DAMA DMBOK Contract Job Trends

DAMA International Guide to Data Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring DAMA DMBOK skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 559 552 626
Rank change year-on-year -7 +74 +199
Contract jobs citing DAMA DMBOK 5 6 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.015% 0.016% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.019% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £438 - £593
25th Percentile £494 - £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £900 £644
Median % change year-on-year -30.56% +39.81% -16.94%
75th Percentile £663 - £673
90th Percentile - - £689
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £588
% change year-on-year - - -48.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

DAMA DMBOK 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,307 32,084 42,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 86.09% 88.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,872 19,308 28,607
10th Percentile £300 £310 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,924 1,195 1,576
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.87
Median hourly rate £25.08 £38.50 £43.17
Median % change year-on-year -34.87% -10.81% +30.80%
75th Percentile £42.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £39.68 £42.50
% change year-on-year -43.89% -6.64% +57.52%

DAMA DMBOK
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing DAMA DMBOK relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

DAMA DMBOK job vacancy trend in the UK

DAMA DMBOK
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DAMA DMBOK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing DAMA DMBOK

DAMA DMBOK
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DAMA DMBOK over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for DAMA DMBOK in the UK

DAMA DMBOK
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA DMBOK within the UK over the 6 months to 22 October 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
England +6 5 £625 -30.56% 8
London +16 4 £625 -30.56% 3
Work from Home - 3 £625 - 5
UK excluding London - 1 - - 6
North of England - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - -

DAMA DMBOK
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Collibra
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Alation
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (20.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (20.00%) Metadata
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BW
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Azure Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) GCP Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Data Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Snowflake Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Data Governance Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP BW Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Data Management
2 3 (60.00%) Data Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (40.00%) DAMA
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 2 (40.00%) Information Security
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Management
4 1 (20.00%) Budget Responsibility
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 1 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (20.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) SAP