Data Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 178 172
Rank change year-on-year +39 -6 -23
Contract jobs citing Data Management 355 366 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.70% 1.48% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.66% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 219 310
10th Percentile £363 £260 £331
25th Percentile £430 £372 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £632 £586 £600
90th Percentile £744 £678 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 27 17
10th Percentile £14.45 £25.45 £18.65
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.77 £22.75
Median hourly rate £45.00 £63.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +103.23% -18.42%
75th Percentile £46.18 £70.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £59.00 - £54.10
UK median hourly rate £45.00 £62.75 £35.63
% change year-on-year -28.29% +76.14% +33.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,717 22,101 27,876
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.01% 89.61% 88.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,726 15,312 19,492
10th Percentile £235 £250 £230
25th Percentile £381 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,997 1,355 1,383
10th Percentile £12.28 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.00 £16.23 £13.87
Median hourly rate £33.07 £35.80 £19.91
Median % change year-on-year -7.64% +79.81% -8.42%
75th Percentile £59.00 £65.00 £44.36
90th Percentile £71.88 £70.30 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £33.07 £36.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year -8.15% +44.78% -0.54%

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 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 2024.

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 16 April 2024. 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 +43 89 £510 -1.92% 71
South West +63 85 £530 +0.95% 45
North West +38 68 £510 -1.92% 42
Midlands +39 65 £583 +66.57% 53
West Midlands +58 58 £583 +66.57% 33
South East -25 53 £500 -9.09% 85
Scotland +50 45 £525 +16.67% 27
East of England +14 36 £500 +11.11% 39
Yorkshire +25 22 £550 +6.02% 23
North East +25 6 £454 +10.06% 8
East Midlands -5 5 £569 +99.56% 20
Isle of Man - 1 £475 -
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 9 (2.54%) SAS
2 7 (1.97%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.97%) Apache Spark
3 6 (1.69%) Apache
3 6 (1.69%) ArcGIS
3 6 (1.69%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.56%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 37 (10.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (3.38%) Acrobat
4 10 (2.82%) Spreadsheet
5 9 (2.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (1.13%) MS Visio
8 3 (0.85%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.56%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 10 (2.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (1.97%) Teamcenter
4 4 (1.13%) Infor SunSystems
4 4 (1.13%) SAP MDG
5 3 (0.85%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.85%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.85%) SAP FI
5 3 (0.85%) SAP FI/CO
5 3 (0.85%) SAP PLM
6 2 (0.56%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.56%) Primavera
7 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
7 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.28%) Odoo
7 1 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.28%) SAP BPC
7 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.28%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 57 (16.06%) Azure
2 53 (14.93%) Power Platform
3 23 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
4 21 (5.92%) Snowflake
5 17 (4.79%) AWS
6 14 (3.94%) Power Automate
7 10 (2.82%) Serverless
8 9 (2.54%) Azure Data Factory
9 8 (2.25%) PowerApps
10 7 (1.97%) Amazon S3
10 7 (1.97%) Collibra
10 7 (1.97%) GCP
10 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (1.69%) Azure Stack
12 5 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
12 5 (1.41%) Amazon EMR
12 5 (1.41%) Amazon SQS
12 5 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (1.41%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.10%) Network Security
2 10 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.41%) FTP
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 2 (0.56%) RS-232
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.28%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (14.37%) Power BI
2 43 (12.11%) Metadata
3 32 (9.01%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (7.61%) Big Data
5 18 (5.07%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.94%) Data Lake
6 14 (3.94%) Tableau
7 8 (2.25%) GIS
8 7 (1.97%) Ataccama
8 7 (1.97%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.97%) Metadata Repository
8 7 (1.97%) Qlik Sense
8 7 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (1.13%) Geospatial Data
10 4 (1.13%) MS Access
10 4 (1.13%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.85%) QGIS
Development Applications
1 22 (6.20%) JIRA
2 11 (3.10%) Git
3 8 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.41%) ERwin
5 2 (0.56%) Gradle
5 2 (0.56%) JUnit
5 2 (0.56%) kappa
5 2 (0.56%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.28%) LSMW
General
1 106 (29.86%) Social Skills
2 84 (23.66%) Finance
3 65 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (11.55%) Public Sector
