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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 124 100
Rank change year-on-year -46 -24 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Management 781 646 767
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.69% 2.31% 2.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.54% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 371 425
10th Percentile £302 £300 £314
25th Percentile £407 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £522 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.40% -4.76% -8.30%
75th Percentile £649 £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 75 36 37
10th Percentile £16.20 £13.31 £21.25
25th Percentile £17.17 £18.50 £26.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.92 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.14% -20.24% +6.06%
75th Percentile £41.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £54.20 £81.00 £77.60
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £27.92 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.14% -20.24% +6.06%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -55 369 £536 -2.50% 831
South East -19 108 £500 +25.00% 227
Midlands -18 107 £525 +16.67% 120
North of England -53 98 £400 -11.11% 209
West Midlands -13 82 £550 +19.31% 81
North West -32 55 £400 -13.98% 113
South West -25 47 £525 +0.96% 100
Yorkshire -39 40 £400 -5.33% 75
East of England -32 26 £576 -4.00% 93
East Midlands -9 25 £525 +16.67% 39
North East -41 3 £425 -2.86% 23
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 (3.84%) Confluence
2 25 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.92%) SAS
4 12 (1.54%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.54%) CMS
5 9 (1.15%) WordPress
6 8 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.90%) Apache
8 6 (0.77%) Oracle Workflow
8 6 (0.77%) Palantir Foundry
9 4 (0.51%) Anypoint
9 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.51%) Mule
10 2 (0.26%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.13%) ColdFusion
11 1 (0.13%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.13%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.13%) nginx
11 1 (0.13%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 71 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (1.66%) Spreadsheet
4 9 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.64%) Revit
7 3 (0.38%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.38%) Windchill
8 2 (0.26%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.26%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.26%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) PTC Creo
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 27 (3.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.66%) Aladdin
3 10 (1.28%) Teamcenter
4 8 (1.02%) 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%) SAP MDG
7 5 (0.64%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.38%) iTrent
8 3 (0.38%) Maximo
8 3 (0.38%) Sage X3
9 2 (0.26%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Utilities
9 2 (0.26%) Payment Gateway
9 2 (0.26%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 2 (0.26%) SAP R/3
10 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
10 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 155 (19.85%) Azure
2 106 (13.57%) Power Platform
3 56 (7.17%) AWS
4 34 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 34 (4.35%) Collibra
5 33 (4.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 28 (3.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 26 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (3.07%) SaaS
9 23 (2.94%) GCP
9 23 (2.94%) PowerApps
9 23 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 21 (2.69%) GitHub
12 18 (2.30%) Alation
13 16 (2.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 16 (2.05%) SuccessFactors
14 15 (1.92%) Microsoft 365
15 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
16 13 (1.66%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (0.77%) Firewall
2 5 (0.64%) Network Security
3 4 (0.51%) SMS
4 3 (0.38%) Internet
5 2 (0.26%) Broadband
5 2 (0.26%) FTP
5 2 (0.26%) HTTP
5 2 (0.26%) HTTPS
5 2 (0.26%) VPN
6 1 (0.13%) DNS
6 1 (0.13%) LAN
6 1 (0.13%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.13%) SAN
6 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WAN
6 1 (0.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 140 (17.93%) Metadata
2 87 (11.14%) Power BI
3 55 (7.04%) Data Warehouse
4 47 (6.02%) Data Lake
5 43 (5.51%) SQL Server
6 26 (3.33%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.94%) Tableau
8 18 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.66%) Delta Lake
9 13 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 11 (1.41%) GIS
12 10 (1.28%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.28%) Oracle Reports
13 9 (1.15%) Big Data
13 9 (1.15%) MySQL
13 9 (1.15%) Pentaho
14 8 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
14 8 (1.02%) Ataccama
14 8 (1.02%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 48 (6.15%) JIRA
2 20 (2.56%) Git
3 16 (2.05%) Selenium
4 12 (1.54%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.41%) ERwin
6 10 (1.28%) Jenkins
7 9 (1.15%) Postman
8 8 (1.02%) ER Studio
9 7 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.77%) GitLab
10 6 (0.77%) JMeter
11 5 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.51%) SoapUI
12 4 (0.51%) SonarQube
13 3 (0.38%) JUnit
13 3 (0.38%) MLflow
13 3 (0.38%) WebDriver
13 3 (0.38%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.26%) Gradle
14 2 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 291 (37.26%) Social Skills
2 221 (28.30%) Finance
3 166 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 80 (10.24%) Public Sector
5 63 (8.07%) Banking
6 52 (6.66%) Organisational Skills
7 38 (4.87%) Influencing Skills
7 38 (4.87%) Manufacturing
8 35 (4.48%) Marketing
9 32 (4.10%) Aerospace
9 32 (4.10%) Retail
10 23 (2.94%) Local Government
11 22 (2.82%) Legal
12 19 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (2.05%) Front Office
14 14 (1.79%) Investment Banking
14 14 (1.79%) Military
15 12 (1.54%) Billing
16 10 (1.28%) Automotive
16 10 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 111 (14.21%) Analyst
2 108 (13.83%) Architect
3 84 (10.76%) Lead
4 73 (9.35%) Data Architect
5 69 (8.83%) Administrator
6 67 (8.58%) Senior
7 65 (8.32%) Developer
8 49 (6.27%) Data Engineer
9 48 (6.15%) Business Analyst
10 47 (6.02%) Data Analyst
11 42 (5.38%) Consultant
12 24 (3.07%) Data Manager
13 23 (2.94%) Data Consultant
13 23 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (2.30%) Data Business Analyst
15 16 (2.05%) Project Manager
16 14 (1.79%) Data Management Specialist
17 13 (1.66%) Data Administrator
17 13 (1.66%) Data Migration Lead
17 13 (1.66%) Governance Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.87%) REST
2 26 (3.33%) Terraform
2 26 (3.33%) XML
3 25 (3.20%) Middleware
4 22 (2.82%) JSON
5 21 (2.69%) .NET
6 20 (2.56%) Kafka
7 17 (2.18%) RESTful
8 14 (1.79%) HTML
9 13 (1.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 13 (1.66%) SOAP
10 12 (1.54%) PySpark
11 10 (1.28%) OAuth
12 9 (1.15%) .NET Core
13 8 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
13 8 (1.02%) LDAP
13 8 (1.02%) OpenTofu
14 7 (0.90%) Web Services
15 6 (0.77%) .NET Framework
15 6 (0.77%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 86 (11.01%) Management Information System
2 51 (6.53%) Data Structures
3 46 (5.89%) Onboarding
4 37 (4.74%) Cloud Native
5 34 (4.35%) Reference Data
6 32 (4.10%) Product Ownership
7 30 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (1.66%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.28%) CMDB
11 10 (1.28%) Data Fabric
11 10 (1.28%) Fixed Income
11 10 (1.28%) Life Science
11 10 (1.28%) Social Media
11 10 (1.28%) Taxonomies
12 9 (1.15%) Autonomous Agent
12 9 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
14 7 (0.90%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.18%) Linux
2 9 (1.15%) 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
1 258 (33.03%) Data Governance
2 220 (28.17%) Stakeholder Management
3 187 (23.94%) Agile
4 172 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
5 166 (21.25%) Data Modelling
6 162 (20.74%) Analytics
7 153 (19.59%) Migration
8 142 (18.18%) AI
9 139 (17.80%) Validation
10 130 (16.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (14.60%) Data Architecture
12 112 (14.34%) Decision-Making
13 110 (14.08%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 100 (12.80%) Roadmaps
15 98 (12.55%) Business Intelligence
16 94 (12.04%) ETL
17 91 (11.65%) DevOps
18 85 (10.88%) Metadata Management
19 84 (10.76%) Data Migration
20 79 (10.12%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 170 (21.77%) SQL
2 84 (10.76%) Python
3 45 (5.76%) Java
4 36 (4.61%) C#
5 20 (2.56%) JavaScript
6 17 (2.18%) C
7 12 (1.54%) X++
8 9 (1.15%) R
9 7 (0.90%) Bicep
9 7 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 7 (0.90%) VBA
10 6 (0.77%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.77%) T-SQL
10 6 (0.77%) TypeScript
11 4 (0.51%) Apex Code
11 4 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.26%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.13%) C++
13 1 (0.13%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 157 (20.10%) Security Cleared
2 124 (15.88%) SC Cleared
3 78 (9.99%) Degree
4 28 (3.59%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.46%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (1.41%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (1.28%) DBS Check
9 9 (1.15%) PMI Certification
10 8 (1.02%) PMP
11 7 (0.90%) OCP
11 7 (0.90%) Oracle Certification
12 6 (0.77%) Azure Certification
12 6 (0.77%) CIPD
12 6 (0.77%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (0.64%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.38%) AWS Certification
14 3 (0.38%) ISEB
14 3 (0.38%) Master's Degree
15 2 (0.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 279 (35.72%) Data Quality
2 83 (10.63%) GDPR
3 52 (6.66%) QA
4 23 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 15 (1.92%) PMO
6 6 (0.77%) ISO 20022
6 6 (0.77%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.64%) NCSC
8 4 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (0.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) SNOMED CT
9 3 (0.38%) WCAG
10 2 (0.26%) EMIR
10 2 (0.26%) FATCA
10 2 (0.26%) IFRS
10 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.26%) PERC
System Software
1 20 (2.56%) Active Directory
2 11 (1.41%) Docker
3 4 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Firmware
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 11 (1.41%) Kubernetes
2 7 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.38%) Ansible
4 3 (0.38%) Grafana
4 3 (0.38%) MOM
5 2 (0.26%) CASB
6 1 (0.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.13%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 155 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.35%) Databricks
3 72 (9.22%) SAP
4 68 (8.71%) Oracle
5 45 (5.76%) Salesforce
6 32 (4.10%) Google
6 32 (4.10%) Informatica
7 20 (2.56%) ServiceNow
8 15 (1.92%) Workday
9 12 (1.54%) IBM
10 10 (1.28%) Bloomberg
11 9 (1.15%) Denodo
12 8 (1.02%) Charles River
12 8 (1.02%) Concur
12 8 (1.02%) Foundry
13 7 (0.90%) Sitecore
14 6 (0.77%) MuleSoft
14 6 (0.77%) Palantir
14 6 (0.77%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
14 6 (0.77%) Talend