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 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 144 96 109
Rank change year-on-year -48 +13 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Management 354 350 402
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.88% 2.84% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.08% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 231 278
10th Percentile £304 £330 £363
25th Percentile £400 £450 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 £550
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +11.82% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £686
90th Percentile £738 £938 £788
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 11
10th Percentile £19.03 £22.87 -
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.23 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% +20.71% -5.86%
75th Percentile £41.00 £30.33 £25.92
90th Percentile £41.49 £57.54 £28.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £30.56 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.16% -23.59% +17.63%

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 16,752 11,363 15,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.81% 92.32% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,163 7,612 11,136
10th Percentile £360 £345 £343
25th Percentile £433 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.38%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £516 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 204 315
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £34.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +13.33% -23.90%
75th Percentile £58.88 £50.50 £48.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £67.60
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -46 38 £533 -3.18% 29
West London -9 16 £275 -34.52% 10
East London -3 2 £428 -36.67% 3
South London - 2 - -
North London 0 1 £550 +57.14%
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 24 (6.78%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.21%) Confluence
3 12 (3.39%) CMS
4 8 (2.26%) Apache Spark
5 6 (1.69%) HCL Notes
5 6 (1.69%) Mendix
5 6 (1.69%) WordPress
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.13%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.85%) Apache
7 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 38 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 18 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 11 (3.11%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.26%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (1.98%) Aladdin
2 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.13%) Fidessa
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.13%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (1.13%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (1.13%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.28%) SAP AFS
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CAR
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP POS DM
Cloud Services
1 71 (20.06%) Azure
2 69 (19.49%) Power Platform
3 38 (10.73%) AWS
4 25 (7.06%) PowerApps
5 22 (6.21%) Collibra
6 17 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (4.80%) GCP
7 16 (4.52%) Dynamics 365
8 15 (4.24%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.24%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
10 12 (3.39%) SaaS
11 11 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
12 10 (2.82%) Serverless
13 7 (1.98%) Azure Functions
13 7 (1.98%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.98%) PaaS
14 6 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 6 (1.69%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.41%) WAN
2 4 (1.13%) LAN
2 4 (1.13%) PSTN
2 4 (1.13%) SMS
2 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (14.69%) Power BI
2 45 (12.71%) Metadata
3 33 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (6.21%) Data Lake
5 21 (5.93%) Tableau
6 19 (5.37%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.82%) Oracle Database
8 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.26%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.69%) Delta Lake
12 5 (1.41%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.41%) Metadata Repository
12 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (1.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.13%) GIS
13 4 (1.13%) MySQL
13 4 (1.13%) OLAP
13 4 (1.13%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (9.04%) JIRA
2 8 (2.26%) ERwin
3 7 (1.98%) Git
4 5 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.13%) Selenium
6 3 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.85%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.85%) Toad
6 3 (0.85%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.56%) MLflow
7 2 (0.56%) Postman
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.28%) GCC
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (40.11%) Finance
2 113 (31.92%) Social Skills
3 82 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.60%) Banking
5 33 (9.32%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.06%) Marketing
7 17 (4.80%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.52%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.95%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.54%) Legal
11 8 (2.26%) Front Office
12 7 (1.98%) Investment Banking
12 7 (1.98%) Retail
13 6 (1.69%) Back Office
14 5 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.41%) Local Government
14 5 (1.41%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.13%) Multimedia
16 3 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (23.45%) Analyst
2 53 (14.97%) Lead
3 38 (10.73%) Business Analyst
4 37 (10.45%) Data Analyst
5 34 (9.60%) Senior
6 33 (9.32%) Architect
7 24 (6.78%) Data Architect
7 24 (6.78%) Developer
8 23 (6.50%) Consultant
9 21 (5.93%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.52%) Data Manager
10 16 (4.52%) Senior Analyst
11 13 (3.67%) Administrator
12 10 (2.82%) Governance Analyst
13 9 (2.54%) Data Business Analyst
14 8 (2.26%) Data Administrator
14 8 (2.26%) Data Modeller
14 8 (2.26%) Test Manager
15 7 (1.98%) Implementation Consultant
15 7 (1.98%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.26%) .NET
2 7 (1.98%) JSON
2 7 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
2 7 (1.98%) REST
3 6 (1.69%) HTML5 Canvas
3 6 (1.69%) React
3 6 (1.69%) XML
4 5 (1.41%) PySpark
4 5 (1.41%) RESTful
5 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.13%) Middleware
5 4 (1.13%) YAML
6 3 (0.85%) CSS
6 3 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
6 3 (0.85%) HTML
7 2 (0.56%) ADO
7 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
7 2 (0.56%) Kafka
7 2 (0.56%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 41 (11.58%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 16 (4.52%) Reference Data
4 15 (4.24%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (3.95%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
8 9 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 7 (1.98%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.98%) Fixed Income
9 7 (1.98%) Life Science
10 6 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.69%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.41%) FMCG
11 5 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.13%) IoT
12 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.13%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.56%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.33%) Data Governance
2 98 (27.68%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (27.12%) Agile
4 92 (25.99%) Migration
5 83 (23.45%) Data Modelling
6 79 (22.32%) Problem-Solving
7 58 (16.38%) Analytics
8 57 (16.10%) Business Intelligence
8 57 (16.10%) ETL
9 54 (15.25%) Data Architecture
10 52 (14.69%) Decision-Making
11 47 (13.28%) AI
11 47 (13.28%) Data Migration
12 46 (12.99%) Validation
13 42 (11.86%) DevOps
14 40 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 40 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (11.02%) CRM
15 39 (11.02%) Data Analysis
16 36 (10.17%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 99 (27.97%) SQL
2 48 (13.56%) Python
3 15 (4.24%) C#
4 14 (3.95%) Java
5 10 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.98%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 6 (1.69%) Formula Language
7 6 (1.69%) LotusScript
8 5 (1.41%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.41%) VBA
9 4 (1.13%) X++
10 3 (0.85%) Bicep
10 3 (0.85%) Scala
10 3 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.28%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (17.23%) Degree
2 47 (13.28%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.02%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (2.82%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.54%) Master's Degree
7 8 (2.26%) CBAP
7 8 (2.26%) IIBA
8 5 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.13%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.13%) PMP
10 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.28%) CFA
12 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.28%) RIBA
12 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (33.05%) Data Quality
2 39 (11.02%) QA
3 37 (10.45%) GDPR
4 10 (2.82%) Accessibility
5 6 (1.69%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.13%) COREP
6 4 (1.13%) FINREP
6 4 (1.13%) PMO
7 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.28%) Basel III
9 1 (0.28%) EMIR
9 1 (0.28%) GAAP
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.41%) Terraform
2 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
5 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 64 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 34 (9.60%) Oracle
3 28 (7.91%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.63%) Databricks
5 15 (4.24%) SAP
6 11 (3.11%) Bloomberg
6 11 (3.11%) Informatica
7 6 (1.69%) Charles River
7 6 (1.69%) Google
7 6 (1.69%) Kofax
7 6 (1.69%) Lotus
7 6 (1.69%) Sitecore
8 5 (1.41%) GoldenSource
8 5 (1.41%) Refinitiv
8 5 (1.41%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 4 (1.13%) FactSet
9 4 (1.13%) Foundry
9 4 (1.13%) Murex
9 4 (1.13%) Palantir
9 4 (1.13%) SimCorp