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 30 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 117 114
Rank change year-on-year -40 -3 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Management 354 329 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.77% 2.42% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.99% 2.63% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 201 249
10th Percentile £309 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £420 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £655 £725 £700
90th Percentile £763 £875 £800
England median daily rate £507 £514 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -6.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 7
10th Percentile - £22.73 £18.12
25th Percentile £19.03 £23.84 £20.78
Median hourly rate £34.76 £25.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +39.02% -10.20% -11.68%
75th Percentile £41.11 £26.69 £36.13
90th Percentile £41.87 £30.33 £53.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.56 £45.00
% change year-on-year +22.70% -32.08% +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 17,817 12,532 14,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.00% 92.17% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,764 8,387 10,335
10th Percentile £363 £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 £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.54% -2.48% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 290 242 212
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.89 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.75 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% -12.50% -18.07%
75th Percentile £56.81 £49.31 £54.06
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.23 £71.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £41.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -39.40% -2.35%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -38 44 £525 -4.55% 27
West London -8 13 £275 -34.52% 10
South London -18 2 - -
East London +2 1 £180 -73.33% 1
North London -2 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 19 (5.37%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.95%) CMS
3 11 (3.11%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.82%) Confluence
5 7 (1.98%) WordPress
6 6 (1.69%) Apache
6 6 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.56%) Mule
10 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.28%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (9.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.41%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 13 (3.67%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.98%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.69%) Fidessa
4 6 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.41%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
8 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.28%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.28%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.28%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 72 (20.34%) Azure
2 59 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 40 (11.30%) AWS
4 21 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
5 20 (5.65%) Collibra
5 20 (5.65%) PowerApps
6 17 (4.80%) GCP
7 14 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 14 (3.95%) Power Automate
7 14 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 11 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
8 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
9 6 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Einstein
9 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (1.69%) Serverless
10 5 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 5 (1.41%) Copilot Studio
10 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
10 5 (1.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.85%) 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 54 (15.25%) Metadata
2 41 (11.58%) Power BI
3 27 (7.63%) Data Lake
4 26 (7.34%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (5.65%) Tableau
6 14 (3.95%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.82%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.69%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.69%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.41%) GIS
9 5 (1.41%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.41%) Power Query
9 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.13%) Big Data
11 3 (0.85%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 26 (7.34%) JIRA
2 10 (2.82%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.54%) ERwin
4 7 (1.98%) Git
5 6 (1.69%) ER Studio
6 5 (1.41%) JMeter
6 5 (1.41%) Selenium
7 4 (1.13%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.85%) MLflow
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%) GCC
10 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.28%) LSMW
10 1 (0.28%) Maven
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.28%) Toad
10 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 136 (38.42%) Finance
2 118 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 86 (24.29%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.60%) Banking
5 32 (9.04%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.91%) Marketing
7 20 (5.65%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.95%) Front Office
8 14 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.67%) Legal
10 12 (3.39%) Documentation Skills
10 12 (3.39%) Retail
11 10 (2.82%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.26%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.98%) Local Government
13 7 (1.98%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.69%) Back Office
14 6 (1.69%) Multimedia
15 5 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 64 (18.08%) Analyst
2 47 (13.28%) Lead
3 43 (12.15%) Architect
4 33 (9.32%) Data Analyst
5 27 (7.63%) Data Architect
5 27 (7.63%) Developer
5 27 (7.63%) Senior
6 25 (7.06%) Business Analyst
6 25 (7.06%) Consultant
7 22 (6.21%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.52%) Data Manager
9 13 (3.67%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.11%) Administrator
11 10 (2.82%) Test Manager
12 9 (2.54%) Data Consultant
13 8 (2.26%) Governance Analyst
14 7 (1.98%) Salesforce Administrator
14 7 (1.98%) Senior Analyst
14 7 (1.98%) Technical Leader
15 6 (1.69%) Data Modeller
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.39%) REST
2 9 (2.54%) JSON
2 9 (2.54%) RESTful
3 8 (2.26%) PySpark
4 6 (1.69%) Middleware
5 5 (1.41%) .NET
5 5 (1.41%) FIX Protocol
5 5 (1.41%) Kafka
5 5 (1.41%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (1.41%) XML
6 3 (0.85%) HTML
6 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (0.85%) SOAP
7 2 (0.56%) CSS
7 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
7 2 (0.56%) JDBC
7 2 (0.56%) JWT
7 2 (0.56%) OAuth2
7 2 (0.56%) Playwright
7 2 (0.56%) PostGIS
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.06%) Reference Data
3 22 (6.21%) Data Structures
3 22 (6.21%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (4.52%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.95%) Product Ownership
7 12 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (3.11%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.26%) FMCG
9 8 (2.26%) Social Media
10 7 (1.98%) Equities
10 7 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.69%) Blog
11 6 (1.69%) Life Science
12 5 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 5 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.41%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.85%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (37.01%) Data Governance
2 102 (28.81%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (26.55%) Agile
4 76 (21.47%) Migration
5 73 (20.62%) Data Modelling
6 70 (19.77%) Analytics
7 67 (18.93%) Data Architecture
8 65 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
9 62 (17.51%) AI
10 58 (16.38%) Validation
11 56 (15.82%) ETL
12 53 (14.97%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (13.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 44 (12.43%) Data Analysis
15 42 (11.86%) Data Migration
16 40 (11.30%) Data Engineering
17 39 (11.02%) CRM
17 39 (11.02%) User Acceptance Testing
18 38 (10.73%) Decision-Making
19 37 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.25%) SQL
2 46 (12.99%) Python
3 19 (5.37%) Java
4 18 (5.08%) C#
5 9 (2.54%) X++
6 7 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.69%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.69%) VBA
8 5 (1.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.41%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.85%) Bicep
9 3 (0.85%) Scala
9 3 (0.85%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (12.71%) Degree
2 38 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 11 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 7 (1.98%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.41%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.13%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
11 1 (0.28%) ISEB
11 1 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.28%) MBA
11 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.28%) RIBA
11 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (36.72%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.45%) QA
3 36 (10.17%) GDPR
4 13 (3.67%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.26%) PMO
6 5 (1.41%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.13%) COREP
7 4 (1.13%) FINREP
8 3 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.85%) 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%) GAAP
10 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.41%) Terraform
2 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) Kibana
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (15.54%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.89%) Databricks
3 31 (8.76%) Salesforce
4 25 (7.06%) Oracle
5 16 (4.52%) SAP
6 13 (3.67%) Informatica
7 12 (3.39%) Bloomberg
8 9 (2.54%) Charles River
9 7 (1.98%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 7 (1.98%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.69%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.41%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.41%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.41%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.13%) Foundry
12 4 (1.13%) Google
12 4 (1.13%) Murex
12 4 (1.13%) Palantir
12 4 (1.13%) Pardot
13 3 (0.85%) MuleSoft