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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 112 113
Rank change year-on-year -46 +1 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Management 747 639 764
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.70% 2.45% 2.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.69% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 378 457
10th Percentile £317 £313 £348
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.32% -2.95% -
75th Percentile £625 £697 £675
90th Percentile £738 £863 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 34 58
10th Percentile £15.00 £19.90 £17.56
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.04 £21.80
Median hourly rate £37.50 £30.56 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.70% -23.59% +14.29%
75th Percentile £48.75 £70.63 £45.00
90th Percentile £54.50 £77.50 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -17.50% +14.29%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 -33 363 £519 -13.54% 159
South East -5 112 £450 +5.88% 71
Midlands -23 96 £513 -2.38% 65
West Midlands -26 74 £513 +7.89% 33
North of England -90 70 £450 -5.26% 62
South West +2 56 £538 +17.81% 37
Yorkshire -52 34 £400 -11.11% 20
North West -62 34 £500 - 36
East of England -32 29 £505 +58.71% 31
East Midlands -11 21 £525 -8.70% 33
North East -35 3 £425 -19.05% 6
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 40 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 32 (4.28%) Confluence
3 12 (1.61%) CMS
3 12 (1.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.20%) ArcGIS
5 9 (1.20%) Palantir Foundry
5 9 (1.20%) SAS
6 7 (0.94%) WordPress
7 6 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.67%) Apache
9 3 (0.40%) HCL Notes
9 3 (0.40%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.40%) Mendix
10 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.13%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.13%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Smallworld
Applications
1 66 (8.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (4.15%) Microsoft Office
3 20 (2.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (2.01%) MS Visio
5 11 (1.47%) Spreadsheet
6 8 (1.07%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.40%) Navisworks
7 3 (0.40%) Revit
8 2 (0.27%) Windchill
9 1 (0.13%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.13%) CATIA
9 1 (0.13%) MicroStation
9 1 (0.13%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 32 (4.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 23 (3.08%) Teamcenter
3 9 (1.20%) Aladdin
4 7 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
5 6 (0.80%) Fidessa
5 6 (0.80%) Salesforce CRM
6 5 (0.67%) Oracle EBS
7 4 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.54%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.54%) SimCorp Dimension
7 4 (0.54%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 3 (0.40%) Adobe Campaign
8 3 (0.40%) Eloqua
8 3 (0.40%) iTrent
8 3 (0.40%) Maximo
8 3 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
8 3 (0.40%) SAP MDG
9 2 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
9 2 (0.27%) Primavera
9 2 (0.27%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 139 (18.61%) Azure
2 115 (15.39%) Power Platform
3 64 (8.57%) AWS
4 33 (4.42%) SaaS
5 31 (4.15%) PowerApps
6 29 (3.88%) GCP
7 28 (3.75%) Collibra
8 26 (3.48%) Azure Data Factory
9 25 (3.35%) Azure DevOps
10 24 (3.21%) Microsoft 365
11 23 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.81%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (2.41%) Snowflake
14 17 (2.28%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 17 (2.28%) Entra ID
15 16 (2.14%) Power Automate
16 14 (1.87%) Serverless
17 12 (1.61%) OneDrive
18 11 (1.47%) PaaS
18 11 (1.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.47%) LAN
1 11 (1.47%) WAN
2 10 (1.34%) Unified Communications
2 10 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (0.94%) PSTN
4 4 (0.54%) Network Security
5 3 (0.40%) Firewall
5 3 (0.40%) Intranet
5 3 (0.40%) SMS
6 2 (0.27%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (0.27%) FTP
6 2 (0.27%) Internet
7 1 (0.13%) 2G
7 1 (0.13%) 3G
7 1 (0.13%) 4G
7 1 (0.13%) 5G
7 1 (0.13%) DWDM
7 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.13%) SIGTRAN
7 1 (0.13%) SS7
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (12.18%) Power BI
2 90 (12.05%) Metadata
3 54 (7.23%) Data Warehouse
4 49 (6.56%) Data Lake
5 38 (5.09%) SQL Server
6 27 (3.61%) Tableau
7 21 (2.81%) GIS
8 15 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
9 13 (1.74%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.47%) MySQL
11 10 (1.34%) Data Mining
11 10 (1.34%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.34%) Relational Database
12 9 (1.20%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
12 9 (1.20%) Spatial Data
13 8 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.94%) Big Data
14 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 7 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 54 (7.23%) JIRA
2 17 (2.28%) Git
3 13 (1.74%) ERwin
4 10 (1.34%) Selenium
5 9 (1.20%) GitLab
5 9 (1.20%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.80%) Postman
6 6 (0.80%) Visual Studio
7 5 (0.67%) JMeter
7 5 (0.67%) JUnit
7 5 (0.67%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.54%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
9 3 (0.40%) Toad
10 2 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.27%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.27%) Gradle
10 2 (0.27%) Maven
10 2 (0.27%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.27%) SonarQube
General
1 232 (31.06%) Social Skills
2 205 (27.44%) Finance
3 145 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (9.50%) Public Sector
5 53 (7.10%) Banking
6 35 (4.69%) Marketing
7 34 (4.55%) Manufacturing
8 29 (3.88%) Aerospace
8 29 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (2.68%) Retail
