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 8 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 124 74 104
Rank change year-on-year -50 +30 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Management 355 449 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.38% 3.29% 2.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.62% 3.63% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 236 296 303
10th Percentile £313 £325 £420
25th Percentile £413 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% -8.80%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £760
England median daily rate £492 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -7.95% -2.82% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile - £23.78 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £58.10 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £92.50 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -80.54% +270.44% -23.17%
75th Percentile £27.75 £97.50 £49.92
90th Percentile £29.45 - £64.22
England median hourly rate £25.42 £32.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year -21.80% -1.52% -50.19%

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 13,533 12,355 16,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.77% 90.53% 88.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,013 7,845 11,870
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 153 346
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.80 £16.01
25th Percentile £24.90 £25.00 £19.28
Median hourly rate £34.00 £37.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% +23.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £56.13 £55.25 £51.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - -

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 8 February 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 8 February 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 -51 31 £529 +0.71% 27
West London -10 7 £500 +25.00% 11
East London -3 1 £675 +68.75% 3
South London -11 1 - - 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 19 (5.35%) Confluence
1 19 (5.35%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.82%) HCL Notes
3 9 (2.54%) Mendix
4 5 (1.41%) Apache
5 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.28%) CMS
7 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
7 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 36 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
4 14 (3.94%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.97%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.85%) ProjectWise
7 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.28%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.28%) Revit
8 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.41%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.13%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.85%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.56%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.56%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.56%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.56%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.56%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.94%) Azure
2 63 (17.75%) Power Platform
3 43 (12.11%) AWS
4 29 (8.17%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.63%) Serverless
6 19 (5.35%) PowerApps
7 17 (4.79%) GCP
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (4.23%) Collibra
8 15 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
9 14 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (3.94%) Snowflake
10 13 (3.66%) Power Automate
10 13 (3.66%) SaaS
11 11 (3.10%) PaaS
12 10 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.97%) OCI
13 7 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) LAN
1 4 (1.13%) PSTN
1 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.13%) WAN
1 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.85%) NAS
3 2 (0.56%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) 2G
4 1 (0.28%) 4G
4 1 (0.28%) 5G
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) IPv4
4 1 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) VLAN
4 1 (0.28%) WebEx
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.06%) Power BI
2 38 (10.70%) Metadata
3 34 (9.58%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.63%) Tableau
5 17 (4.79%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.94%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.38%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.54%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.54%) Relational Database
10 7 (1.97%) MySQL
11 5 (1.41%) GIS
11 5 (1.41%) RDBMS
12 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (1.13%) Star Schema
13 3 (0.85%) Geospatial Data
13 3 (0.85%) Oracle OLAP
13 3 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (13.24%) JIRA
2 12 (3.38%) GitLab
3 9 (2.54%) ERwin
4 7 (1.97%) Git
5 4 (1.13%) Appium
6 3 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.85%) Postman
6 3 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.56%) TestRail
7 2 (0.56%) Toad
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.28%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.28%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (42.25%) Finance
2 141 (39.72%) Social Skills
3 93 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.55%) Banking
5 24 (6.76%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.20%) Financial Institution
7 21 (5.92%) Marketing
8 15 (4.23%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.10%) Front Office
9 11 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.82%) Retail
11 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.25%) Legal
11 8 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (1.97%) Local Government
13 6 (1.69%) Law
13 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (23.94%) Analyst
2 47 (13.24%) Lead
3 46 (12.96%) Business Analyst
4 39 (10.99%) Developer
5 38 (10.70%) Architect
6 34 (9.58%) Data Analyst
7 33 (9.30%) Senior
8 27 (7.61%) Consultant
9 17 (4.79%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.51%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.51%) Data Modeller
11 14 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.66%) Data Business Analyst
12 13 (3.66%) ServiceNow Developer
13 10 (2.82%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.82%) Governance Analyst
13 10 (2.82%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
15 8 (2.25%) Project Manager
16 7 (1.97%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.20%) REST
2 18 (5.07%) Oracle Fusion
3 17 (4.79%) SOAP
4 15 (4.23%) .NET
5 12 (3.38%) React
6 9 (2.54%) HTML5 Canvas
7 8 (2.25%) XML
8 6 (1.69%) JSON
8 6 (1.69%) Kafka
9 4 (1.13%) LangChain
9 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (1.13%) NumPy
9 4 (1.13%) Pandas
9 4 (1.13%) PySpark
9 4 (1.13%) WebdriverIO
9 4 (1.13%) YAML
10 3 (0.85%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.85%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.48%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 20 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 14 (3.94%) Reference Data
5 13 (3.66%) CMDB
6 12 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
7 11 (3.10%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (2.82%) Low-Code
8 10 (2.82%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.25%) Fixed Income
10 7 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.69%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.41%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.41%) Derivative
12 5 (1.41%) IoT
13 4 (1.13%) Equities
13 4 (1.13%) Life Science
13 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.13%) Android
1 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
1 4 (1.13%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (31.27%) Agile
2 102 (28.73%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 93 (26.20%) Data Modelling
5 88 (24.79%) Data Governance
6 78 (21.97%) Analytics
7 69 (19.44%) Migration
8 63 (17.75%) Business Intelligence
9 55 (15.49%) DevOps
10 51 (14.37%) Validation
11 49 (13.80%) Decision-Making
11 49 (13.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (12.68%) ETL
13 42 (11.83%) CI/CD
14 41 (11.55%) Visualisation
15 40 (11.27%) Roadmaps
16 39 (10.99%) Data Architecture
16 39 (10.99%) Project Management
17 38 (10.70%) Requirements Gathering
18 35 (9.86%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 92 (25.92%) SQL
2 39 (10.99%) Python
3 33 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.23%) C#
5 10 (2.82%) Formula Language
5 10 (2.82%) LotusScript
6 8 (2.25%) Groovy
7 7 (1.97%) Java
8 6 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (1.69%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.41%) VBA
10 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.13%) R
11 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.56%) Bicep
12 2 (0.56%) Scala
13 1 (0.28%) Korn
13 1 (0.28%) Ruby
13 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 52 (14.65%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.80%) Degree
3 39 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.38%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.25%) IIBA
6 7 (1.97%) CBAP
7 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (1.13%) DV Cleared
7 4 (1.13%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.13%) PMP
8 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.85%) PhD
9 2 (0.56%) APMP
9 2 (0.56%) CIPD
9 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.56%) OCA
9 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.28%) CFA
10 1 (0.28%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (25.35%) Data Quality
2 33 (9.30%) QA
3 31 (8.73%) GDPR
4 10 (2.82%) PMO
5 9 (2.54%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.69%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.41%) IFRS
8 3 (0.85%) IFRS 17
8 3 (0.85%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.56%) Basel III
9 2 (0.56%) EMIR
9 2 (0.56%) GAAP
9 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.56%) MiFID
10 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
10 1 (0.28%) FATCA
10 1 (0.28%) GxP
10 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.97%) Terraform
2 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 63 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 46 (12.96%) Oracle
3 29 (8.17%) Databricks
4 21 (5.92%) Salesforce
5 18 (5.07%) ServiceNow
6 17 (4.79%) Informatica
6 17 (4.79%) SAP
7 10 (2.82%) Google
7 10 (2.82%) Lotus
8 9 (2.54%) Kofax
9 8 (2.25%) Bloomberg
10 5 (1.41%) Alteryx
10 5 (1.41%) Charles River
10 5 (1.41%) Murex
10 5 (1.41%) Workday
11 4 (1.13%) Talend
11 4 (1.13%) Yardi
12 3 (0.85%) Adobe
12 3 (0.85%) GoldenSource
12 3 (0.85%) Optimizely