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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 116 110
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +47
Contract jobs citing Data Management 360 337 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.49% 2.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.05% 2.70% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 210 266
10th Percentile £294 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £569
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +1.10% -5.21%
75th Percentile £650 £749 £688
90th Percentile £752 £875 £791
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 12
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% -34.30%
75th Percentile £41.00 £30.33 £28.01
90th Percentile £41.44 £57.54 £42.23
England median hourly rate £37.50 £31.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.55% -20.24% +17.65%

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 17,566 12,468 15,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.96% 92.16% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,659 8,340 10,970
10th Percentile £360 £331 £350
25th Percentile £444 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.18% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 272 235 285
10th Percentile £17.60 £16.50 £16.24
25th Percentile £22.16 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £36.25 £32.50 £30.16
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% +7.76% -27.33%
75th Percentile £58.75 £50.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.55 £69.20
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% -6.09%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 -30 45 £513 -6.82% 27
West London -4 14 £275 -34.52% 6
South London -12 2 - - 2
East London +2 1 £180 -73.33% 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 24 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 18 (5.00%) Confluence
3 12 (3.33%) CMS
4 10 (2.78%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.94%) WordPress
6 5 (1.39%) Apache
6 5 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
7 4 (1.11%) Palantir Foundry
8 3 (0.83%) ArcGIS
8 3 (0.83%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.56%) Mendix
10 1 (0.28%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 37 (10.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (2.50%) MS Visio
5 7 (1.94%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.78%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (1.94%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (1.39%) Fidessa
6 4 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (1.11%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.83%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 1 (0.28%) Alphatax
9 1 (0.28%) CA PPM
9 1 (0.28%) Dynamics GP
9 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.28%) Oracle EBS R12
9 1 (0.28%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.28%) SAP CAR
9 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.28%) SAP POS DM
9 1 (0.28%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 74 (20.56%) Azure
2 65 (18.06%) Power Platform
3 41 (11.39%) AWS
4 24 (6.67%) Collibra
5 22 (6.11%) PowerApps
6 19 (5.28%) GCP
7 16 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
8 13 (3.61%) Microsoft Purview
8 13 (3.61%) Snowflake
9 12 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 11 (3.06%) Microsoft 365
10 11 (3.06%) SaaS
11 10 (2.78%) PaaS
12 9 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (1.94%) Serverless
14 6 (1.67%) Salesforce Einstein
14 6 (1.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 5 (1.39%) Entra ID
15 5 (1.39%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.39%) WAN
2 4 (1.11%) LAN
2 4 (1.11%) PSTN
2 4 (1.11%) Unified Communications
2 4 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.83%) SMS
4 1 (0.28%) Firewall
4 1 (0.28%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.28%) Intranet
4 1 (0.28%) Network Security
4 1 (0.28%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (13.89%) Metadata
2 47 (13.06%) Power BI
3 30 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (7.50%) Data Lake
5 23 (6.39%) Tableau
6 17 (4.72%) SQL Server
7 8 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (1.94%) NoSQL
9 6 (1.67%) Oracle Database
9 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 5 (1.39%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.39%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.39%) GIS
10 5 (1.39%) Power Query
10 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 5 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (1.11%) Big Data
11 4 (1.11%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 31 (8.61%) JIRA
2 8 (2.22%) ERwin
3 7 (1.94%) Git
4 5 (1.39%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.11%) JMeter
5 4 (1.11%) Selenium
6 3 (0.83%) REST Assured
6 3 (0.83%) Zephyr
7 2 (0.56%) MLflow
7 2 (0.56%) Postman
7 2 (0.56%) Toad
8 1 (0.28%) Appium
8 1 (0.28%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.28%) GCC
8 1 (0.28%) Gradle
8 1 (0.28%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.28%) LSMW
8 1 (0.28%) Maven
8 1 (0.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 1 (0.28%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 138 (38.33%) Finance
2 115 (31.94%) Social Skills
3 82 (22.78%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (10.83%) Banking
5 34 (9.44%) Public Sector
6 26 (7.22%) Marketing
7 18 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (3.61%) Influencing Skills
8 13 (3.61%) Legal
9 12 (3.33%) Retail
10 11 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 11 (3.06%) Financial Institution
11 10 (2.78%) Front Office
12 8 (2.22%) Investment Banking
13 7 (1.94%) Back Office
13 7 (1.94%) Local Government
13 7 (1.94%) Manufacturing
14 6 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 5 (1.39%) Military
16 4 (1.11%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 79 (21.94%) Analyst
2 50 (13.89%) Lead
3 43 (11.94%) Architect
4 39 (10.83%) Data Analyst
5 33 (9.17%) Business Analyst
6 31 (8.61%) Senior
7 29 (8.06%) Data Architect
8 22 (6.11%) Consultant
8 22 (6.11%) Developer
9 21 (5.83%) Data Engineer
10 17 (4.72%) Data Manager
11 11 (3.06%) Administrator
11 11 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.78%) Governance Analyst
13 9 (2.50%) Data Business Analyst
13 9 (2.50%) Senior Analyst
13 9 (2.50%) Test Manager
14 7 (1.94%) Data Administrator
14 7 (1.94%) Data Consultant
14 7 (1.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (1.94%) REST
2 6 (1.67%) .NET
2 6 (1.67%) JSON
2 6 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.67%) XML
3 5 (1.39%) Middleware
3 5 (1.39%) RESTful
4 4 (1.11%) FIX Protocol
4 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (0.83%) HTML
5 3 (0.83%) Kafka
5 3 (0.83%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (0.83%) PySpark
5 3 (0.83%) YAML
6 2 (0.56%) ADO
6 2 (0.56%) CSS
6 2 (0.56%) GeoJSON
6 2 (0.56%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (0.56%) PostGIS
6 2 (0.56%) React
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.28%) Management Information System
2 22 (6.11%) Onboarding
3 19 (5.28%) Reference Data
4 18 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 16 (4.44%) Cloud Native
6 12 (3.33%) Data Structures
7 10 (2.78%) Product Ownership
7 10 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (2.22%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.22%) FMCG
9 8 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.67%) Life Science
10 6 (1.67%) Social Media
11 5 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
11 5 (1.39%) Equities
11 5 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (1.11%) Freedom of Information
12 4 (1.11%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.28%) Linux
2 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (36.94%) Data Governance
2 109 (30.28%) Stakeholder Management
3 103 (28.61%) Agile
4 87 (24.17%) Migration
5 81 (22.50%) Data Modelling
6 70 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
7 69 (19.17%) Analytics
8 63 (17.50%) Data Architecture
9 59 (16.39%) ETL
10 58 (16.11%) AI
11 56 (15.56%) Validation
12 55 (15.28%) Business Intelligence
13 49 (13.61%) Decision-Making
14 47 (13.06%) Data Analysis
15 46 (12.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 46 (12.78%) Data Migration
16 43 (11.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 41 (11.39%) DevOps
18 39 (10.83%) CRM
18 39 (10.83%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 95 (26.39%) SQL
2 49 (13.61%) Python
3 15 (4.17%) C#
3 15 (4.17%) Java
4 7 (1.94%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.94%) T-SQL
4 7 (1.94%) VBA
5 5 (1.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 5 (1.39%) PowerShell
6 4 (1.11%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.11%) X++
7 3 (0.83%) Bicep
7 3 (0.83%) Scala
7 3 (0.83%) VB.NET
8 2 (0.56%) Apex Code
8 2 (0.56%) Formula Language
8 2 (0.56%) LotusScript
8 2 (0.56%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.28%) R
9 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (15.56%) Degree
2 42 (11.67%) Security Cleared
3 32 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 14 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 11 (3.06%) DV Cleared
6 10 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (2.22%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.39%) CBAP
8 5 (1.39%) IIBA
9 4 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.11%) ISTQB
10 3 (0.83%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (0.56%) PMP
12 1 (0.28%) MBA
12 1 (0.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.28%) RIBA
12 1 (0.28%) SAP Certification
12 1 (0.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (34.17%) Data Quality
2 40 (11.11%) GDPR
2 40 (11.11%) QA
3 13 (3.61%) Accessibility
4 8 (2.22%) PMO
5 6 (1.67%) Solvency II
6 4 (1.11%) COREP
6 4 (1.11%) FINREP
7 3 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.56%) EMIR
8 2 (0.56%) MiFID
8 2 (0.56%) PERC
9 1 (0.28%) AIFMD
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.28%) NCSC
9 1 (0.28%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
2 4 (1.11%) Terraform
3 3 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 3 (0.83%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.28%) Grafana
4 1 (0.28%) Kibana
4 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (16.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (8.61%) Databricks
3 29 (8.06%) Oracle
3 29 (8.06%) Salesforce
4 16 (4.44%) SAP
5 15 (4.17%) Informatica
6 11 (3.06%) Bloomberg
7 8 (2.22%) Charles River
8 7 (1.94%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 7 (1.94%) Sitecore
9 6 (1.67%) Google
10 5 (1.39%) GoldenSource
10 5 (1.39%) Murex
10 5 (1.39%) Refinitiv
11 4 (1.11%) Foundry
11 4 (1.11%) Palantir
11 4 (1.11%) Pardot
12 3 (0.83%) MarketAxess
12 3 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 3 (0.83%) Tradeweb