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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 133 188
Rank change year-on-year +23 +55 -12
Contract jobs citing Data Management 284 353 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.21% 1.71% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 2.05% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 179 168
10th Percentile £296 £335 £309
25th Percentile £375 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £591 £638 £638
90th Percentile £700 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 46 19
10th Percentile £20.40 £14.64 £23.41
25th Percentile £25.15 £31.26 £30.26
Median hourly rate £30.32 £45.00 £38.35
Median % change year-on-year -32.62% +17.34% +9.57%
75th Percentile £60.00 £57.50 £64.75
90th Percentile £74.00 £60.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £40.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -24.20% +7.24% +6.57%

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 11,664 17,222 20,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.58% 89.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,264 10,282 14,009
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +3.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 845 2,110 1,238
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.22
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.63 £61.30 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 +6 88 £500 -1.96% 154
North West -3 60 £515 +1.98% 89
Midlands -1 53 £519 -11.17% 93
East of England +39 50 £550 +2.80% 61
South East +40 49 £500 - 267
West Midlands -6 36 £513 -12.39% 65
Yorkshire +15 28 £450 -18.18% 50
South West -16 26 £500 -5.66% 60
East Midlands +16 16 £550 - 25
Scotland -4 15 £425 -17.48% 58
Northern Ireland - 4 £425 - 8
Wales +4 2 £500 -9.09% 6
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 32 (11.27%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.99%) Confluence
3 10 (3.52%) Apache Airflow
4 9 (3.17%) Apache
5 8 (2.82%) IBM Domino
6 4 (1.41%) Apache Spark
7 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
7 3 (1.06%) Moodle
8 2 (0.70%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.35%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (12.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.06%) CATIA
3 3 (1.06%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.70%) Siemens NX
4 2 (0.70%) Simulink
5 1 (0.35%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.35%) CANalyzer
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Smart View
5 1 (0.35%) Stateflow
5 1 (0.35%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 18 (6.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 17 (5.99%) Teamcenter
3 3 (1.06%) SAP ERP
3 3 (1.06%) SAP EWM
3 3 (1.06%) SAP GTS
4 2 (0.70%) SAP PM
4 2 (0.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (0.70%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.35%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.35%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.35%) Primavera
5 1 (0.35%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.35%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.35%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.35%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.08%) Azure
2 35 (12.32%) Power Platform
3 24 (8.45%) AWS
4 20 (7.04%) GCP
5 9 (3.17%) Snowflake
6 8 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (2.82%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.82%) SaaS
7 6 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
7 6 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 5 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.76%) GitHub
8 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.41%) Google Workspace
9 4 (1.41%) IaaS
9 4 (1.41%) PaaS
10 3 (1.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 3 (1.06%) dbt
10 3 (1.06%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (4.58%) Firewall
2 9 (3.17%) TCP/IP
3 6 (2.11%) Network Security
4 3 (1.06%) LAN
4 3 (1.06%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (1.06%) SAN
4 3 (1.06%) WLAN
5 2 (0.70%) Internet
6 1 (0.35%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.35%) FTP
6 1 (0.35%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (11.97%) Power BI
2 27 (9.51%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (8.80%) Metadata
4 21 (7.39%) Tableau
5 12 (4.23%) SQL Server
6 9 (3.17%) Azure SQL Database
7 8 (2.82%) Data Lake
7 8 (2.82%) GIS
7 8 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
8 7 (2.46%) Big Data
8 7 (2.46%) BigQuery
8 7 (2.46%) MySQL
8 7 (2.46%) Relational Database
9 6 (2.11%) Flink
9 6 (2.11%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.76%) Delta Lake
10 5 (1.76%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 4 (1.41%) Geospatial Data
11 4 (1.41%) Looker
11 4 (1.41%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (6.34%) Git
2 12 (4.23%) Postman
3 10 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.17%) JIRA
5 5 (1.76%) ERwin
6 3 (1.06%) PHPUnit
6 3 (1.06%) Plastic SCM
7 2 (0.70%) GDB
7 2 (0.70%) JUnit
7 2 (0.70%) PowerDesigner
8 1 (0.35%) Ant
8 1 (0.35%) CANoe
8 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.35%) GitLab
8 1 (0.35%) Gradle
8 1 (0.35%) JMeter
8 1 (0.35%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.35%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.35%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.35%) Visual Studio
General
1 123 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 74 (26.06%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (20.77%) Finance
4 21 (7.39%) Public Sector
5 20 (7.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 17 (5.99%) Banking
7 14 (4.93%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (4.23%) Organisational Skills
9 10 (3.52%) Local Government
10 9 (3.17%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.17%) Telecoms
