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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 90 98
Rank change year-on-year -49 +8 +53
Contract jobs citing Data Management 332 382 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 3.05% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.30% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 263 295
10th Percentile £313 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £491 £553 £550
% change year-on-year -11.13% +0.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 13
10th Percentile - £23.86 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £26.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £61.65 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -53.69% +197.69% +18.34%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £27.84
90th Percentile - - £56.70
England median hourly rate £30.49 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.63% -25.00% +4.30%

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 15,703 11,565 15,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.59% 92.19% 88.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,518 7,845 11,317
10th Percentile £356 £350 £338
25th Percentile £430 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £760 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 169 324
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.54 £22.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £34.00 £29.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.41% +15.25% -22.62%
75th Percentile £57.86 £50.75 £47.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.75 £65.93
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.67% -4.00%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -49 36 £575 +4.55% 17
West London -3 16 £388 -7.74% 6
East London -5 2 £428 -36.67% 5
South London - 1 - - 3
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 (6.63%) Confluence
2 20 (6.02%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.31%) HCL Notes
4 10 (3.01%) Mendix
5 4 (1.20%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.20%) CMS
5 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
8 1 (0.30%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 33 (9.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.42%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (5.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (4.82%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.41%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.51%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.90%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.60%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.60%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.30%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.30%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.30%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.30%) iTrent
5 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.29%) Azure
2 71 (21.39%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.84%) AWS
4 21 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (6.33%) PowerApps
5 18 (5.42%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (5.12%) Collibra
7 16 (4.82%) Power Automate
7 16 (4.82%) Serverless
8 14 (4.22%) GCP
9 13 (3.92%) SaaS
10 12 (3.61%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (3.61%) Azure Functions
11 11 (3.31%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.31%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.71%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.71%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (2.11%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.20%) LAN
1 4 (1.20%) PSTN
1 4 (1.20%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.20%) WAN
1 4 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.60%) Intranet
2 2 (0.60%) NAS
2 2 (0.60%) SMS
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (18.07%) Power BI
2 46 (13.86%) Metadata
3 35 (10.54%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.72%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.42%) Tableau
6 17 (5.12%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.22%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.41%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.11%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.81%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.51%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.51%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.51%) Power Query
11 5 (1.51%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.51%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.20%) NoSQL
12 4 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
13 3 (0.90%) OLAP
13 3 (0.90%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 33 (9.94%) JIRA
2 8 (2.41%) ERwin
3 7 (2.11%) Git
4 5 (1.51%) Appium
4 5 (1.51%) JMeter
5 4 (1.20%) GitLab
5 4 (1.20%) Selenium
6 3 (0.90%) Toad
6 3 (0.90%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.60%) MLflow
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)
General
1 146 (43.98%) Finance
2 125 (37.65%) Social Skills
3 86 (25.90%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (11.75%) Banking
5 31 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 27 (8.13%) Financial Institution
7 23 (6.93%) Marketing
8 14 (4.22%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.41%) Back Office
11 7 (2.11%) Front Office
11 7 (2.11%) Investment Banking
11 7 (2.11%) Retail
12 5 (1.51%) Legal
12 5 (1.51%) Local Government
12 5 (1.51%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.51%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.51%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 86 (25.90%) Analyst
2 48 (14.46%) Business Analyst
3 46 (13.86%) Lead
4 35 (10.54%) Senior
5 34 (10.24%) Architect
6 33 (9.94%) Data Analyst
7 24 (7.23%) Consultant
8 22 (6.63%) Data Architect
9 21 (6.33%) Data Engineer
9 21 (6.33%) Developer
10 15 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.92%) Data Business Analyst
12 11 (3.31%) Power Platform Developer
13 10 (3.01%) Data Manager
14 8 (2.41%) Data Modeller
14 8 (2.41%) Implementation Consultant
14 8 (2.41%) Test Manager
15 7 (2.11%) Administrator
15 7 (2.11%) Senior Business Analyst
15 7 (2.11%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.22%) .NET
2 12 (3.61%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (3.01%) HTML5 Canvas
3 10 (3.01%) React
4 7 (2.11%) JSON
5 6 (1.81%) REST
5 6 (1.81%) XML
6 5 (1.51%) PySpark
7 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.20%) RESTful
7 4 (1.20%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (1.20%) YAML
8 3 (0.90%) LangChain
8 3 (0.90%) LangGraph
8 3 (0.90%) NumPy
8 3 (0.90%) Pandas
8 3 (0.90%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.90%) React Native
8 3 (0.90%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.13%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 15 (4.52%) Reference Data
4 14 (4.22%) Analytical Mindset
4 14 (4.22%) Legacy Systems
5 13 (3.92%) Data Structures
6 12 (3.61%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.61%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.31%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (3.01%) Low-Code
9 9 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 8 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
11 7 (2.11%) Fixed Income
12 6 (1.81%) Life Science
13 5 (1.51%) FMCG
14 4 (1.20%) Blog
14 4 (1.20%) Derivative
14 4 (1.20%) Mobile App
14 4 (1.20%) Social Media
14 4 (1.20%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.20%) Android
1 4 (1.20%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.60%) Windows
3 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (31.02%) Data Governance
2 96 (28.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 89 (26.81%) Data Modelling
4 86 (25.90%) Agile
5 81 (24.40%) Migration
6 74 (22.29%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (20.78%) Business Intelligence
8 61 (18.37%) Analytics
9 54 (16.27%) Decision-Making
10 51 (15.36%) Validation
11 49 (14.76%) ETL
12 47 (14.16%) Data Analysis
12 47 (14.16%) Data Architecture
13 44 (13.25%) DevOps
14 41 (12.35%) Data Engineering
15 39 (11.75%) AI
15 39 (11.75%) Data Migration
16 36 (10.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (10.54%) CI/CD
17 35 (10.54%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 93 (28.01%) SQL
2 45 (13.55%) Python
3 19 (5.72%) C#
4 16 (4.82%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.31%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.31%) LotusScript
6 9 (2.71%) Java
7 8 (2.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.11%) T-SQL
8 7 (2.11%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.11%) VBA
9 5 (1.51%) PowerShell
10 3 (0.90%) Bicep
10 3 (0.90%) Groovy
10 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.90%) R
10 3 (0.90%) Scala
10 3 (0.90%) X++
11 1 (0.30%) C++
11 1 (0.30%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 57 (17.17%) Degree
2 44 (13.25%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.54%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.31%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.41%) CBAP
6 8 (2.41%) IIBA
7 6 (1.81%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.81%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.51%) PMP
9 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.90%) PhD
10 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.60%) CIPD
11 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.30%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (29.82%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.45%) QA
3 21 (6.33%) GDPR
4 10 (3.01%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.81%) PMO
6 5 (1.51%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.20%) COREP
7 4 (1.20%) FINREP
8 3 (0.90%) IFRS
9 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.60%) Basel III
9 2 (0.60%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.60%) MiFID
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%) NCSC
10 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.81%) Terraform
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.20%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 60 (18.07%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.65%) Oracle
3 27 (8.13%) Databricks
4 16 (4.82%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.82%) SAP
5 11 (3.31%) Informatica
5 11 (3.31%) Lotus
6 10 (3.01%) Kofax
7 9 (2.71%) Bloomberg
8 7 (2.11%) Google
9 6 (1.81%) GoldenSource
9 6 (1.81%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.51%) Charles River
10 5 (1.51%) Murex
11 4 (1.20%) Braze
11 4 (1.20%) Refinitiv
11 4 (1.20%) Yardi
12 3 (0.90%) Eze Software Group
12 3 (0.90%) Optimizely
12 3 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud