Data Management Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Data Management
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 18 17 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing Data Management 2 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.28% 2.38% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.50% 3.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £750 £533 £513
% change year-on-year +40.85% +3.90% -6.82%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 133 96 125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 85.26% 76.19% 76.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 58 99
10th Percentile £170 £278 £268
25th Percentile £231 £356 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £535
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -13.55% +5.42%
75th Percentile £538 £573 £643
90th Percentile £650 £638 £688
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 2
10th Percentile £22.50 - £31.48
25th Percentile £24.38 - £31.81
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £33.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +81.05%
75th Percentile £73.42 - £34.31
90th Percentile £74.97 - £34.43
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £59.44
% change year-on-year -40.83% -41.12% +41.02%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Data Management job vacancy trend in Southampton

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Management

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Data Management

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) HP UFT
1 1 (50.00%) Katalon Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Protocol Buffers
1 1 (50.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes