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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 108 101
Rank change year-on-year -52 -7 +49
Contract jobs citing Data Management 374 349 389
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.85% 2.60% 2.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.81% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 206 246
10th Percentile £307 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £700
90th Percentile £763 £761 £800
England median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 8
10th Percentile £17.40 - £21.40
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.00 £24.55
Median hourly rate £26.13 £22.73 £35.17
Median % change year-on-year +14.98% -35.39% -14.30%
75th Percentile £41.00 £25.00 £75.94
90th Percentile £41.82 £25.68 £97.50
England median hourly rate £29.99 £30.32 £39.68
% change year-on-year -1.10% -23.59% +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 17,943 12,436 14,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.88% 92.58% 89.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,720 8,226 9,619
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 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 298 251 180
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.92 £31.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -10.00% -12.31%
75th Percentile £56.81 £48.13 £55.00
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -1.91%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -36 48 £525 -4.55% 102
West London -12 13 £275 -34.52% 23
East London +5 5 £503 -25.56% 12
South London -7 2 - - 11
North London 0 1 £550 -
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 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.94%) Confluence
3 10 (2.67%) Apache Spark
3 10 (2.67%) CMS
4 7 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
4 7 (1.87%) WordPress
5 5 (1.34%) Apache
6 3 (0.80%) ArcGIS
7 2 (0.53%) Anypoint
7 2 (0.53%) 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 36 (9.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (3.21%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.14%) Spreadsheet
4 5 (1.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.80%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.53%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 14 (3.74%) Aladdin
2 9 (2.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (1.60%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (1.34%) Fidessa
4 5 (1.34%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (1.07%) SAP MDG
6 3 (0.80%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.53%) NetSuite
8 1 (0.27%) CA PPM
8 1 (0.27%) Endur
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.27%) SAP AFS
8 1 (0.27%) SAP APO
8 1 (0.27%) SAP IBP
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 74 (19.79%) Azure
2 55 (14.71%) Power Platform
3 35 (9.36%) AWS
4 31 (8.29%) Collibra
5 19 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
5 19 (5.08%) PowerApps
6 17 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
7 15 (4.01%) GCP
7 15 (4.01%) Microsoft Purview
7 15 (4.01%) Snowflake
8 14 (3.74%) Power Automate
9 12 (3.21%) Alation
10 11 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
11 9 (2.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 8 (2.14%) Azure Databricks
13 7 (1.87%) dbt
13 7 (1.87%) GitHub
13 7 (1.87%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 6 (1.60%) Salesforce Einstein
14 6 (1.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.07%) SMS
2 2 (0.53%) Broadband
2 2 (0.53%) HTTPS
3 1 (0.27%) Firewall
3 1 (0.27%) Internet
3 1 (0.27%) Network Security
3 1 (0.27%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.27%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (18.98%) Metadata
2 41 (10.96%) Power BI
3 25 (6.68%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 22 (5.88%) Tableau
5 20 (5.35%) SQL Server
6 10 (2.67%) Delta Lake
6 10 (2.67%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.14%) NoSQL
9 7 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.60%) Ataccama
11 5 (1.34%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.34%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.34%) Power Query
12 4 (1.07%) GIS
12 4 (1.07%) Looker
13 3 (0.80%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.80%) Data Vault
13 3 (0.80%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 28 (7.49%) JIRA
2 11 (2.94%) Visual Studio
3 10 (2.67%) ERwin
3 10 (2.67%) Selenium
4 8 (2.14%) Git
5 7 (1.87%) ER Studio
6 6 (1.60%) JMeter
7 4 (1.07%) Jenkins
8 3 (0.80%) MLflow
8 3 (0.80%) Postman
8 3 (0.80%) Zephyr
9 2 (0.53%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.53%) eggPlant
9 2 (0.53%) Gradle
9 2 (0.53%) Maven
9 2 (0.53%) SOAtest
10 1 (0.27%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.27%) SilkTest
10 1 (0.27%) SoapUI
10 1 (0.27%) WebDriver
General
1 151 (40.37%) Finance
2 127 (33.96%) Social Skills
3 83 (22.19%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (12.03%) Banking
5 39 (10.43%) Public Sector
6 23 (6.15%) Marketing
6 23 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.01%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (4.01%) Retail
8 14 (3.74%) Front Office
8 14 (3.74%) Legal
9 12 (3.21%) Documentation Skills
9 12 (3.21%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.94%) Manufacturing
11 9 (2.41%) Financial Institution
11 9 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.41%) Local Government
12 7 (1.87%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.60%) Pharmaceutical
14 5 (1.34%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 70 (18.72%) Analyst
2 44 (11.76%) Architect
3 42 (11.23%) Lead
4 34 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 31 (8.29%) Developer
6 28 (7.49%) Consultant
6 28 (7.49%) Senior
7 26 (6.95%) Business Analyst
8 25 (6.68%) Data Architect
9 17 (4.55%) Data Manager
10 16 (4.28%) Data Consultant
10 16 (4.28%) Data Engineer
11 12 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.94%) Governance Analyst
13 10 (2.67%) Administrator
13 10 (2.67%) Test Manager
14 9 (2.41%) Project Manager
14 9 (2.41%) Technical Leader
15 8 (2.14%) Senior Analyst
16 7 (1.87%) Governance Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.55%) REST
2 13 (3.48%) Kafka
3 10 (2.67%) JSON
3 10 (2.67%) RESTful
4 8 (2.14%) .NET
4 8 (2.14%) HTML
4 8 (2.14%) Middleware
4 8 (2.14%) PySpark
4 8 (2.14%) XML
5 7 (1.87%) FIX Protocol
5 7 (1.87%) Terraform
6 5 (1.34%) CSS
7 4 (1.07%) SOAP
7 4 (1.07%) XSD
8 3 (0.80%) Lightning Web Components
8 3 (0.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (0.80%) Playwright
8 3 (0.80%) Spring
8 3 (0.80%) Spring Boot
8 3 (0.80%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.36%) Data Structures
2 34 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 34 (9.09%) Onboarding
3 26 (6.95%) Reference Data
4 19 (5.08%) Product Ownership
5 18 (4.81%) Cloud Native
6 14 (3.74%) Analytical Mindset
7 11 (2.94%) Fixed Income
8 7 (1.87%) Equities
8 7 (1.87%) FMCG
8 7 (1.87%) Life Science
8 7 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.60%) Pricing Data
9 6 (1.60%) Reinsurance
9 6 (1.60%) Social Media
10 5 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
10 5 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (1.34%) Replication
10 5 (1.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.80%) Windows
2 2 (0.53%) Linux
3 1 (0.27%) Android
3 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (39.84%) Data Governance
2 118 (31.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 109 (29.14%) Agile
4 79 (21.12%) Analytics
5 77 (20.59%) Problem-Solving
6 76 (20.32%) Data Modelling
7 71 (18.98%) AI
7 71 (18.98%) Migration
8 68 (18.18%) Data Architecture
9 62 (16.58%) Validation
10 55 (14.71%) ETL
11 52 (13.90%) Business Intelligence
11 52 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
12 50 (13.37%) Metadata Management
13 47 (12.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 46 (12.30%) DevOps
14 46 (12.30%) Roadmaps
15 45 (12.03%) Decision-Making
16 42 (11.23%) Data Analysis
16 42 (11.23%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 106 (28.34%) SQL
2 49 (13.10%) Python
3 24 (6.42%) C#
4 21 (5.61%) Java
5 14 (3.74%) JavaScript
6 10 (2.67%) X++
7 7 (1.87%) VBA
8 6 (1.60%) TypeScript
9 5 (1.34%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.07%) PL/SQL
11 3 (0.80%) Bicep
12 2 (0.53%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 2 (0.53%) R
12 2 (0.53%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.27%) C
13 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.27%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.27%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 50 (13.37%) Security Cleared
2 43 (11.50%) SC Cleared
3 42 (11.23%) Degree
4 12 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
4 12 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 9 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.87%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.60%) PMP
8 5 (1.34%) ISTQB
9 3 (0.80%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.80%) ISEB
9 3 (0.80%) Master's Degree
9 3 (0.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (0.53%) CAPM
10 2 (0.53%) CBAP
10 2 (0.53%) IIBA
10 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (36.90%) Data Quality
2 38 (10.16%) GDPR
3 30 (8.02%) QA
4 14 (3.74%) Accessibility
5 11 (2.94%) PMO
6 6 (1.60%) Solvency II
7 5 (1.34%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.53%) COREP
9 2 (0.53%) EMIR
9 2 (0.53%) FINREP
9 2 (0.53%) IFRS
9 2 (0.53%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.53%) MiFID
9 2 (0.53%) PERC
10 1 (0.27%) AIFMD
10 1 (0.27%) GRC
10 1 (0.27%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (0.53%) Docker
2 1 (0.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.80%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.27%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.27%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 61 (16.31%) Microsoft
2 36 (9.63%) Databricks
3 30 (8.02%) Salesforce
4 28 (7.49%) Oracle
5 21 (5.61%) Informatica
6 16 (4.28%) SAP
7 10 (2.67%) Bloomberg
8 8 (2.14%) Charles River
8 8 (2.14%) IBM
9 7 (1.87%) Google
9 7 (1.87%) Sitecore
10 6 (1.60%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 5 (1.34%) GoldenSource
11 5 (1.34%) MarketAxess
11 5 (1.34%) Refinitiv
11 5 (1.34%) Tradeweb
12 4 (1.07%) Murex
12 4 (1.07%) ServiceNow
12 4 (1.07%) Talend
12 4 (1.07%) UiPath