Data Management Contract Job Trends in London

Data Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 78 114
Rank change year-on-year -42 +36 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Management 334 441 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 3.17% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 3.51% 2.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 290 284
10th Percentile £313 £325 £420
25th Percentile £409 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £631 £762 £700
90th Percentile £737 £938 £763
England median daily rate £492 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -6.29% -6.25% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 8
10th Percentile - £23.24 £25.26
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.20 £26.03
Median hourly rate £18.00 £92.50 £47.78
Median % change year-on-year -80.54% +93.61% +47.01%
75th Percentile £21.19 £97.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £25.13 - £65.57
England median hourly rate £21.25 £32.50 £46.06
% change year-on-year -34.62% -29.43% -34.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,819 12,566 16,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.29% 90.27% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,452 8,018 11,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 152 260
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.44 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £23.80 £19.99
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.75 £53.75 £53.84
90th Percentile £69.36 £80.68 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Data Management job vacancy trend in London

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data Management

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Central London -46 32 £575 +9.52% 28
West London -14 4 £500 +25.00% 1
South London -8 1 - - 2
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 14 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.29%) Confluence
3 9 (2.69%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.40%) Mendix
5 5 (1.50%) Apache
6 4 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.30%) CMS
9 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.30%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (10.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
4 10 (2.99%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.80%) ProjectWise
6 5 (1.50%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.30%) Revit
7 1 (0.30%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.99%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.50%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.20%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.20%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.90%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.90%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.60%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.60%) iTrent
5 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.60%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.60%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.30%) Actimize
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.30%) Maximo
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 68 (20.36%) Azure
2 52 (15.57%) Power Platform
3 34 (10.18%) AWS
4 27 (8.08%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (6.29%) Collibra
6 18 (5.39%) Serverless
7 16 (4.79%) GCP
7 16 (4.79%) PowerApps
8 14 (4.19%) Azure Functions
8 14 (4.19%) Azure Logic Apps
9 13 (3.89%) Azure Service Bus
10 12 (3.59%) Snowflake
11 11 (3.29%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.29%) SaaS
12 10 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
12 10 (2.99%) OCI
13 9 (2.69%) PaaS
14 7 (2.10%) SuccessFactors
15 6 (1.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 5 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) NAS
2 2 (0.60%) SMS
3 1 (0.30%) 2G
3 1 (0.30%) 4G
3 1 (0.30%) 5G
3 1 (0.30%) Intranet
3 1 (0.30%) IPv4
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.30%) SAN
3 1 (0.30%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.30%) VLAN
3 1 (0.30%) WebEx
3 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.67%) Power BI
2 37 (11.08%) Metadata
3 27 (8.08%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.69%) Tableau
5 11 (3.29%) Oracle Database
5 11 (3.29%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
6 10 (2.99%) Relational Database
7 9 (2.69%) Data Lake
8 7 (2.10%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
9 6 (1.80%) Power Query
10 5 (1.50%) GIS
10 5 (1.50%) RDBMS
10 5 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.20%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.20%) MySQL
11 4 (1.20%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.90%) Qlik Sense
12 3 (0.90%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 39 (11.68%) JIRA
2 13 (3.89%) GitLab
3 6 (1.80%) Git
4 5 (1.50%) JMeter
5 4 (1.20%) Appium
5 4 (1.20%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) ERwin
6 3 (0.90%) Postman
6 3 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.60%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.60%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.60%) Gatling
7 2 (0.60%) JUnit
7 2 (0.60%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.60%) TestNG
7 2 (0.60%) TestRail
8 1 (0.30%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.30%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.30%) MLflow
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 148 (44.31%) Finance
2 139 (41.62%) Social Skills
3 95 (28.44%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (13.77%) Banking
5 25 (7.49%) Financial Institution
