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 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 355 377
Rank change year-on-year +5 +22 +63
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 30 22 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.12% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.14% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 17 42
10th Percentile £370 - £403
25th Percentile £525 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £621 £600 £675
90th Percentile £750 £745 £738
UK median daily rate £600 £644 £600
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £12.31 - -
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 13,665 15,197 19,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.30% 83.04% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,200 9,105 13,060
10th Percentile £240 £250 £263
25th Percentile £369 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,348 1,553 1,201
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.77 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.82 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +17.24% +64.89%
75th Percentile £44.26 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £76.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -1.35% +56.60%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +33 11 £400 -15.79% 20
Midlands -5 8 £600 -31.43% 3
South West +35 6 £560 -17.04% 4
West Midlands -9 6 £626 -28.46% 2
East of England +7 3 £750 +81.82% 1
North West -8 2 £550 -4.35% 6
North of England -21 2 £550 - 9
East Midlands - 2 £480 - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.33%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (6.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (6.67%) SAP GRC
3 1 (3.33%) Primavera
3 1 (3.33%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 9 (30.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (23.33%) Azure
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 3 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (10.00%) OCI
5 2 (6.67%) GCP
6 1 (3.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub
6 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.33%) iPaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (30.00%) Power BI
2 8 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (23.33%) Tableau
4 3 (10.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (6.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (3.33%) Big Data
6 1 (3.33%) Delta Lake
6 1 (3.33%) Metadata
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (3.33%) NoSQL
6 1 (3.33%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (3.33%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Law
4 2 (6.67%) Retail
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
5 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (20.00%) Lead
3 5 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Architect
4 4 (13.33%) Data Architect
5 3 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Senior
6 2 (6.67%) Analytics Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Data Analytics Manager
6 2 (6.67%) Data Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
6 2 (6.67%) Oracle Consultant
6 2 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 2 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Developer
7 1 (3.33%) Management Consultant
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.33%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
4 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Data Governance
2 12 (40.00%) Analytics
3 10 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 9 (30.00%) Migration
5 8 (26.67%) Data Management
6 7 (23.33%) Data Migration
6 7 (23.33%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.00%) ETL
8 5 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
8 5 (16.67%) Roadmaps
9 4 (13.33%) Agile
9 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
9 4 (13.33%) Data Analysis
9 4 (13.33%) Data Strategy
9 4 (13.33%) Decision-Making
10 3 (10.00%) Data Integration
10 3 (10.00%) Information Architecture
10 3 (10.00%) Machine Learning
10 3 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) ABAP
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (3.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.33%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) SAP Certification
4 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (3.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) SAP
3 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 5 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (10.00%) Informatica
5 2 (6.67%) Google
6 1 (3.33%) Ariba
6 1 (3.33%) Aruba
6 1 (3.33%) Autodesk
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow