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

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 72 109
Rank change year-on-year -48 +37 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Management 355 456 408
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.41% 3.36% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 3.71% 2.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 301 298
10th Percentile £313 £325 £410
25th Percentile £406 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £566
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.87% -9.40%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £750
England median daily rate £490 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.55% -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 15
10th Percentile - £23.78 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £58.10 £18.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £92.50 £24.97
Median % change year-on-year -80.54% +270.44% -23.17%
75th Percentile £21.19 £97.50 £49.92
90th Percentile £25.13 - £64.22
England median hourly rate £24.21 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -25.52% -4.41% -48.68%

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 13,417 12,298 16,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.90% 90.53% 88.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,905 7,768 11,834
10th Percentile £350 £350 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 153 347
10th Percentile £18.25 £21.05 £16.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £25.23 £19.15
Median hourly rate £34.50 £35.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +18.33% -18.06%
75th Percentile £56.00 £53.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £72.00 £79.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -53 32 £500 -5.88% 40
West London -16 6 £500 +25.00% 9
East London -5 1 £675 +68.75% 3
South London -11 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 19 (5.35%) Confluence
2 18 (5.07%) SharePoint
3 10 (2.82%) HCL Notes
4 9 (2.54%) Mendix
5 5 (1.41%) Apache
6 4 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.85%) Apache Spark
8 1 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) CMS
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
8 1 (0.28%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.28%) SAS
Applications
1 37 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (6.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (5.35%) Microsoft Office
4 15 (4.23%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.69%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (1.13%) ProjectWise
7 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.28%) Navisworks
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Smart View
7 1 (0.28%) Revit
7 1 (0.28%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 8 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.41%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.41%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.85%) Markit EDM
3 3 (0.85%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.85%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.56%) Eagle PACE
4 2 (0.56%) Fidessa
4 2 (0.56%) FIS Private Capital Suite
4 2 (0.56%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.56%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.56%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.56%) SimCorp Dimension
4 2 (0.56%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.28%) Actimize
5 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
5 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.28%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 85 (23.94%) Azure
2 61 (17.18%) Power Platform
3 41 (11.55%) AWS
4 30 (8.45%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.35%) PowerApps
5 19 (5.35%) Serverless
6 17 (4.79%) SaaS
7 16 (4.51%) GCP
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Functions
8 15 (4.23%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (4.23%) Collibra
8 15 (4.23%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.23%) PaaS
8 15 (4.23%) Snowflake
9 14 (3.94%) Azure Service Bus
10 13 (3.66%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.10%) OCI
12 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.97%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.97%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.13%) LAN
1 4 (1.13%) PSTN
1 4 (1.13%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.13%) WAN
1 4 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.85%) NAS
3 2 (0.56%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) 2G
4 1 (0.28%) 4G
4 1 (0.28%) 5G
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) IPv4
4 1 (0.28%) MQTT
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.28%) SAN
4 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.28%) VLAN
4 1 (0.28%) WebEx
4 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (15.21%) Power BI
2 35 (9.86%) Data Warehouse
2 35 (9.86%) Metadata
3 21 (5.92%) Tableau
4 17 (4.79%) SQL Server
5 12 (3.38%) Data Lake
5 12 (3.38%) Oracle Database
6 11 (3.10%) Oracle Reports
7 10 (2.82%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.54%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.54%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.97%) MySQL
10 5 (1.41%) RDBMS
11 4 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 4 (1.13%) GIS
11 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (1.13%) Star Schema
12 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.85%) Oracle OLAP
12 3 (0.85%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 47 (13.24%) JIRA
2 12 (3.38%) GitLab
3 9 (2.54%) ERwin
4 7 (1.97%) Git
5 4 (1.13%) Appium
6 3 (0.85%) JMeter
6 3 (0.85%) Postman
6 3 (0.85%) PowerDesigner
7 2 (0.56%) TestRail
7 2 (0.56%) Toad
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.28%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.28%) MLflow
