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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 118 112
Rank change year-on-year -31 -6 +36
Contract jobs citing Data Management 360 331 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.44% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 2.65% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 205 267
10th Percentile £304 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £700
90th Percentile £764 £875 £794
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile - £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% -34.30%
75th Percentile £41.00 £30.33 £28.17
90th Percentile £41.44 £57.54 £43.75
England median hourly rate £38.75 £31.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.46% -20.24% +21.21%

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 17,703 12,488 15,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.99% 92.09% 88.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,731 8,359 10,820
10th Percentile £363 £331 £350
25th Percentile £449 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 238 265
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.25 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +15.20% -3.22% -21.76%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.94 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.40 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -35 45 £525 -4.55% 15
West London -2 14 £275 -34.52% 6
South London -13 2 - - 2
East London +1 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 23 (6.39%) SharePoint
2 17 (4.72%) Confluence
3 12 (3.33%) CMS
4 10 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.94%) WordPress
6 6 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (1.39%) Apache
8 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
9 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
11 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
11 1 (0.28%) Mendix
Applications
1 38 (10.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.22%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.94%) Fidessa
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (1.11%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.83%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
8 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.28%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.28%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.28%) SAP POS DM
8 1 (0.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.28%) Azure
2 64 (17.78%) Power Platform
3 42 (11.67%) AWS
4 24 (6.67%) Collibra
5 23 (6.39%) PowerApps
6 18 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
6 18 (5.00%) GCP
7 15 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
7 15 (4.17%) Snowflake
8 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (3.61%) Power Automate
9 11 (3.06%) SaaS
10 10 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (2.78%) PaaS
11 9 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
12 6 (1.67%) Salesforce Einstein
12 6 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 6 (1.67%) Serverless
13 5 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) WAN
2 4 (1.11%) LAN
2 4 (1.11%) PSTN
2 4 (1.11%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.83%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.89%) Metadata
2 44 (12.22%) Power BI
3 28 (7.78%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (6.94%) Data Lake
5 22 (6.11%) Tableau
6 16 (4.44%) SQL Server
7 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
8 6 (1.67%) Delta Lake
8 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.39%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.39%) GIS
9 5 (1.39%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.39%) Power Query
9 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (1.11%) Big Data
10 4 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
10 4 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (8.89%) JIRA
2 8 (2.22%) ERwin
3 7 (1.94%) Git
3 7 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 4 (1.11%) JMeter
4 4 (1.11%) Selenium
4 4 (1.11%) Zephyr
5 2 (0.56%) ER Studio
5 2 (0.56%) MLflow
5 2 (0.56%) Postman
5 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
5 2 (0.56%) Toad
6 1 (0.28%) Appium
6 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.28%) GCC
6 1 (0.28%) Gradle
6 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
6 1 (0.28%) LSMW
6 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 141 (39.17%) Finance
2 117 (32.50%) Social Skills
3 83 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.83%) Banking
5 34 (9.44%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.94%) Marketing
7 18 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (3.89%) Front Office
8 14 (3.89%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.61%) Legal
10 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.06%) Retail
11 10 (2.78%) Financial Institution
12 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.94%) Back Office
13 7 (1.94%) Local Government
13 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.39%) Military
16 4 (1.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 76 (21.11%) Analyst
2 50 (13.89%) Lead
3 45 (12.50%) Architect
4 37 (10.28%) Data Analyst
5 33 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 32 (8.89%) Senior
7 29 (8.06%) Data Architect
8 23 (6.39%) Developer
9 22 (6.11%) Consultant
10 21 (5.83%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.44%) Data Manager
12 13 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.78%) Administrator
13 10 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
13 10 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (2.50%) Test Manager
15 8 (2.22%) Technical Leader
16 7 (1.94%) Data Business Analyst
16 7 (1.94%) Data Consultant
16 7 (1.94%) Salesforce Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (2.22%) RESTful
2 7 (1.94%) REST
3 6 (1.67%) FIX Protocol
3 6 (1.67%) JSON
3 6 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (1.39%) .NET
4 5 (1.39%) Middleware
4 5 (1.39%) XML
5 4 (1.11%) Kafka
5 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
5 4 (1.11%) PySpark
6 3 (0.83%) HTML
6 3 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.56%) ADO
7 2 (0.56%) CSS
7 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
7 2 (0.56%) PostGIS
7 2 (0.56%) YAML
8 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.28%) ReactiveX
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 21 (5.83%) Reference Data
4 19 (5.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (4.72%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.89%) Data Structures
7 12 (3.33%) Fixed Income
8 11 (3.06%) Product Ownership
9 10 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
10 9 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
11 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.94%) Equities
12 7 (1.94%) FMCG
13 6 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 6 (1.67%) Life Science
13 6 (1.67%) Social Media
14 5 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
14 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
15 4 (1.11%) IoT
15 4 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (36.39%) Data Governance
2 111 (30.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 104 (28.89%) Agile
4 84 (23.33%) Migration
5 81 (22.50%) Data Modelling
6 70 (19.44%) Analytics
7 68 (18.89%) Problem-Solving
8 65 (18.06%) Data Architecture
9 59 (16.39%) AI
10 57 (15.83%) ETL
10 57 (15.83%) Validation
11 53 (14.72%) Business Intelligence
12 46 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
12 46 (12.78%) Decision-Making
13 45 (12.50%) Data Analysis
14 43 (11.94%) Data Migration
15 40 (11.11%) DevOps
15 40 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 39 (10.83%) CRM
16 39 (10.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 97 (26.94%) SQL
2 49 (13.61%) Python
3 16 (4.44%) C#
4 15 (4.17%) Java
5 7 (1.94%) T-SQL
6 6 (1.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (1.67%) VBA
6 6 (1.67%) X++
7 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.83%) Bicep
9 3 (0.83%) Scala
9 3 (0.83%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 55 (15.28%) Degree
2 42 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.61%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.33%) DV Cleared
6 11 (3.06%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.39%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.39%) CBAP
9 4 (1.11%) IIBA
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (34.72%) Data Quality
2 39 (10.83%) GDPR
3 38 (10.56%) QA
4 13 (3.61%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.22%) PMO
6 6 (1.67%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.11%) COREP
7 4 (1.11%) FINREP
8 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.83%) 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%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.28%) NCSC
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.11%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 62 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.17%) Databricks
3 29 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.50%) Oracle
5 16 (4.44%) SAP
6 15 (4.17%) Informatica
7 13 (3.61%) Bloomberg
8 11 (3.06%) Charles River
9 7 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 7 (1.94%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.67%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.39%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.39%) Google
11 5 (1.39%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.39%) Murex
11 5 (1.39%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.11%) Foundry
12 4 (1.11%) Palantir
12 4 (1.11%) Pardot
13 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow