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 2 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 116 101
Rank change year-on-year -47 -15 +48
Contract jobs citing Data Management 370 342 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.54% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.74% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 206 252
10th Percentile £305 £319 £350
25th Percentile £413 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.35%
75th Percentile £653 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £775 £805
England median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 10
10th Percentile £17.00 - £21.80
25th Percentile £19.01 £17.00 £26.01
Median hourly rate £23.07 £22.73 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% -58.68% +66.64%
75th Percentile £41.00 £25.00 £90.88
90th Percentile £41.78 £25.68 £97.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £29.33 £39.68
% change year-on-year -0.89% -26.08% +20.24%

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 18,082 12,478 14,464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.84% 92.59% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,221 9,471
10th Percentile £358 £331 £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 £663 £669 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £512 £525
% change year-on-year +2.64% -2.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 330 246 179
10th Percentile £16.04 £17.98 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £25.00 £24.17
Median hourly rate £32.50 £30.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.44% -14.79% -5.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £47.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.08 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.36% -41.51% -3.37%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 47 £525 -4.64% 97
West London -15 12 £275 -34.52% 24
East London +7 6 £503 -25.56% 1
North London 0 1 £550 -
South London -10 1 - - 5
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 16 (4.32%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.24%) CMS
3 11 (2.97%) Confluence
4 10 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.89%) WordPress
6 5 (1.35%) Apache
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
8 1 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 32 (8.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.51%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (1.89%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 13 (3.51%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.43%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.35%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.08%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.81%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.27%) IntelliMatch
8 1 (0.27%) Markit EDM
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.27%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.27%) SAP CAR
8 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
8 1 (0.27%) Summit
8 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 79 (21.35%) Azure
2 51 (13.78%) Power Platform
3 35 (9.46%) AWS
4 30 (8.11%) Collibra
5 20 (5.41%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 19 (5.14%) PowerApps
7 17 (4.59%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (4.32%) Snowflake
9 15 (4.05%) GCP
10 14 (3.78%) Alation
10 14 (3.78%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 8 (2.16%) Azure Databricks
13 8 (2.16%) GitHub
14 7 (1.89%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.62%) Amazon S3
15 6 (1.62%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.62%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.08%) SMS
2 2 (0.54%) Broadband
2 2 (0.54%) Firewall
2 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (18.92%) Metadata
2 37 (10.00%) Power BI
3 26 (7.03%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.49%) SQL Server
5 23 (6.22%) Data Lake
6 21 (5.68%) Tableau
7 11 (2.97%) Relational Database
8 10 (2.70%) Delta Lake
8 10 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.16%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
11 6 (1.62%) Ataccama
11 6 (1.62%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
13 4 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.08%) Looker
14 3 (0.81%) Apache Cassandra
14 3 (0.81%) GIS
14 3 (0.81%) Power Query
14 3 (0.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 26 (7.03%) JIRA
2 11 (2.97%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.70%) Selenium
4 9 (2.43%) ERwin
4 9 (2.43%) Git
5 7 (1.89%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.62%) JMeter
7 5 (1.35%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.08%) Postman
9 3 (0.81%) MLflow
10 2 (0.54%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.54%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.54%) eggPlant
10 2 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 2 (0.54%) SoapUI
10 2 (0.54%) SOAtest
10 2 (0.54%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.27%) SilkTest
11 1 (0.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 148 (40.00%) Finance
2 123 (33.24%) Social Skills
3 79 (21.35%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.97%) Banking
