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 19 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 92 103
Rank change year-on-year -51 +11 +62
Contract jobs citing Data Management 335 370 408
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.86% 2.98% 2.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.11% 3.23% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 254 287
10th Percentile £310 £325 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £638 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.20% +15.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £615 £763 £675
90th Percentile £738 £938 £775
England median daily rate £496 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile - £23.86 -
25th Percentile £19.03 £26.66 £18.25
Median hourly rate £23.27 £61.65 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year -62.26% +197.69% -
75th Percentile £29.88 £93.75 £26.64
90th Percentile £30.59 - £28.43
England median hourly rate £29.07 £30.56 £42.50
% change year-on-year -4.88% -28.09% +5.79%

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 15,883 11,458 15,494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.29% 92.24% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,623 7,744 11,113
10th Percentile £356 £350 £343
25th Percentile £431 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.17%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £680
90th Percentile £758 £809 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 240 179 307
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.37 £15.77
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.83 £20.00
Median hourly rate £36.11 £34.00 £27.84
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +22.13% -25.10%
75th Percentile £57.50 £50.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.75 £66.85
England median hourly rate £45.78 £29.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +57.86% -20.55% +0.29%

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 19 May 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 19 May 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 -41 38 £550 - 17
West London -8 18 £275 -34.52% 1
East London -6 2 £428 -36.67% 8
South London - 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 22 (6.57%) Confluence
1 22 (6.57%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.99%) HCL Notes
2 10 (2.99%) Mendix
3 8 (2.39%) CMS
4 6 (1.79%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.90%) Palantir Foundry
7 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.60%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.30%) Apache
8 1 (0.30%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.30%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 38 (11.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (4.48%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.39%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.79%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (1.49%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.90%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.30%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.30%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.30%) FIS Private Capital Suite
6 1 (0.30%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.30%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.30%) iTrent
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 74 (22.09%) Azure
2 71 (21.19%) Power Platform
3 37 (11.04%) AWS
4 24 (7.16%) PowerApps
5 19 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
6 17 (5.07%) Collibra
6 17 (5.07%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.78%) Power Automate
8 15 (4.48%) Serverless
9 13 (3.88%) GCP
10 12 (3.58%) Dynamics 365
10 12 (3.58%) SaaS
11 11 (3.28%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.99%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.99%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (2.99%) Azure Service Bus
13 9 (2.69%) Snowflake
14 8 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
14 8 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (2.09%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.19%) LAN
1 4 (1.19%) PSTN
1 4 (1.19%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.19%) WAN
1 4 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (0.90%) SMS
3 2 (0.60%) Intranet
4 1 (0.30%) NAS
4 1 (0.30%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (16.72%) Power BI
2 40 (11.94%) Metadata
3 34 (10.15%) Data Warehouse
4 19 (5.67%) Tableau
5 18 (5.37%) Data Lake
6 17 (5.07%) SQL Server
7 13 (3.88%) Oracle Database
8 7 (2.09%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.79%) Delta Lake
9 6 (1.79%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.49%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.49%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.19%) Power Query
12 3 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.90%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 33 (9.85%) JIRA
2 8 (2.39%) ERwin
3 6 (1.79%) Git
4 4 (1.19%) JMeter
4 4 (1.19%) Selenium
4 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.90%) Appium
5 3 (0.90%) Toad
5 3 (0.90%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.60%) GitLab
6 2 (0.60%) MLflow
6 2 (0.60%) Postman
6 2 (0.60%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.30%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.30%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.30%) GCC
7 1 (0.30%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.30%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.30%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 147 (43.88%) Finance
2 118 (35.22%) Social Skills
