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

6 months to
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 122 117
Rank change year-on-year -34 -5 +34
Contract jobs citing Data Management 356 331 361
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 2.41% 2.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 2.62% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 204 245
10th Percentile £310 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £656 £725 £700
90th Percentile £763 £871 £800
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 5
10th Percentile - £22.73 £24.20
25th Percentile £19.03 £23.84 £27.50
Median hourly rate £34.76 £25.00 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.02% -10.71% -11.17%
75th Percentile £41.11 £26.69 £43.75
90th Percentile £41.87 £30.33 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.73% -31.54% +36.36%

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 17,962 12,654 14,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.05% 92.20% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,849 8,470 10,231
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
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 300 249 197
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £17.18
25th Percentile £19.98 £24.66 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.61 £29.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -15.71% -14.72%
75th Percentile £57.13 £49.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.25 £71.88
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -

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 2 August 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 2 August 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 2 August 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 -34 45 £525 -4.55% 56
West London -7 14 £275 -34.52% 9
South London -13 2 - -
East London +1 1 £180 -73.33% 1
North London -3 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 19 (5.34%) SharePoint
2 14 (3.93%) CMS
3 11 (3.09%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.81%) Confluence
5 7 (1.97%) WordPress
6 6 (1.69%) Apache
6 6 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.12%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.84%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.56%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.56%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.56%) Mule
10 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
10 1 (0.28%) Mendix
Applications
1 34 (9.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.25%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (1.40%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 13 (3.65%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.81%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.97%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.69%) Fidessa
4 6 (1.69%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.40%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.84%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.84%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.28%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.28%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
8 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.28%) Summit
8 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.51%) Azure
2 60 (16.85%) Power Platform
3 40 (11.24%) AWS
4 22 (6.18%) Collibra
5 21 (5.90%) Dynamics 365
6 20 (5.62%) PowerApps
7 17 (4.78%) GCP
8 15 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (3.93%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.93%) Snowflake
10 11 (3.09%) Azure Data Factory
10 11 (3.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
11 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Einstein
11 6 (1.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 6 (1.69%) Serverless
12 5 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 5 (1.40%) Copilot Studio
12 5 (1.40%) Microsoft Copilot
12 5 (1.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.84%) SMS
2 2 (0.56%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.28%) Firewall
3 1 (0.28%) Intranet
3 1 (0.28%) Network Security
3 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (16.01%) Metadata
2 42 (11.80%) Power BI
3 27 (7.58%) Data Lake
4 26 (7.30%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (5.90%) Tableau
6 14 (3.93%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.81%) Delta Lake
8 7 (1.97%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (1.40%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.40%) GIS
10 5 (1.40%) Oracle Database
10 5 (1.40%) Power Query
10 5 (1.40%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.12%) Big Data
12 3 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 27 (7.58%) JIRA
2 10 (2.81%) ERwin
2 10 (2.81%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.25%) Git
4 7 (1.97%) ER Studio
5 6 (1.69%) Selenium
6 5 (1.40%) JMeter
7 4 (1.12%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.84%) MLflow
9 2 (0.56%) Gradle
9 2 (0.56%) Maven
9 2 (0.56%) Postman
9 2 (0.56%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
10 1 (0.28%) GCC
10 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
10 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.28%) LSMW
10 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 1 (0.28%) Toad
General
1 137 (38.48%) Finance
2 119 (33.43%) Social Skills
3 87 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (9.83%) Banking
5 32 (8.99%) Public Sector
