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

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 132 82 97
Rank change year-on-year -50 +15 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Management 348 409 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.12% 3.14% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 3.44% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 295 308
10th Percentile £339 £325 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £561
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.90% -10.20%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £675
90th Percentile £745 £938 £775
England median daily rate £492 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 15
10th Percentile - £44.52 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £69.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £92.50 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +270.44% -23.17%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £38.79
90th Percentile - £96.00 £64.22
England median hourly rate £28.03 £30.51 £40.00
% change year-on-year -8.14% -23.73% -37.98%

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 14,719 11,874 16,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.80% 91.07% 88.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,879 7,921 11,507
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £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 229 160 344
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.41 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.45
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.08
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.67% -16.44%
75th Percentile £57.00 £54.06 £49.91
90th Percentile £70.50 £77.59 £69.28
England median hourly rate £30.50 £34.06 £32.50
% change year-on-year -10.44% +4.78% -12.16%

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 15 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 15 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 -42 33 £575 +5.75% 31
West London -6 11 £500 +25.00% 11
East London -3 1 £675 +68.75% 12
South London -14 1 - - 9
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 (6.32%) Confluence
1 22 (6.32%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.16%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.87%) Mendix
4 5 (1.44%) Apache
5 4 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.15%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.15%) CMS
5 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.86%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 36 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.61%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (6.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.60%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.30%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.72%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.44%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.86%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.86%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.86%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.57%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.57%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.57%) 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 80 (22.99%) Azure
2 70 (20.11%) Power Platform
3 41 (11.78%) AWS
4 23 (6.61%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.17%) Collibra
5 18 (5.17%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.17%) Serverless
6 17 (4.89%) GCP
6 17 (4.89%) PowerApps
7 14 (4.02%) Snowflake
8 13 (3.74%) Azure Functions
8 13 (3.74%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.45%) SaaS
10 11 (3.16%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.16%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (2.59%) PaaS
12 8 (2.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.01%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.01%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) LAN
1 4 (1.15%) PSTN
1 4 (1.15%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.15%) WAN
1 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.57%) Intranet
2 2 (0.57%) NAS
2 2 (0.57%) 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%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (17.82%) Power BI
2 42 (12.07%) Metadata
3 39 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (6.03%) SQL Server
5 20 (5.75%) Tableau
6 17 (4.89%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.31%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.16%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (2.87%) Relational Database
10 9 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.01%) MySQL
11 7 (2.01%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.15%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.15%) GIS
13 4 (1.15%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.15%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 37 (10.63%) JIRA
2 11 (3.16%) Git
3 10 (2.87%) ERwin
4 9 (2.59%) GitLab
5 5 (1.44%) Appium
5 5 (1.44%) JMeter
6 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 3 (0.86%) Postman
7 3 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.86%) Toad
8 2 (0.57%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.57%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.29%) GCC
9 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (43.68%) Finance
2 143 (41.09%) Social Skills
3 101 (29.02%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.36%) Banking
5 28 (8.05%) Financial Institution
6 24 (6.90%) Marketing
6 24 (6.90%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.02%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.16%) Retail
11 10 (2.87%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.59%) Front Office
13 8 (2.30%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.72%) Back Office
14 6 (1.72%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.44%) Legal
15 5 (1.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (23.56%) Analyst
2 51 (14.66%) Business Analyst
2 51 (14.66%) Lead
3 36 (10.34%) Senior
4 33 (9.48%) Architect
5 31 (8.91%) Data Analyst
6 30 (8.62%) Developer
7 26 (7.47%) Consultant
8 24 (6.90%) Data Engineer
9 21 (6.03%) Data Architect
10 16 (4.60%) Data Modeller
11 15 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (4.02%) Data Business Analyst
13 11 (3.16%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (2.59%) Governance Analyst
15 8 (2.30%) Oracle Consultant
16 7 (2.01%) Administrator
16 7 (2.01%) Senior Business Analyst
16 7 (2.01%) Technical Business Analyst
16 7 (2.01%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.60%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (4.02%) .NET
3 13 (3.74%) React
4 12 (3.45%) REST
5 10 (2.87%) HTML5 Canvas
6 7 (2.01%) JSON
6 7 (2.01%) XML
7 6 (1.72%) Kafka
7 6 (1.72%) SOAP
8 5 (1.44%) PySpark
8 5 (1.44%) YAML
9 4 (1.15%) LangChain
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (1.15%) NumPy
9 4 (1.15%) Pandas
9 4 (1.15%) WebdriverIO
10 3 (0.86%) GraphQL
10 3 (0.86%) Node.js
10 3 (0.86%) React Native
10 3 (0.86%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.03%) Data Structures
2 19 (5.46%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.46%) Reference Data
3 18 (5.17%) Onboarding
4 15 (4.31%) Legacy Systems
5 14 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.74%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.87%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.59%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.01%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.72%) Life Science
12 5 (1.44%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.44%) CMDB
12 5 (1.44%) IoT
12 5 (1.44%) Reinsurance
12 5 (1.44%) Social Media
13 4 (1.15%) Mobile App
13 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.15%) Android
1 4 (1.15%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.57%) Linux
2 2 (0.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (29.89%) Agile
2 100 (28.74%) Stakeholder Management
3 99 (28.45%) Data Governance
4 96 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
5 94 (27.01%) Data Modelling
6 79 (22.70%) Migration
7 71 (20.40%) Business Intelligence
8 66 (18.97%) Analytics
9 54 (15.52%) Decision-Making
10 50 (14.37%) Validation
11 49 (14.08%) ETL
12 45 (12.93%) DevOps
13 43 (12.36%) Data Architecture
14 41 (11.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 41 (11.78%) Visualisation
15 39 (11.21%) AI
16 38 (10.92%) CI/CD
16 38 (10.92%) Data Engineering
17 37 (10.63%) Data Analysis
17 37 (10.63%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.74%) SQL
2 49 (14.08%) Python
3 25 (7.18%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.02%) C#
5 11 (3.16%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.16%) Java
5 11 (3.16%) LotusScript
6 8 (2.30%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.01%) Groovy
8 6 (1.72%) VBA
9 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.44%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.15%) R
10 4 (1.15%) Scala
11 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.29%) C++
12 1 (0.29%) Ruby
12 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 56 (16.09%) Degree
2 50 (14.37%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.63%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.74%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.30%) IIBA
7 7 (2.01%) CBAP
8 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.15%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.15%) PMP
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.86%) PhD
10 2 (0.57%) APMP
10 2 (0.57%) CIPD
10 2 (0.57%) ISTQB
11 1 (0.29%) CFA
11 1 (0.29%) ISEB
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (28.16%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.92%) QA
3 25 (7.18%) GDPR
4 10 (2.87%) PMO
5 8 (2.30%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.01%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.15%) IFRS
9 3 (0.86%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.57%) Basel III
10 2 (0.57%) COREP
10 2 (0.57%) EMIR
10 2 (0.57%) FINREP
10 2 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.57%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.44%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.44%) Terraform
2 4 (1.15%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.57%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 63 (18.10%) Microsoft
2 51 (14.66%) Oracle
3 27 (7.76%) Databricks
4 20 (5.75%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.89%) Informatica
6 16 (4.60%) SAP
7 11 (3.16%) Lotus
8 10 (2.87%) Kofax
8 10 (2.87%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.59%) Bloomberg
9 9 (2.59%) Google
10 6 (1.72%) Charles River
11 5 (1.44%) Murex
12 4 (1.15%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.15%) Sparx
12 4 (1.15%) Talend
12 4 (1.15%) Workday
12 4 (1.15%) Yardi
13 3 (0.86%) Instagram
13 3 (0.86%) Optimizely