5 40 (10.81%) Public Sector
6 25 (6.76%) Organisational Skills
7 23 (6.22%) Marketing
8 16 (4.32%) Front Office
9 15 (4.05%) Retail
10 14 (3.78%) Legal
11 13 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (3.51%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.43%) Local Government
12 9 (2.43%) Manufacturing
13 8 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.35%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.35%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (17.84%) Analyst
2 45 (12.16%) Architect
3 38 (10.27%) Lead
4 33 (8.92%) Developer
5 29 (7.84%) Data Analyst
6 28 (7.57%) Business Analyst
6 28 (7.57%) Senior
7 26 (7.03%) Consultant
8 25 (6.76%) Data Architect
9 18 (4.86%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.59%) Data Manager
11 16 (4.32%) Data Consultant
12 11 (2.97%) Governance Analyst
12 11 (2.97%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.70%) Administrator
13 10 (2.70%) Project Manager
14 9 (2.43%) Senior Analyst
14 9 (2.43%) Technical Leader
14 9 (2.43%) Test Manager
14 9 (2.43%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (5.41%) REST
2 15 (4.05%) Kafka
3 10 (2.70%) .NET
3 10 (2.70%) RESTful
4 9 (2.43%) HTML
4 9 (2.43%) JSON
5 8 (2.16%) Middleware
5 8 (2.16%) PySpark
5 8 (2.16%) Terraform
5 8 (2.16%) XML
6 7 (1.89%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.35%) CSS
8 4 (1.08%) SOAP
8 4 (1.08%) Web Services
8 4 (1.08%) XSD
9 3 (0.81%) .NET Core
9 3 (0.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.81%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (0.81%) Playwright
9 3 (0.81%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.19%) Data Structures
1 34 (9.19%) Onboarding
2 33 (8.92%) Management Information System
3 28 (7.57%) Reference Data
4 20 (5.41%) Cloud Native
5 18 (4.86%) Product Ownership
6 14 (3.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 10 (2.70%) Fixed Income
8 9 (2.43%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.89%) Equities
9 7 (1.89%) Life Science
10 6 (1.62%) Pricing Data
10 6 (1.62%) Reinsurance
10 6 (1.62%) Social Media
11 5 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
11 5 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (1.35%) FMCG
11 5 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.35%) Replication
11 5 (1.35%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.08%) Windows
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (39.46%) Data Governance
2 121 (32.70%) Stakeholder Management
3 110 (29.73%) Agile
4 78 (21.08%) AI
4 78 (21.08%) Data Modelling
5 75 (20.27%) Problem-Solving
6 73 (19.73%) Analytics
7 70 (18.92%) Migration
8 64 (17.30%) Data Architecture
9 62 (16.76%) Validation
10 56 (15.14%) ETL
11 54 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 49 (13.24%) DevOps
12 49 (13.24%) Metadata Management
13 46 (12.43%) Business Intelligence
13 46 (12.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 45 (12.16%) Roadmaps
15 43 (11.62%) CI/CD
15 43 (11.62%) Test Automation
16 42 (11.35%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 102 (27.57%) SQL
2 51 (13.78%) Python
3 25 (6.76%) C#
4 22 (5.95%) Java
5 14 (3.78%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.70%) X++
7 6 (1.62%) TypeScript
7 6 (1.62%) VBA
8 5 (1.35%) T-SQL
9 4 (1.08%) Bicep
9 4 (1.08%) R
10 3 (0.81%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 2 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (0.54%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.54%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.27%) C
12 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 54 (14.59%) Security Cleared
2 46 (12.43%) SC Cleared
3 41 (11.08%) Degree
4 14 (3.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (3.24%) DV Cleared
6 9 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (2.16%) PMI Certification
8 7 (1.89%) PMP
9 4 (1.08%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.81%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.81%) ISEB
10 3 (0.81%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.81%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.54%) CAPM
11 2 (0.54%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.54%) IIBA
11 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (35.14%) Data Quality
2 37 (10.00%) GDPR
3 28 (7.57%) QA
4 13 (3.51%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.97%) PMO
6 6 (1.62%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.08%) ISO 20022
7 4 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.54%) EMIR
8 2 (0.54%) IFRS
8 2 (0.54%) IFRS 17
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%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 3 (0.81%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 66 (17.84%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.00%) Databricks
3 31 (8.38%) Salesforce
4 27 (7.30%) Oracle
5 21 (5.68%) Informatica
6 15 (4.05%) SAP
7 11 (2.97%) Bloomberg
8 10 (2.70%) IBM
9 8 (2.16%) Charles River
10 7 (1.89%) Google
10 7 (1.89%) Sitecore
11 6 (1.62%) Refinitiv
11 6 (1.62%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 5 (1.35%) MarketAxess
12 5 (1.35%) ServiceNow
12 5 (1.35%) Tradeweb
12 5 (1.35%) UiPath
13 4 (1.08%) Murex
13 4 (1.08%) Pardot
13 4 (1.08%) Talend