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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 96 136
Rank change year-on-year -16 +40 +14
Contract jobs citing Data Management 350 419 381
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.51% 2.70% 1.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.71% 3.03% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 261 267
10th Percentile £313 £330 £410
25th Percentile £406 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% -6.07%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £706
90th Percentile £775 £788 £800
England median daily rate £500 £523 £575
% change year-on-year -4.40% -9.04% -1.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile - £23.78 £23.78
25th Percentile £17.00 £37.29 £25.28
Median hourly rate £23.45 £68.75 £43.55
Median % change year-on-year -65.89% +57.87% +12.38%
75th Percentile £25.00 £97.50 £54.00
90th Percentile £25.90 - £65.03
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.93 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.32% -3.06% -32.08%

All Process and 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 12,911 13,825 18,066
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.43% 89.13% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,500 8,906 13,005
10th Percentile £331 £350 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £508 £525 £547
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.02% -0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 165 248
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.35 £18.55
25th Percentile £25.00 £23.80 £21.44
Median hourly rate £29.50 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.33% - -
75th Percentile £47.00 £55.75 £60.44
90th Percentile £65.75 £80.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +27.14%

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 12 November 2025.

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 12 November 2025. 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 -15 47 £600 +9.09% 123
South London -7 3 £583 +29.50%
West London -11 3 £190 -61.03% 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 10 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.71%) Apache
2 6 (1.71%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.86%) HCL Notes
5 2 (0.57%) Appian
5 2 (0.57%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
5 2 (0.57%) SAS
6 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.29%) CMS
6 1 (0.29%) DataSynapse
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 29 (8.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (2.57%) MS Visio
4 6 (1.71%) ProjectWise
5 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.57%) Revit
5 2 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (2.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.43%) Oracle Retail
2 5 (1.43%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.14%) Aladdin
3 4 (1.14%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.86%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.86%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.57%) Actimize
5 2 (0.57%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.57%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.57%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.57%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.29%) iTrent
6 1 (0.29%) Maximo
6 1 (0.29%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 77 (22.00%) Azure
2 49 (14.00%) Power Platform
3 42 (12.00%) AWS
4 26 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (6.29%) Collibra
6 19 (5.43%) GCP
7 13 (3.71%) Snowflake
8 12 (3.43%) OCI
8 12 (3.43%) SaaS
9 11 (3.14%) PowerApps
10 10 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 10 (2.86%) PaaS
11 9 (2.57%) Cloud Computing
12 8 (2.29%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (2.29%) Power Automate
12 8 (2.29%) Serverless
13 6 (1.71%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.71%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
13 6 (1.71%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.57%) DNS
1 2 (0.57%) HTTP
1 2 (0.57%) NAS
2 1 (0.29%) 2G
2 1 (0.29%) 4G
2 1 (0.29%) 5G
2 1 (0.29%) IPv4
2 1 (0.29%) MQTT
2 1 (0.29%) Network Security
2 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.29%) SAN
2 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.29%) VLAN
2 1 (0.29%) WebEx
2 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (12.57%) Power BI
2 36 (10.29%) Metadata
3 31 (8.86%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.86%) Data Lake
5 20 (5.71%) SQL Server
6 17 (4.86%) Tableau
7 12 (3.43%) Oracle Reports
7 12 (3.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (3.14%) Power Query
9 10 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
9 10 (2.86%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.71%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
11 5 (1.43%) Big Data
11 5 (1.43%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.43%) GIS
11 5 (1.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (1.14%) Apache Hive
12 4 (1.14%) MySQL
12 4 (1.14%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 31 (8.86%) JIRA
2 10 (2.86%) Git
3 9 (2.57%) GitLab
4 7 (2.00%) ERwin
5 6 (1.71%) Selenium
6 5 (1.43%) Jenkins
7 3 (0.86%) JUnit
7 3 (0.86%) Postman
7 3 (0.86%) PowerDesigner
8 2 (0.57%) Appium
8 2 (0.57%) Browser DevTools
8 2 (0.57%) Gatling
8 2 (0.57%) JMeter
8 2 (0.57%) NUnit
8 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.57%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.57%) TestNG
8 2 (0.57%) TestRail
8 2 (0.57%) Vite
8 2 (0.57%) webpack
General
1 160 (45.71%) Finance
2 148 (42.29%) Social Skills
3 108 (30.86%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (14.29%) Banking
5 18 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
6 16 (4.57%) Financial Institution
6 16 (4.57%) Legal
6 16 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.00%) Retail
8 13 (3.71%) Marketing
9 11 (3.14%) Local Government
10 10 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.57%) Front Office
12 8 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
12 8 (2.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
15 5 (1.43%) Law
15 5 (1.43%) Military
16 4 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 62 (17.71%) Analyst
2 52 (14.86%) Architect
3 41 (11.71%) Developer
4 29 (8.29%) Consultant
5 28 (8.00%) Lead
6 27 (7.71%) Data Analyst
7 24 (6.86%) Business Analyst
8 20 (5.71%) Senior
9 19 (5.43%) Data Architect
10 14 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 14 (4.00%) ServiceNow Developer
11 13 (3.71%) Governance Analyst
12 12 (3.43%) Data Modeller
12 12 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.86%) Azure Architect
13 10 (2.86%) Data Manager
13 10 (2.86%) Enterprise Architect
14 8 (2.29%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.00%) Data Business Analyst
15 7 (2.00%) Oracle Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.29%) REST
2 19 (5.43%) SOAP
3 18 (5.14%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (2.57%) HTML
5 7 (2.00%) .NET
5 7 (2.00%) CSS
6 6 (1.71%) Kafka
6 6 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
6 6 (1.71%) RESTful
7 5 (1.43%) MIDP
7 5 (1.43%) PySpark
7 5 (1.43%) React
8 4 (1.14%) JSON
8 4 (1.14%) Middleware
8 4 (1.14%) Web Services
9 3 (0.86%) GraphQL
9 3 (0.86%) Node.js
9 3 (0.86%) OAuth
9 3 (0.86%) Visualforce
9 3 (0.86%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.71%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.57%) Onboarding
3 17 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 16 (4.57%) Data Structures
5 14 (4.00%) CMDB
5 14 (4.00%) Reference Data
6 11 (3.14%) Legacy Systems
7 10 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.86%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.71%) Derivative
8 6 (1.71%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.43%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.43%) Virtual Team
10 4 (1.14%) Algorithms
10 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 4 (1.14%) Equities
10 4 (1.14%) Housing Association
10 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.14%) Windows
2 3 (0.86%) Android
2 3 (0.86%) Linux
3 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.57%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (30.29%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (27.71%) Agile
3 88 (25.14%) Analytics
4 87 (24.86%) Data Governance
5 80 (22.86%) Data Modelling
6 69 (19.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (16.00%) DevOps
8 54 (15.43%) Business Intelligence
9 53 (15.14%) Migration
10 46 (13.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (12.57%) Data Architecture
12 41 (11.71%) ETL
12 41 (11.71%) Validation
13 40 (11.43%) Data Integration
14 39 (11.14%) CI/CD
14 39 (11.14%) Data Analysis
14 39 (11.14%) Roadmaps
15 37 (10.57%) Visualisation
16 31 (8.86%) Data Migration
17 30 (8.57%) Data Strategy
Programming Languages
1 86 (24.57%) SQL
2 43 (12.29%) Python
3 30 (8.57%) JavaScript
4 14 (4.00%) C#
5 12 (3.43%) Java
6 9 (2.57%) T-SQL
7 6 (1.71%) Groovy
8 4 (1.14%) Apex Code
8 4 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 4 (1.14%) R
9 3 (0.86%) Formula Language
9 3 (0.86%) LotusScript
9 3 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.86%) TypeScript
10 2 (0.57%) Bicep
10 2 (0.57%) C++
10 2 (0.57%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.57%) Scala
10 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 45 (12.86%) Security Cleared
2 39 (11.14%) Degree
3 35 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 10 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (1.43%) CIPD
7 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.14%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.14%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.57%) OCA
9 2 (0.57%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CCAB
10 1 (0.29%) CISA
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) CRISC
10 1 (0.29%) CSSLP
10 1 (0.29%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (20.86%) Data Quality
2 29 (8.29%) GDPR
3 26 (7.43%) QA
4 9 (2.57%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.29%) PMO
6 6 (1.71%) ISO 19650
7 4 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 4 (1.14%) IFRS
8 2 (0.57%) GAAP
8 2 (0.57%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 2 (0.57%) MiFID
8 2 (0.57%) Solvency II
8 2 (0.57%) WCAG
9 1 (0.29%) Basel III
9 1 (0.29%) FATCA
9 1 (0.29%) GxP
9 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.00%) Docker
2 3 (0.86%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.00%) Terraform
3 2 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
4 1 (0.29%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 61 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.43%) Oracle
3 23 (6.57%) ServiceNow
4 21 (6.00%) Databricks
5 20 (5.71%) SAP
6 15 (4.29%) Salesforce
7 13 (3.71%) Google
8 11 (3.14%) Informatica
8 11 (3.14%) Workday
9 9 (2.57%) Bloomberg
10 8 (2.29%) Alteryx
11 7 (2.00%) Refinitiv
12 4 (1.14%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.14%) Sparx
12 4 (1.14%) Talend
13 3 (0.86%) Foundry
13 3 (0.86%) Hyperion
13 3 (0.86%) Lotus
13 3 (0.86%) Murex
13 3 (0.86%) Palantir