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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 136 89 101
Rank change year-on-year -47 +12 +52
Contract jobs citing Data Management 340 394 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 3.10% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 3.37% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 275 297
10th Percentile £310 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £601 £563
Median % change year-on-year -17.40% +6.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £680
90th Percentile £738 £938 £781
England median daily rate £491 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.73% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 13
10th Percentile - £40.82 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £59.73 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £92.50 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +346.64% +18.34%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £28.50
90th Percentile - - £60.82
England median hourly rate £29.52 £30.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.17% -31.54% +3.14%

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 15,467 11,685 15,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 91.96% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 7,937 11,324
10th Percentile £353 £350 £338
25th Percentile £429 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £684 £675
90th Percentile £758 £803 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 259 166 333
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.30 £15.96
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.64 £19.92
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.58 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.68% +15.25% -22.83%
75th Percentile £56.98 £50.69 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.60 £63.50 £66.70
England median hourly rate £41.86 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.29% -9.60% -6.17%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -41 38 £575 +4.55% 36
West London - 15 £388 - 14
East London -5 2 £428 -26.92% 5
South London -15 1 - - 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 21 (6.18%) Confluence
1 21 (6.18%) 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 38 (11.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (4.71%) MS Visio
4 9 (2.65%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.06%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.47%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.88%) Fidessa
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%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.29%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.29%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 71 (20.88%) Azure
2 70 (20.59%) Power Platform
3 38 (11.18%) AWS
4 20 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.29%) PowerApps
6 17 (5.00%) Collibra
6 17 (5.00%) Serverless
7 13 (3.82%) GCP
7 13 (3.82%) Power Automate
7 13 (3.82%) SaaS
8 12 (3.53%) Azure Functions
9 11 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
9 11 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
9 11 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
10 9 (2.65%) Snowflake
11 8 (2.35%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (2.06%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 7 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 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%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.94%) Power BI
2 47 (13.82%) Metadata
3 36 (10.59%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.88%) Tableau
5 18 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.41%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.35%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.76%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.47%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.18%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (1.18%) MySQL
12 4 (1.18%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (9.41%) JIRA
2 11 (3.24%) ERwin
3 7 (2.06%) Git
4 6 (1.76%) GitLab
5 5 (1.47%) Appium
5 5 (1.47%) JMeter
6 4 (1.18%) Selenium
7 3 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.88%) Toad
7 3 (0.88%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.59%) Postman
8 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.29%) ER Studio
9 1 (0.29%) GCC
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
General
1 147 (43.24%) Finance
2 133 (39.12%) Social Skills
3 94 (27.65%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.59%) Banking
5 31 (9.12%) Public Sector
6 27 (7.94%) Financial Institution
7 25 (7.35%) Marketing
8 15 (4.41%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 10 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
11 10 (2.94%) Retail
12 8 (2.35%) Back Office
13 7 (2.06%) Front Office
14 6 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.76%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.76%) Legal
14 6 (1.76%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (25.00%) Analyst
2 49 (14.41%) Lead
3 48 (14.12%) Business Analyst
4 36 (10.59%) Senior
5 34 (10.00%) Architect
6 32 (9.41%) Data Analyst
7 23 (6.76%) Consultant
7 23 (6.76%) Data Architect
8 22 (6.47%) Developer
9 21 (6.18%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
10 14 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Data Modeller
11 11 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
12 9 (2.65%) Data Manager
13 8 (2.35%) Governance Analyst
13 8 (2.35%) Test Manager
14 7 (2.06%) Administrator
14 7 (2.06%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.12%) .NET
2 12 (3.53%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
3 10 (2.94%) React
4 7 (2.06%) JSON
5 6 (1.76%) REST
5 6 (1.76%) XML
6 5 (1.47%) PySpark
7 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.18%) NumPy
7 4 (1.18%) Pandas
7 4 (1.18%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (1.18%) YAML
8 3 (0.88%) Kafka
8 3 (0.88%) LangChain
8 3 (0.88%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.88%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.88%) React Native
8 3 (0.88%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.35%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.76%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.59%) Reference Data
4 15 (4.41%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (3.24%) Cloud Native
7 11 (3.24%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.24%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (2.94%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
10 7 (2.06%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.06%) Life Science
11 5 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.47%) FMCG
12 4 (1.18%) Blog
12 4 (1.18%) IoT
12 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Android
1 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (30.29%) Data Governance
2 96 (28.24%) Stakeholder Management
3 93 (27.35%) Data Modelling
4 91 (26.76%) Agile
5 85 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (22.65%) Migration
7 72 (21.18%) Business Intelligence
8 62 (18.24%) Analytics
9 56 (16.47%) Decision-Making
10 51 (15.00%) Validation
11 48 (14.12%) ETL
12 46 (13.53%) Data Architecture
13 44 (12.94%) Data Analysis
14 41 (12.06%) AI
14 41 (12.06%) Data Engineering
14 41 (12.06%) DevOps
15 37 (10.88%) Data Migration
15 37 (10.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (10.88%) Visualisation
16 35 (10.29%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 97 (28.53%) SQL
2 45 (13.24%) Python
3 17 (5.00%) C#
4 16 (4.71%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.24%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.24%) LotusScript
6 10 (2.94%) Java
7 7 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.06%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.06%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.06%) VBA
8 5 (1.47%) Groovy
8 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.18%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.88%) Bicep
10 3 (0.88%) R
10 3 (0.88%) Scala
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.29%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (15.88%) Degree
2 43 (12.65%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.24%) 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%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.88%) PhD
11 2 (0.59%) APMP
11 2 (0.59%) CIPD
12 1 (0.29%) CFA
12 1 (0.29%) ISEB
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (30.00%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.18%) QA
3 22 (6.47%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) Accessibility
4 10 (2.94%) PMO
5 6 (1.76%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.18%) COREP
6 4 (1.18%) FINREP
6 4 (1.18%) IFRS
7 3 (0.88%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.59%) Basel III
8 2 (0.59%) MiFID
9 1 (0.29%) EMIR
9 1 (0.29%) GAAP
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (1.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.06%) Terraform
2 5 (1.47%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.88%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.29%) Grafana
5 1 (0.29%) Kibana
Vendors
1 65 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 44 (12.94%) Oracle
3 26 (7.65%) Databricks
4 18 (5.29%) Salesforce
5 16 (4.71%) SAP
6 11 (3.24%) Informatica
6 11 (3.24%) Lotus
7 10 (2.94%) Kofax
8 9 (2.65%) Bloomberg
9 7 (2.06%) Google
10 6 (1.76%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.47%) Charles River
11 5 (1.47%) Murex
11 5 (1.47%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.18%) Braze
12 4 (1.18%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.18%) Sparx
12 4 (1.18%) Yardi
13 3 (0.88%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.88%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud