Data Management Contracts in the North of England

Data Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 96 142
Rank change year-on-year +14 +46 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Management 89 89 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.66% 1.89% 1.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.96% 2.23% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 57 39
10th Percentile £313 £379 £361
25th Percentile £400 £450 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £645
90th Percentile £689 £585 £705
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 5
10th Percentile £22.63 - -
25th Percentile £22.72 £13.50 -
Median hourly rate £27.50 £20.25 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +35.80% -33.69% +3.53%
75th Percentile £29.90 £33.00 £66.00
90th Percentile £47.00 £35.00 £66.60
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -25.00% +7.24% +6.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,004 3,989 4,996
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.83% 84.76% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,936 2,423 3,432
10th Percentile £267 £300 £302
25th Percentile £381 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £645 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 379 203
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.99 £12.53 £15.74
Median hourly rate £25.15 £19.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +28.97% -29.60% +45.79%
75th Percentile £51.00 £46.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £62.50 £63.75
England median hourly rate £28.53 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.93% - +50.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the North of England

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. 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
North West +2 61 £508 +1.50% 98
Yorkshire +20 28 £450 -12.20% 50
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.99%) IBM Domino
2 6 (6.74%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (5.62%) Apache
3 5 (5.62%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
5 1 (1.12%) Confluence
5 1 (1.12%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (1.12%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.12%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 5 (5.62%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.12%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.22%) Azure
2 8 (8.99%) GCP
2 8 (8.99%) Power Platform
3 5 (5.62%) AWS
3 5 (5.62%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (4.49%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (4.49%) SaaS
5 3 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.25%) OCI
6 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (1.12%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.12%) Google Ads
7 1 (1.12%) IaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.12%) PaaS
7 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.12%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) Firewall
2 9 (10.11%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.74%) Network Security
4 3 (3.37%) LAN
4 3 (3.37%) SAN
4 3 (3.37%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.48%) Metadata
1 12 (13.48%) Tableau
2 8 (8.99%) Data Warehouse
2 8 (8.99%) Power BI
3 5 (5.62%) Flink
4 4 (4.49%) Azure SQL Database
5 3 (3.37%) Big Data
5 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
5 3 (3.37%) Delta Lake
6 2 (2.25%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.25%) GIS
6 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
6 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.12%) Essbase
7 1 (1.12%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.12%) Pentaho
7 1 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.11%) Git
1 9 (10.11%) Jenkins
1 9 (10.11%) Postman
2 2 (2.25%) ERwin
3 1 (1.12%) Gradle
3 1 (1.12%) JIRA
3 1 (1.12%) JUnit
General
1 29 (32.58%) Social Skills
2 26 (29.21%) Finance
3 24 (26.97%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.74%) Pharmaceutical
5 5 (5.62%) Banking
5 5 (5.62%) Legal
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Retail
7 2 (2.25%) Law
7 2 (2.25%) Local Government
7 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.12%) Advertising
8 1 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Marketing
8 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (20.22%) Analyst
2 11 (12.36%) Data Analyst
3 8 (8.99%) Coordinator
3 8 (8.99%) CRM Coordinator
3 8 (8.99%) Data Engineer
3 8 (8.99%) Senior
3 8 (8.99%) Technical Coordinator
4 7 (7.87%) Architect
4 7 (7.87%) Lead
5 6 (6.74%) Windows Engineer
6 5 (5.62%) Data Architect
6 5 (5.62%) Technical Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Security Engineer
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Technical Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Data Migration Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.37%) Senior Linux Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) ADO
2 2 (2.25%) PySpark
3 1 (1.12%) Android Jetpack
3 1 (1.12%) Dagger
3 1 (1.12%) Jetpack Compose
3 1 (1.12%) Kafka
3 1 (1.12%) RESTful
3 1 (1.12%) Retrofit
3 1 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.24%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (5.62%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.49%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
4 3 (3.37%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.37%) Robotics
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.25%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.12%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.12%) NHS
6 1 (1.12%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.24%) Windows
2 7 (7.87%) Linux
3 4 (4.49%) Unix
4 3 (3.37%) AIX
4 3 (3.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (3.37%) Solaris
4 3 (3.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (3.37%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.12%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.08%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (23.60%) Agile
2 21 (23.60%) Decision-Making
3 19 (21.35%) Migration
4 17 (19.10%) Data Migration
5 15 (16.85%) Data Governance
5 15 (16.85%) ETL
5 15 (16.85%) Visualisation
6 13 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
6 13 (14.61%) Data Modelling
6 13 (14.61%) DevOps
7 11 (12.36%) Cybersecurity
7 11 (12.36%) Data Pipeline
7 11 (12.36%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 9 (10.11%) Analytics
8 9 (10.11%) Configuration Management
8 9 (10.11%) Data Architecture
8 9 (10.11%) Data Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Data Protection
9 8 (8.99%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.60%) Python
2 18 (20.22%) SQL
3 3 (3.37%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.12%) Korn
4 1 (1.12%) Kotlin
4 1 (1.12%) R
4 1 (1.12%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.12%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (15.73%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.12%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.12%) CIPD
5 1 (1.12%) ISEB
5 1 (1.12%) MCSA
5 1 (1.12%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (21.35%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.49%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.12%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.12%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.12%) PMO
4 1 (1.12%) QA
System Software
1 9 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.37%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.37%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (10.11%) Ansible
1 9 (10.11%) Puppet
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Clustering
3 4 (4.49%) SCCM
4 3 (3.37%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 23 (25.84%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.61%) VMware
3 9 (10.11%) MuleSoft
4 7 (7.87%) Google
4 7 (7.87%) SAP
5 5 (5.62%) Databricks
6 4 (4.49%) Oracle
6 4 (4.49%) Veeam
7 3 (3.37%) Cisco
7 3 (3.37%) Red Hat
7 3 (3.37%) Symantec
7 3 (3.37%) Thycotic
8 2 (2.25%) Commvault
8 2 (2.25%) Informatica
8 2 (2.25%) Kronos
9 1 (1.12%) Apple
9 1 (1.12%) Ariba
9 1 (1.12%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.12%) Darktrace
9 1 (1.12%) Veritas