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 9 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 84 97
Rank change year-on-year -46 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing Data Management 343 416 423
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.14% 3.19% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.38% 3.50% 2.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 302 307
10th Percentile £337 £325 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £763 £675
90th Percentile £739 £938 £775
England median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 15
10th Percentile £19.85 £44.52 -
25th Percentile £24.14 £69.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.03 £92.50 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -69.70% +270.44% -23.17%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £38.79
90th Percentile - £96.00 £64.22
England median hourly rate £28.55 £30.51 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.42% -23.73% -36.51%

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 14,434 11,882 16,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.99% 91.01% 88.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,713 7,889 11,534
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 162 355
10th Percentile £18.05 £20.45 £16.01
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £19.74
Median hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.71% +16.67% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.38 £53.31 £50.00
90th Percentile £69.55 £77.25 £69.80
England median hourly rate £30.00 £34.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year -13.04% +6.15% -7.22%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -51 32 £575 +8.24% 20
West London -7 10 £500 +25.00% 11
East London -3 1 £675 +68.75% 10
South London -15 1 - - 9
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 (6.41%) SharePoint
2 21 (6.12%) Confluence
3 11 (3.21%) HCL Notes
4 10 (2.92%) Mendix
5 4 (1.17%) Apache
5 4 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.17%) CMS
5 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.87%) Palantir Foundry
7 1 (0.29%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 35 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (6.71%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (4.66%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 6 (1.75%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.46%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.87%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.87%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.87%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.58%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.58%) Markit EDM
4 2 (0.58%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
5 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.29%) Eloqua
5 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
5 1 (0.29%) iTrent
5 1 (0.29%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 78 (22.74%) Azure
2 69 (20.12%) Power Platform
3 42 (12.24%) AWS
4 22 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.25%) Collibra
5 18 (5.25%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.25%) Serverless
6 17 (4.96%) GCP
7 16 (4.66%) PowerApps
8 14 (4.08%) Snowflake
9 13 (3.79%) Azure Functions
9 13 (3.79%) Power Automate
9 13 (3.79%) SaaS
10 12 (3.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 11 (3.21%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (3.21%) Azure Service Bus
12 9 (2.62%) PaaS
13 8 (2.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
14 7 (2.04%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.17%) LAN
1 4 (1.17%) PSTN
1 4 (1.17%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.17%) WAN
1 4 (1.17%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.58%) NAS
2 2 (0.58%) SMS
3 1 (0.29%) 2G
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (18.08%) Power BI
2 40 (11.66%) Metadata
3 38 (11.08%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (6.41%) Tableau
5 21 (6.12%) SQL Server
6 18 (5.25%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.79%) Oracle Database
8 11 (3.21%) Relational Database
9 10 (2.92%) Oracle Reports
10 9 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (2.04%) MySQL
11 7 (2.04%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.17%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.17%) GIS
13 4 (1.17%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 36 (10.50%) JIRA
2 10 (2.92%) Git
3 9 (2.62%) ERwin
3 9 (2.62%) GitLab
4 4 (1.17%) Appium
5 3 (0.87%) JMeter
5 3 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
5 3 (0.87%) Toad
6 2 (0.58%) Postman
6 2 (0.58%) Selenium
7 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.29%) GCC
7 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
7 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.29%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
7 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 150 (43.73%) Finance
2 142 (41.40%) Social Skills
3 97 (28.28%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.95%) Banking
5 27 (7.87%) Financial Institution
6 24 (7.00%) Marketing
6 24 (7.00%) Public Sector
7 16 (4.66%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (3.21%) Organisational Skills
9 11 (3.21%) Retail
10 10 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.62%) Front Office
12 8 (2.33%) Investment Banking
13 6 (1.75%) Back Office
13 6 (1.75%) Legal
13 6 (1.75%) Retail Banking
13 6 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (24.78%) Analyst
2 52 (15.16%) Business Analyst
3 46 (13.41%) Lead
4 35 (10.20%) Senior
5 34 (9.91%) Architect
6 32 (9.33%) Data Analyst
7 29 (8.45%) Developer
8 25 (7.29%) Consultant
9 24 (7.00%) Data Engineer
10 20 (5.83%) Data Architect
11 15 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (4.08%) Data Business Analyst
12 14 (4.08%) Data Modeller
13 11 (3.21%) Power Platform Developer
14 9 (2.62%) Governance Analyst
15 8 (2.33%) Oracle Consultant
16 7 (2.04%) Data Manager
16 7 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
16 7 (2.04%) Technical Business Analyst
16 7 (2.04%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 14 (4.08%) .NET
3 13 (3.79%) React
4 11 (3.21%) REST
5 10 (2.92%) HTML5 Canvas
6 7 (2.04%) XML
7 6 (1.75%) JSON
7 6 (1.75%) Kafka
7 6 (1.75%) SOAP
8 5 (1.46%) YAML
9 4 (1.17%) LangChain
9 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Graph
9 4 (1.17%) NumPy
9 4 (1.17%) Pandas
9 4 (1.17%) PySpark
9 4 (1.17%) WebdriverIO
10 3 (0.87%) Hugging Face
10 3 (0.87%) LangGraph
10 3 (0.87%) Model Context Protocol
10 3 (0.87%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 21 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 19 (5.54%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.96%) Reference Data
4 16 (4.66%) Management Information System
5 15 (4.37%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
6 13 (3.79%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.92%) Low-Code
7 10 (2.92%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.04%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.46%) CMDB
10 5 (1.46%) IoT
10 5 (1.46%) Life Science
10 5 (1.46%) Reinsurance
10 5 (1.46%) Social Media
11 4 (1.17%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.17%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.17%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.17%) Android
1 4 (1.17%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (30.32%) Agile
2 97 (28.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 95 (27.70%) Problem-Solving
4 94 (27.41%) Data Governance
5 89 (25.95%) Data Modelling
6 74 (21.57%) Migration
7 72 (20.99%) Business Intelligence
8 66 (19.24%) Analytics
9 52 (15.16%) Decision-Making
10 49 (14.29%) Validation
11 45 (13.12%) ETL
12 42 (12.24%) DevOps
13 41 (11.95%) Data Architecture
13 41 (11.95%) Visualisation
14 40 (11.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 38 (11.08%) AI
16 37 (10.79%) Data Analysis
16 37 (10.79%) Data Engineering
16 37 (10.79%) Roadmaps
17 36 (10.50%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 97 (28.28%) SQL
2 45 (13.12%) Python
3 25 (7.29%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.08%) C#
5 11 (3.21%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.21%) LotusScript
6 9 (2.62%) Java
7 8 (2.33%) TypeScript
8 7 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 7 (2.04%) Groovy
9 6 (1.75%) VBA
10 5 (1.46%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.46%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.17%) Scala
12 3 (0.87%) R
13 2 (0.58%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
14 1 (0.29%) C++
14 1 (0.29%) Ruby
14 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (15.45%) Degree
2 49 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.50%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.21%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.33%) IIBA
7 7 (2.04%) CBAP
8 4 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.17%) DV Cleared
8 4 (1.17%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.17%) PMP
9 3 (0.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.87%) PhD
10 2 (0.58%) APMP
10 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.58%) CIPD
11 1 (0.29%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.29%) RIBA
11 1 (0.29%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (27.70%) Data Quality
2 36 (10.50%) QA
3 25 (7.29%) GDPR
4 10 (2.92%) PMO
5 8 (2.33%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.04%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.17%) IFRS
9 3 (0.87%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.58%) Basel III
10 2 (0.58%) EMIR
10 2 (0.58%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.58%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) COREP
11 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.29%) FINREP
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.46%) Terraform
2 4 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.17%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.29%) Grafana
3 1 (0.29%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.29%) Kibana
3 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 62 (18.08%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.70%) Oracle
3 26 (7.58%) Databricks
4 20 (5.83%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.96%) Informatica
6 16 (4.66%) SAP
7 11 (3.21%) Lotus
8 10 (2.92%) Google
8 10 (2.92%) Kofax
8 10 (2.92%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.62%) Bloomberg
10 6 (1.75%) Charles River
11 5 (1.46%) Murex
12 4 (1.17%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.17%) Talend
12 4 (1.17%) Workday
12 4 (1.17%) Yardi
13 3 (0.87%) Instagram
13 3 (0.87%) Optimizely
13 3 (0.87%) Sparx