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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 140 93 103
Rank change year-on-year -47 +10 +54
Contract jobs citing Data Management 327 379 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 3.02% 2.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 3.27% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 262 293
10th Percentile £312 £325 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £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 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% -
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £27.84
90th Percentile - - £56.70
England median hourly rate £30.49 £30.32 £40.00
% change year-on-year +0.56% -24.20% -0.44%

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 15,735 11,590 15,693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.36% 92.20% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,521 7,861 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £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 £688 £675
90th Percentile £756 £813 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 172 322
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.04 £22.73 £20.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £34.25 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.96% +20.18% -26.92%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.56 £47.34
90th Percentile £74.63 £63.75 £65.68
England median hourly rate £45.46 £30.00 £36.05
% change year-on-year +51.53% -16.77% -0.96%

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 6 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 6 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 -50 37 £563 +2.27% 43
West London -9 16 £388 -7.74% 6
East London -5 2 £428 -36.67% 5
South London - 1 - - 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 21 (6.42%) Confluence
2 20 (6.12%) SharePoint
3 11 (3.36%) HCL Notes
4 10 (3.06%) Mendix
5 5 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.53%) CMS
6 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.92%) Palantir Foundry
8 2 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.31%) Apache
9 1 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.31%) IBM HTTP Server
9 1 (0.31%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 34 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (5.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (4.89%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.45%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.14%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.53%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.92%) Fidessa
3 3 (0.92%) SimCorp Dimension
3 3 (0.92%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.61%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.31%) Alphatax
5 1 (0.31%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.31%) FLEXCUBE
5 1 (0.31%) iTrent
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.31%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.31%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.31%) SAP MDM
5 1 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 75 (22.94%) Azure
2 71 (21.71%) Power Platform
3 36 (11.01%) AWS
4 22 (6.73%) PowerApps
5 21 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.89%) Collibra
7 16 (4.89%) Power Automate
7 16 (4.89%) Serverless
8 14 (4.28%) GCP
9 12 (3.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 12 (3.67%) Azure Functions
9 12 (3.67%) SaaS
10 11 (3.36%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
11 10 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (2.75%) Snowflake
13 8 (2.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.45%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (2.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.22%) LAN
1 4 (1.22%) PSTN
1 4 (1.22%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.22%) WAN
1 4 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.61%) Intranet
2 2 (0.61%) SMS
3 1 (0.31%) NAS
3 1 (0.31%) Network Security
3 1 (0.31%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (18.04%) Power BI
2 44 (13.46%) Metadata
3 35 (10.70%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.81%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.50%) Tableau
6 17 (5.20%) SQL Server
7 14 (4.28%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.45%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (2.14%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.83%) Delta Lake
10 6 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 5 (1.53%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.53%) Metadata Repository
11 5 (1.53%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (1.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.22%) Power Query
13 3 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.92%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 32 (9.79%) JIRA
2 8 (2.45%) ERwin
3 7 (2.14%) Git
4 5 (1.53%) Appium
4 5 (1.53%) JMeter
5 4 (1.22%) GitLab
5 4 (1.22%) Selenium
6 3 (0.92%) Toad
6 3 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 3 (0.92%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.61%) MLflow
7 2 (0.61%) Postman
7 2 (0.61%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.31%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.31%) ER Studio
8 1 (0.31%) GCC
8 1 (0.31%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.31%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.31%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 144 (44.04%) Finance
2 120 (36.70%) Social Skills
3 83 (25.38%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (11.31%) Banking
5 30 (9.17%) Public Sector
6 25 (7.65%) Financial Institution
7 23 (7.03%) Marketing
8 14 (4.28%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.45%) Back Office
12 7 (2.14%) Retail
13 6 (1.83%) Front Office
13 6 (1.83%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.53%) Local Government
14 5 (1.53%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.53%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.53%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 84 (25.69%) Analyst
2 48 (14.68%) Lead
3 45 (13.76%) Business Analyst
4 35 (10.70%) Senior
5 34 (10.40%) Architect
6 32 (9.79%) Data Analyst
7 22 (6.73%) Consultant
7 22 (6.73%) Data Architect
7 22 (6.73%) Data Engineer
8 21 (6.42%) Developer
9 15 (4.59%) Senior Analyst
10 11 (3.36%) Data Business Analyst
10 11 (3.36%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (3.06%) Data Manager
12 8 (2.45%) Data Modeller
13 7 (2.14%) Governance Analyst
13 7 (2.14%) Implementation Consultant
13 7 (2.14%) Senior Business Analyst
13 7 (2.14%) Senior Manager
13 7 (2.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.28%) .NET
2 12 (3.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 10 (3.06%) HTML5 Canvas
3 10 (3.06%) React
4 7 (2.14%) JSON
5 6 (1.83%) REST
5 6 (1.83%) XML
6 5 (1.53%) PySpark
7 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Graph
7 4 (1.22%) RESTful
7 4 (1.22%) WebdriverIO
7 4 (1.22%) YAML
8 3 (0.92%) Hugging Face
8 3 (0.92%) NumPy
8 3 (0.92%) Pandas
8 3 (0.92%) pydantic
8 3 (0.92%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.92%) React Native
8 3 (0.92%) scikit-learn
8 3 (0.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.26%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.73%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.28%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (4.28%) Reference Data
4 13 (3.98%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.98%) Data Structures
4 13 (3.98%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.36%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (3.06%) Low-Code
8 8 (2.45%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.83%) Life Science
10 5 (1.53%) Fixed Income
10 5 (1.53%) FMCG
11 4 (1.22%) Derivative
11 4 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
11 4 (1.22%) IoT
11 4 (1.22%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.22%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.22%) Android
1 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.61%) Windows
3 1 (0.31%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (30.89%) Data Governance
2 89 (27.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (26.30%) Data Modelling
4 85 (25.99%) Agile
5 80 (24.46%) Migration
6 72 (22.02%) Problem-Solving
7 67 (20.49%) Business Intelligence
8 58 (17.74%) Analytics
9 52 (15.90%) Decision-Making
10 50 (15.29%) Validation
11 49 (14.98%) ETL
12 47 (14.37%) Data Architecture
13 44 (13.46%) Data Analysis
13 44 (13.46%) DevOps
14 40 (12.23%) AI
14 40 (12.23%) Data Engineering
15 38 (11.62%) Data Migration
16 36 (11.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 35 (10.70%) CI/CD
18 33 (10.09%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 93 (28.44%) SQL
2 46 (14.07%) Python
3 19 (5.81%) C#
4 16 (4.89%) JavaScript
5 11 (3.36%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.36%) LotusScript
6 10 (3.06%) Java
7 7 (2.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.14%) T-SQL
7 7 (2.14%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.14%) VBA
8 5 (1.53%) PowerShell
9 3 (0.92%) Bicep
9 3 (0.92%) Groovy
9 3 (0.92%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.92%) R
9 3 (0.92%) Scala
9 3 (0.92%) X++
10 1 (0.31%) C++
10 1 (0.31%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 57 (17.43%) Degree
2 42 (12.84%) Security Cleared
3 33 (10.09%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.36%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.45%) CBAP
6 8 (2.45%) IIBA
7 6 (1.83%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.83%) PMI Certification
8 5 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (1.53%) PMP
9 3 (0.92%) AWS Certification
9 3 (0.92%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.92%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.92%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.92%) PhD
10 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (0.31%) ISEB
11 1 (0.31%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.31%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (29.97%) Data Quality
2 38 (11.62%) QA
3 22 (6.73%) GDPR
4 10 (3.06%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.53%) PMO
5 5 (1.53%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.22%) COREP
6 4 (1.22%) FINREP
7 2 (0.61%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.61%) IFRS
7 2 (0.61%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.61%) MiFID
7 2 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.31%) Basel III
8 1 (0.31%) GAAP
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.31%) NCSC
8 1 (0.31%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.61%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.83%) Terraform
2 5 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.22%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.92%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.92%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.31%) Grafana
5 1 (0.31%) Kibana
Vendors
1 59 (18.04%) Microsoft
2 42 (12.84%) Oracle
3 27 (8.26%) Databricks
4 16 (4.89%) SAP
5 15 (4.59%) Salesforce
6 11 (3.36%) Lotus
7 10 (3.06%) Informatica
7 10 (3.06%) Kofax
8 9 (2.75%) Bloomberg
9 7 (2.14%) Google
10 5 (1.53%) Charles River
10 5 (1.53%) GoldenSource
10 5 (1.53%) Murex
10 5 (1.53%) ServiceNow
11 4 (1.22%) Braze
11 4 (1.22%) Refinitiv
11 4 (1.22%) Yardi
12 3 (0.92%) Foundry
12 3 (0.92%) Palantir
12 3 (0.92%) SimCorp