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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 92 110
Rank change year-on-year -38 +18 +58
Contract jobs citing Data Management 351 362 392
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.92% 2.98% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 3.23% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 244 274
10th Percentile £304 £352 £363
25th Percentile £400 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £650 £550
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £763 £680
90th Percentile £738 £938 £784
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 11
10th Percentile - £22.87 -
25th Percentile £19.03 £24.23 £18.25
Median hourly rate £28.55 £25.00 £20.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.20% +20.71% -5.86%
75th Percentile £41.00 £30.33 £25.12
90th Percentile £41.54 £57.54 £27.84
England median hourly rate £32.75 £30.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +9.15% -25.00% +7.24%

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 16,221 11,218 15,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.65% 92.28% 88.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,826 7,519 11,090
10th Percentile £358 £350 £340
25th Percentile £435 £431 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -6.78%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £800
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 192 320
10th Percentile £18.07 £16.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.19 £24.54 £20.00
Median hourly rate £37.00 £32.25 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.73% +15.18% -28.97%
75th Percentile £58.92 £49.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £78.63 £63.23 £68.08
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%

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 2 June 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 June 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 June 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 -43 38 £540 -1.82% 38
West London -12 16 £275 -34.52% 4
East London -5 2 £428 -36.67% 3
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 26 (7.41%) SharePoint
2 22 (6.27%) Confluence
3 11 (3.13%) CMS
4 8 (2.28%) Apache Spark
4 8 (2.28%) HCL Notes
4 8 (2.28%) Mendix
5 6 (1.71%) WordPress
6 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (1.14%) Palantir Foundry
7 3 (0.85%) Apache
7 3 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.85%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 37 (10.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (5.70%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (4.27%) MS Visio
5 8 (2.28%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.71%) Aladdin
1 6 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.42%) Oracle ERP
3 4 (1.14%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.85%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.57%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
6 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.28%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.28%) IntelliMatch
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MDM
6 1 (0.28%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 73 (20.80%) Azure
2 68 (19.37%) Power Platform
3 36 (10.26%) AWS
4 25 (7.12%) PowerApps
5 19 (5.41%) Collibra
6 18 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.56%) GCP
7 16 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
8 15 (4.27%) Power Automate
9 14 (3.99%) Dynamics 365
9 14 (3.99%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.42%) SaaS
10 12 (3.42%) Serverless
11 10 (2.85%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (2.56%) Azure Functions
12 9 (2.56%) Microsoft Purview
13 8 (2.28%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (2.28%) Azure Service Bus
13 8 (2.28%) SuccessFactors
14 7 (1.99%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.14%) LAN
1 4 (1.14%) PSTN
1 4 (1.14%) SMS
1 4 (1.14%) Unified Communications
1 4 (1.14%) WAN
1 4 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (0.28%) Intranet
2 1 (0.28%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.53%) Power BI
2 45 (12.82%) Metadata
3 33 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
4 21 (5.98%) Data Lake
5 18 (5.13%) Tableau
6 17 (4.84%) SQL Server
7 13 (3.70%) Oracle Database
8 8 (2.28%) NoSQL
8 8 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
9 7 (1.99%) Delta Lake
9 7 (1.99%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.42%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.42%) Metadata Repository
10 5 (1.42%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.14%) GIS
11 4 (1.14%) OLAP
11 4 (1.14%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 32 (9.12%) JIRA
2 8 (2.28%) ERwin
3 6 (1.71%) Git
4 4 (1.14%) Selenium
4 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio
5 3 (0.85%) JMeter
5 3 (0.85%) Toad
5 3 (0.85%) Zephyr
6 2 (0.57%) MLflow
6 2 (0.57%) Postman
6 2 (0.57%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.28%) Appium
7 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.28%) ER Studio
7 1 (0.28%) GCC
7 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 140 (39.89%) Finance
2 115 (32.76%) Social Skills
3 83 (23.65%) Analytical Skills
4 34 (9.69%) Banking
5 33 (9.40%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.55%) Marketing
7 20 (5.70%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.27%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.99%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (2.56%) Legal
11 7 (1.99%) Front Office
11 7 (1.99%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.71%) Back Office
12 6 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.71%) Local Government
13 5 (1.42%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.42%) Retail
14 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.14%) Multimedia
15 3 (0.85%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 82 (23.36%) Analyst
2 55 (15.67%) Lead
3 40 (11.40%) Business Analyst
4 35 (9.97%) Architect
4 35 (9.97%) Data Analyst
5 34 (9.69%) Senior
6 26 (7.41%) Data Architect
7 25 (7.12%) Developer
8 22 (6.27%) Consultant
9 21 (5.98%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.56%) Data Manager
11 15 (4.27%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.70%) Administrator
13 10 (2.85%) Data Business Analyst
13 10 (2.85%) Governance Analyst
14 9 (2.56%) Data Administrator
15 8 (2.28%) Data Modeller
15 8 (2.28%) Power Platform Developer
16 7 (1.99%) Data Consultant
16 7 (1.99%) Implementation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.85%) .NET
2 8 (2.28%) HTML5 Canvas
2 8 (2.28%) React
2 8 (2.28%) REST
3 7 (1.99%) JSON
3 7 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (1.71%) PySpark
4 6 (1.71%) XML
5 5 (1.42%) RESTful
6 4 (1.14%) CSS
6 4 (1.14%) HTML
6 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Graph
6 4 (1.14%) YAML
7 3 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (0.85%) Middleware
8 2 (0.57%) ADO
8 2 (0.57%) NumPy
8 2 (0.57%) PostGIS
8 2 (0.57%) PyTorch
8 2 (0.57%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 40 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 25 (7.12%) Onboarding
3 14 (3.99%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.99%) Cloud Native
3 14 (3.99%) Reference Data
4 12 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (2.56%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.28%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.99%) Fixed Income
9 6 (1.71%) Life Science
10 5 (1.42%) FMCG
10 5 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
11 4 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
11 4 (1.14%) IoT
11 4 (1.14%) Replication
11 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (32.48%) Data Governance
2 93 (26.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 90 (25.64%) Agile
4 86 (24.50%) Data Modelling
4 86 (24.50%) Migration
5 75 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (16.81%) Analytics
7 58 (16.52%) Business Intelligence
8 57 (16.24%) ETL
9 55 (15.67%) Decision-Making
10 54 (15.38%) Data Architecture
11 46 (13.11%) AI
12 44 (12.54%) Data Migration
13 43 (12.25%) Validation
14 42 (11.97%) Data Analysis
14 42 (11.97%) DevOps
15 41 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 40 (11.40%) Data Engineering
17 38 (10.83%) Continuous Improvement
18 36 (10.26%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 98 (27.92%) SQL
2 50 (14.25%) Python
3 16 (4.56%) C#
4 13 (3.70%) Java
5 12 (3.42%) JavaScript
6 8 (2.28%) Formula Language
6 8 (2.28%) LotusScript
7 7 (1.99%) T-SQL
8 6 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 5 (1.42%) PowerShell
9 5 (1.42%) VBA
10 4 (1.14%) X++
11 3 (0.85%) Bicep
11 3 (0.85%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.85%) Scala
11 3 (0.85%) TypeScript
12 1 (0.28%) C
12 1 (0.28%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.28%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (17.38%) Degree
2 47 (13.39%) Security Cleared
3 39 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 9 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 8 (2.28%) CBAP
7 8 (2.28%) IIBA
8 7 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.42%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.14%) PMP
11 3 (0.85%) AWS Certification
11 3 (0.85%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 2 (0.57%) PhD
13 1 (0.28%) Numerate Degree
13 1 (0.28%) RIBA
13 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 110 (31.34%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.83%) QA
3 34 (9.69%) GDPR
4 10 (2.85%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 4 (1.14%) COREP
5 4 (1.14%) FINREP
5 4 (1.14%) PMO
6 3 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (0.85%) Solvency II
7 2 (0.57%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) Basel III
8 1 (0.28%) GAAP
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS
8 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) NCSC
8 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.42%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (1.42%) Terraform
2 4 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (0.85%) HP ALM
4 2 (0.57%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.28%) Grafana
5 1 (0.28%) Kibana
Vendors
1 62 (17.66%) Microsoft
2 37 (10.54%) Oracle
3 29 (8.26%) Databricks
4 26 (7.41%) Salesforce
5 14 (3.99%) SAP
6 10 (2.85%) Bloomberg
6 10 (2.85%) Informatica
7 8 (2.28%) Kofax
7 8 (2.28%) Lotus
8 6 (1.71%) Google
8 6 (1.71%) Sitecore
9 5 (1.42%) Charles River
9 5 (1.42%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.42%) Refinitiv
10 4 (1.14%) Foundry
10 4 (1.14%) Murex
10 4 (1.14%) Palantir
10 4 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 3 (0.85%) FactSet
11 3 (0.85%) ServiceNow