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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 75 101
Rank change year-on-year -41 +26 +50
Contract jobs citing Data Management 346 452 414
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.40% 3.28% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.63% 3.62% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 230 297 300
10th Percentile £313 £325 £418
25th Percentile £410 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% -4.35% -8.00%
75th Percentile £625 £762 £688
90th Percentile £714 £938 £751
England median daily rate £492 £525 £553
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.98% -5.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 10
10th Percentile - £23.24 £18.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.20 £25.07
Median hourly rate £18.00 £92.50 £36.15
Median % change year-on-year -80.54% +155.90% +11.22%
75th Percentile £21.19 £97.50 £60.50
90th Percentile £25.13 - £64.88
England median hourly rate £22.27 £32.50 £41.03
% change year-on-year -31.49% -20.78% -38.07%

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 13,151 12,474 16,212
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.19% 90.40% 88.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,703 7,941 11,571
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 153 290
10th Percentile £18.25 £20.15 £16.25
25th Percentile £24.61 £24.66 £19.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £30.63
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +14.29% -14.93%
75th Percentile £55.00 £53.75 £53.69
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.60 £73.66
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 January 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 20 January 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 -45 32 £538 - 17
West London -14 5 £500 +25.00% 3
East London -6 1 £675 +68.75% 4
South London -7 1 - - 4
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 15 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.47%) Confluence
3 10 (2.89%) HCL Notes
4 9 (2.60%) Mendix
5 5 (1.45%) Apache
6 4 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.87%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.29%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.29%) CMS
9 1 (0.29%) Oracle Application Server
9 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 33 (9.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (4.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
4 11 (3.18%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.73%) ProjectWise
5 6 (1.73%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.29%) Navisworks
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.29%) Revit
6 1 (0.29%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (2.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.45%) Aladdin
2 5 (1.45%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.16%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.87%) Markit EDM
4 3 (0.87%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (0.87%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.58%) Eagle PACE
5 2 (0.58%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 2 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
5 2 (0.58%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.58%) Temenos T24
6 1 (0.29%) Fidessa
6 1 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.29%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.29%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP FS
6 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 76 (21.97%) Azure
2 55 (15.90%) Power Platform
3 37 (10.69%) AWS
4 28 (8.09%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.49%) Serverless
6 17 (4.91%) Collibra
7 16 (4.62%) GCP
8 15 (4.34%) Azure Functions
8 15 (4.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (4.34%) PowerApps
9 14 (4.05%) Azure Service Bus
9 14 (4.05%) Snowflake
10 12 (3.47%) Power Automate
11 11 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
11 11 (3.18%) SaaS
12 10 (2.89%) OCI
13 9 (2.60%) PaaS
14 7 (2.02%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.87%) NAS
2 2 (0.58%) SMS
3 1 (0.29%) 2G
3 1 (0.29%) 4G
3 1 (0.29%) 5G
3 1 (0.29%) Intranet
3 1 (0.29%) IPv4
3 1 (0.29%) MQTT
3 1 (0.29%) Network Security
3 1 (0.29%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.29%) SAN
3 1 (0.29%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.29%) VLAN
3 1 (0.29%) WebEx
3 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (15.03%) Power BI
2 37 (10.69%) Metadata
3 31 (8.96%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (5.20%) Tableau
5 14 (4.05%) SQL Server
6 12 (3.47%) Oracle Database
7 11 (3.18%) Data Lake
8 10 (2.89%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (2.60%) Relational Database
10 8 (2.31%) NoSQL
10 8 (2.31%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.73%) MySQL
12 5 (1.45%) GIS
12 5 (1.45%) RDBMS
12 5 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 4 (1.16%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.16%) Data Hub
13 4 (1.16%) Power Query
13 4 (1.16%) Star Schema
14 3 (0.87%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 42 (12.14%) JIRA
2 13 (3.76%) GitLab
3 6 (1.73%) Git
4 5 (1.45%) ERwin
4 5 (1.45%) JMeter
5 4 (1.16%) Appium
5 4 (1.16%) Selenium
6 3 (0.87%) Postman
6 3 (0.87%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.87%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.58%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.58%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.58%) Gatling
7 2 (0.58%) JUnit
7 2 (0.58%) TestNG
7 2 (0.58%) TestRail
8 1 (0.29%) Gemini Tracker
8 1 (0.29%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.29%) MLflow
8 1 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 149 (43.06%) Finance
2 143 (41.33%) Social Skills
3 96 (27.75%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.43%) Banking
5 25 (7.23%) Financial Institution
6 22 (6.36%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.20%) Marketing
8 14 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
9 11 (3.18%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.89%) Local Government
10 10 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (2.60%) Front Office
11 9 (2.60%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.60%) Legal
11 9 (2.60%) Retail
12 7 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (1.73%) Corporate Banking
13 6 (1.73%) Telecoms
14 5 (1.45%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 77 (22.25%) Analyst
2 42 (12.14%) Lead
3 40 (11.56%) Developer
4 38 (10.98%) Architect
5 37 (10.69%) Business Analyst
6 32 (9.25%) Data Analyst
7 28 (8.09%) Consultant
8 27 (7.80%) Senior
9 16 (4.62%) Data Architect
10 15 (4.34%) Data Engineer
10 15 (4.34%) Data Modeller
11 13 (3.76%) ServiceNow Developer
12 12 (3.47%) Governance Analyst
13 11 (3.18%) Data Business Analyst
13 11 (3.18%) Data Manager
13 11 (3.18%) Senior Analyst
14 10 (2.89%) Power Platform Developer
15 9 (2.60%) Oracle Consultant
16 7 (2.02%) Project Manager
16 7 (2.02%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.36%) Oracle Fusion
1 22 (6.36%) REST
2 17 (4.91%) SOAP
3 15 (4.34%) .NET
4 12 (3.47%) React
5 9 (2.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 6 (1.73%) JSON
6 6 (1.73%) Kafka
6 6 (1.73%) XML
7 5 (1.45%) MIDP
8 4 (1.16%) LangChain
8 4 (1.16%) NumPy
8 4 (1.16%) Pandas
8 4 (1.16%) PySpark
8 4 (1.16%) WebdriverIO
9 3 (0.87%) Hugging Face
9 3 (0.87%) LangGraph
9 3 (0.87%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.87%) pydantic
9 3 (0.87%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 24 (6.94%) Onboarding
2 20 (5.78%) Data Structures
2 20 (5.78%) Management Information System
3 13 (3.76%) CMDB
4 11 (3.18%) Legacy Systems
4 11 (3.18%) Product Ownership
5 10 (2.89%) Low-Code
5 10 (2.89%) Reference Data
6 9 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.02%) Fixed Income
8 6 (1.73%) Derivative
8 6 (1.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (1.73%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.45%) Cloud Native
9 5 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.16%) Mobile App
10 4 (1.16%) Virtual Team
11 3 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.87%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.16%) Android
1 4 (1.16%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.58%) Linux
2 2 (0.58%) Windows
3 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (29.77%) Agile
2 102 (29.48%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (24.28%) Data Governance
3 84 (24.28%) Stakeholder Management
4 80 (23.12%) Data Modelling
5 79 (22.83%) Analytics
6 60 (17.34%) Business Intelligence
7 57 (16.47%) Migration
8 56 (16.18%) DevOps
9 49 (14.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 47 (13.58%) Validation
11 44 (12.72%) CI/CD
11 44 (12.72%) Decision-Making
12 43 (12.43%) Roadmaps
13 40 (11.56%) Visualisation
14 39 (11.27%) ETL
15 37 (10.69%) Data Analysis
16 36 (10.40%) Data Architecture
17 35 (10.12%) Data Integration
17 35 (10.12%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (26.01%) SQL
2 41 (11.85%) Python
3 34 (9.83%) JavaScript
4 15 (4.34%) C#
5 10 (2.89%) Formula Language
5 10 (2.89%) Java
5 10 (2.89%) LotusScript
6 8 (2.31%) Groovy
7 5 (1.45%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.45%) VBA
8 4 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 4 (1.16%) R
9 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.58%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.58%) Bicep
10 2 (0.58%) MATLAB
10 2 (0.58%) PowerShell
10 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.29%) C++
11 1 (0.29%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 47 (13.58%) Security Cleared
2 35 (10.12%) Degree
3 34 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 9 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 9 (2.60%) Master's Degree
5 4 (1.16%) IIBA
6 3 (0.87%) CBAP
6 3 (0.87%) MCP
6 3 (0.87%) PhD
6 3 (0.87%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.87%) PMP
7 2 (0.58%) APMP
7 2 (0.58%) CIPD
7 2 (0.58%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.58%) ISTQB
7 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (0.58%) OCA
7 2 (0.58%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.29%) CFA
8 1 (0.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (24.28%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.83%) QA
3 27 (7.80%) GDPR
4 9 (2.60%) PMO
5 7 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.73%) ISO 19650
7 5 (1.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 5 (1.45%) IFRS
8 4 (1.16%) Solvency II
9 3 (0.87%) IFRS 17
10 2 (0.58%) Basel III
10 2 (0.58%) EMIR
10 2 (0.58%) GAAP
10 2 (0.58%) MiFID
11 1 (0.29%) Dodd-Frank
11 1 (0.29%) FATCA
11 1 (0.29%) GxP
11 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (1.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.02%) Terraform
2 5 (1.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.29%) Thomson Reuters DACS
Vendors
1 52 (15.03%) Microsoft
2 49 (14.16%) Oracle
3 26 (7.51%) Databricks
4 17 (4.91%) SAP
4 17 (4.91%) ServiceNow
5 15 (4.34%) Salesforce
6 12 (3.47%) Informatica
7 11 (3.18%) Bloomberg
8 10 (2.89%) Google
8 10 (2.89%) Lotus
9 9 (2.60%) Kofax
10 7 (2.02%) Refinitiv
10 7 (2.02%) Workday
11 6 (1.73%) Alteryx
12 4 (1.16%) Dynatrace
12 4 (1.16%) Murex
12 4 (1.16%) Talend
12 4 (1.16%) Yardi
13 3 (0.87%) Instagram
13 3 (0.87%) Optimizely