Data Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Data Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 57 114 104
Rank change year-on-year +57 -10 +17
Contract jobs citing Data Management 45 31 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.98% 1.15% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 1.32% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 12 23
10th Percentile £358 £249 £380
25th Percentile £413 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +9.22% +17.05%
75th Percentile £600 £838 £563
90th Percentile £708 £950 £654
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £25.35 £21.73 £17.90
25th Percentile £25.64 £25.81 £20.38
Median hourly rate £26.53 £33.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.21% +33.00% -48.72%
75th Percentile £27.67 £41.31 £27.87
90th Percentile £28.12 £45.78 £29.29
South East median hourly rate £26.53 £51.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year -48.23% +105.00% -41.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the Thames Valley

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the Thames Valley

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the Thames Valley

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the Thames Valley

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 23 £550 -4.35% 69
Buckinghamshire +26 14 £566 +13.25% 33
Oxfordshire +14 10 £425 - 32
Data Management
South East

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (17.78%) Confluence
2 5 (11.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.22%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.44%) CATIA
3 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (15.56%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (4.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.22%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 12 (26.67%) Azure
2 9 (20.00%) AWS
3 8 (17.78%) GCP
4 6 (13.33%) Snowflake
5 4 (8.89%) Power Platform
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (4.44%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.44%) Azure Storage
6 2 (4.44%) IaaS
6 2 (4.44%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Amazon ELB
7 1 (2.22%) Azure App Service
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) Google Sheets
7 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (11.11%) Data Lake
3 4 (8.89%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 4 (8.89%) Power BI
4 3 (6.67%) Big Data
4 3 (6.67%) Metadata
4 3 (6.67%) Power Query
5 2 (4.44%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.44%) IBM InfoSphere
5 2 (4.44%) MySQL
5 2 (4.44%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.44%) OLAP
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle OLAP
5 2 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.44%) Relational Database
5 2 (4.44%) SQL Server
6 1 (2.22%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.22%) Impala
6 1 (2.22%) MS Access
6 1 (2.22%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (15.56%) ERwin
1 7 (15.56%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (2.22%) Git
2 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 24 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (37.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.33%) Telecoms
4 4 (8.89%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.44%) Automotive
5 2 (4.44%) Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Aviation
6 1 (2.22%) Billing
6 1 (2.22%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Legal
6 1 (2.22%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.22%) Marketing
6 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Architect
2 8 (17.78%) Data Modeller
3 7 (15.56%) Data Architect
3 7 (15.56%) Senior
4 6 (13.33%) Analyst
4 6 (13.33%) Data Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Data Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Change Analyst
6 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (6.67%) Lead
6 3 (6.67%) Report Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 3 (6.67%) Snowflake Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.44%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.44%) Lead Architect
7 2 (4.44%) SAP Architect
7 2 (4.44%) Snowflake Data Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) RESTful
2 3 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (4.44%) ARM Templates
3 2 (4.44%) Middleware
3 2 (4.44%) React
4 1 (2.22%) .NET
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Core
4 1 (2.22%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.22%) Apollo GraphQL
4 1 (2.22%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.22%) GraphQL
4 1 (2.22%) JSON
4 1 (2.22%) OAuth
4 1 (2.22%) OpenID
4 1 (2.22%) PySpark
4 1 (2.22%) REST
4 1 (2.22%) SAML
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Data Structures
2 6 (13.33%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 3 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (4.44%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.22%) CMDB
6 1 (2.22%) Data Fabric
6 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (2.22%) IoT
6 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (2.22%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Unix
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Data Governance
2 13 (28.89%) Analytics
3 12 (26.67%) ETL
3 12 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.67%) Roadmaps
4 11 (24.44%) Data Modelling
5 10 (22.22%) Agile
5 10 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 10 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 9 (20.00%) Migration
7 7 (15.56%) Analytical Thinking
7 7 (15.56%) Architecture Roadmap
7 7 (15.56%) BPMN
8 6 (13.33%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.33%) Data Integration
8 6 (13.33%) Data Migration
8 6 (13.33%) Data Security
8 6 (13.33%) Regulatory Compliance
9 5 (11.11%) Change Management
9 5 (11.11%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.89%) SQL
2 8 (17.78%) Python
3 4 (8.89%) Bash
4 3 (6.67%) VBA
5 2 (4.44%) C#
6 1 (2.22%) Bicep
6 1 (2.22%) C++
6 1 (2.22%) Java
6 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.22%) Perl
6 1 (2.22%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.22%) R
6 1 (2.22%) Scala
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) Degree
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.44%) PMI Certification
5 2 (4.44%) PMP
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.22%) ISEB
6 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.22%) GDPR
2 4 (8.89%) Data Quality
2 4 (8.89%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.22%) Apache Flume
1 1 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (4.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.56%) Sparx
3 4 (8.89%) Databricks
3 4 (8.89%) Google
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle
4 3 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (4.44%) IBM
6 1 (2.22%) Alteryx
6 1 (2.22%) BMC
6 1 (2.22%) Remedy
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.22%) StreamSets
6 1 (2.22%) Talend
6 1 (2.22%) Twitter