11 8 (2.82%) Automotive
12 7 (2.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.46%) Legal
13 6 (2.11%) Aerospace
13 6 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.11%) Law
13 6 (2.11%) Marketing
13 6 (2.11%) Retail
14 5 (1.76%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 53 (18.66%) Analyst
2 35 (12.32%) Data Analyst
3 27 (9.51%) Lead
4 23 (8.10%) Architect
5 22 (7.75%) Data Engineer
6 19 (6.69%) Developer
6 19 (6.69%) Senior
7 15 (5.28%) Data Architect
8 9 (3.17%) Business Analyst
8 9 (3.17%) Consultant
8 9 (3.17%) Coordinator
8 9 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
9 8 (2.82%) Administrator
9 8 (2.82%) CRM Coordinator
9 8 (2.82%) Data Manager
9 8 (2.82%) Technical Coordinator
10 7 (2.46%) IT Support
10 7 (2.46%) Project Manager
10 7 (2.46%) SAP Analyst
10 7 (2.46%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.17%) Kafka
2 7 (2.46%) RESTful
3 6 (2.11%) React
3 6 (2.11%) REST
4 5 (1.76%) ADO
4 5 (1.76%) JSON
4 5 (1.76%) PySpark
4 5 (1.76%) XML
5 4 (1.41%) .NET
5 4 (1.41%) HTML
5 4 (1.41%) NumPy
5 4 (1.41%) Pandas
6 3 (1.06%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.06%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.06%) Behat
6 3 (1.06%) CSS
6 3 (1.06%) Middleware
6 3 (1.06%) SOAP
6 3 (1.06%) Unity (Game Engine)
7 2 (0.70%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 27 (9.51%) Management Information System
2 19 (6.69%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (5.28%) Data Structures
3 15 (5.28%) Legacy Systems
4 9 (3.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (2.11%) CMDB
6 6 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 5 (1.76%) Algorithms
7 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (1.41%) EPoS
8 4 (1.41%) Life Science
8 4 (1.41%) Molecular Biology
9 3 (1.06%) e-Learning
9 3 (1.06%) NHS
9 3 (1.06%) Robotics
9 3 (1.06%) Taxonomies
9 3 (1.06%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 16 (5.63%) Windows
2 10 (3.52%) Linux
3 4 (1.41%) Unix
3 4 (1.41%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.06%) AIX
4 3 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (1.06%) Solaris
4 3 (1.06%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.06%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.35%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (35.56%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (22.89%) Data Governance
3 58 (20.42%) Agile
4 51 (17.96%) Migration
5 47 (16.55%) Business Intelligence
6 42 (14.79%) Analytics
7 40 (14.08%) Data Migration
7 40 (14.08%) Data Modelling
7 40 (14.08%) Project Management
7 40 (14.08%) Visualisation
8 37 (13.03%) ETL
9 34 (11.97%) Data Analysis
10 32 (11.27%) Decision-Making
11 28 (9.86%) Data Integration
11 28 (9.86%) Validation
12 26 (9.15%) Data Architecture
13 25 (8.80%) DevOps
14 23 (8.10%) Artificial Intelligence
14 23 (8.10%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (7.39%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 66 (23.24%) SQL
2 51 (17.96%) Python
3 11 (3.87%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.46%) C#
4 7 (2.46%) PowerShell
5 6 (2.11%) Java
5 6 (2.11%) VBA
6 5 (1.76%) Bash
7 4 (1.41%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.41%) R
8 3 (1.06%) ABAP
8 3 (1.06%) PHP
9 2 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 2 (0.70%) Bicep
9 2 (0.70%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.70%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.70%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.35%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.35%) Scala
Qualifications
1 46 (16.20%) Security Cleared
2 34 (11.97%) Degree
3 28 (9.86%) SC Cleared
4 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (2.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.11%) DV Cleared
7 5 (1.76%) Master's Degree
8 4 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.06%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.06%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.06%) PMP
10 2 (0.70%) ISEB
10 2 (0.70%) OCP
10 2 (0.70%) Oracle Certification
11 1 (0.35%) ACCA
11 1 (0.35%) HNC
11 1 (0.35%) IBM Certification
11 1 (0.35%) MCSA
11 1 (0.35%) MCSE
11 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (20.42%) Data Quality
2 25 (8.80%) GDPR
3 8 (2.82%) QA
4 6 (2.11%) HIPAA
5 4 (1.41%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.06%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 3 (1.06%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.70%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.70%) JSP 440
7 2 (0.70%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) GxP
8 1 (0.35%) ISO 14001
8 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
8 1 (0.35%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (3.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.11%) Docker
3 4 (1.41%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.06%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (0.70%) Firmware
6 1 (0.35%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (3.17%) Ansible
1 9 (3.17%) Puppet
2 6 (2.11%) Microsoft Clustering
2 6 (2.11%) Terraform
3 4 (1.41%) SCCM
4 3 (1.06%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 3 (1.06%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.06%) vCenter Server
5 2 (0.70%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.35%) Podman
Vendors
1 59 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 37 (13.03%) SAP
3 17 (5.99%) Oracle
4 16 (5.63%) Google
5 14 (4.93%) VMware
6 9 (3.17%) Databricks
6 9 (3.17%) MuleSoft
7 8 (2.82%) Ariba
8 7 (2.46%) Informatica
9 6 (2.11%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.41%) IBM
10 4 (1.41%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.41%) Veeam
11 3 (1.06%) Cisco
11 3 (1.06%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.06%) Siemens
11 3 (1.06%) Symantec
11 3 (1.06%) Talend
11 3 (1.06%) Thycotic
12 2 (0.70%) Workday