Data Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 121 189
Rank change year-on-year +10 +68 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Management 278 367 320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.18% 1.77% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.41% 2.09% 1.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 194 186
10th Percentile £315 £347 £306
25th Percentile £413 £430 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £647 £600
90th Percentile £700 £750 £694
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 42 20
10th Percentile £22.07 £14.45 £23.96
25th Percentile £24.54 £25.50 £30.39
Median hourly rate £30.16 £45.00 £40.18
Median % change year-on-year -32.98% +12.01% +16.45%
75th Percentile £61.25 £48.75 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.25 £59.90 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £31.90 £40.00 £40.18
% change year-on-year -20.24% -0.44% +8.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 of England -5 68 £515 +1.98% 182
South East +45 64 £550 +10.00% 252
East of England +46 53 £500 -6.54% 96
North West -7 52 £540 +8.00% 120
Midlands -5 44 £525 -10.45% 126
West Midlands -15 30 £525 -12.50% 68
South West -34 28 £525 -0.94% 88
Scotland -13 16 £428 -18.48% 68
Yorkshire +4 15 £475 -20.83% 48
East Midlands +21 14 £447 -18.73% 47
Northern Ireland - 6 £425 - 12
Wales - 2 £500 - 20
North East -7 1 - - 14
Data Management
UK

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 28 (10.07%) SharePoint
2 20 (7.19%) Confluence
3 10 (3.60%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.24%) Apache
5 8 (2.88%) IBM Domino
6 4 (1.44%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.08%) Moodle
8 2 (0.72%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.36%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (9.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.08%) CATIA
4 3 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.72%) Simulink
6 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.36%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Smart View
6 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.36%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 19 (6.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (4.68%) Teamcenter
3 8 (2.88%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 3 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (1.08%) SAP ERP
4 3 (1.08%) SAP EWM
4 3 (1.08%) SAP GTS
5 2 (0.72%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.36%) ENOVIA
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.36%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.36%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.36%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.36%) SAP IS-U
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.47%) Azure
2 33 (11.87%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.63%) AWS
4 22 (7.91%) GCP
5 10 (3.60%) Snowflake
6 9 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (2.88%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.52%) Azure Data Factory
8 7 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
9 6 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.16%) Power Automate
9 6 (2.16%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.44%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.44%) GitHub
11 3 (1.08%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.08%) dbt
11 3 (1.08%) IaaS
11 3 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (1.08%) SaaS
11 3 (1.08%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.16%) Network Security
2 3 (1.08%) LAN
2 3 (1.08%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (1.08%) SAN
2 3 (1.08%) WLAN
3 1 (0.36%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.36%) Firewall
3 1 (0.36%) Internet
3 1 (0.36%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (10.43%) Power BI
2 28 (10.07%) Data Warehouse
3 24 (8.63%) Metadata
4 15 (5.40%) Tableau
5 9 (3.24%) Data Lake
5 9 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
6 8 (2.88%) Flink
6 8 (2.88%) SQL Server
7 7 (2.52%) Azure SQL Database
7 7 (2.52%) Big Data
7 7 (2.52%) BigQuery
8 6 (2.16%) MySQL
8 6 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 5 (1.80%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.80%) GIS
10 4 (1.44%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (1.44%) Looker
10 4 (1.44%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.44%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.44%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 13 (4.68%) Git
2 10 (3.60%) ERwin
3 9 (3.24%) JIRA
4 7 (2.52%) PowerDesigner
5 4 (1.44%) Postman
6 3 (1.08%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.08%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.72%) ER Studio
7 2 (0.72%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.36%) Ant
8 1 (0.36%) CANoe
8 1 (0.36%) GDB
8 1 (0.36%) GitLab
8 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.36%) JMeter
8 1 (0.36%) JUnit
8 1 (0.36%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.36%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.36%) NUnit
8 1 (0.36%) SonarQube
General
1 130 (46.76%) Social Skills
2 74 (26.62%) Analytical Skills
3 60 (21.58%) Finance
4 23 (8.27%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.19%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.68%) Banking
