Data Management Contracts in the South East

Data Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 106 149 146
Rank change year-on-year +43 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Data Management 49 51 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.65% 0.91% 1.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.81% 1.09% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 34
10th Percentile £189 £232 £369
25th Percentile £368 £313 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £565
Median % change year-on-year -1.57% -10.09% +2.73%
75th Percentile £569 £594 £647
90th Percentile £701 £745 £735
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £25.74 £26.40 £17.90
25th Percentile £26.62 £37.50 £20.38
Median hourly rate £34.38 £55.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.49% +120.00% -47.37%
75th Percentile £50.13 £57.50 £27.87
90th Percentile £66.55 £58.40 £29.29
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
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,705 4,674 4,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.35% 83.26% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,737 2,697 3,437
10th Percentile £250 £256 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £505
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £619
90th Percentile £656 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 448 218
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.00 £16.16
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
Median % change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.90 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the South East over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the South East

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +47 36 £450 -18.18% 60
Berkshire +20 17 £550 - 35
Oxfordshire - 12 £265 - 25
Buckinghamshire +19 9 £360 -28.00% 11
Kent - 4 £500 - 15
Hampshire +28 3 £525 -22.22% 33
Surrey +15 3 £513 +57.69% 13
West Sussex +11 1 - - 10
Sussex - 1 £500 - 12
Home Counties - 1 - -
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.08%) CATIA
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.04%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.08%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.04%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) AWS
2 7 (14.29%) GCP
3 5 (10.20%) Snowflake
4 4 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.08%) IaaS
5 2 (4.08%) PaaS
6 1 (2.04%) Asana
6 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.04%) Azure API Management
6 1 (2.04%) Azure App Service
6 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.04%) Google Sheets
6 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.12%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (2.04%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.16%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.16%) Metadata
2 4 (8.16%) Power BI
3 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.12%) Power Query
4 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 2 (4.08%) IBM InfoSphere
4 2 (4.08%) MySQL
4 2 (4.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (4.08%) OLAP
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle OLAP
4 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 2 (4.08%) Tableau
5 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.04%) MS Access
5 1 (2.04%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.04%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) ERwin
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
1 2 (4.08%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.04%) Git
2 1 (2.04%) LabVIEW
General
1 16 (32.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.20%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.12%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Banking
6 2 (4.08%) Finance
6 2 (4.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.04%) Advertising
7 1 (2.04%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.04%) Aviation
7 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (16.33%) Analyst
1 8 (16.33%) Data Analyst
2 7 (14.29%) Developer
2 7 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (12.24%) Data Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Data Modeller
5 3 (6.12%) Administrator
5 3 (6.12%) Change Analyst
5 3 (6.12%) Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Data Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) Data Manager
5 3 (6.12%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.12%) React Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Report Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Snowflake Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Finance Modeller
6 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Snowflake Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.12%) React
1 3 (6.12%) RESTful
2 2 (4.08%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (4.08%) GraphQL
2 2 (4.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.04%) .NET
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.04%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.04%) ARM Templates
3 1 (2.04%) Entity Framework
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) OpenID
3 1 (2.04%) Playwright
3 1 (2.04%) REST
3 1 (2.04%) SAML
3 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.16%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) CMDB
3 2 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 2 (4.08%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.04%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 1 (2.04%) Taxonomies
4 1 (2.04%) W3C
4 1 (2.04%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Data Governance
2 11 (22.45%) Agile
2 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.37%) Analytics
3 9 (18.37%) ETL
4 8 (16.33%) Data Modelling
4 8 (16.33%) Migration
5 7 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (14.29%) Data Migration
5 7 (14.29%) Project Management
6 6 (12.24%) Change Management
6 6 (12.24%) Data Security
6 6 (12.24%) Regulatory Compliance
7 5 (10.20%) CI/CD
7 5 (10.20%) Data Integration
7 5 (10.20%) Impact Analysis
7 5 (10.20%) RBAC
7 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (10.20%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 13 (26.53%) SQL
2 8 (16.33%) Python
3 4 (8.16%) Bash
4 3 (6.12%) VBA
5 1 (2.04%) Bicep
5 1 (2.04%) C#
5 1 (2.04%) C++
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.04%) R
5 1 (2.04%) Scala
Qualifications
1 17 (34.69%) Security Cleared
2 11 (22.45%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Degree
4 4 (8.16%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.08%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.08%) PMP
7 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.04%) HNC
7 1 (2.04%) IBM Certification
7 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) GDPR
2 6 (12.24%) Data Quality
3 4 (8.16%) HIPAA
4 2 (4.08%) JSP 440
4 2 (4.08%) QA
5 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.04%) ISO 14001
5 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.16%) IBM
2 4 (8.16%) Oracle
3 2 (4.08%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
3 2 (4.08%) Sparx
3 2 (4.08%) Talend
4 1 (2.04%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.04%) BMC
4 1 (2.04%) Databricks
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Informatica
4 1 (2.04%) Remedy
4 1 (2.04%) Twitter