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.28%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.28%) Selenium
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 150 (42.25%) Finance
2 148 (41.69%) Social Skills
3 96 (27.04%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.11%) Banking
5 23 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.20%) Financial Institution
7 19 (5.35%) Marketing
8 14 (3.94%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.82%) Retail
11 9 (2.54%) Front Office
12 8 (2.25%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.25%) Legal
12 8 (2.25%) Local Government
13 7 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 7 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.69%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.41%) Law
15 5 (1.41%) Military
Job Titles
1 85 (23.94%) Analyst
2 46 (12.96%) Business Analyst
3 45 (12.68%) Lead
4 38 (10.70%) Developer
5 37 (10.42%) Architect
6 34 (9.58%) Data Analyst
7 32 (9.01%) Senior
8 26 (7.32%) Consultant
9 16 (4.51%) Data Architect
9 16 (4.51%) Data Modeller
10 15 (4.23%) Data Engineer
11 14 (3.94%) Data Business Analyst
11 14 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.66%) ServiceNow Developer
13 12 (3.38%) Data Manager
14 10 (2.82%) Governance Analyst
14 10 (2.82%) Power Platform Developer
15 9 (2.54%) Oracle Consultant
16 7 (1.97%) Solutions Architect
16 7 (1.97%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.20%) Oracle Fusion
1 22 (6.20%) REST
2 17 (4.79%) SOAP
3 15 (4.23%) .NET
4 12 (3.38%) React
5 9 (2.54%) HTML5 Canvas
6 8 (2.25%) XML
7 6 (1.69%) JSON
7 6 (1.69%) Kafka
8 4 (1.13%) LangChain
8 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Graph
8 4 (1.13%) NumPy
8 4 (1.13%) Pandas
8 4 (1.13%) PySpark
8 4 (1.13%) WebdriverIO
8 4 (1.13%) YAML
9 3 (0.85%) Hugging Face
9 3 (0.85%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.85%) pydantic
9 3 (0.85%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 23 (6.48%) Onboarding
2 22 (6.20%) Data Structures
3 19 (5.35%) Management Information System
4 13 (3.66%) CMDB
5 12 (3.38%) Legacy Systems
6 11 (3.10%) Product Ownership
6 11 (3.10%) Reference Data
7 10 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.82%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.97%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.69%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (1.41%) Cloud Native
10 5 (1.41%) Derivative
10 5 (1.41%) IoT
11 4 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.13%) Mobile App
11 4 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 3 (0.85%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.13%) Android
1 4 (1.13%) Apple iOS
1 4 (1.13%) Windows
2 2 (0.56%) Linux
3 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (32.11%) Agile
2 107 (30.14%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (26.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 89 (25.07%) Data Modelling
5 86 (24.23%) Data Governance
6 80 (22.54%) Analytics
7 68 (19.15%) Migration
8 62 (17.46%) Business Intelligence
9 58 (16.34%) DevOps
10 51 (14.37%) Decision-Making
10 51 (14.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 46 (12.96%) Validation
12 44 (12.39%) Roadmaps
12 44 (12.39%) Visualisation
13 41 (11.55%) CI/CD
13 41 (11.55%) ETL
14 39 (10.99%) Project Management
15 36 (10.14%) Requirements Gathering
16 35 (9.86%) Data Engineering
16 35 (9.86%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 92 (25.92%) SQL
2 44 (12.39%) Python
3 33 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.23%) C#
5 10 (2.82%) Formula Language
5 10 (2.82%) LotusScript
6 8 (2.25%) Groovy
7 6 (1.69%) Java
7 6 (1.69%) PowerShell
7 6 (1.69%) TypeScript
8 5 (1.41%) VBA
9 4 (1.13%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.13%) R
10 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.56%) Bicep
11 2 (0.56%) MATLAB
11 2 (0.56%) Scala
11 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 54 (15.21%) Security Cleared
2 49 (13.80%) Degree
3 40 (11.27%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.10%) Master's Degree
6 8 (2.25%) IIBA
7 7 (1.97%) CBAP
8 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (1.13%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 3 (0.85%) PhD
9 3 (0.85%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.85%) PMP
10 2 (0.56%) APMP
10 2 (0.56%) CIPD
10 2 (0.56%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) OCA
10 2 (0.56%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.28%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (25.07%) Data Quality
2 32 (9.01%) QA
3 29 (8.17%) GDPR
4 9 (2.54%) PMO
5 7 (1.97%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 6 (1.69%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.41%) IFRS
8 4 (1.13%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.85%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.56%) Basel III
10 2 (0.56%) EMIR
10 2 (0.56%) GAAP
10 2 (0.56%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.56%) MiFID
11 1 (0.28%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.28%) FATCA
11 1 (0.28%) GxP
11 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 1 (0.28%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.97%) Terraform
2 4 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (0.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.28%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 62 (17.46%) Microsoft
2 50 (14.08%) Oracle
3 28 (7.89%) Databricks
4 18 (5.07%) Salesforce
5 17 (4.79%) ServiceNow
6 16 (4.51%) SAP
7 15 (4.23%) Informatica
8 10 (2.82%) Google
8 10 (2.82%) Lotus
9 9 (2.54%) Kofax
10 8 (2.25%) Bloomberg
11 7 (1.97%) Workday
12 5 (1.41%) Alteryx
12 5 (1.41%) Charles River
13 4 (1.13%) Dynatrace
13 4 (1.13%) Murex
13 4 (1.13%) Talend
13 4 (1.13%) Yardi
14 3 (0.85%) Refinitiv
14 3 (0.85%) Sparx