AWS
4 32 (4.71%) PowerApps
5 31 (4.56%) SaaS
6 25 (3.68%) GCP
6 25 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
8 23 (3.38%) Azure Data Factory
8 23 (3.38%) Collibra
9 22 (3.24%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (2.65%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 17 (2.50%) Power Automate
12 16 (2.35%) Serverless
12 16 (2.35%) Snowflake
13 15 (2.21%) Microsoft Purview
14 12 (1.76%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.76%) OneDrive
15 10 (1.47%) Azure Functions
15 10 (1.47%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.62%) LAN
2 10 (1.47%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.47%) WAN
2 10 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (1.03%) PSTN
4 5 (0.74%) SMS
5 3 (0.44%) Intranet
5 3 (0.44%) Network Security
6 2 (0.29%) Diameter Protocol
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%) SAN
7 1 (0.15%) SIGTRAN
7 1 (0.15%) SS7
7 1 (0.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (12.50%) Power BI
2 83 (12.21%) Metadata
3 52 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
4 41 (6.03%) Data Lake
5 36 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 23 (3.38%) Tableau
7 20 (2.94%) GIS
8 14 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.91%) NoSQL
9 13 (1.91%) Oracle Database
10 11 (1.62%) Relational Database
11 9 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.32%) Data Mining
11 9 (1.32%) Metadata Repository
11 9 (1.32%) MySQL
11 9 (1.32%) Oracle Reports
11 9 (1.32%) Spatial Data
12 8 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 7 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 44 (6.47%) JIRA
2 17 (2.50%) Git
3 11 (1.62%) ERwin
4 9 (1.32%) GitLab
4 9 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.32%) Selenium
5 6 (0.88%) Postman
5 6 (0.88%) Visual Studio
6 5 (0.74%) JUnit
7 4 (0.59%) JMeter
7 4 (0.59%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
8 3 (0.44%) Toad
8 3 (0.44%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.29%) Cucumber
9 2 (0.29%) MLflow
9 2 (0.29%) SoapUI
9 2 (0.29%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.15%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.15%) Newman
General
1 223 (32.79%) Social Skills
2 185 (27.21%) Finance
3 133 (19.56%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (8.82%) Public Sector
5 44 (6.47%) Banking
6 32 (4.71%) Marketing
7 28 (4.12%) Manufacturing
8 27 (3.97%) Aerospace
9 25 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 23 (3.38%) Organisational Skills
11 18 (2.65%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.06%) Legal
12 14 (2.06%) Local Government
13 13 (1.91%) Retail
14 11 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
15 10 (1.47%) Aviation
16 8 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (1.18%) Telecoms
17 7 (1.03%) Front Office
17 7 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 121 (17.79%) Analyst
2 93 (13.68%) Architect
3 73 (10.74%) Lead
4 70 (10.29%) Senior
5 63 (9.26%) Data Architect
6 58 (8.53%) Data Analyst
7 49 (7.21%) Business Analyst
8 40 (5.88%) Developer
9 39 (5.74%) Data Engineer
10 37 (5.44%) Consultant
11 35 (5.15%) Administrator
12 32 (4.71%) Data Manager
13 20 (2.94%) Data Management Specialist
14 17 (2.50%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
14 17 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
15 15 (2.21%) Data Administrator
15 15 (2.21%) Data Business Analyst
16 14 (2.06%) Configuration Management Specialist
16 14 (2.06%) Configuration Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.50%) REST
2 16 (2.35%) JSON
3 14 (2.06%) XML
4 10 (1.47%) .NET
4 10 (1.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (1.32%) Middleware
6 8 (1.18%) Kafka
6 8 (1.18%) RESTful
7 7 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 7 (1.03%) PySpark
8 6 (0.88%) HTML5 Canvas
8 6 (0.88%) React
8 6 (0.88%) Web Services
8 6 (0.88%) YAML
9 5 (0.74%) HTML
9 5 (0.74%) JDO
10 4 (0.59%) CSS
10 4 (0.59%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.59%) FIX Protocol
10 4 (0.59%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 67 (9.85%) Management Information System
2 37 (5.44%) Onboarding
3 25 (3.68%) Cloud Native
4 23 (3.38%) Reference Data
5 22 (3.24%) Legacy Systems
