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

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 102 113
Rank change year-on-year -54 +11 +37
Contract jobs citing Data Management 366 350 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.65% 2.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.86% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 203 235
10th Percentile £306 £315 £350
25th Percentile £413 £408 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £785 £810
England median daily rate £524 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +4.80% -9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 9
10th Percentile £19.00 £17.00 £21.60
25th Percentile £19.03 £19.50 £25.40
Median hourly rate £33.55 £23.45 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.05% -16.25% -31.77%
75th Percentile £41.11 £25.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £41.87 £25.90 £97.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.71% +6.06%

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 17,884 12,219 14,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.13% 92.48% 89.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,701 8,101 9,738
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 254 186
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.98 £25.00 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £32.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.94% -8.57% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.50 £49.69 £54.69
90th Percentile £85.53 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 47 £525 -8.78% 55
West London -11 12 £275 -34.52% 21
East London +5 4 £503 -25.56% 9
South London -10 2 - - 6
North London +1 1 £550 - 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 14 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.28%) Confluence
3 11 (3.01%) Apache Spark
4 10 (2.73%) CMS
5 8 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.91%) WordPress
7 6 (1.64%) Apache
8 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.55%) Anypoint
9 2 (0.55%) Mule
10 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
10 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 35 (9.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.01%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.91%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.55%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (3.83%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.37%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.09%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.55%) NetSuite
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.27%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.27%) Summit
7 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 73 (19.95%) Azure
2 53 (14.48%) Power Platform
3 37 (10.11%) AWS
4 30 (8.20%) Collibra
5 20 (5.46%) PowerApps
6 18 (4.92%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (4.64%) Dynamics 365
7 17 (4.64%) GCP
8 14 (3.83%) Microsoft Purview
8 14 (3.83%) Power Automate
8 14 (3.83%) Snowflake
9 11 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.73%) Alation
11 9 (2.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.19%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.91%) dbt
13 7 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.64%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.64%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.09%) SMS
2 2 (0.55%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.67%) Metadata
2 38 (10.38%) Power BI
3 26 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (6.28%) Data Lake
5 22 (6.01%) Tableau
6 18 (4.92%) SQL Server
7 11 (3.01%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.73%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (2.46%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.19%) NoSQL
11 7 (1.91%) Amazon Redshift
12 5 (1.37%) Ataccama
12 5 (1.37%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.37%) Power Query
13 4 (1.09%) Big Data
13 4 (1.09%) GIS
13 4 (1.09%) Looker
14 3 (0.82%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.82%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (7.65%) JIRA
2 11 (3.01%) ERwin
2 11 (3.01%) Selenium
2 11 (3.01%) Visual Studio
3 9 (2.46%) Git
4 8 (2.19%) ER Studio
5 7 (1.91%) JMeter
6 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
6 4 (1.09%) Postman
6 4 (1.09%) Zephyr
7 3 (0.82%) MLflow
8 2 (0.55%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.55%) Gradle
8 2 (0.55%) Maven
8 2 (0.55%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.27%) LSMW
9 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 148 (40.44%) Finance
2 122 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 83 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.75%) Banking
5 37 (10.11%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.01%) Marketing
7 21 (5.74%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.10%) Retail
9 14 (3.83%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (3.55%) Front Office
10 13 (3.55%) Legal
11 11 (3.01%) Investment Banking
12 10 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.46%) Financial Institution
14 8 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 8 (2.19%) Local Government
14 8 (2.19%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
16 5 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 67 (18.31%) Analyst
2 44 (12.02%) Architect
2 44 (12.02%) Lead
3 32 (8.74%) Data Analyst
4 30 (8.20%) Developer
5 28 (7.65%) Consultant
5 28 (7.65%) Senior
6 26 (7.10%) Business Analyst
6 26 (7.10%) Data Architect
7 17 (4.64%) Data Manager
8 15 (4.10%) Data Consultant
8 15 (4.10%) Data Engineer
9 12 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.01%) Administrator
10 11 (3.01%) Governance Analyst
11 10 (2.73%) Test Manager
12 9 (2.46%) Data Modeller
12 9 (2.46%) Technical Leader
13 7 (1.91%) Governance Consultant
13 7 (1.91%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.37%) REST
2 13 (3.55%) Kafka
3 11 (3.01%) JSON
4 9 (2.46%) PySpark
4 9 (2.46%) RESTful
5 8 (2.19%) HTML
5 8 (2.19%) Middleware
5 8 (2.19%) XML
6 7 (1.91%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (1.91%) Terraform
7 6 (1.64%) .NET
8 5 (1.37%) CSS
9 4 (1.09%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (1.09%) Playwright
9 4 (1.09%) SOAP
9 4 (1.09%) XSD
10 3 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
10 3 (0.82%) Spring
10 3 (0.82%) Spring Boot
11 2 (0.55%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.29%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.74%) Data Structures
2 32 (8.74%) Onboarding
3 28 (7.65%) Reference Data
4 19 (5.19%) Cloud Native
4 19 (5.19%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.83%) Analytical Mindset
6 11 (3.01%) Fixed Income
7 7 (1.91%) Equities
7 7 (1.91%) FMCG
7 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (1.64%) Life Science
8 6 (1.64%) Pricing Data
9 5 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
9 5 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
9 5 (1.37%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.37%) Replication
9 5 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.82%) Windows
2 2 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (40.44%) Data Governance
2 114 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
3 101 (27.60%) Agile
4 81 (22.13%) Data Modelling
5 78 (21.31%) Analytics
6 75 (20.49%) Problem-Solving
7 74 (20.22%) Migration
8 70 (19.13%) AI
9 69 (18.85%) Data Architecture
10 60 (16.39%) Validation
11 59 (16.12%) ETL
12 52 (14.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (13.93%) Metadata Management
14 50 (13.66%) Business Intelligence
15 46 (12.57%) DevOps
15 46 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 45 (12.30%) Decision-Making
17 44 (12.02%) Roadmaps
18 42 (11.48%) Data Analysis
19 41 (11.20%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (28.69%) SQL
2 49 (13.39%) Python
3 23 (6.28%) Java
4 21 (5.74%) C#
5 13 (3.55%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.73%) X++
7 6 (1.64%) VBA
8 5 (1.37%) T-SQL
8 5 (1.37%) TypeScript
9 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
10 3 (0.82%) Bicep
11 2 (0.55%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.55%) R
11 2 (0.55%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 51 (13.93%) Security Cleared
2 44 (12.02%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.48%) Degree
4 12 (3.28%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.01%) BPSS Clearance
6 10 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.37%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.82%) ISEB
9 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.55%) CBAP
10 2 (0.55%) IIBA
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 135 (36.89%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.38%) GDPR
3 31 (8.47%) QA
4 13 (3.55%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.46%) PMO
6 6 (1.64%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.37%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.82%) COREP
8 3 (0.82%) FINREP
8 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.55%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.55%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.55%) EMIR
9 2 (0.55%) MiFID
9 2 (0.55%) PERC
10 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) IFRS
10 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.55%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.11%) Databricks
3 30 (8.20%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.38%) Oracle
5 20 (5.46%) Informatica
6 14 (3.83%) SAP
7 10 (2.73%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.19%) Charles River
8 8 (2.19%) IBM
9 7 (1.91%) Google
9 7 (1.91%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.64%) GoldenSource
10 6 (1.64%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.37%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.37%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.37%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.09%) Murex
12 4 (1.09%) Pardot
12 4 (1.09%) Sparx
12 4 (1.09%) Talend