Data Management Contracts in London

Data Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 111 157
Rank change year-on-year 0 +46 +5
Contract jobs citing Data Management 339 408 427
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.59% 2.32% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.81% 2.62% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 276 278
10th Percentile £325 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £466 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £560 £600
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £763 £682 £700
90th Percentile £875 £788 £804
England median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 2
10th Percentile £22.87 - £23.00
25th Percentile £24.23 £18.25 £26.01
Median hourly rate £25.00 £20.71 £31.52
Median % change year-on-year +20.71% -34.30% -42.69%
75th Percentile £30.33 £25.92 £36.53
90th Percentile £57.54 £28.50 £39.24
England median hourly rate £30.56 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.59% +14.29% -

All Process and 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 12,082 15,598 22,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.19% 88.50% 90.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,067 11,123 16,628
10th Percentile £331 £341 £372
25th Percentile £425 £445 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £588
Median % change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 298 259
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.98 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £23.18
Median hourly rate £32.00 £30.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -25.93% +12.50%
75th Percentile £50.50 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.60 £68.75 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in London over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

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 3 July 2025. 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 +14 69 £550 - 149
West London +11 4 £420 -26.96% 17
East London +14 2 £675 +29.19% 8
South London -3 2 £583 - 16
North London - 2 £350 -
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (7.08%) Apache
1 24 (7.08%) Apache Airflow
2 10 (2.95%) Apache Spark
3 8 (2.36%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.18%) Confluence
5 2 (0.59%) Appian
5 2 (0.59%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.29%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.29%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 38 (11.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
3 7 (2.06%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
4 1 (0.29%) Revit
4 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (2.65%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.77%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.59%) Infor SunSystems
5 2 (0.59%) iTrent
5 2 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.59%) SAP MDG-S
5 2 (0.59%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.29%) Actimize
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.29%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.29%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 61 (17.99%) Azure
2 60 (17.70%) AWS
3 48 (14.16%) Power Platform
4 25 (7.37%) Snowflake
5 18 (5.31%) dbt
6 17 (5.01%) GCP
7 12 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (2.95%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.95%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.65%) Collibra
9 9 (2.65%) GitHub
9 9 (2.65%) OCI
9 9 (2.65%) Power Automate
10 8 (2.36%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 8 (2.36%) PowerApps
11 7 (2.06%) Amazon S3
11 7 (2.06%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.06%) SaaS
12 6 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) 5G
2 3 (0.88%) DNS
2 3 (0.88%) HTTP
3 1 (0.29%) FTP
3 1 (0.29%) Internet
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (17.11%) Data Lake
2 44 (12.98%) Power BI
3 43 (12.68%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (9.44%) Metadata
5 25 (7.37%) SQL Server
6 21 (6.19%) Tableau
7 16 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
7 16 (4.72%) Apache Arrow
7 16 (4.72%) Apache Iceberg
7 16 (4.72%) Dremio
8 14 (4.13%) Big Data
9 11 (3.24%) Hadoop
10 10 (2.95%) Power Query
10 10 (2.95%) Relational Database
11 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
12 8 (2.36%) Azure SQL Database
12 8 (2.36%) NoSQL
13 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
14 6 (1.77%) Apache Hive
14 6 (1.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (3.24%) JIRA
2 10 (2.95%) ERwin
3 7 (2.06%) Git
4 5 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
5 3 (0.88%) GitLab
5 3 (0.88%) Vite
5 3 (0.88%) webpack
6 2 (0.59%) Appium
6 2 (0.59%) NUnit
6 2 (0.59%) Selenium
6 2 (0.59%) SpecFlow
6 2 (0.59%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
7 1 (0.29%) Gradle
7 1 (0.29%) JUnit
7 1 (0.29%) LSMW
General
1 163 (48.08%) Finance
2 119 (35.10%) Social Skills
3 76 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (15.34%) Front Office
5 49 (14.45%) Banking
6 25 (7.37%) Investment Banking
7 21 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (4.13%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.83%) Marketing
9 13 (3.83%) Retail
10 11 (3.24%) Back Office
11 9 (2.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.06%) Financial Institution
12 7 (2.06%) Legal
13 6 (1.77%) Manufacturing
13 6 (1.77%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.47%) Police
14 5 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.18%) Corporate Banking
16 3 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 53 (15.63%) Analyst
2 43 (12.68%) Architect
3 40 (11.80%) Developer
4 29 (8.55%) Lead
5 27 (7.96%) Data Engineer
6 26 (7.67%) Data Analyst
7 23 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 23 (6.78%) Senior
8 22 (6.49%) Business Analyst
8 22 (6.49%) Consultant
9 20 (5.90%) Head of Finance
10 19 (5.60%) Software Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) AWS Developer
11 16 (4.72%) AWS Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) AWS Software Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Snowflake Developer
11 16 (4.72%) Snowflake Engineer
11 16 (4.72%) Software Developer
12 15 (4.42%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.90%) PySpark
2 11 (3.24%) HTML
2 11 (3.24%) Kafka
3 10 (2.95%) Web Services
4 9 (2.65%) CSS
5 8 (2.36%) RESTful
6 7 (2.06%) AngularJS
6 7 (2.06%) React
7 4 (1.18%) .NET
7 4 (1.18%) REST
7 4 (1.18%) Spring
8 3 (0.88%) .NET Framework
8 3 (0.88%) FastAPI
8 3 (0.88%) HTML5
8 3 (0.88%) Jest
8 3 (0.88%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.88%) Middleware
8 3 (0.88%) React Native
8 3 (0.88%) Sass
8 3 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 53 (15.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 51 (15.04%) Derivative
3 50 (14.75%) Equities
3 50 (14.75%) Fixed Income
4 49 (14.45%) Hedge funds
5 26 (7.67%) Management Information System
6 15 (4.42%) Reference Data
7 14 (4.13%) Legacy Systems
7 14 (4.13%) Onboarding
8 11 (3.24%) Data Structures
9 9 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.06%) Virtual Team
11 6 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.77%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.47%) Product Ownership
13 4 (1.18%) Distributed Computing
13 4 (1.18%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
14 3 (0.88%) PMI
14 3 (0.88%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (1.77%) Linux
2 5 (1.47%) Unix
3 4 (1.18%) Windows
4 3 (0.88%) Android
5 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (38.64%) Data Governance
2 96 (28.32%) Agile
3 79 (23.30%) Analytics
3 79 (23.30%) Problem-Solving
4 78 (23.01%) Migration
5 74 (21.83%) Data Modelling
6 65 (19.17%) Business Intelligence
7 53 (15.63%) Roadmaps
8 52 (15.34%) Stakeholder Management
9 48 (14.16%) Regulatory Compliance
10 47 (13.86%) Data Integration
11 44 (12.98%) ETL
12 39 (11.50%) Data Architecture
13 34 (10.03%) Data Analysis
13 34 (10.03%) Investment Management
13 34 (10.03%) Project Management
14 32 (9.44%) Decision-Making
14 32 (9.44%) Visualisation
15 31 (9.14%) Data Strategy
15 31 (9.14%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 112 (33.04%) SQL
2 73 (21.53%) Python
3 26 (7.67%) Java
4 18 (5.31%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.54%) T-SQL
6 11 (3.24%) C#
7 8 (2.36%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.06%) R
8 7 (2.06%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.47%) Bash
9 5 (1.47%) Scala
9 5 (1.47%) Shell Script
9 5 (1.47%) VBA
10 4 (1.18%) Perl
10 4 (1.18%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.59%) ABAP
11 2 (0.59%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.59%) C++
11 2 (0.59%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.29%) Go
Qualifications
1 47 (13.86%) Degree
2 25 (7.37%) Security Cleared
3 20 (5.90%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.95%) PMI Certification
6 7 (2.06%) PMP
7 5 (1.47%) Azure Certification
7 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (0.88%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (0.88%) CIPD
8 3 (0.88%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (0.59%) DV Cleared
9 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.59%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.59%) SAP Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCAB
10 1 (0.29%) CSPO
10 1 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (18.88%) Data Quality
2 27 (7.96%) GDPR
3 23 (6.78%) Accessibility
4 15 (4.42%) MiFID
5 9 (2.65%) PMO
5 9 (2.65%) QA
6 6 (1.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.47%) SLA
8 3 (0.88%) HIPAA
8 3 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (0.88%) WCAG
9 2 (0.59%) Dodd-Frank
9 2 (0.59%) EMIR
10 1 (0.29%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 1 (0.29%) Basel III
10 1 (0.29%) GxP
10 1 (0.29%) IFRS
10 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (1.77%) Docker
2 3 (0.88%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) NFS
3 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (3.24%) Terraform
2 9 (2.65%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.47%) Ansible
4 3 (0.88%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 53 (15.63%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.50%) Oracle
3 26 (7.67%) SAP
4 21 (6.19%) Informatica
5 16 (4.72%) Salesforce
6 15 (4.42%) Google
7 13 (3.83%) Databricks
7 13 (3.83%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.47%) Sparx
8 5 (1.47%) Workday
9 4 (1.18%) Nokia
9 4 (1.18%) Palantir
9 4 (1.18%) Sybase
10 3 (0.88%) Alteryx
10 3 (0.88%) Amplitude
10 3 (0.88%) Ariba
10 3 (0.88%) Foundry
10 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 3 (0.88%) Sun
11 2 (0.59%) BiZZdesign