6 21 (3.09%) Data Structures
7 18 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 18 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (2.50%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.62%) FMCG
11 10 (1.47%) Life Science
12 8 (1.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 8 (1.18%) IoT
13 7 (1.03%) Fixed Income
13 7 (1.03%) Marketing Technology
14 6 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
14 6 (0.88%) NHS
14 6 (0.88%) Replication
14 6 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (1.62%) Windows
2 2 (0.29%) Linux
3 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (27.65%) Data Governance
2 173 (25.44%) Migration
3 156 (22.94%) Agile
4 148 (21.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 145 (21.32%) Data Modelling
6 141 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
7 123 (18.09%) Analytics
8 95 (13.97%) Business Intelligence
8 95 (13.97%) Validation
9 94 (13.82%) AI
10 90 (13.24%) Decision-Making
11 88 (12.94%) ETL
12 82 (12.06%) Continuous Improvement
12 82 (12.06%) Data Architecture
12 82 (12.06%) Data Migration
13 78 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 71 (10.44%) Data Analysis
14 71 (10.44%) DevOps
15 63 (9.26%) Roadmaps
16 56 (8.24%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 138 (20.29%) SQL
2 76 (11.18%) Python
3 22 (3.24%) Java
4 18 (2.65%) C#
5 16 (2.35%) PowerShell
6 14 (2.06%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.47%) C
7 10 (1.47%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 8 (1.18%) X++
9 6 (0.88%) Bicep
9 6 (0.88%) Formula Language
9 6 (0.88%) LotusScript
9 6 (0.88%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.74%) VBA
11 3 (0.44%) Apex Code
11 3 (0.44%) Scala
11 3 (0.44%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.15%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 120 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 98 (14.41%) SC Cleared
3 83 (12.21%) Degree
4 22 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (1.91%) Master's Degree
7 11 (1.62%) DV Cleared
8 8 (1.18%) CBAP
8 8 (1.18%) IIBA
9 6 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (0.74%) PMI Certification
11 4 (0.59%) AWS Certification
11 4 (0.59%) Azure Certification
11 4 (0.59%) OCP
11 4 (0.59%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (0.59%) PMP
11 4 (0.59%) TOGAF Certification
12 3 (0.44%) ISTQB
13 2 (0.29%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 1 (0.15%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 195 (28.68%) Data Quality
2 64 (9.41%) GDPR
3 54 (7.94%) QA
4 16 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.18%) PMO
6 5 (0.74%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 5 (0.74%) Def Stans
7 4 (0.59%) BS7666
7 4 (0.59%) COREP
7 4 (0.59%) FINREP
7 4 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.44%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.44%) Solvency II
9 2 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.29%) DICOM
9 2 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.29%) HL7
9 2 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (0.74%) Docker
2 2 (0.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (0.15%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.62%) Kubernetes
1 11 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (1.32%) Terraform
3 7 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.59%) Grafana
5 3 (0.44%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.44%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.29%) Ansible
6 2 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.15%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.15%) Kibana
7 1 (0.15%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 112 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 56 (8.24%) Oracle
3 54 (7.94%) SAP
4 50 (7.35%) Databricks
5 44 (6.47%) Salesforce
6 19 (2.79%) Informatica
7 15 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.76%) Google
9 10 (1.47%) Bloomberg
9 10 (1.47%) ESRI
10 7 (1.03%) Foundry
10 7 (1.03%) Palantir
10 7 (1.03%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 6 (0.88%) Adobe
11 6 (0.88%) Autodesk
11 6 (0.88%) Kofax
11 6 (0.88%) Lotus
11 6 (0.88%) Siemens
11 6 (0.88%) Sitecore
12 5 (0.74%) GoldenSource