5 24 (6.76%) Manufacturing
5 24 (6.76%) Pharmaceutical
6 20 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.51%) Aerospace
8 15 (4.23%) Law
8 15 (4.23%) Marketing
9 12 (3.38%) Electronics
9 12 (3.38%) Legal
9 12 (3.38%) Retail
10 11 (3.10%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.54%) Telecoms
12 8 (2.25%) Billing
13 7 (1.97%) Banking
14 6 (1.69%) Publishing
15 5 (1.41%) Military
16 4 (1.13%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 85 (23.94%) Architect
2 65 (18.31%) Analyst
3 45 (12.68%) Data Analyst
4 42 (11.83%) Data Architect
5 31 (8.73%) Data Manager
6 27 (7.61%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (6.76%) Lead
8 23 (6.48%) Senior
9 20 (5.63%) Developer
10 19 (5.35%) Data Engineer
11 16 (4.51%) Data Quality Analyst
11 16 (4.51%) Quality Analyst
11 16 (4.51%) Senior Analyst
12 14 (3.94%) Administrator
13 12 (3.38%) Author
13 12 (3.38%) Technical Author
14 11 (3.10%) Business Analyst
14 11 (3.10%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (2.82%) Project Manager
15 10 (2.82%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (8.73%) XML
2 15 (4.23%) JSON
3 12 (3.38%) SGML
4 10 (2.82%) Apache NiFi
5 7 (1.97%) REST
6 4 (1.13%) CSS
6 4 (1.13%) HTML
7 3 (0.85%) ADO
7 3 (0.85%) Elastic Stack
7 3 (0.85%) Node.js
7 3 (0.85%) Regular Expression
7 3 (0.85%) YAML
8 2 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
8 2 (0.56%) Dagger
8 2 (0.56%) Kafka
8 2 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
8 2 (0.56%) PySpark
8 2 (0.56%) React
8 2 (0.56%) Retrofit
9 1 (0.28%) Play Framework
Miscellaneous
1 49 (13.80%) Management Information System
2 17 (4.79%) Data Protection Act
3 14 (3.94%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.38%) Animation
5 11 (3.10%) Cyber Defence
5 11 (3.10%) Distributed Applications
6 8 (2.25%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.41%) NHS
7 5 (1.41%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.41%) Wiki
8 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.13%) e-Health
8 4 (1.13%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.85%) CMDB
9 3 (0.85%) IoT
9 3 (0.85%) Lidar
9 3 (0.85%) Life Science
9 3 (0.85%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (6.20%) Windows
2 13 (3.66%) Linux
3 12 (3.38%) Unix
4 10 (2.82%) Android
5 8 (2.25%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.28%) Debian
6 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (21.41%) Analytics
2 74 (20.85%) Migration
3 72 (20.28%) Agile
4 70 (19.72%) Data Governance
5 68 (19.15%) Business Intelligence
6 62 (17.46%) Problem-Solving
7 59 (16.62%) Data Modelling
8 56 (15.77%) Data Analysis
9 50 (14.08%) Data Architecture
10 49 (13.80%) Data Migration
11 48 (13.52%) Stakeholder Management
12 47 (13.24%) Project Management
13 38 (10.70%) Project Delivery
14 35 (9.86%) Computer Science
15 34 (9.58%) Data Strategy
16 32 (9.01%) Visualisation
17 31 (8.73%) Roadmaps
18 28 (7.89%) Data Protection
18 28 (7.89%) DevOps
19 27 (7.61%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.06%) SQL
2 32 (9.01%) Python
3 11 (3.10%) Java
4 7 (1.97%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.69%) C#
6 5 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.13%) ABAP
7 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 3 (0.85%) C
8 3 (0.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 3 (0.85%) R
9 2 (0.56%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.56%) Scala
9 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) Bash
10 1 (0.28%) Groovy
10 1 (0.28%) Julia
10 1 (0.28%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 61 (17.18%) Degree
2 54 (15.21%) Security Cleared
3 28 (7.89%) SC Cleared
4 27 (7.61%) DV Cleared
5 10 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (1.97%) ACCA
7 6 (1.69%) APMP
7 6 (1.69%) ISEB
8 4 (1.13%) CIMA
9 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.56%) PhD
10 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.28%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.28%) FFIEC
11 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
11 1 (0.28%) MCSA
11 1 (0.28%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (23.66%) Data Quality
2 25 (7.04%) QA
3 18 (5.07%) GDPR
4 16 (4.51%) PMO
5 12 (3.38%) Def Stans
6 10 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.85%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.56%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) COBIT
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS
9 1 (0.28%) IFRS 17
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) NIST
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (2.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.56%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.85%) Kibana
1 3 (0.85%) logstash
1 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (0.56%) Ansible
2 2 (0.56%) Terraform
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 61 (17.18%) Microsoft
2 56 (15.77%) SAP
3 18 (5.07%) Oracle
4 16 (4.51%) Informatica
5 14 (3.94%) Adobe
6 11 (3.10%) Alteryx
6 11 (3.10%) Databricks
7 8 (2.25%) Red Hat
8 7 (1.97%) Dataiku
8 7 (1.97%) Trillium
9 6 (1.69%) Remedy
10 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
10 5 (1.41%) Autodesk
10 5 (1.41%) Google
10 5 (1.41%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.41%) Sparx
10 5 (1.41%) Talend
10 5 (1.41%) Workday
11 4 (1.13%) Siemens
11 4 (1.13%) Sun