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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -55 +17 +42
Contract jobs citing Data Management 335 394 412
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 3.10% 2.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.37% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 275 293
10th Percentile £310 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £446 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £601 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.74% +9.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -
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 £27.84
90th Percentile - - £56.70
England median hourly rate £32.75 £30.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.30% -22.99% -8.32%

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 15,500 11,691 15,679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.89% 91.95% 88.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,370 7,941 11,223
10th Percentile £355 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £756 £800 £800
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 166 333
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% -23.08%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.69 £48.56
90th Percentile £73.08 £63.50 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.94 £31.64 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.55% -9.60% -9.09%

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 21 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 21 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 -42 38 £575 +4.55% 36
West London - 15 £388 - 21
East London -5 2 £428 -26.92% 9
South London -16 1 - - 11
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 (6.27%) Confluence
2 20 (5.97%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.28%) HCL Notes
4 10 (2.99%) Mendix
5 4 (1.19%) CMS
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.90%) Apache
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.90%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (10.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (5.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (4.48%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.69%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.09%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.49%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.90%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 70 (20.90%) Azure
2 69 (20.60%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.75%) AWS
4 20 (5.97%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.37%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.37%) PowerApps
6 17 (5.07%) Serverless
7 16 (4.78%) Collibra
8 13 (3.88%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.88%) SaaS
9 12 (3.58%) Azure Functions
9 12 (3.58%) GCP
10 11 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.28%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.28%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (2.69%) Snowflake
12 8 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
13 7 (2.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) LAN
1 4 (1.19%) PSTN
1 4 (1.19%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.19%) WAN
1 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.60%) Intranet
2 2 (0.60%) NAS
2 2 (0.60%) SMS
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (17.91%) Power BI
2 46 (13.73%) Metadata
3 36 (10.75%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.67%) Tableau
5 18 (5.37%) SQL Server
6 17 (5.07%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.48%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.69%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (2.39%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
10 6 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.49%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.49%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (1.19%) Delta Lake
12 4 (1.19%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (1.19%) MySQL
12 4 (1.19%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (9.55%) JIRA
2 11 (3.28%) ERwin
3 7 (2.09%) Git
4 5 (1.49%) Appium
4 5 (1.49%) GitLab
4 5 (1.49%) JMeter
5 4 (1.19%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.90%) Toad
6 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.60%) Postman
7 2 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.30%) GCC
8 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.30%) Visual Studio
General
1 143 (42.69%) Finance
2 131 (39.10%) Social Skills
3 91 (27.16%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (10.45%) Banking
5 30 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 27 (8.06%) Financial Institution
7 24 (7.16%) Marketing
8 15 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.58%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.28%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.69%) Retail
12 8 (2.39%) Back Office
12 8 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
13 7 (2.09%) Front Office
14 6 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.79%) Legal
15 5 (1.49%) Local Government
15 5 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (24.78%) Analyst
2 48 (14.33%) Business Analyst
2 48 (14.33%) Lead
3 36 (10.75%) Senior
4 34 (10.15%) Architect
5 31 (9.25%) Data Analyst
6 23 (6.87%) Consultant
6 23 (6.87%) Data Architect
7 21 (6.27%) Data Engineer
8 20 (5.97%) Developer
9 14 (4.18%) Data Business Analyst
9 14 (4.18%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.28%) Data Modeller
10 11 (3.28%) Power Platform Developer
11 9 (2.69%) Data Manager
12 8 (2.39%) Test Manager
13 7 (2.09%) Administrator
13 7 (2.09%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.09%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.18%) .NET
2 12 (3.58%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (2.99%) HTML5 Canvas
3 10 (2.99%) React
4 7 (2.09%) JSON
5 6 (1.79%) REST
5 6 (1.79%) XML
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.19%) PySpark
6 4 (1.19%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (1.19%) YAML
7 3 (0.90%) Hugging Face
7 3 (0.90%) LangChain
7 3 (0.90%) Model Context Protocol
7 3 (0.90%) Pandas
7 3 (0.90%) pydantic
7 3 (0.90%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.90%) React Native
7 3 (0.90%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 25 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.57%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.67%) Reference Data
4 14 (4.18%) Data Structures
4 14 (4.18%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.88%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.28%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.99%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.99%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.09%) Fixed Income
9 7 (2.09%) Life Science
10 5 (1.49%) FMCG
11 4 (1.19%) Blog
11 4 (1.19%) Derivative
11 4 (1.19%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.19%) Social Media
11 4 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.19%) Android
1 4 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (30.45%) Data Governance
2 95 (28.36%) Stakeholder Management
3 92 (27.46%) Data Modelling
4 88 (26.27%) Agile
5 82 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
6 77 (22.99%) Migration
7 70 (20.90%) Business Intelligence
8 62 (18.51%) Analytics
9 55 (16.42%) Decision-Making
10 51 (15.22%) Validation
11 47 (14.03%) ETL
12 45 (13.43%) Data Architecture
13 44 (13.13%) Data Analysis
14 41 (12.24%) DevOps
15 40 (11.94%) AI
15 40 (11.94%) Data Engineering
16 37 (11.04%) Data Migration
16 37 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 37 (11.04%) Visualisation
17 34 (10.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 95 (28.36%) SQL
2 43 (12.84%) Python
3 17 (5.07%) C#
4 16 (4.78%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.28%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.28%) LotusScript
6 9 (2.69%) Java
7 7 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.09%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.09%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.09%) VBA
8 5 (1.49%) Groovy
8 5 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 4 (1.19%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) R
10 3 (0.90%) Scala
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.30%) X++
Qualifications
1 54 (16.12%) Degree
2 42 (12.54%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.85%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.28%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.39%) IIBA
7 7 (2.09%) CBAP
8 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.19%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.19%) PMP
10 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.90%) PhD
11 2 (0.60%) APMP
11 2 (0.60%) CIPD
12 1 (0.30%) CFA
12 1 (0.30%) ISEB
12 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (29.85%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.34%) QA
3 22 (6.57%) GDPR
4 10 (2.99%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.39%) PMO
6 6 (1.79%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.19%) COREP
7 4 (1.19%) FINREP
7 4 (1.19%) IFRS
8 3 (0.90%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.60%) Basel III
9 2 (0.60%) MiFID
10 1 (0.30%) EMIR
10 1 (0.30%) GAAP
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.30%) IFRS 9
10 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.79%) Terraform
2 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (18.51%) Microsoft
2 44 (13.13%) Oracle
3 26 (7.76%) Databricks
4 18 (5.37%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.48%) SAP
6 11 (3.28%) Informatica
6 11 (3.28%) Lotus
7 10 (2.99%) Kofax
8 9 (2.69%) Bloomberg
9 7 (2.09%) Google
10 6 (1.79%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.49%) Charles River
11 5 (1.49%) Murex
11 5 (1.49%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.19%) Braze
12 4 (1.19%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.19%) Sparx
12 4 (1.19%) Yardi
13 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud