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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 109 116
Rank change year-on-year -50 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Management 356 346 358
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 2.55% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.76% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 210 243
10th Percentile £310 £325 £345
25th Percentile £405 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £851 £811
England median daily rate £513 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -7.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 7
10th Percentile - £22.58 £24.04
25th Percentile £19.03 £23.45 £26.45
Median hourly rate £40.96 £25.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% -10.71% -11.17%
75th Percentile £41.22 - £56.25
90th Percentile £41.92 £26.35 £80.25
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.66 £45.00
% change year-on-year +18.45% -29.64% +36.36%

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 17,904 12,525 14,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.14% 92.35% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,758 8,336 10,048
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.40% -4.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 255 197
10th Percentile £16.95 £16.50 £16.99
25th Percentile £19.50 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.34% -15.71% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.83%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -23 49 £525 -4.55% 42
West London -9 13 £275 -34.52% 11
East London -1 2 £180 -73.33% 4
South London -8 2 - - 4
North London -3 1 £550 +57.14% 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 18 (5.06%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.37%) CMS
3 11 (3.09%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.09%) Confluence
4 7 (1.97%) WordPress
5 6 (1.69%) Apache
6 5 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.84%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
8 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.56%) Mule
9 1 (0.28%) Mendix
9 1 (0.28%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 36 (10.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (3.93%) Aladdin
2 11 (3.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.40%) Fidessa
5 4 (1.12%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.56%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.28%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.28%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.28%) Summit
7 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.94%) Azure
2 52 (14.61%) Power Platform
3 39 (10.96%) AWS
4 22 (6.18%) Collibra
5 21 (5.90%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (5.62%) PowerApps
7 16 (4.49%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.49%) GCP
8 14 (3.93%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.65%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (1.97%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 6 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Einstein
12 6 (1.69%) Serverless
13 5 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
13 5 (1.40%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) SMS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) Metadata
2 36 (10.11%) Power BI
3 24 (6.74%) Data Lake
3 24 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.62%) Tableau
5 12 (3.37%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.81%) Delta Lake
7 8 (2.25%) NoSQL
8 7 (1.97%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.40%) Power Query
10 4 (1.12%) Big Data
10 4 (1.12%) GIS
11 3 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.84%) Data Vault
11 3 (0.84%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.84%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 26 (7.30%) JIRA
2 11 (3.09%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.81%) ERwin
4 9 (2.53%) Git
4 9 (2.53%) Selenium
5 7 (1.97%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.40%) JMeter
7 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.84%) MLflow
9 2 (0.56%) Gradle
9 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.56%) Maven
9 2 (0.56%) Postman
9 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) Appium
10 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.28%) LSMW
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 139 (39.04%) Finance
2 116 (32.58%) Social Skills
3 80 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.52%) Banking
5 35 (9.83%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.02%) Marketing
7 20 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.21%) Retail
9 14 (3.93%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.93%) Legal
10 11 (3.09%) Front Office
11 10 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.81%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.81%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.53%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.69%) Local Government
14 6 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.40%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (18.82%) Analyst
2 44 (12.36%) Architect
3 43 (12.08%) Lead
4 33 (9.27%) Data Analyst
5 27 (7.58%) Consultant
5 27 (7.58%) Developer
6 26 (7.30%) Data Architect
7 24 (6.74%) Business Analyst
7 24 (6.74%) Senior
8 18 (5.06%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.78%) Data Manager
10 14 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.65%) Data Consultant
12 11 (3.09%) Administrator
12 11 (3.09%) Test Manager
13 9 (2.53%) Governance Analyst
14 8 (2.25%) Data Modeller
14 8 (2.25%) Technical Leader
15 7 (1.97%) Salesforce Administrator
15 7 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.93%) REST
2 9 (2.53%) Kafka
2 9 (2.53%) RESTful
3 8 (2.25%) JSON
3 8 (2.25%) PySpark
4 7 (1.97%) Middleware
4 7 (1.97%) XML
5 5 (1.40%) .NET
5 5 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 4 (1.12%) HTML
7 3 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.84%) SOAP
7 3 (0.84%) XSD
8 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
8 2 (0.56%) JWT
8 2 (0.56%) LangChain
8 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
8 2 (0.56%) Playwright
8 2 (0.56%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.83%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.87%) Data Structures
3 27 (7.58%) Onboarding
4 24 (6.74%) Reference Data
5 19 (5.34%) Cloud Native
6 16 (4.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (3.65%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.81%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.25%) FMCG
10 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
11 6 (1.69%) Equities
11 6 (1.69%) Life Science
11 6 (1.69%) Social Media
12 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.40%) Pricing Data
13 4 (1.12%) Blog
13 4 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.84%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 135 (37.92%) Data Governance
2 106 (29.78%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (25.84%) Agile
4 79 (22.19%) Migration
5 75 (21.07%) Data Modelling
6 71 (19.94%) Analytics
6 71 (19.94%) Problem-Solving
7 66 (18.54%) Data Architecture
8 65 (18.26%) AI
9 55 (15.45%) Validation
10 53 (14.89%) ETL
11 51 (14.33%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (13.76%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (12.36%) Data Migration
14 43 (12.08%) Data Analysis
15 41 (11.52%) Metadata Management
16 40 (11.24%) DevOps
17 39 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 36 (10.11%) CRM
18 36 (10.11%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 99 (27.81%) SQL
2 50 (14.04%) Python
3 22 (6.18%) Java
4 17 (4.78%) C#
5 10 (2.81%) X++
6 9 (2.53%) JavaScript
7 7 (1.97%) VBA
8 4 (1.12%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.12%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.84%) Bicep
9 3 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.84%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.56%) Scala
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (14.04%) Security Cleared
2 41 (11.52%) Degree
2 41 (11.52%) SC Cleared
3 12 (3.37%) DV Cleared
4 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 9 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.69%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.12%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.12%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.84%) ISEB
8 3 (0.84%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.84%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.56%) CBAP
9 2 (0.56%) IIBA
9 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.56%) PMP
10 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 126 (35.39%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.27%) GDPR
3 32 (8.99%) QA
4 12 (3.37%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.25%) PMO
6 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.12%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.84%) COREP
8 3 (0.84%) FINREP
8 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.56%) EMIR
9 2 (0.56%) MiFID
9 2 (0.56%) PERC
10 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.28%) GMP
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.84%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.97%) Terraform
2 3 (0.84%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (14.61%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.27%) Databricks
3 30 (8.43%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.58%) Oracle
5 17 (4.78%) SAP
6 12 (3.37%) Informatica
7 10 (2.81%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.25%) Charles River
9 7 (1.97%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.40%) Google
11 5 (1.40%) IBM
11 5 (1.40%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.40%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.40%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.12%) GoldenSource
12 4 (1.12%) Murex
12 4 (1.12%) Pardot
12 4 (1.12%) Sparx
13 3 (0.84%) Duck Creek