11 18 (2.41%) Legal
12 16 (2.14%) Documentation Skills
13 15 (2.01%) Local Government
14 14 (1.87%) Financial Institution
15 11 (1.47%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (1.34%) Aviation
16 10 (1.34%) Front Office
17 9 (1.20%) Military
18 8 (1.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 131 (17.54%) Analyst
2 103 (13.79%) Architect
3 78 (10.44%) Senior
4 71 (9.50%) Lead
5 69 (9.24%) Data Architect
6 67 (8.97%) Data Analyst
7 52 (6.96%) Business Analyst
8 46 (6.16%) Data Engineer
9 42 (5.62%) Consultant
10 40 (5.35%) Developer
11 36 (4.82%) Administrator
12 35 (4.69%) Data Manager
13 25 (3.35%) Data Management Specialist
14 24 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
15 20 (2.68%) Project Manager
16 18 (2.41%) Data Business Analyst
17 16 (2.14%) Senior Manager
18 15 (2.01%) Data Administrator
18 15 (2.01%) Senior Analyst
19 14 (1.87%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (2.28%) REST
2 16 (2.14%) JSON
2 16 (2.14%) XML
3 14 (1.87%) Middleware
4 10 (1.34%) .NET
4 10 (1.34%) Microsoft Graph
5 9 (1.20%) Kafka
5 9 (1.20%) RESTful
6 7 (0.94%) PySpark
7 6 (0.80%) YAML
8 5 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
8 5 (0.67%) JDO
8 5 (0.67%) LDAP
8 5 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
8 5 (0.67%) SailPoint
8 5 (0.67%) Web Services
9 4 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (0.54%) pytest
9 4 (0.54%) SAP CAF
9 4 (0.54%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 65 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 34 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 27 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 26 (3.48%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.48%) Reference Data
5 23 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (2.68%) Product Ownership
7 18 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
7 18 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
8 14 (1.87%) FMCG
9 13 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 13 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.61%) Life Science
11 9 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.07%) Fixed Income
12 8 (1.07%) IoT
13 7 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 7 (0.94%) Marketing Technology
13 7 (0.94%) Taxonomies
14 6 (0.80%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (1.74%) Windows
2 8 (1.07%) Linux
3 1 (0.13%) Unix
3 1 (0.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (30.25%) Data Governance
2 181 (24.23%) Agile
3 180 (24.10%) Migration
4 178 (23.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 151 (20.21%) Data Modelling
6 148 (19.81%) Analytics
7 147 (19.68%) Problem-Solving
8 124 (16.60%) Validation
9 110 (14.73%) AI
10 102 (13.65%) Business Intelligence
11 101 (13.52%) Decision-Making
12 100 (13.39%) Continuous Improvement
13 96 (12.85%) Data Architecture
13 96 (12.85%) ETL
14 90 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 89 (11.91%) Data Migration
16 78 (10.44%) Data Analysis
17 74 (9.91%) DevOps
18 70 (9.37%) Roadmaps
19 62 (8.30%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 151 (20.21%) SQL
2 81 (10.84%) Python
3 27 (3.61%) Java
4 18 (2.41%) C#
5 16 (2.14%) C
5 16 (2.14%) PowerShell
6 11 (1.47%) JavaScript
7 10 (1.34%) T-SQL
8 8 (1.07%) X++
9 7 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 7 (0.94%) VBA
10 6 (0.80%) Bicep
10 6 (0.80%) PL/SQL
11 4 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 3 (0.40%) Apex Code
12 3 (0.40%) Formula Language
12 3 (0.40%) LotusScript
12 3 (0.40%) Scala
13 2 (0.27%) R
13 2 (0.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 124 (16.60%) Security Cleared
2 98 (13.12%) SC Cleared
3 84 (11.24%) Degree
4 22 (2.95%) Computer Science Degree
5 19 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 14 (1.87%) DV Cleared
7 11 (1.47%) Master's Degree
8 6 (0.80%) CBAP
8 6 (0.80%) IIBA
8 6 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 4 (0.54%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.54%) ISTQB
9 4 (0.54%) OCP
9 4 (0.54%) Oracle Certification
9 4 (0.54%) PMI Certification
9 4 (0.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.40%) PMP
11 2 (0.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.13%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 228 (30.52%) Data Quality
2 78 (10.44%) GDPR
3 60 (8.03%) QA
4 18 (2.41%) Accessibility
5 9 (1.20%) PMO
6 6 (0.80%) Solvency II
7 5 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (0.67%) Def Stans
7 5 (0.67%) NCSC
8 4 (0.54%) BS7666
8 4 (0.54%) COREP
8 4 (0.54%) FINREP
8 4 (0.54%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
9 3 (0.40%) PERC
9 3 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.27%) COBIT
10 2 (0.27%) EMIR
10 2 (0.27%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (1.34%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.67%) Docker
3 2 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.13%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (1.87%) Terraform
2 11 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 11 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (0.94%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (0.54%) Grafana
4 4 (0.54%) HP ALM
5 3 (0.40%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.27%) Ansible
7 1 (0.13%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.13%) CASB
7 1 (0.13%) Kibana
7 1 (0.13%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.13%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (16.60%) Microsoft
2 73 (9.77%) SAP
3 58 (7.76%) Databricks
4 56 (7.50%) Oracle
5 47 (6.29%) Salesforce
6 27 (3.61%) Informatica
7 21 (2.81%) ServiceNow
8 13 (1.74%) Google
9 12 (1.61%) Bloomberg
10 10 (1.34%) ESRI
11 9 (1.20%) Foundry
11 9 (1.20%) Palantir
11 9 (1.20%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 7 (0.94%) Adobe
12 7 (0.94%) Charles River
12 7 (0.94%) Concur
12 7 (0.94%) Sitecore
12 7 (0.94%) Talend
13 6 (0.80%) Siemens
14 5 (0.67%) Murex