6 28 (7.87%) Marketing
7 20 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.21%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.93%) Front Office
10 13 (3.65%) Legal
11 12 (3.37%) Documentation Skills
11 12 (3.37%) Retail
12 11 (3.09%) Financial Institution
13 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.25%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.97%) Local Government
15 6 (1.69%) Back Office
15 6 (1.69%) Multimedia
16 5 (1.40%) Military
Job Titles
1 65 (18.26%) Analyst
2 45 (12.64%) Lead
3 43 (12.08%) Architect
4 33 (9.27%) Data Analyst
5 27 (7.58%) Data Architect
5 27 (7.58%) Developer
5 27 (7.58%) Senior
6 25 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 25 (7.02%) Consultant
7 22 (6.18%) Data Engineer
8 16 (4.49%) Data Manager
9 13 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.09%) Administrator
11 10 (2.81%) Data Consultant
11 10 (2.81%) Test Manager
12 9 (2.53%) Governance Analyst
13 7 (1.97%) Data Modeller
13 7 (1.97%) Salesforce Administrator
13 7 (1.97%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (1.97%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.65%) REST
2 10 (2.81%) JSON
3 9 (2.53%) RESTful
4 8 (2.25%) PySpark
5 6 (1.69%) Kafka
5 6 (1.69%) Middleware
5 6 (1.69%) XML
6 5 (1.40%) .NET
6 5 (1.40%) FIX Protocol
6 5 (1.40%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (0.84%) HTML
7 3 (0.84%) Lightning Web Components
7 3 (0.84%) SOAP
8 2 (0.56%) CSS
8 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
8 2 (0.56%) JDBC
8 2 (0.56%) JWT
8 2 (0.56%) LangChain
8 2 (0.56%) OAuth
8 2 (0.56%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 36 (10.11%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.02%) Reference Data
3 23 (6.46%) Data Structures
3 23 (6.46%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.34%) Analytical Mindset
5 17 (4.78%) Cloud Native
6 15 (4.21%) Product Ownership
7 11 (3.09%) Fixed Income
7 11 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.25%) FMCG
8 8 (2.25%) Social Media
9 7 (1.97%) Equities
9 7 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.69%) Blog
10 6 (1.69%) Life Science
11 5 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.40%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.40%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.84%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (37.36%) Data Governance
2 104 (29.21%) Stakeholder Management
3 94 (26.40%) Agile
4 74 (20.79%) Data Modelling
4 74 (20.79%) Migration
5 72 (20.22%) Analytics
6 68 (19.10%) Data Architecture
6 68 (19.10%) Problem-Solving
7 64 (17.98%) AI
8 59 (16.57%) Validation
9 55 (15.45%) ETL
10 54 (15.17%) Business Intelligence
11 49 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
12 44 (12.36%) Data Analysis
13 42 (11.80%) Data Migration
14 41 (11.52%) Data Engineering
15 39 (10.96%) Metadata Management
16 38 (10.67%) CRM
16 38 (10.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 38 (10.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 100 (28.09%) SQL
2 48 (13.48%) Python
3 21 (5.90%) Java
4 18 (5.06%) C#
5 9 (2.53%) X++
6 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 7 (1.97%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.69%) VBA
8 5 (1.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.40%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.84%) Bicep
9 3 (0.84%) Scala
9 3 (0.84%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.28%) C
11 1 (0.28%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.28%) R
11 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 43 (12.08%) Degree
2 39 (10.96%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.27%) SC Cleared
4 11 (3.09%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.69%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.40%) Azure Certification
8 5 (1.40%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.12%) PMI Certification
10 3 (0.84%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.84%) PMP
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.28%) ISEB
12 1 (0.28%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 1 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.28%) RIBA
12 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 129 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.39%) QA
3 36 (10.11%) GDPR
4 13 (3.65%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.25%) PMO
6 5 (1.40%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.12%) COREP
7 4 (1.12%) FINREP
8 3 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.56%) EMIR
9 2 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.56%) MiFID
9 2 (0.56%) PERC
10 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.28%) GAAP
10 1 (0.28%) GMP
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS
10 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.40%) Terraform
2 3 (0.84%) HP ALM
2 3 (0.84%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.28%) Kibana
3 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (15.45%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.83%) Databricks
3 30 (8.43%) Salesforce
4 26 (7.30%) Oracle
5 16 (4.49%) SAP
6 12 (3.37%) Bloomberg
6 12 (3.37%) Informatica
7 9 (2.53%) Charles River
8 7 (1.97%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 7 (1.97%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.69%) Refinitiv
10 5 (1.40%) GoldenSource
10 5 (1.40%) MarketAxess
10 5 (1.40%) Tradeweb
11 4 (1.12%) Foundry
11 4 (1.12%) IBM
11 4 (1.12%) Murex
11 4 (1.12%) Palantir
11 4 (1.12%) Pardot
12 3 (0.84%) MuleSoft