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 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 137 87 101
Rank change year-on-year -50 +14 +45
Contract jobs citing Data Management 340 401 425
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.02% 3.15% 2.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 3.45% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 293 306
10th Percentile £325 £325 £393
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -18.17% +6.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile - £40.82 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £59.73 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £92.50 £23.05
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +301.39% +31.69%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £43.94
90th Percentile - - £64.30
England median hourly rate £28.03 £31.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -11.46% -29.66% -28.57%

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 15,060 11,622 15,941
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.56% 91.41% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,095 7,890 11,411
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £428 £443 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £677 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 170 337
10th Percentile £18.13 £18.91 £15.98
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% +16.05% -22.67%
75th Percentile £57.37 £51.07 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £65.25 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -45 30 £588 +6.82% 22
West London - 11 £500 - 7
South London -15 2 - - 4
East London -3 1 £675 +68.75% 5
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 22 (6.47%) Confluence
1 22 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.24%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.94%) Mendix
4 4 (1.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.18%) CMS
4 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 39 (11.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
4 17 (5.00%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.47%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.88%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.88%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.59%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.29%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.29%) iTrent
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 74 (21.76%) Azure
2 73 (21.47%) Power Platform
3 38 (11.18%) AWS
4 20 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 20 (5.88%) Collibra
5 18 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.29%) Serverless
6 17 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 15 (4.41%) GCP
8 13 (3.82%) Azure Functions
9 12 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.53%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.53%) SaaS
9 12 (3.53%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) LAN
1 4 (1.18%) PSTN
1 4 (1.18%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.18%) WAN
1 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.59%) Intranet
2 2 (0.59%) NAS
2 2 (0.59%) SMS
3 1 (0.29%) 2G
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (19.12%) Power BI
2 44 (12.94%) Metadata
3 39 (11.47%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (6.47%) Tableau
5 21 (6.18%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.41%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (2.65%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.06%) MySQL
9 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
9 7 (2.06%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
11 4 (1.18%) GIS
11 4 (1.18%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
12 3 (0.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 34 (10.00%) JIRA
2 11 (3.24%) ERwin
3 8 (2.35%) Git
4 6 (1.76%) GitLab
5 5 (1.47%) Appium
5 5 (1.47%) JMeter
6 3 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.88%) Selenium
6 3 (0.88%) Toad
7 2 (0.59%) Postman
7 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.59%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.29%) GCC
8 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (43.82%) Finance
2 140 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 98 (28.82%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (13.24%) Banking
5 28 (8.24%) Financial Institution
6 24 (7.06%) Marketing
7 23 (6.76%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.24%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.24%) Retail
10 8 (2.35%) Front Office
10 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
11 6 (1.76%) Back Office
11 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.76%) Retail Banking
11 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.47%) Legal
12 5 (1.47%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 84 (24.71%) Analyst
2 50 (14.71%) Lead
3 49 (14.41%) Business Analyst
4 36 (10.59%) Senior
5 34 (10.00%) Data Analyst
6 30 (8.82%) Architect
7 27 (7.94%) Developer
8 24 (7.06%) Consultant
8 24 (7.06%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.41%) Data Modeller
11 14 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
11 14 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
13 9 (2.65%) Governance Analyst
14 7 (2.06%) Administrator
14 7 (2.06%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.06%) Technical Business Analyst
15 6 (1.76%) Senior Business Analyst
15 6 (1.76%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.82%) .NET
1 13 (3.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 12 (3.53%) React
3 10 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
4 8 (2.35%) REST
5 7 (2.06%) JSON
6 6 (1.76%) Kafka
6 6 (1.76%) XML
7 5 (1.47%) PySpark
7 5 (1.47%) YAML
8 4 (1.18%) LangChain
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.18%) NumPy
8 4 (1.18%) Pandas
8 4 (1.18%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (0.88%) Hugging Face
9 3 (0.88%) LangGraph
9 3 (0.88%) Model Context Protocol
9 3 (0.88%) pydantic
9 3 (0.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.59%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.59%) Reference Data
3 18 (5.29%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (3.82%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.06%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.76%) Life Science
12 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.47%) IoT
13 4 (1.18%) Blog
13 4 (1.18%) Derivative
13 4 (1.18%) FMCG
13 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Android
1 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.29%) Data Governance
2 97 (28.53%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (27.94%) Data Modelling
4 90 (26.47%) Agile
4 90 (26.47%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (23.24%) Migration
6 76 (22.35%) Business Intelligence
7 67 (19.71%) Analytics
8 56 (16.47%) Decision-Making
9 55 (16.18%) ETL
10 49 (14.41%) Data Architecture
10 49 (14.41%) Validation
11 44 (12.94%) Data Engineering
12 42 (12.35%) Visualisation
13 41 (12.06%) Data Analysis
14 39 (11.47%) AI
14 39 (11.47%) DevOps
14 39 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 38 (11.18%) Data Migration
16 35 (10.29%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 104 (30.59%) SQL
2 49 (14.41%) Python
3 20 (5.88%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.12%) C#
5 11 (3.24%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.24%) LotusScript
6 9 (2.65%) Java
7 7 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.06%) VBA
8 6 (1.76%) Groovy
8 6 (1.76%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.18%) Scala
11 3 (0.88%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.88%) R
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (16.47%) Degree
2 44 (12.94%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.71%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.35%) IIBA
7 7 (2.06%) CBAP
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.18%) PMP
10 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.88%) PhD
11 2 (0.59%) APMP
11 2 (0.59%) CIPD
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) CFA
12 1 (0.29%) ISEB
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 103 (30.29%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.59%) QA
3 23 (6.76%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) PMO
5 9 (2.65%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.06%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.18%) IFRS
9 3 (0.88%) COREP
9 3 (0.88%) FINREP
9 3 (0.88%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) EMIR
10 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.59%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.47%) Terraform
2 4 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.59%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 64 (18.82%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.82%) Oracle
3 27 (7.94%) Databricks
4 19 (5.59%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.71%) Informatica
6 15 (4.41%) SAP
7 11 (3.24%) Lotus
8 10 (2.94%) Kofax
9 9 (2.65%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.35%) Google
11 7 (2.06%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.47%) Charles River
12 5 (1.47%) GoldenSource
12 5 (1.47%) Murex
13 4 (1.18%) Refinitiv
13 4 (1.18%) Sparx
13 4 (1.18%) Talend
13 4 (1.18%) Yardi
14 3 (0.88%) FactSet
14 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud