Data Management Contracts in the South West

Data Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 62 127
Rank change year-on-year -21 +65 +22
Contract jobs citing Data Management 28 102 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.67% 3.19% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.85% 3.84% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 26
10th Percentile £381 £425 £275
25th Percentile £409 £485 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +8.72% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £673 £647
90th Percentile £620 £688 £719
England median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 19 3
10th Percentile - £17.28 £30.11
25th Percentile £31.50 £37.50 £30.26
Median hourly rate £33.00 £45.00 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +17.34% -
75th Percentile £35.25 - £56.09
90th Percentile £35.70 - £62.04
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £38.35
% change year-on-year -25.00% +4.30% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the South West

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the South West

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the South West

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the South West

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire +1 10 £409 -13.89% 24
Bristol -12 9 £525 - 16
Somerset 0 5 £620 +86.47% 15
Devon +9 3 £575 - 3
Wiltshire +21 1 £575 -14.81% 22
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.57%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.71%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) Google Workspace
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Google Ads
4 1 (3.57%) IaaS
4 1 (3.57%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) SaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (17.86%) Power BI
2 4 (14.29%) Metadata
3 1 (3.57%) Big Data
3 1 (3.57%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.57%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (3.57%) GIS
3 1 (3.57%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.57%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Ant
2 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
2 1 (3.57%) NUnit
2 1 (3.57%) Postman
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Public Sector
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (21.43%) Local Government
5 5 (17.86%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (14.29%) Marketing
6 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
7 3 (10.71%) Electronics
7 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
8 2 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (3.57%) Advertising
9 1 (3.57%) Billing
9 1 (3.57%) Military
9 1 (3.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Data Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) Lead
2 5 (17.86%) SAP Analyst
2 5 (17.86%) SAP Data Analyst
3 3 (10.71%) Architect
3 3 (10.71%) Head of Information
3 3 (10.71%) Head of Information Management
3 3 (10.71%) Head of Knowledge Management
4 2 (7.14%) Administrator
4 2 (7.14%) Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) Data Consultant
4 2 (7.14%) IT Support
5 1 (3.57%) Data Quality Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Information Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) PMO Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Administrator
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) .NET
1 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 1 (3.57%) CSS
1 1 (3.57%) HTML
1 1 (3.57%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (3.57%) NumPy
1 1 (3.57%) Pandas
1 1 (3.57%) Playwright
1 1 (3.57%) PostGIS
1 1 (3.57%) REST
1 1 (3.57%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (10.71%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Equities
3 1 (3.57%) Pricing Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Data Governance
1 10 (35.71%) Project Management
2 9 (32.14%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (28.57%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Migration
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (21.43%) Machine Learning
6 5 (17.86%) Budget Management
6 5 (17.86%) Business Case
6 5 (17.86%) Data Analysis
6 5 (17.86%) Data Governance Strategy
6 5 (17.86%) Data Integration
6 5 (17.86%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (17.86%) ERP
6 5 (17.86%) Programme Delivery
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (17.86%) Supplier Management
6 5 (17.86%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) SQL
2 1 (3.57%) Apex Code
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.57%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (21.43%) Data Quality
2 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (3.57%) GDPR
3 1 (3.57%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) SAP
2 5 (17.86%) Ariba
3 4 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (3.57%) Apple
4 1 (3.57%) Criteo
4 1 (3.57%) Databricks
4 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.57%) Pardot
4 1 (3.57%) Salesforce