Master Data Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Master Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Master Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Master 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 307 356 390
Rank change year-on-year +49 +34 +31
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 29 43 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.21% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.24% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 36 47
10th Percentile £500 £463 £425
25th Percentile £516 £491 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £681
90th Percentile £728 £738 £738
UK median daily rate £593 £560 £625
% change year-on-year +5.80% -10.40% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.75 - -
Median hourly rate £26.50 - -
75th Percentile £27.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £38.85 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Master 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 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +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% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Master Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Master Data Management in the UK excluding London

Master Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Master Data Management in the UK excluding London

Master Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Master Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Master Data Management in the UK excluding London

Master Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Master Data Management in the UK excluding London

Master 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 Master Data Management within the UK excluding London 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
South East +49 9 £463 -2.63% 78
South West +49 7 £559 +6.48% 23
Midlands +13 6 £525 -8.70% 42
West Midlands +3 4 £600 +4.35% 25
East of England +25 3 £800 +45.45% 28
North of England +12 3 £550 -8.33% 40
North West +13 2 £550 -21.43% 21
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 15
North East - 1 £525 - 4
Scotland - 1 £600 - 8
Master Data Management
UK

Master 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:

Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.90%) SAP CCM
2 2 (6.90%) Workday HCM
3 1 (3.45%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.90%) Tableau
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
1 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.90%) Retail
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 6 (20.69%) Architect
2 6 (20.69%) Consultant
3 5 (17.24%) Business Analyst
3 5 (17.24%) Data Architect
4 4 (13.79%) Data Analyst
4 4 (13.79%) SAP Consultant
5 3 (10.34%) Lead
6 2 (6.90%) Business Information Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Information Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Lead Data Architect
6 2 (6.90%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) SAP Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Workday Manager
7 1 (3.45%) CRM Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Data Governance Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Technology Manager
7 1 (3.45%) Transformation Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Kafka
1 2 (6.90%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.90%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) FMCG
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (31.03%) Data Governance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Management
2 6 (20.69%) ETL
3 5 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (17.24%) Data Analysis
4 4 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (13.79%) Data Integration
4 4 (13.79%) Information Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) Information Management
5 3 (10.34%) Data Cleansing
5 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
5 3 (10.34%) Data Security
5 3 (10.34%) Data Stewardship
5 3 (10.34%) Epics
5 3 (10.34%) Incident Management
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
5 3 (10.34%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (10.34%) Process Improvement
5 3 (10.34%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (10.34%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (34.48%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) SAP
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.90%) Alteryx
3 2 (6.90%) Databricks
3 2 (6.90%) Informatica
3 2 (6.90%) Workday
4 1 (3.45%) Ariba
4 1 (3.45%) Aruba
4 1 (3.45%) Cognizant
4 1 (3.45%) IBM
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow