Master Data Management Contracts

Master Data Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 444 473 521
Rank change year-on-year +29 +48 -21
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 76 109 198
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.25% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.29% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 81 123
10th Percentile £466 £450 £453
25th Percentile £513 £500 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £560 £625
Median % change year-on-year +5.80% -10.40% +13.64%
75th Percentile £720 £725 £706
90th Percentile £800 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £559 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +1.64% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £30.13 - -
25th Percentile £36.69 - -
Median hourly rate £38.85 - -
75th Percentile £41.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Master Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Master Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Master Data Management in the UK

Master Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Master Data Management.

Daily rate trend for Master Data Management in the UK

Master Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Master Data Management in the UK

Master Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Master Data Management.

Hourly rate trend for Master Data Management in the UK

Master Data Management
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 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
England +25 64 £585 +5.41% 172
London +24 31 £675 +10.20% 57
Work from Home +13 31 £600 +5.26% 128
UK excluding London +49 29 £559 +1.64% 133
South East +49 9 £463 -2.63% 55
South West +49 7 £559 +6.48% 12
Midlands +13 6 £525 -8.70% 23
West Midlands +3 4 £600 +4.35% 13
East of England +25 3 £800 +45.45% 14
North of England +12 3 £550 -8.33% 22
North West +13 2 £550 -21.43% 12
East Midlands - 2 £500 - 9
North East - 1 £525 - 2
Scotland - 1 £600 - 5

Master Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (5.26%) SAS
2 3 (3.95%) Confluence
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.32%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (13.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (9.21%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (7.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.63%) SAP CCM
2 2 (2.63%) SAP PP
2 2 (2.63%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (2.63%) Workday HCM
3 1 (1.32%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (1.32%) SAP MDM
3 1 (1.32%) SAP PP-PI
Cloud Services
1 19 (25.00%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) Power Platform
3 12 (15.79%) AWS
4 9 (11.84%) GCP
5 5 (6.58%) Collibra
6 4 (5.26%) Azure Data Factory
7 3 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.95%) SaaS
7 3 (3.95%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.32%) Alation
8 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.32%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.32%) Azure API Management
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.32%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.32%) NuGet
8 1 (1.32%) PaaS
8 1 (1.32%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.32%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (19.74%) Power BI
3 12 (15.79%) Tableau
4 11 (14.47%) Metadata
5 7 (9.21%) Data Lake
6 5 (6.58%) SQL Server
7 4 (5.26%) Data Mining
7 4 (5.26%) DB2
7 4 (5.26%) Oracle Database
7 4 (5.26%) QlikView
7 4 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
9 2 (2.63%) Big Data
9 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
9 2 (2.63%) Oracle Exadata
10 1 (1.32%) Apache Hive
10 1 (1.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (1.32%) BigQuery
10 1 (1.32%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (1.32%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (5.26%) JIRA
2 2 (2.63%) ERwin
3 1 (1.32%) Git
3 1 (1.32%) GitLab
3 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.32%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (35.53%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.32%) Finance
3 16 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.89%) Banking
5 4 (5.26%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.95%) Retail
7 2 (2.63%) German Language
7 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.63%) Marketing
8 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Legal
8 1 (1.32%) Local Government
8 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.32%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (31.58%) Architect
2 20 (26.32%) Analyst
3 19 (25.00%) Data Architect
4 12 (15.79%) Consultant
5 11 (14.47%) Data Analyst
6 8 (10.53%) Business Analyst
7 7 (9.21%) Developer
7 7 (9.21%) Lead
8 5 (6.58%) Data Consultant
8 5 (6.58%) Data Manager
8 5 (6.58%) Enterprise Architect
8 5 (6.58%) Migration Architect
8 5 (6.58%) SAP Consultant
9 4 (5.26%) Business Intelligence Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Data Migration Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Enterprise Data Architect
9 4 (5.26%) Power BI Developer
9 4 (5.26%) SQL BI Developer
9 4 (5.26%) SQL Developer
9 4 (5.26%) Tableau Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) Kafka
1 2 (2.63%) RESTful
2 1 (1.32%) GraphQL
2 1 (1.32%) Middleware
2 1 (1.32%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) SOAP
2 1 (1.32%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Reference Data
2 9 (11.84%) Data Structures
3 5 (6.58%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.58%) Taxonomies
4 4 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 3 (3.95%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.63%) FMCG
6 2 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.63%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.32%) CMDB
7 1 (1.32%) Data Fabric
7 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.32%) Hedge funds
7 1 (1.32%) Life Science
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (47.37%) Data Governance
2 31 (40.79%) Data Management
3 21 (27.63%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (26.32%) Data Modelling
5 18 (23.68%) ETL
5 18 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (22.37%) Analytics
6 17 (22.37%) Data Architecture
6 17 (22.37%) Data Integration
7 15 (19.74%) Decision-Making
7 15 (19.74%) Migration
8 12 (15.79%) Data Strategy
9 11 (14.47%) Data Analysis
9 11 (14.47%) Metadata Management
9 11 (14.47%) Roadmaps
9 11 (14.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 10 (13.16%) Data Cleansing
10 10 (13.16%) Data Migration
10 10 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (11.84%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 20 (26.32%) SQL
2 7 (9.21%) Python
3 3 (3.95%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.63%) C#
4 2 (2.63%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.32%) Bicep
5 1 (1.32%) Java
5 1 (1.32%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.32%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.53%) Degree
2 5 (6.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.63%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.63%) PMP
4 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.32%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.32%) ISEB
5 1 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (40.79%) Data Quality
2 7 (9.21%) GDPR
3 4 (5.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (3.95%) QA
5 1 (1.32%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Terraform
2 1 (1.32%) Kubeflow
Vendors
1 13 (17.11%) SAP
2 10 (13.16%) Informatica
3 9 (11.84%) IBM
4 8 (10.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (9.21%) Google
6 6 (7.89%) Oracle
7 4 (5.26%) Databricks
7 4 (5.26%) Vertica
8 3 (3.95%) Ab Initio
8 3 (3.95%) Ariba
9 2 (2.63%) Alteryx
9 2 (2.63%) Cognizant
9 2 (2.63%) Sparx
9 2 (2.63%) Workday
10 1 (1.32%) Aruba
10 1 (1.32%) Cloudera
10 1 (1.32%) PeopleSoft
10 1 (1.32%) ServiceNow