Data Management Contracts in England

Data Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 162 168
Rank change year-on-year +58 +6 -4
Contract jobs citing Data Management 769 806 1,222
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.07% 1.59% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.76% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 498 772
10th Percentile £350 £328 £375
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £793
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 21 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £19.06 £20.94
25th Percentile £19.57 £30.00 £25.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% +4.35% +37.90%
75th Percentile £46.18 £64.50 £50.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £66.00 £63.10
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £38.35 £36.75
% change year-on-year +4.30% +4.35% +37.90%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,205 45,779 64,338
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.51% 90.27% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,157 32,091 45,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,232 1,623 1,778
10th Percentile £12.87 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.62 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.16
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in England

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024. 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 +52 410 £550 -8.33% 206
South West +68 95 £530 +6.00% 43
North of England +44 88 £500 -3.85% 73
Midlands +31 68 £588 +56.67% 48
North West +26 67 £500 -3.85% 46
West Midlands +57 61 £600 +65.52% 27
South East -20 51 £500 -8.59% 76
East of England +19 37 £518 +15.00% 34
Yorkshire +31 22 £550 +8.64% 19
North East +24 6 £454 +10.06% 10
East Midlands -3 6 £569 +99.56% 21
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 34 (4.42%) SharePoint
2 13 (1.69%) SAS
3 11 (1.43%) ArcGIS
4 10 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.04%) Apache
6 7 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.52%) Confluence
8 3 (0.39%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
10 1 (0.13%) CMS
10 1 (0.13%) IIS
10 1 (0.13%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.13%) Tomcat
Applications
1 84 (10.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 44 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
3 25 (3.25%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (3.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
6 17 (2.21%) MS Visio
7 12 (1.56%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.52%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.39%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (3.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.34%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (1.17%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.65%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.65%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 4 (0.52%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.52%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.52%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.52%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.39%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.39%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.39%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.39%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.39%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.39%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.39%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.39%) SAP MDM
6 3 (0.39%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.39%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 133 (17.30%) Azure
2 85 (11.05%) Power Platform
3 65 (8.45%) AWS
4 38 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
4 38 (4.94%) GCP
5 31 (4.03%) Collibra
6 26 (3.38%) Snowflake
7 19 (2.47%) Dynamics 365
8 18 (2.34%) Serverless
9 15 (1.95%) Microsoft Purview
10 13 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
10 13 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
11 12 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 11 (1.43%) Amazon S3
12 11 (1.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 10 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (1.17%) Azure Stack
15 8 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
15 8 (1.04%) PowerApps
16 7 (0.91%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.34%) Network Security
2 15 (1.95%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.78%) Firewall
4 5 (0.65%) FTP
5 4 (0.52%) LAN
5 4 (0.52%) WAN
6 3 (0.39%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.39%) VoIP
6 3 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.26%) Internet
7 2 (0.26%) MPLS
7 2 (0.26%) RS-232
8 1 (0.13%) 5G
8 1 (0.13%) DHCP
8 1 (0.13%) DNS
8 1 (0.13%) SAN
8 1 (0.13%) SD-WAN
8 1 (0.13%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.13%) VPN
8 1 (0.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (10.66%) Metadata
2 80 (10.40%) Power BI
3 69 (8.97%) Data Warehouse
4 51 (6.63%) Big Data
5 44 (5.72%) SQL Server
6 31 (4.03%) Tableau
7 23 (2.99%) Relational Database
8 22 (2.86%) Data Lake
9 14 (1.82%) Data Mining
9 14 (1.82%) GIS
10 13 (1.69%) NoSQL
11 9 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.04%) Ataccama
12 8 (1.04%) BigQuery
12 8 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
12 8 (1.04%) SAP HANA
13 7 (0.91%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
13 7 (0.91%) KDB
13 7 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
14 6 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 35 (4.55%) JIRA
2 18 (2.34%) Git
3 13 (1.69%) ERwin
4 8 (1.04%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 7 (0.91%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.65%) Eclipse
7 3 (0.39%) Xcode
8 2 (0.26%) JMeter
8 2 (0.26%) kappa
8 2 (0.26%) LabVIEW
8 2 (0.26%) RStudio
9 1 (0.13%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.13%) CircleCI
9 1 (0.13%) Gatling
9 1 (0.13%) LSMW
9 1 (0.13%) Mockito
9 1 (0.13%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.13%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.13%) TestRail
