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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 96 104
Rank change year-on-year -46 +8 +57
Contract jobs citing Data Management 350 359 403
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.93% 2.94% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.18% 3.19% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 246 281
10th Percentile £308 £328 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £623 £763 £675
90th Percentile £746 £938 £775
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 12
10th Percentile - £23.50 -
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £27.90 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +2.32% +34.73% -5.86%
75th Percentile £41.00 £78.66 £26.64
90th Percentile £41.54 £93.75 £28.43
England median hourly rate £32.75 £30.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% -28.09% +10.82%

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 16,044 11,254 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,716 7,590 11,078
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £432 £432 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 180 312
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £15.95
25th Percentile £25.25 £23.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £31.17 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +18.69% +11.65% -28.79%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.30 £66.98
England median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%

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 25 May 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 25 May 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 25 May 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 38 £550 - 25
West London -14 18 £275 -34.52% 1
East London -6 2 £428 -36.67% 8
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 27 (7.71%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.29%) Confluence
3 10 (2.86%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.86%) Mendix
4 9 (2.57%) CMS
5 7 (2.00%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.43%) WordPress
7 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
8 3 (0.86%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.86%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
9 2 (0.57%) Apache
10 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 39 (11.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (4.29%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.71%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.14%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.29%) iTrent
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.29%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.71%) Azure
2 73 (20.86%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.29%) AWS
4 26 (7.43%) PowerApps
5 20 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (5.14%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.86%) Collibra
7 17 (4.86%) Power Automate
8 14 (4.00%) Serverless
9 13 (3.71%) Dynamics 365
9 13 (3.71%) GCP
10 12 (3.43%) SaaS
11 11 (3.14%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.86%) Azure Service Bus
12 10 (2.86%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.29%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) LAN
1 4 (1.14%) PSTN
1 4 (1.14%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.14%) WAN
1 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.86%) SMS
3 2 (0.57%) Intranet
4 1 (0.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.29%) Power BI
2 42 (12.00%) Metadata
3 35 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.71%) Tableau
5 19 (5.43%) Data Lake
6 17 (4.86%) SQL Server
7 15 (4.29%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (2.00%) Delta Lake
9 7 (2.00%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.00%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.00%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.43%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.43%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.14%) GIS
11 4 (1.14%) Power Query
12 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 34 (9.71%) JIRA
2 8 (2.29%) ERwin
3 6 (1.71%) Git
4 5 (1.43%) JMeter
5 4 (1.14%) Selenium
5 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.86%) Appium
6 3 (0.86%) Toad
6 3 (0.86%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.57%) GitLab
7 2 (0.57%) MLflow
7 2 (0.57%) Postman
7 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) GCC
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 149 (42.57%) Finance
2 121 (34.57%) Social Skills
3 86 (24.57%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.29%) Banking
5 30 (8.57%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.29%) Financial Institution
6 22 (6.29%) Marketing
7 15 (4.29%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.29%) Legal
9 7 (2.00%) Back Office
9 7 (2.00%) Front Office
9 7 (2.00%) Investment Banking
10 6 (1.71%) Local Government
11 5 (1.43%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.43%) Retail
12 4 (1.14%) Military
12 4 (1.14%) Multimedia
12 4 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (23.43%) Analyst
2 53 (15.14%) Lead
3 39 (11.14%) Business Analyst
4 36 (10.29%) Data Analyst
5 34 (9.71%) Senior
6 33 (9.43%) Architect
7 25 (7.14%) Developer
8 24 (6.86%) Data Architect
9 23 (6.57%) Consultant
10 22 (6.29%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.29%) Data Manager
11 15 (4.29%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.14%) Administrator
13 10 (2.86%) Data Business Analyst
13 10 (2.86%) Governance Analyst
13 10 (2.86%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (2.57%) Data Administrator
15 8 (2.29%) Data Modeller
16 7 (2.00%) Implementation Consultant
16 7 (2.00%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.43%) .NET
2 10 (2.86%) HTML5 Canvas
2 10 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.86%) React
3 8 (2.29%) REST
4 7 (2.00%) JSON
5 6 (1.71%) PySpark
5 6 (1.71%) XML
6 5 (1.43%) RESTful
7 4 (1.14%) CSS
7 4 (1.14%) HTML
7 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.14%) YAML
8 3 (0.86%) Hugging Face
8 3 (0.86%) LangChain
8 3 (0.86%) Pandas
8 3 (0.86%) pydantic
8 3 (0.86%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.86%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.86%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.86%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.29%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 14 (4.00%) Reference Data
5 13 (3.71%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (3.43%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.43%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.86%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.86%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.00%) Fixed Income
10 6 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (1.71%) Life Science
11 5 (1.43%) FMCG
12 4 (1.14%) Blog
12 4 (1.14%) Replication
12 4 (1.14%) Social Media
12 4 (1.14%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Android
1 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 110 (31.43%) Data Governance
2 92 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (25.71%) Agile
4 87 (24.86%) Data Modelling
5 84 (24.00%) Migration
6 80 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (18.29%) Business Intelligence
8 59 (16.86%) Analytics
9 55 (15.71%) Decision-Making
10 54 (15.43%) ETL
11 52 (14.86%) Data Architecture
12 47 (13.43%) Validation
13 46 (13.14%) AI
14 43 (12.29%) Data Analysis
14 43 (12.29%) DevOps
15 42 (12.00%) Data Migration
16 40 (11.43%) Data Engineering
17 39 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 37 (10.57%) Visualisation
19 35 (10.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.57%) SQL
2 51 (14.57%) Python
3 18 (5.14%) C#
4 16 (4.57%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.43%) Java
6 10 (2.86%) Formula Language
6 10 (2.86%) LotusScript
7 7 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.00%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.71%) VBA
9 5 (1.43%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.43%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.14%) X++
11 3 (0.86%) Bicep
11 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.86%) R
11 3 (0.86%) Scala
12 2 (0.57%) Groovy
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (17.71%) Degree
2 43 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.43%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.29%) CBAP
5 8 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.29%) IIBA
6 6 (1.71%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (1.43%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.14%) PMP
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.86%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.86%) PhD
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.29%) CFA
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.29%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (31.71%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.86%) QA
3 30 (8.57%) GDPR
4 12 (3.43%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.71%) PMO
6 4 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.14%) COREP
6 4 (1.14%) FINREP
6 4 (1.14%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.29%) Basel III
9 1 (0.29%) GAAP
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) NCSC
9 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.43%) Terraform
2 4 (1.14%) 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 65 (18.57%) Microsoft
2 41 (11.71%) Oracle
3 29 (8.29%) Databricks
4 20 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.29%) SAP
6 12 (3.43%) Informatica
7 10 (2.86%) Bloomberg
7 10 (2.86%) Kofax
7 10 (2.86%) Lotus
8 7 (2.00%) Google
9 6 (1.71%) Charles River
10 5 (1.43%) GoldenSource
10 5 (1.43%) Refinitiv
10 5 (1.43%) Sitecore
11 4 (1.14%) Murex
12 3 (0.86%) Adobe
12 3 (0.86%) Foundry
12 3 (0.86%) HP
12 3 (0.86%) Palantir
12 3 (0.86%) SimCorp