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 29 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 111 115
Rank change year-on-year -48 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Management 372 350 371
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.60% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.81% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 205 240
10th Percentile £306 £318 £350
25th Percentile £413 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -3.51% -5.00%
75th Percentile £674 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £814
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile - £17.00 £21.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £19.50 £24.55
Median hourly rate £40.96 £23.45 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +74.67% -16.01% -31.97%
75th Percentile £41.22 £25.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £41.92 £25.90 £77.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.66 £35.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% -9.54% +6.06%

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 18,008 12,449 14,389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.45% 89.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,281 9,881
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £661 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 255 191
10th Percentile £17.53 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.89 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £56.25 £49.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 -32 47 £525 -12.50% 51
West London -8 14 £275 -34.52% 19
East London +4 3 £503 -25.56% 8
South London -13 2 - - 4
North London 0 1 £550 -
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 17 (4.57%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.23%) Confluence
3 11 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.96%) CMS
4 7 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.88%) WordPress
5 6 (1.61%) Apache
6 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) Mendix
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 36 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.15%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.03%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.69%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.34%) Fidessa
5 4 (1.08%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.27%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.27%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.16%) Azure
2 55 (14.78%) Power Platform
3 38 (10.22%) AWS
4 27 (7.26%) Collibra
5 21 (5.65%) PowerApps
6 20 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (5.11%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.30%) GCP
9 15 (4.03%) Power Automate
9 15 (4.03%) Snowflake
10 11 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 8 (2.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (1.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 6 (1.61%) Alation
13 6 (1.61%) dbt
13 6 (1.61%) GitHub
13 6 (1.61%) Microsoft Copilot
13 6 (1.61%) Salesforce Einstein
13 6 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) SMS
2 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (18.28%) Metadata
2 40 (10.75%) Power BI
3 25 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (6.18%) Data Lake
5 22 (5.91%) Tableau
6 18 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.69%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.15%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.61%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.61%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.34%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.34%) Power Query
13 4 (1.08%) Big Data
13 4 (1.08%) GIS
14 3 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (7.80%) JIRA
2 12 (3.23%) Selenium
3 11 (2.96%) ERwin
3 11 (2.96%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.42%) Git
5 8 (2.15%) ER Studio
6 7 (1.88%) JMeter
7 5 (1.34%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.08%) Postman
9 3 (0.81%) MLflow
10 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.27%) Appium
11 1 (0.27%) eggPlant
11 1 (0.27%) SilkTest
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (41.40%) Finance
2 126 (33.87%) Social Skills
3 87 (23.39%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (11.83%) Banking
5 37 (9.95%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.18%) Marketing
7 21 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (4.03%) Retail
9 14 (3.76%) Legal
10 13 (3.49%) Front Office
11 11 (2.96%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.69%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.69%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (2.15%) Local Government
13 8 (2.15%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.34%) Military
15 5 (1.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (18.82%) Analyst
2 43 (11.56%) Architect
2 43 (11.56%) Lead
3 34 (9.14%) Data Analyst
4 31 (8.33%) Developer
5 29 (7.80%) Consultant
6 28 (7.53%) Senior
7 26 (6.99%) Business Analyst
8 25 (6.72%) Data Architect
9 17 (4.57%) Data Manager
10 16 (4.30%) Data Engineer
11 15 (4.03%) Data Consultant
12 12 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Test Manager
13 11 (2.96%) Administrator
13 11 (2.96%) Governance Analyst
14 9 (2.42%) Data Modeller
15 8 (2.15%) Technical Leader
16 7 (1.88%) Data Governance Consultant
16 7 (1.88%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.30%) REST
2 12 (3.23%) Kafka
3 11 (2.96%) JSON
4 9 (2.42%) PySpark
4 9 (2.42%) RESTful
5 8 (2.15%) .NET
5 8 (2.15%) HTML
5 8 (2.15%) Middleware
5 8 (2.15%) XML
6 7 (1.88%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (1.88%) Terraform
7 5 (1.34%) CSS
7 5 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.08%) Playwright
8 4 (1.08%) SOAP
8 4 (1.08%) XSD
9 3 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.81%) Spring
9 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.54%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.60%) Data Structures
3 29 (7.80%) Onboarding
4 28 (7.53%) Reference Data
5 19 (5.11%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.84%) Product Ownership
7 15 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.96%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.15%) FMCG
9 8 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.88%) Equities
11 6 (1.61%) Life Science
11 6 (1.61%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.34%) Social Media
13 4 (1.08%) Low-Code
13 4 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.81%) Windows
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (39.52%) Data Governance
2 113 (30.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 99 (26.61%) Agile
4 81 (21.77%) Data Modelling
5 79 (21.24%) Analytics
6 78 (20.97%) Migration
6 78 (20.97%) Problem-Solving
7 70 (18.82%) AI
8 68 (18.28%) Data Architecture
9 61 (16.40%) Validation
10 58 (15.59%) ETL
11 55 (14.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 52 (13.98%) Business Intelligence
13 48 (12.90%) Metadata Management
14 47 (12.63%) DevOps
15 45 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 44 (11.83%) Data Migration
16 44 (11.83%) Decision-Making
17 43 (11.56%) Data Analysis
18 41 (11.02%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 106 (28.49%) SQL
2 51 (13.71%) Python
3 23 (6.18%) Java
4 22 (5.91%) C#
5 14 (3.76%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.69%) X++
7 7 (1.88%) VBA
8 6 (1.61%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.34%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.81%) Bicep
11 3 (0.81%) VB.NET
12 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.54%) R
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.27%) Formula Language
13 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
13 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
13 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (13.71%) Security Cleared
2 46 (12.37%) Degree
3 44 (11.83%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.61%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.81%) ISEB
8 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.54%) CBAP
9 2 (0.54%) IIBA
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (36.29%) Data Quality
2 37 (9.95%) GDPR
3 32 (8.60%) QA
4 13 (3.49%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.42%) PMO
6 6 (1.61%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.81%) COREP
8 3 (0.81%) FINREP
8 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.54%) EMIR
9 2 (0.54%) MiFID
9 2 (0.54%) PERC
10 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.27%) GMP
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.68%) Databricks
3 31 (8.33%) Oracle
4 30 (8.06%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.30%) Informatica
6 15 (4.03%) SAP
7 10 (2.69%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.15%) Charles River
8 8 (2.15%) IBM
9 7 (1.88%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.61%) Google
10 6 (1.61%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.34%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.34%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.34%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.34%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.08%) Murex
12 4 (1.08%) Pardot
12 4 (1.08%) Sparx
13 3 (0.81%) HP