General
1 229 (29.78%) Social Skills
2 218 (28.35%) Finance
3 155 (20.16%) Analytical Skills
4 81 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 51 (6.63%) Banking
5 51 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
6 41 (5.33%) Marketing
7 38 (4.94%) Manufacturing
8 36 (4.68%) Retail
9 28 (3.64%) Pharmaceutical
10 25 (3.25%) Electronics
10 25 (3.25%) Telecoms
11 20 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (2.60%) Legal
12 17 (2.21%) Law
13 16 (2.08%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (1.69%) Billing
16 11 (1.43%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.43%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 168 (21.85%) Architect
2 152 (19.77%) Analyst
3 85 (11.05%) Data Analyst
4 78 (10.14%) Data Architect
5 71 (9.23%) Lead
6 58 (7.54%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (6.63%) Developer
8 49 (6.37%) Senior
9 48 (6.24%) Data Engineer
9 48 (6.24%) Data Manager
10 44 (5.72%) Consultant
11 42 (5.46%) Business Analyst
12 25 (3.25%) Project Manager
13 24 (3.12%) Data Business Analyst
14 23 (2.99%) Enterprise Architect
15 18 (2.34%) Project Leader
16 17 (2.21%) Data Migration Analyst
16 17 (2.21%) Migration Analyst
17 16 (2.08%) Enterprise Data Architect
17 16 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (4.16%) XML
2 20 (2.60%) JSON
3 17 (2.21%) REST
4 16 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
5 12 (1.56%) SGML
6 11 (1.43%) HTML
7 7 (0.91%) .NET
7 7 (0.91%) CSS
7 7 (0.91%) RESTful
7 7 (0.91%) Web Services
8 6 (0.78%) Node.js
9 5 (0.65%) ADO
9 5 (0.65%) Spring
10 4 (0.52%) Hugging Face
10 4 (0.52%) Kafka
10 4 (0.52%) LangChain
10 4 (0.52%) PyTorch
11 3 (0.39%) React
11 3 (0.39%) Spring Boot
11 3 (0.39%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 78 (10.14%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.03%) Product Ownership
3 27 (3.51%) Data Structures
4 26 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.34%) Reference Data
6 16 (2.08%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
7 13 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 12 (1.56%) Animation
8 12 (1.56%) Wiki
9 11 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.17%) Cloud Native
10 9 (1.17%) Derivative
10 9 (1.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (1.17%) Life Science
11 7 (0.91%) Taxonomies
12 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.78%) NHS
13 5 (0.65%) Marketing Technology
13 5 (0.65%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 42 (5.46%) Windows
2 32 (4.16%) Linux
3 25 (3.25%) Unix
4 16 (2.08%) Apple iOS
5 13 (1.69%) Android
6 10 (1.30%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (21.07%) Data Modelling
2 161 (20.94%) Analytics
3 156 (20.29%) Data Governance
4 147 (19.12%) Problem-Solving
5 145 (18.86%) Migration
6 138 (17.95%) Agile
7 133 (17.30%) Business Intelligence
8 110 (14.30%) Stakeholder Management
9 100 (13.00%) Data Architecture
10 98 (12.74%) Data Analysis
11 93 (12.09%) Data Migration
12 79 (10.27%) Project Management
13 75 (9.75%) Decision-Making
13 75 (9.75%) Project Delivery
14 72 (9.36%) ETL
15 69 (8.97%) Data Strategy
15 69 (8.97%) DevOps
16 65 (8.45%) Roadmaps
17 63 (8.19%) Computer Science
18 59 (7.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 146 (18.99%) SQL
2 82 (10.66%) Python
3 28 (3.64%) Java
4 19 (2.47%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.95%) C#
5 15 (1.95%) PowerShell
6 12 (1.56%) T-SQL
7 10 (1.30%) TypeScript
8 9 (1.17%) R
9 6 (0.78%) ABAP
9 6 (0.78%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.65%) MATLAB
11 4 (0.52%) Bash
11 4 (0.52%) C++
11 4 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 4 (0.52%) Scala
12 3 (0.39%) Go
12 3 (0.39%) Objective-C
12 3 (0.39%) Swift
Qualifications
1 123 (15.99%) Security Cleared
2 110 (14.30%) Degree
3 77 (10.01%) SC Cleared
4 46 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 20 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
6 17 (2.21%) APMP
7 9 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (1.17%) Master's Degree
8 8 (1.04%) CISSP
9 7 (0.91%) ACCA
9 7 (0.91%) PMI Certification
10 6 (0.78%) ISEB
11 5 (0.65%) PMP
12 4 (0.52%) CIMA
12 4 (0.52%) PhD
13 3 (0.39%) Azure Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.26%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.13%) A+ Certification
15 1 (0.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (25.10%) Data Quality
2 50 (6.50%) QA
3 40 (5.20%) GDPR
4 28 (3.64%) PMO
5 17 (2.21%) Actionable Recommendations
6 13 (1.69%) Def Stans
7 11 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 8 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 6 (0.78%) COBIT
10 6 (0.78%) SLA
11 5 (0.65%) ISO 22301
12 4 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.39%) GxP
13 3 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.13%) COREP
14 1 (0.13%) Government Security Classifications
14 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.13%) IEC 61508
System Software
1 12 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.78%) Docker
3 1 (0.13%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (1.43%) Grafana
2 9 (1.17%) ITRS Geneos
2 9 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 9 (1.17%) Terraform
3 4 (0.52%) Ansible
4 2 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 2 (0.26%) Control-M
4 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.26%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.13%) Kibana
5 1 (0.13%) logstash
5 1 (0.13%) Matomo
5 1 (0.13%) PaperCut
5 1 (0.13%) Puppet
5 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 127 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 100 (13.00%) SAP
3 48 (6.24%) Oracle
4 24 (3.12%) Informatica
5 21 (2.73%) Adobe
6 20 (2.60%) Databricks
7 17 (2.21%) Alteryx
8 16 (2.08%) Google
8 16 (2.08%) Sparx
9 15 (1.95%) IBM
10 13 (1.69%) Salesforce
11 12 (1.56%) Talend
12 10 (1.30%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.17%) Dynatrace
13 9 (1.17%) ESRI
13 9 (1.17%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.91%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.91%) Genesys
14 7 (0.91%) Trillium
15 6 (0.78%) Siemens