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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 92 109
Rank change year-on-year -45 +17 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Management 348 363 386
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.89% 3.00% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.13% 3.25% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 242 269
10th Percentile £307 £355 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £631 £763 £680
90th Percentile £738 £938 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 11
10th Percentile - £22.87 -
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.23 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% +20.71% -5.86%
75th Percentile £41.00 £30.33 £25.12
90th Percentile £41.54 £57.54 £27.84
England median hourly rate £35.00 £30.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.44% -24.20% +7.24%

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 16,370 11,170 15,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 92.31% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,917 7,467 11,030
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £429 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 194 318
10th Percentile £18.34 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.21%
75th Percentile £59.00 £49.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £79.50 £63.18 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%

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 5 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in London

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 5 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
Central London -39 36 £540 -1.82% 40
West London -9 16 £275 -34.52% 4
East London -5 2 £428 -36.67% 3
South London - 1 - -
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 26 (7.47%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.03%) Confluence
3 12 (3.45%) CMS
4 8 (2.30%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.30%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.30%) Mendix
5 6 (1.72%) WordPress
6 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.15%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.86%) Apache
7 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.86%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (3.45%) MS Visio
5 7 (2.01%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.44%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.15%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.15%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 71 (20.40%) Azure
2 66 (18.97%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.34%) AWS
4 25 (7.18%) PowerApps
5 19 (5.46%) Collibra
6 18 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.60%) GCP
7 16 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.31%) Power Automate
9 14 (4.02%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (4.02%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.45%) SaaS
11 11 (3.16%) Serverless
12 10 (2.87%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.30%) Azure Functions
13 8 (2.30%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.30%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (2.30%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (2.01%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.44%) SMS
2 4 (1.15%) LAN
2 4 (1.15%) PSTN
2 4 (1.15%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.15%) WAN
2 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (14.08%) Power BI
2 44 (12.64%) Metadata
3 32 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.75%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.17%) Tableau
6 17 (4.89%) SQL Server
7 13 (3.74%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.30%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.01%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.72%) Delta Lake
11 5 (1.44%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.44%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.44%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.15%) GIS
12 4 (1.15%) OLAP
12 4 (1.15%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 31 (8.91%) JIRA
2 8 (2.30%) ERwin
3 6 (1.72%) Git
4 4 (1.15%) Selenium
4 4 (1.15%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.86%) JMeter
5 3 (0.86%) Toad
5 3 (0.86%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 2 (0.57%) Postman
6 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.29%) Appium
7 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.29%) GCC
7 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 138 (39.66%) Finance
2 114 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 82 (23.56%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.48%) Banking
4 33 (9.48%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.90%) Marketing
6 20 (5.75%) Financial Institution
7 15 (4.31%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (2.59%) Legal
10 7 (2.01%) Front Office
10 7 (2.01%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.72%) Back Office
11 6 (1.72%) Local Government
12 5 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.44%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.44%) Retail
13 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.15%) Multimedia
14 3 (0.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 78 (22.41%) Analyst
2 56 (16.09%) Lead
3 38 (10.92%) Business Analyst
4 35 (10.06%) Architect
5 34 (9.77%) Senior
6 33 (9.48%) Data Analyst
7 26 (7.47%) Data Architect
7 26 (7.47%) Developer
8 22 (6.32%) Consultant
9 20 (5.75%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.60%) Data Manager
11 15 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
12 12 (3.45%) Administrator
13 9 (2.59%) Data Business Analyst
13 9 (2.59%) Governance Analyst
14 8 (2.30%) Data Administrator
14 8 (2.30%) Data Modeller
14 8 (2.30%) Power Platform Developer
15 7 (2.01%) Data Consultant
15 7 (2.01%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.87%) .NET
2 8 (2.30%) HTML5 Canvas
2 8 (2.30%) React
2 8 (2.30%) REST
3 7 (2.01%) JSON
3 7 (2.01%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.72%) XML
5 5 (1.44%) PySpark
5 5 (1.44%) RESTful
6 4 (1.15%) CSS
6 4 (1.15%) HTML
6 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.15%) YAML
7 3 (0.86%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.86%) Middleware
8 2 (0.57%) ADO
8 2 (0.57%) GeoJSON
8 2 (0.57%) Lightning Web Components
8 2 (0.57%) PostGIS
8 2 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.49%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.18%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.31%) Reference Data
4 14 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.02%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.87%) Legacy Systems
7 9 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.30%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.30%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.30%) Product Ownership
9 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.72%) Life Science
11 5 (1.44%) FMCG
11 5 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.44%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.15%) IoT
12 4 (1.15%) Replication
12 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (32.18%) Data Governance
2 91 (26.15%) Agile
2 91 (26.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (24.71%) Migration
4 85 (24.43%) Data Modelling
5 75 (21.55%) Problem-Solving
6 55 (15.80%) Business Intelligence
6 55 (15.80%) ETL
7 54 (15.52%) Analytics
7 54 (15.52%) Data Architecture
7 54 (15.52%) Decision-Making
8 44 (12.64%) Data Migration
9 43 (12.36%) AI
9 43 (12.36%) Validation
10 42 (12.07%) DevOps
11 40 (11.49%) Data Analysis
12 39 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
12 39 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 37 (10.63%) CRM
14 36 (10.34%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 97 (27.87%) SQL
2 48 (13.79%) Python
3 16 (4.60%) C#
4 13 (3.74%) Java
5 12 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.30%) Formula Language
6 8 (2.30%) LotusScript
7 7 (2.01%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.15%) VBA
10 4 (1.15%) X++
11 3 (0.86%) Bicep
11 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.86%) Scala
11 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.29%) R
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 59 (16.95%) Degree
2 47 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.21%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.87%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.87%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (2.30%) CBAP
6 8 (2.30%) IIBA
7 5 (1.44%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.15%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.15%) PMP
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.29%) CFA
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.29%) RIBA
11 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (31.32%) Data Quality
2 39 (11.21%) QA
3 35 (10.06%) GDPR
4 10 (2.87%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.15%) COREP
5 4 (1.15%) FINREP
5 4 (1.15%) PMO
6 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.86%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.29%) Basel III
8 1 (0.29%) GAAP
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS
8 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.44%) Terraform
2 4 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.86%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 61 (17.53%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.63%) Oracle
3 28 (8.05%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.76%) Databricks
5 14 (4.02%) SAP
6 10 (2.87%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.87%) Informatica
7 8 (2.30%) Kofax
7 8 (2.30%) Lotus
8 6 (1.72%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.44%) Charles River
9 5 (1.44%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.44%) Google
9 5 (1.44%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.44%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 4 (1.15%) Foundry
10 4 (1.15%) Murex
10 4 (1.15%) Palantir
11 3 (0.86%) FactSet
11 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow