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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 83 97
Rank change year-on-year -52 +14 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Management 340 408 425
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.07% 3.18% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 3.49% 2.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 293 308
10th Percentile £325 £325 £400
25th Percentile £413 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £561
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +6.90% -10.20%
75th Percentile £604 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 15
10th Percentile - £44.52 -
25th Percentile £26.52 £69.00 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £92.50 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -69.14% +270.44% -23.17%
75th Percentile £30.59 £93.75 £38.79
90th Percentile - £96.00 £64.22
England median hourly rate £28.55 £30.81 £42.50
% change year-on-year -7.32% -27.52% -32.54%

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 14,745 11,676 16,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.75% 91.09% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,877 7,820 11,502
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £681 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £503 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.29% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 235 162 343
10th Percentile £18.14 £20.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £22.00 £24.66 £19.57
Median hourly rate £35.50 £35.70 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +18.35% -18.49%
75th Percentile £56.98 £53.75 £49.94
90th Percentile £71.50 £77.25 £69.35
England median hourly rate £31.00 £33.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -6.37% +1.88% -11.33%

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 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 18 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 -39 33 £575 +5.75% 33
West London -7 11 £500 +25.00% 10
South London -16 2 - - 9
East London -5 1 £675 +68.75% 10
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 (6.47%) Confluence
1 22 (6.47%) SharePoint
2 11 (3.24%) HCL Notes
3 10 (2.94%) Mendix
4 4 (1.18%) Apache
4 4 (1.18%) Apache Spark
4 4 (1.18%) CMS
4 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.88%) Palantir Foundry
6 1 (0.29%) IBM HTTP Server
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 36 (10.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (4.71%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.47%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.88%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.88%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.88%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.59%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.59%) Markit EDM
5 2 (0.59%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.29%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.29%) Bloomberg TOMS
6 1 (0.29%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.29%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.29%) iTrent
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 79 (23.24%) Azure
2 69 (20.29%) Power Platform
3 40 (11.76%) AWS
4 23 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (5.29%) Collibra
5 18 (5.29%) Microsoft 365
5 18 (5.29%) Serverless
6 17 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 15 (4.41%) GCP
8 13 (3.82%) Azure Functions
8 13 (3.82%) Power Automate
8 13 (3.82%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
9 12 (3.53%) SaaS
10 11 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.24%) Azure Service Bus
11 9 (2.65%) PaaS
12 8 (2.35%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
13 7 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.18%) LAN
1 4 (1.18%) PSTN
1 4 (1.18%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.18%) WAN
1 4 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.59%) Intranet
2 2 (0.59%) NAS
2 2 (0.59%) SMS
3 1 (0.29%) 2G
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (17.94%) Power BI
2 43 (12.65%) Metadata
3 38 (11.18%) Data Warehouse
4 20 (5.88%) SQL Server
5 19 (5.59%) Tableau
6 17 (5.00%) Data Lake
7 15 (4.41%) Oracle Database
8 10 (2.94%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (2.94%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 8 (2.35%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (2.06%) MySQL
11 7 (2.06%) NoSQL
12 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (1.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (1.18%) Delta Lake
13 4 (1.18%) RDBMS
13 4 (1.18%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.88%) Metadata Repository
14 3 (0.88%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 36 (10.59%) JIRA
2 10 (2.94%) ERwin
2 10 (2.94%) Git
3 8 (2.35%) GitLab
4 5 (1.47%) Appium
4 5 (1.47%) JMeter
5 4 (1.18%) Selenium
6 3 (0.88%) Postman
6 3 (0.88%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.88%) Toad
7 2 (0.59%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.59%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.59%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.29%) GCC
8 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.29%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.29%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 152 (44.71%) Finance
2 140 (41.18%) Social Skills
3 99 (29.12%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (12.94%) Banking
5 29 (8.53%) Financial Institution
6 24 (7.06%) Marketing
6 24 (7.06%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.41%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.12%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.24%) Retail
11 10 (2.94%) Presentation Skills
12 9 (2.65%) Front Office
13 8 (2.35%) Investment Banking
14 6 (1.76%) Back Office
14 6 (1.76%) Retail Banking
14 6 (1.76%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.47%) Military
16 4 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 80 (23.53%) Analyst
2 49 (14.41%) Business Analyst
2 49 (14.41%) Lead
3 35 (10.29%) Senior
4 32 (9.41%) Data Analyst
5 31 (9.12%) Architect
6 30 (8.82%) Developer
7 25 (7.35%) Consultant
8 23 (6.76%) Data Engineer
9 20 (5.88%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.41%) Data Modeller
11 14 (4.12%) Data Business Analyst
11 14 (4.12%) Senior Analyst
12 11 (3.24%) Power Platform Developer
13 9 (2.65%) Governance Analyst
14 7 (2.06%) Administrator
14 7 (2.06%) Oracle Consultant
14 7 (2.06%) Technical Business Analyst
14 7 (2.06%) Tester
15 6 (1.76%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.71%) Oracle Fusion
2 13 (3.82%) .NET
2 13 (3.82%) React
3 12 (3.53%) REST
4 10 (2.94%) HTML5 Canvas
5 7 (2.06%) JSON
5 7 (2.06%) XML
6 6 (1.76%) Kafka
6 6 (1.76%) SOAP
7 5 (1.47%) PySpark
7 5 (1.47%) YAML
8 4 (1.18%) LangChain
8 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.18%) NumPy
8 4 (1.18%) Pandas
8 4 (1.18%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (0.88%) Hugging Face
9 3 (0.88%) LangGraph
9 3 (0.88%) Node.js
9 3 (0.88%) pydantic
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 19 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 18 (5.29%) Reference Data
4 17 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (4.12%) Legacy Systems
6 12 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
7 10 (2.94%) Low-Code
8 9 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (2.06%) Fixed Income
11 6 (1.76%) Life Science
12 5 (1.47%) Cloud Native
12 5 (1.47%) CMDB
12 5 (1.47%) IoT
13 4 (1.18%) Blog
13 4 (1.18%) Derivative
13 4 (1.18%) Virtual Team
13 4 (1.18%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.18%) Android
1 4 (1.18%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.59%) Linux
2 2 (0.59%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (29.12%) Stakeholder Management
2 97 (28.53%) Data Governance
3 96 (28.24%) Agile
4 94 (27.65%) Problem-Solving
5 93 (27.35%) Data Modelling
6 78 (22.94%) Migration
7 71 (20.88%) Business Intelligence
8 68 (20.00%) Analytics
9 54 (15.88%) Decision-Making
10 51 (15.00%) Validation
11 50 (14.71%) ETL
12 43 (12.65%) Data Architecture
12 43 (12.65%) DevOps
13 41 (12.06%) Visualisation
14 40 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 39 (11.47%) AI
15 39 (11.47%) Data Engineering
16 37 (10.88%) Data Migration
17 36 (10.59%) CI/CD
17 36 (10.59%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 99 (29.12%) SQL
2 46 (13.53%) Python
3 25 (7.35%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.12%) C#
5 11 (3.24%) Formula Language
5 11 (3.24%) Java
5 11 (3.24%) LotusScript
6 8 (2.35%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.06%) Groovy
8 6 (1.76%) VBA
9 5 (1.47%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.47%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.18%) Scala
11 3 (0.88%) R
12 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Apex Code
13 1 (0.29%) C++
13 1 (0.29%) Ruby
13 1 (0.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 55 (16.18%) Degree
2 49 (14.41%) Security Cleared
3 37 (10.88%) SC Cleared
4 13 (3.82%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (3.53%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.35%) IIBA
7 7 (2.06%) CBAP
8 5 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.18%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.18%) PMP
10 3 (0.88%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.88%) PhD
11 2 (0.59%) APMP
11 2 (0.59%) CIPD
11 2 (0.59%) ISTQB
12 1 (0.29%) CFA
12 1 (0.29%) ISEB
12 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (28.24%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.88%) QA
3 22 (6.47%) GDPR
4 10 (2.94%) PMO
5 8 (2.35%) Accessibility
6 7 (2.06%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.47%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 4 (1.18%) IFRS
9 3 (0.88%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.59%) Basel III
10 2 (0.59%) COREP
10 2 (0.59%) EMIR
10 2 (0.59%) FINREP
10 2 (0.59%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.59%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.29%) GAAP
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.47%) Terraform
2 4 (1.18%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.59%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.29%) Grafana
4 1 (0.29%) Kibana
4 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 62 (18.24%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.41%) Oracle
3 26 (7.65%) Databricks
4 20 (5.88%) Salesforce
5 17 (5.00%) Informatica
6 16 (4.71%) SAP
7 11 (3.24%) Lotus
8 10 (2.94%) Kofax
8 10 (2.94%) ServiceNow
9 9 (2.65%) Bloomberg
9 9 (2.65%) Google
10 6 (1.76%) Charles River
11 5 (1.47%) Murex
12 4 (1.18%) GoldenSource
12 4 (1.18%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.18%) Sparx
12 4 (1.18%) Talend
12 4 (1.18%) Workday
12 4 (1.18%) Yardi
13 3 (0.88%) Optimizely