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

6 months to
26 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 109 115
Rank change year-on-year -48 +6 +28
Contract jobs citing Data Management 371 348 365
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.60% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.07% 2.81% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 208 240
10th Percentile £310 £321 £349
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £801 £825
England median daily rate £513 £511 £550
% change year-on-year +0.24% -7.05% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 8
10th Percentile - £19.50 £21.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £22.36 £24.55
Median hourly rate £40.96 £24.23 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +69.08% -13.23% -31.97%
75th Percentile £41.22 £25.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £41.92 £26.13 £77.38
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 17,880 12,372 14,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.06% 92.50% 88.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,699 8,236 9,976
10th Percentile £360 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £784 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 291 254 191
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.47% -12.16% -12.50%
75th Percentile £56.63 £48.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -29 49 £525 -8.70% 46
West London -5 14 £275 -34.52% 18
East London +3 3 £503 -25.56% 7
South London -10 2 - - 1
North London -3 1 £550 +57.14%
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 18 (4.85%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.23%) Confluence
3 11 (2.96%) Apache Spark
3 11 (2.96%) CMS
4 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.89%) WordPress
5 6 (1.62%) Apache
6 3 (0.81%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) Mendix
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 36 (9.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.96%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.16%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.04%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.70%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.62%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.35%) Fidessa
5 4 (1.08%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
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
Cloud Services
1 75 (20.22%) Azure
2 54 (14.56%) Power Platform
3 39 (10.51%) AWS
4 26 (7.01%) Collibra
5 21 (5.66%) PowerApps
6 20 (5.39%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (4.31%) GCP
9 15 (4.04%) Power Automate
9 15 (4.04%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Purview
11 11 (2.96%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (2.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 7 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.62%) Copilot Studio
14 6 (1.62%) dbt
14 6 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
14 6 (1.62%) Microsoft Copilot
14 6 (1.62%) Salesforce Einstein
14 6 (1.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) SMS
2 2 (0.54%) 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 68 (18.33%) Metadata
2 39 (10.51%) Power BI
3 25 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (6.20%) Data Lake
5 22 (5.93%) Tableau
6 18 (4.85%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.96%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.70%) Relational Database
9 9 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
10 8 (2.16%) NoSQL
11 6 (1.62%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.62%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.35%) Power Query
13 4 (1.08%) Big Data
13 4 (1.08%) GIS
14 3 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.81%) Hadoop
14 3 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
14 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (7.82%) JIRA
2 12 (3.23%) Selenium
3 11 (2.96%) ERwin
3 11 (2.96%) Visual Studio
4 9 (2.43%) Git
5 8 (2.16%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.62%) JMeter
7 5 (1.35%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.08%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.81%) MLflow
9 3 (0.81%) Postman
10 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.27%) GCC
11 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.27%) LSMW
11 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 153 (41.24%) Finance
2 126 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 86 (23.18%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.59%) Banking
5 36 (9.70%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.20%) Marketing
7 20 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (4.04%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (4.04%) Retail
9 14 (3.77%) Legal
10 13 (3.50%) Front Office
11 11 (2.96%) Financial Institution
12 10 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
12 10 (2.70%) Investment Banking
13 8 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.89%) Local Government
15 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (1.35%) Back Office
16 5 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (18.87%) Analyst
2 44 (11.86%) Architect
3 43 (11.59%) Lead
4 34 (9.16%) Data Analyst
5 31 (8.36%) Developer
6 29 (7.82%) Consultant
6 29 (7.82%) Senior
7 26 (7.01%) Business Analyst
8 25 (6.74%) Data Architect
9 17 (4.58%) Data Engineer
9 17 (4.58%) Data Manager
10 15 (4.04%) Data Consultant
11 13 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.23%) Test Manager
13 11 (2.96%) Administrator
14 10 (2.70%) Governance Analyst
15 9 (2.43%) Data Modeller
16 8 (2.16%) Technical Leader
17 7 (1.89%) Governance Consultant
17 7 (1.89%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.31%) REST
2 12 (3.23%) Kafka
3 11 (2.96%) JSON
4 9 (2.43%) PySpark
4 9 (2.43%) RESTful
5 8 (2.16%) .NET
5 8 (2.16%) HTML
5 8 (2.16%) Middleware
5 8 (2.16%) XML
6 7 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (1.89%) Terraform
7 5 (1.35%) CSS
7 5 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.08%) SOAP
8 4 (1.08%) XSD
9 3 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.81%) Playwright
9 3 (0.81%) Spring
9 3 (0.81%) Spring Boot
10 2 (0.54%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.70%) Management Information System
2 32 (8.63%) Data Structures
3 29 (7.82%) Onboarding
4 28 (7.55%) Reference Data
5 19 (5.12%) Cloud Native
6 18 (4.85%) Product Ownership
7 14 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (2.96%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.16%) FMCG
9 8 (2.16%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.89%) Equities
11 6 (1.62%) Life Science
11 6 (1.62%) Pricing Data
11 6 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
12 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.35%) Social Media
13 4 (1.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
13 4 (1.08%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.81%) Windows
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (39.62%) Data Governance
2 114 (30.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 99 (26.68%) Agile
4 81 (21.83%) Data Modelling
5 80 (21.56%) Migration
6 78 (21.02%) Analytics
7 77 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
8 68 (18.33%) AI
9 67 (18.06%) Data Architecture
10 59 (15.90%) Validation
11 57 (15.36%) ETL
12 54 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (13.75%) Business Intelligence
14 48 (12.94%) Metadata Management
15 46 (12.40%) DevOps
16 45 (12.13%) Data Migration
17 44 (11.86%) Data Analysis
17 44 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 42 (11.32%) Decision-Making
19 40 (10.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 106 (28.57%) SQL
2 50 (13.48%) Python
3 23 (6.20%) Java
4 21 (5.66%) C#
5 13 (3.50%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.70%) X++
7 7 (1.89%) VBA
8 6 (1.62%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.08%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.08%) TypeScript
10 3 (0.81%) Bicep
10 3 (0.81%) VB.NET
11 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.54%) R
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Formula Language
12 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
12 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 51 (13.75%) Security Cleared
2 45 (12.13%) Degree
3 44 (11.86%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (1.62%) ISTQB
7 4 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.08%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.81%) ISEB
8 3 (0.81%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
9 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (0.54%) CBAP
9 2 (0.54%) IIBA
9 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.54%) PMP
10 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 134 (36.12%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.43%) GDPR
3 31 (8.36%) QA
4 12 (3.23%) Accessibility
5 9 (2.43%) PMO
6 5 (1.35%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.35%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.81%) COREP
7 3 (0.81%) FINREP
7 3 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.54%) EMIR
8 2 (0.54%) MiFID
8 2 (0.54%) PERC
9 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.27%) GMP
9 1 (0.27%) GRC
9 1 (0.27%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.81%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.81%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 55 (14.82%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.70%) Databricks
3 31 (8.36%) Oracle
3 31 (8.36%) Salesforce
4 15 (4.04%) Informatica
4 15 (4.04%) SAP
5 10 (2.70%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.16%) Charles River
6 8 (2.16%) IBM
7 7 (1.89%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.62%) Google
8 6 (1.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.35%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.35%) MarketAxess
9 5 (1.35%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.35%) Tradeweb
10 4 (1.08%) Murex
10 4 (1.08%) Pardot
10 4 (1.08%) Sparx
11 3 (0.81%) Guidewire