8 11 (3.96%) Local Government
8 11 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.60%) Telecoms
10 9 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 9 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 8 (2.88%) Law
11 8 (2.88%) Marketing
12 7 (2.52%) Legal
13 6 (2.16%) Aerospace
13 6 (2.16%) Automotive
13 6 (2.16%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.80%) Electronics
14 5 (1.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 39 (14.03%) Analyst
2 31 (11.15%) Architect
3 26 (9.35%) Lead
4 25 (8.99%) Data Engineer
5 24 (8.63%) Data Analyst
6 20 (7.19%) Developer
7 18 (6.47%) Senior
8 17 (6.12%) Data Architect
9 14 (5.04%) Consultant
10 11 (3.96%) Data Manager
10 11 (3.96%) Data Modeller
11 9 (3.24%) Coordinator
11 9 (3.24%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.24%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (2.88%) Business Analyst
12 8 (2.88%) CRM Coordinator
12 8 (2.88%) SAP Analyst
12 8 (2.88%) Technical Coordinator
13 7 (2.52%) Senior Developer
14 6 (2.16%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.96%) Kafka
2 9 (3.24%) RESTful
3 6 (2.16%) PySpark
4 5 (1.80%) ADO
4 5 (1.80%) JSON
4 5 (1.80%) React
4 5 (1.80%) REST
4 5 (1.80%) XML
5 4 (1.44%) AngularJS
5 4 (1.44%) NumPy
5 4 (1.44%) Pandas
6 3 (1.08%) .NET
6 3 (1.08%) Behat
6 3 (1.08%) Middleware
6 3 (1.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (0.72%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.72%) HTML
7 2 (0.72%) Lightning Web Components
7 2 (0.72%) SOAP
8 1 (0.36%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.12%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (5.76%) Data Structures
3 16 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.52%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.16%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.80%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.80%) CMDB
7 5 (1.80%) Life Science
7 5 (1.80%) NHS
8 4 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.44%) EPoS
8 4 (1.44%) Equities
8 4 (1.44%) Molecular Biology
8 4 (1.44%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.08%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.08%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.08%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.24%) Windows
2 7 (2.52%) Linux
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (0.72%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (34.89%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (22.66%) Data Governance
3 56 (20.14%) Migration
4 53 (19.06%) Analytics
5 52 (18.71%) Agile
6 45 (16.19%) Data Migration
7 44 (15.83%) Project Management
8 43 (15.47%) Business Intelligence
9 41 (14.75%) ETL
10 40 (14.39%) Data Modelling
11 33 (11.87%) Decision-Making
12 31 (11.15%) Data Architecture
13 30 (10.79%) Visualisation
14 29 (10.43%) Roadmaps
15 28 (10.07%) Data Analysis
16 26 (9.35%) Stakeholder Management
17 24 (8.63%) Data Integration
17 24 (8.63%) Data Security
17 24 (8.63%) Validation
18 23 (8.27%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 65 (23.38%) SQL
2 37 (13.31%) Python
3 10 (3.60%) JavaScript
4 8 (2.88%) Java
5 6 (2.16%) C#
6 5 (1.80%) Bash
7 4 (1.44%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.44%) PL/SQL
7 4 (1.44%) PowerShell
7 4 (1.44%) R
8 3 (1.08%) ABAP
8 3 (1.08%) PHP
8 3 (1.08%) VBA
9 2 (0.72%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.72%) Perl
9 2 (0.72%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.36%) C++
10 1 (0.36%) Scala
10 1 (0.36%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.36%) VB
Qualifications
1 44 (15.83%) Security Cleared
2 36 (12.95%) Degree
3 28 (10.07%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.60%) Computer Science Degree
5 7 (2.52%) DV Cleared
5 7 (2.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (2.52%) PMI Certification
5 7 (2.52%) PMP
6 4 (1.44%) Master's Degree
7 3 (1.08%) Azure Certification
7 3 (1.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.72%) CCA
8 2 (0.72%) CTC Cleared
8 2 (0.72%) ISEB
8 2 (0.72%) OCP
8 2 (0.72%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.36%) ACCA
9 1 (0.36%) CIPFA
9 1 (0.36%) IBM Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (22.66%) Data Quality
2 24 (8.63%) GDPR
3 10 (3.60%) QA
4 6 (2.16%) HIPAA
5 5 (1.80%) PMO
6 4 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.72%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.72%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.36%) GxP
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 14001
9 1 (0.36%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.24%) Docker
2 7 (2.52%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.72%) Firmware
4 1 (0.36%) Apache Flume
4 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.80%) Terraform
2 4 (1.44%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.08%) Backup Exec
3 3 (1.08%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) Podman
Vendors
1 51 (18.35%) Microsoft
2 35 (12.59%) SAP
3 18 (6.47%) Google
4 15 (5.40%) Oracle
5 10 (3.60%) Databricks
6 9 (3.24%) Ariba
7 8 (2.88%) Sparx
8 6 (2.16%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.44%) IBM
9 4 (1.44%) IFS
9 4 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.44%) VMware
10 3 (1.08%) Cisco
10 3 (1.08%) Informatica
10 3 (1.08%) Symantec
10 3 (1.08%) Talend
10 3 (1.08%) Thycotic
10 3 (1.08%) Veeam
11 2 (0.72%) MEDITECH
11 2 (0.72%) Workday