6 21 (6.29%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.39%) Marketing
8 14 (4.19%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.29%) Local Government
9 11 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 10 (2.99%) Legal
11 9 (2.69%) Front Office
12 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.10%) Retail
13 6 (1.80%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.80%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.50%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (22.75%) Analyst
2 40 (11.98%) Lead
3 39 (11.68%) Architect
3 39 (11.68%) Developer
4 36 (10.78%) Business Analyst
5 28 (8.38%) Data Analyst
6 26 (7.78%) Consultant
7 23 (6.89%) Senior
8 15 (4.49%) Data Architect
8 15 (4.49%) Governance Analyst
9 13 (3.89%) Data Engineer
9 13 (3.89%) Data Modeller
9 13 (3.89%) ServiceNow Developer
10 10 (2.99%) Senior Analyst
11 9 (2.69%) Data Business Analyst
11 9 (2.69%) Data Manager
11 9 (2.69%) Oracle Consultant
11 9 (2.69%) Power Platform Developer
12 8 (2.40%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.40%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (6.89%) REST
2 22 (6.59%) Oracle Fusion
3 18 (5.39%) SOAP
4 14 (4.19%) .NET
5 11 (3.29%) React
6 8 (2.40%) HTML5 Canvas
7 6 (1.80%) JSON
7 6 (1.80%) Kafka
8 5 (1.50%) MIDP
8 5 (1.50%) XML
9 4 (1.20%) LangChain
9 4 (1.20%) Lightning Web Components
9 4 (1.20%) NumPy
9 4 (1.20%) Pandas
9 4 (1.20%) WebdriverIO
10 3 (0.90%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.90%) Hugging Face
10 3 (0.90%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.90%) pydantic
10 3 (0.90%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (7.19%) Onboarding
2 21 (6.29%) Data Structures
3 18 (5.39%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.89%) CMDB
5 12 (3.59%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.59%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.29%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.99%) Reference Data
8 9 (2.69%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.10%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.80%) Derivative
10 6 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.80%) Reinsurance
11 5 (1.50%) Cloud Native
12 4 (1.20%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.20%) Equities
12 4 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.20%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.20%) Android
1 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.60%) Linux
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (29.04%) Agile
3 84 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 82 (24.55%) Analytics
5 80 (23.95%) Data Governance
6 77 (23.05%) Data Modelling
7 58 (17.37%) Business Intelligence
8 55 (16.47%) DevOps
9 52 (15.57%) Migration
10 49 (14.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 43 (12.87%) Validation
12 42 (12.57%) CI/CD
13 41 (12.28%) Roadmaps
14 36 (10.78%) Visualisation
15 35 (10.48%) Project Management
16 34 (10.18%) Data Analysis
16 34 (10.18%) Data Integration
16 34 (10.18%) Decision-Making
16 34 (10.18%) ETL
17 33 (9.88%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 82 (24.55%) SQL
2 37 (11.08%) Python
3 33 (9.88%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.19%) C#
5 10 (2.99%) Java
6 9 (2.69%) Formula Language
6 9 (2.69%) LotusScript
7 8 (2.40%) Groovy
8 5 (1.50%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.20%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.20%) R
9 4 (1.20%) VBA
10 3 (0.90%) Apex Code
10 3 (0.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.60%) Bicep
11 2 (0.60%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.60%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.60%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) SOQL
12 1 (0.30%) SOSL
Qualifications
1 43 (12.87%) Security Cleared
2 33 (9.88%) Degree
3 31 (9.28%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.69%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.90%) CBAP
6 3 (0.90%) IIBA
6 3 (0.90%) MCP
6 3 (0.90%) PhD
6 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.90%) PMP
7 2 (0.60%) APMP
7 2 (0.60%) CIPD
7 2 (0.60%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.60%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.60%) OCA
7 2 (0.60%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.30%) CFA
8 1 (0.30%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (23.35%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.58%) QA
3 25 (7.49%) GDPR
4 9 (2.69%) PMO
5 7 (2.10%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.80%) ISO 19650
7 5 (1.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.50%) IFRS
8 4 (1.20%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.90%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.60%) Basel III
10 2 (0.60%) EMIR
10 2 (0.60%) GAAP
10 2 (0.60%) MiFID
11 1 (0.30%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.30%) FATCA
11 1 (0.30%) GxP
11 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.80%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.80%) Terraform
2 5 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.30%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 50 (14.97%) Microsoft
2 45 (13.47%) Oracle
3 24 (7.19%) Databricks
4 17 (5.09%) SAP
4 17 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.49%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.59%) Informatica
7 10 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 10 (2.99%) Google
8 9 (2.69%) Alteryx
8 9 (2.69%) Lotus
9 8 (2.40%) Kofax
10 7 (2.10%) Refinitiv
10 7 (2.10%) Workday
11 4 (1.20%) Dynatrace
11 4 (1.20%) Murex
11 4 (1.20%) Talend
11 4 (1.20%) Yardi
12 3 (0.90%) Adobe
12 3 (0.90%) Hyperion