3 84 (25.07%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (10.15%) Banking
5 30 (8.96%) Public Sector
6 22 (6.57%) Financial Institution
7 21 (6.27%) Marketing
8 15 (4.48%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (4.18%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.39%) Back Office
10 8 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.09%) Front Office
12 6 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.49%) Legal
13 5 (1.49%) Local Government
13 5 (1.49%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.49%) Retail
14 4 (1.19%) Multimedia
14 4 (1.19%) Retail Banking
14 4 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 82 (24.48%) Analyst
2 50 (14.93%) Lead
3 41 (12.24%) Business Analyst
4 34 (10.15%) Data Analyst
4 34 (10.15%) Senior
5 32 (9.55%) Architect
6 24 (7.16%) Developer
7 23 (6.87%) Data Architect
7 23 (6.87%) Data Engineer
8 22 (6.57%) Consultant
9 15 (4.48%) Senior Analyst
10 14 (4.18%) Data Manager
11 11 (3.28%) Data Business Analyst
12 10 (2.99%) Power Platform Developer
13 9 (2.69%) Administrator
13 9 (2.69%) Governance Analyst
14 8 (2.39%) Data Modeller
15 7 (2.09%) Data Administrator
15 7 (2.09%) Implementation Consultant
15 7 (2.09%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (3.58%) .NET
2 10 (2.99%) HTML5 Canvas
2 10 (2.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 10 (2.99%) React
3 7 (2.09%) JSON
4 6 (1.79%) REST
4 6 (1.79%) XML
5 5 (1.49%) PySpark
5 5 (1.49%) RESTful
6 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.19%) YAML
7 3 (0.90%) CSS
7 3 (0.90%) HTML
7 3 (0.90%) LangChain
7 3 (0.90%) NumPy
7 3 (0.90%) Pandas
7 3 (0.90%) pydantic
7 3 (0.90%) PyTorch
7 3 (0.90%) scikit-learn
7 3 (0.90%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 32 (9.55%) Management Information System
2 23 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 14 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (4.18%) Cloud Native
3 14 (4.18%) Reference Data
4 13 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 12 (3.58%) Legacy Systems
5 12 (3.58%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (2.99%) Low-Code
6 10 (2.99%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.79%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
9 6 (1.79%) Life Science
10 5 (1.49%) FMCG
11 4 (1.19%) Blog
11 4 (1.19%) Replication
11 4 (1.19%) Social Media
11 4 (1.19%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.60%) Android
1 2 (0.60%) Apple iOS
1 2 (0.60%) Windows
2 1 (0.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (31.64%) Data Governance
2 88 (26.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 86 (25.67%) Agile
3 86 (25.67%) Data Modelling
4 82 (24.48%) Migration
5 76 (22.69%) Problem-Solving
6 64 (19.10%) Business Intelligence
7 58 (17.31%) Analytics
8 54 (16.12%) Decision-Making
9 50 (14.93%) Data Architecture
9 50 (14.93%) ETL
10 48 (14.33%) Validation
11 44 (13.13%) Data Analysis
12 41 (12.24%) DevOps
13 40 (11.94%) Data Migration
14 39 (11.64%) AI
14 39 (11.64%) Data Engineering
15 36 (10.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (10.15%) Visualisation
17 32 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 96 (28.66%) SQL
2 49 (14.63%) Python
3 18 (5.37%) C#
4 15 (4.48%) JavaScript
5 12 (3.58%) Java
6 10 (2.99%) Formula Language
6 10 (2.99%) LotusScript
7 7 (2.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 7 (2.09%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.79%) VBA
9 5 (1.49%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.49%) TypeScript
10 4 (1.19%) X++
11 3 (0.90%) Bicep
11 3 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.90%) R
11 3 (0.90%) Scala
12 2 (0.60%) Groovy
13 1 (0.30%) C
13 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 60 (17.91%) Degree
2 44 (13.13%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.58%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (3.58%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.39%) CBAP
5 8 (2.39%) DV Cleared
5 8 (2.39%) IIBA
6 5 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 5 (1.49%) PMI Certification
7 4 (1.19%) PMP
8 3 (0.90%) AWS Certification
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Certification
8 3 (0.90%) ISTQB
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (0.90%) PhD
9 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (0.30%) CFA
10 1 (0.30%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (0.30%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (31.94%) Data Quality
2 37 (11.04%) QA
3 26 (7.76%) GDPR
4 8 (2.39%) Accessibility
5 5 (1.49%) PMO
6 4 (1.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 4 (1.19%) COREP
6 4 (1.19%) FINREP
6 4 (1.19%) Solvency II
7 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.30%) Basel III
9 1 (0.30%) EMIR
9 1 (0.30%) GAAP
9 1 (0.30%) IFRS
9 1 (0.30%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.30%) NCSC
9 1 (0.30%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (1.79%) Terraform
2 5 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
4 3 (0.90%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.90%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
Vendors
1 63 (18.81%) Microsoft
2 39 (11.64%) Oracle
3 28 (8.36%) Databricks
4 17 (5.07%) Salesforce
5 15 (4.48%) SAP
6 12 (3.58%) Informatica
7 10 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 10 (2.99%) Kofax
7 10 (2.99%) Lotus
8 7 (2.09%) Google
9 5 (1.49%) Charles River
9 5 (1.49%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.49%) Murex
9 5 (1.49%) Refinitiv
10 3 (0.90%) Adobe
10 3 (0.90%) Braze
10 3 (0.90%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (0.90%) Eze Software Group
10 3 (0.90%) HP
10 3 (0.90%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud