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

6 months to
23 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 110 113
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 +25
Contract jobs citing Data Management 367 348 363
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.82% 2.58% 2.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 2.79% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 208 239
10th Percentile £307 £321 £349
25th Percentile £407 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £801 £825
England median daily rate £513 £513 £550
% change year-on-year - -6.82% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 8
10th Percentile - £22.58 £21.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £23.45 £24.55
Median hourly rate £40.96 £25.00 £27.92
Median % change year-on-year +63.84% -10.46% -31.97%
75th Percentile £41.22 - £50.00
90th Percentile £41.92 £26.35 £77.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.64% -5.71% +6.06%

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 17,998 12,460 14,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 89.21% 92.49% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,805 8,287 10,011
10th Percentile £360 £325 £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 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £778 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 257 191
10th Percentile £17.50 £16.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.85 £24.77 £22.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +18.33% -15.49% -11.25%
75th Percentile £57.13 £47.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% -

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 23 August 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 23 August 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 23 August 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 -27 49 £525 -12.50% 37
West London -11 14 £275 -34.52% 10
East London +3 3 £503 -25.56% 4
South London -4 2 - - 3
North London -3 1 £550 +57.14% 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 18 (4.90%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.27%) CMS
3 11 (3.00%) Apache Spark
3 11 (3.00%) Confluence
4 7 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.91%) WordPress
5 6 (1.63%) Apache
6 3 (0.82%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.54%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.54%) HCL Notes
7 2 (0.54%) Mule
7 2 (0.54%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.27%) Mendix
8 1 (0.27%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 36 (9.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.18%) Spreadsheet
4 6 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.82%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.54%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (4.09%) Aladdin
2 10 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.63%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (1.63%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (1.63%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.36%) Fidessa
5 4 (1.09%) SAP MDG
5 4 (1.09%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.54%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.27%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
7 1 (0.27%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.27%) SAP AFS
7 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
7 1 (0.27%) SAP MDM
7 1 (0.27%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.27%) SimCorp Dimension
7 1 (0.27%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 76 (20.71%) Azure
2 54 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 41 (11.17%) AWS
4 25 (6.81%) Collibra
5 21 (5.72%) PowerApps
6 20 (5.45%) Dynamics 365
7 19 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (4.63%) GCP
9 16 (4.36%) Snowflake
10 15 (4.09%) Power Automate
11 12 (3.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 11 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
13 8 (2.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (1.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
15 6 (1.63%) Copilot Studio
15 6 (1.63%) dbt
15 6 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
15 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (1.63%) Salesforce Einstein
15 6 (1.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.82%) SMS
2 2 (0.54%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Intranet
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (17.17%) Metadata
2 39 (10.63%) Power BI
3 26 (7.08%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (6.54%) Data Lake
5 21 (5.72%) Tableau
6 17 (4.63%) SQL Server
7 10 (2.72%) Delta Lake
7 10 (2.72%) Relational Database
8 9 (2.45%) PostgreSQL
9 8 (2.18%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.63%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.36%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.36%) Power Query
12 4 (1.09%) Big Data
12 4 (1.09%) GIS
13 3 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.82%) Hadoop
13 3 (0.82%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 28 (7.63%) JIRA
2 12 (3.27%) Selenium
3 11 (3.00%) Visual Studio
4 10 (2.72%) ERwin
4 10 (2.72%) Git
5 7 (1.91%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.63%) JMeter
7 5 (1.36%) Zephyr
8 4 (1.09%) Jenkins
9 3 (0.82%) MLflow
9 3 (0.82%) Postman
10 2 (0.54%) Gradle
10 2 (0.54%) Maven
10 2 (0.54%) REST Assured
11 1 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.27%) GCC
11 1 (0.27%) LoadRunner
11 1 (0.27%) LSMW
11 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 147 (40.05%) Finance
2 124 (33.79%) Social Skills
3 86 (23.43%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (11.72%) Banking
5 35 (9.54%) Public Sector
6 24 (6.54%) Marketing
7 21 (5.72%) Organisational Skills
8 16 (4.36%) Retail
9 14 (3.81%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.81%) Legal
10 13 (3.54%) Front Office
11 11 (3.00%) Financial Institution
11 11 (3.00%) Investment Banking
12 10 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (2.45%) Manufacturing
14 8 (2.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 7 (1.91%) Local Government
16 6 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
16 6 (1.63%) Retail Banking
17 5 (1.36%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (18.26%) Analyst
2 46 (12.53%) Architect
3 44 (11.99%) Lead
4 34 (9.26%) Data Analyst
5 30 (8.17%) Developer
6 29 (7.90%) Consultant
7 27 (7.36%) Data Architect
7 27 (7.36%) Senior
8 24 (6.54%) Business Analyst
9 17 (4.63%) Data Engineer
10 16 (4.36%) Data Manager
11 15 (4.09%) Data Consultant
12 14 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
13 12 (3.27%) Test Manager
14 11 (3.00%) Administrator
15 9 (2.45%) Data Modeller
15 9 (2.45%) Governance Analyst
16 8 (2.18%) Technical Leader
17 7 (1.91%) Governance Consultant
17 7 (1.91%) Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.36%) REST
2 11 (3.00%) JSON
3 10 (2.72%) Kafka
4 9 (2.45%) RESTful
5 8 (2.18%) .NET
5 8 (2.18%) PySpark
5 8 (2.18%) XML
6 7 (1.91%) Middleware
6 7 (1.91%) Terraform
7 5 (1.36%) FIX Protocol
7 5 (1.36%) HTML
7 5 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.09%) XSD
9 3 (0.82%) Lightning Web Components
9 3 (0.82%) Playwright
9 3 (0.82%) SOAP
10 2 (0.54%) .NET Core
10 2 (0.54%) JWT
10 2 (0.54%) LangChain
10 2 (0.54%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.08%) Management Information System
2 31 (8.45%) Data Structures
3 29 (7.90%) Onboarding
4 26 (7.08%) Reference Data
5 20 (5.45%) Cloud Native
6 17 (4.63%) Product Ownership
7 16 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
8 11 (3.00%) Fixed Income
9 8 (2.18%) FMCG
10 7 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
11 6 (1.63%) Equities
11 6 (1.63%) Life Science
11 6 (1.63%) Social Media
12 5 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
12 5 (1.36%) Distributed Systems
12 5 (1.36%) Greenfield Project
12 5 (1.36%) Pricing Data
13 4 (1.09%) Blog
13 4 (1.09%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.82%) Windows
2 2 (0.54%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (39.24%) Data Governance
2 111 (30.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 96 (26.16%) Agile
4 79 (21.53%) Data Modelling
5 77 (20.98%) Migration
6 75 (20.44%) Analytics
7 74 (20.16%) Problem-Solving
8 69 (18.80%) Data Architecture
9 67 (18.26%) AI
10 58 (15.80%) ETL
11 57 (15.53%) Validation
12 54 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
13 51 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
14 45 (12.26%) Metadata Management
15 44 (11.99%) DevOps
16 43 (11.72%) Data Analysis
16 43 (11.72%) Data Migration
17 41 (11.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 38 (10.35%) CRM
18 38 (10.35%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 108 (29.43%) SQL
2 53 (14.44%) Python
3 22 (5.99%) Java
4 21 (5.72%) C#
5 10 (2.72%) JavaScript
5 10 (2.72%) X++
6 7 (1.91%) VBA
7 6 (1.63%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.09%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.82%) Bicep
9 3 (0.82%) TypeScript
9 3 (0.82%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.54%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.27%) C
11 1 (0.27%) Formula Language
11 1 (0.27%) LotusScript
11 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.27%) R
11 1 (0.27%) Scala
11 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (13.35%) Security Cleared
2 44 (11.99%) Degree
3 42 (11.44%) SC Cleared
4 12 (3.27%) DV Cleared
5 11 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (2.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.63%) ISTQB
8 4 (1.09%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.82%) ISEB
9 3 (0.82%) PMI Certification
9 3 (0.82%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.54%) CBAP
10 2 (0.54%) IIBA
10 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.54%) PMP
11 1 (0.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (36.24%) Data Quality
2 35 (9.54%) GDPR
3 31 (8.45%) QA
4 12 (3.27%) Accessibility
5 8 (2.18%) PMO
6 5 (1.36%) ISO 20022
6 5 (1.36%) Solvency II
7 4 (1.09%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.82%) COREP
8 3 (0.82%) FINREP
8 3 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.54%) EMIR
9 2 (0.54%) MiFID
9 2 (0.54%) PERC
10 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.27%) GMP
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (0.82%) HP ALM
1 3 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 54 (14.71%) Microsoft
2 35 (9.54%) Databricks
3 30 (8.17%) Oracle
3 30 (8.17%) Salesforce
4 15 (4.09%) Informatica
4 15 (4.09%) SAP
5 10 (2.72%) Bloomberg
6 8 (2.18%) Charles River
7 7 (1.91%) Sitecore
8 6 (1.63%) Google
8 6 (1.63%) IBM
9 5 (1.36%) GoldenSource
9 5 (1.36%) MarketAxess
9 5 (1.36%) Refinitiv
9 5 (1.36%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 5 (1.36%) Tradeweb
10 4 (1.09%) Murex
10 4 (1.09%) Pardot
10 4 (1.09%) Sparx
11 3 (0.82%) HP