Master Data Management Contracts

Master Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Master Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Master Data Management over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 471 502 499
Rank change year-on-year +31 -3 -91
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 108 200 398
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.33% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.37% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 124 233
10th Percentile £443 £454 £426
25th Percentile £500 £505 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £694 £713 £675
90th Percentile £750 £775 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £34.00
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £42.50
75th Percentile - - £48.75
90th Percentile - - £51.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - +91.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Master Data Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,600 53,916 80,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,240 37,368 56,382
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,775 1,932
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -
75th Percentile £59.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%

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 26 April 2024.

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 12 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 26 April 2024. 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 +48 95 £550 -12.00% 59
Work from Home +87 58 £570 -8.80% 24
London +64 43 £600 -4.00% 22
UK excluding London +40 43 £550 - 33
West Midlands +40 15 £575 +9.52% 5
Midlands +34 15 £575 +4.55% 9
North of England +22 9 £600 +26.32% 7
East of England +14 8 £550 +22.22% 6
South East +20 7 £475 -25.78% 11
North West +17 6 £700 +38.27% 4
South West +3 4 £525 -19.23% 3
Yorkshire +18 3 £550 +29.41% 2

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 1 (0.93%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.70%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.41%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (5.56%) SAP MDG
3 3 (2.78%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.85%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.85%) SAP MDM
4 2 (1.85%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.93%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (21.30%) Azure
2 11 (10.19%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.56%) AWS
4 5 (4.63%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (3.70%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 4 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.78%) Azure Stack
6 3 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (2.78%) Serverless
7 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.85%) ClickUp
7 2 (1.85%) PaaS
8 1 (0.93%) dbt
8 1 (0.93%) GCP
8 1 (0.93%) IaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.93%) NuGet
8 1 (0.93%) Oracle CX
8 1 (0.93%) SaaS
8 1 (0.93%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (20.37%) Data Warehouse
2 18 (16.67%) Metadata
3 10 (9.26%) Power BI
4 8 (7.41%) Big Data
5 4 (3.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 4 (3.70%) Parquet
5 4 (3.70%) Star Schema
6 3 (2.78%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.78%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.78%) OLAP
6 3 (2.78%) OLTP
7 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.93%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Data Services
8 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.93%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 16 (14.81%) ERwin
2 2 (1.85%) kappa
3 1 (0.93%) Git
3 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 33 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (23.15%) Public Sector
3 22 (20.37%) Finance
4 16 (14.81%) Telecoms
5 15 (13.89%) Manufacturing
6 12 (11.11%) Retail
7 11 (10.19%) Marketing
8 10 (9.26%) Electronics
9 9 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (4.63%) Legal
11 5 (4.63%) Publishing
12 4 (3.70%) Automotive
12 4 (3.70%) Police
13 3 (2.78%) Law
14 2 (1.85%) Billing
14 2 (1.85%) French Language
15 1 (0.93%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (40.74%) Architect
2 34 (31.48%) Data Architect
3 14 (12.96%) Data Manager
3 14 (12.96%) Enterprise Architect
4 13 (12.04%) Enterprise Data Architect
5 10 (9.26%) Consultant
5 10 (9.26%) Data Engineer
5 10 (9.26%) Senior
5 10 (9.26%) Senior Architect
6 9 (8.33%) Senior Data Architect
7 8 (7.41%) Data Governance Analyst
7 8 (7.41%) Data Governance Manager
7 8 (7.41%) Governance Manager
7 8 (7.41%) Lead
8 7 (6.48%) Developer
9 6 (5.56%) Analyst
9 6 (5.56%) Data Analytics Architect
9 6 (5.56%) Data Consultant
10 5 (4.63%) Azure Architect
10 5 (4.63%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.56%) JSON
1 6 (5.56%) JSON Schema
2 5 (4.63%) YAML
3 4 (3.70%) Apache Avro
3 4 (3.70%) REST
4 3 (2.78%) XML
5 1 (0.93%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.93%) PySpark
5 1 (0.93%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.93%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (11.11%) Wiki
3 11 (10.19%) Management Information System
4 8 (7.41%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (5.56%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.63%) Freedom of Information Act
6 5 (4.63%) Product Ownership
6 5 (4.63%) Reference Data
7 4 (3.70%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.78%) Life Science
8 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.93%) CMDB
10 1 (0.93%) Data Fabric
10 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (52.78%) Data Governance
2 47 (43.52%) Data Modelling
3 43 (39.81%) Data Management
4 38 (35.19%) Business Intelligence
5 33 (30.56%) Data Architecture
6 31 (28.70%) Analytics
7 22 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 21 (19.44%) Data Strategy
9 20 (18.52%) Data Integration
9 20 (18.52%) Physical Data Model
10 19 (17.59%) Data Protection
11 17 (15.74%) ETL
12 16 (14.81%) Information Management
12 16 (14.81%) Migration
13 15 (13.89%) Data Flow Diagram
14 13 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (12.04%) Data Lineage
14 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
15 12 (11.11%) ERP
16 11 (10.19%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 25 (23.15%) SQL
2 4 (3.70%) Python
3 3 (2.78%) T-SQL
4 2 (1.85%) C#
4 2 (1.85%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.93%) Bicep
5 1 (0.93%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.93%) R
Qualifications
1 15 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 15 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 11 (10.19%) Degree
3 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (0.93%) OCP
3 1 (0.93%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (50.93%) Data Quality
2 18 (16.67%) GDPR
3 6 (5.56%) QA
4 2 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (0.93%) Terraform
Vendors
1 27 (25.00%) SAP
2 19 (17.59%) Microsoft
3 11 (10.19%) Informatica
3 11 (10.19%) Sparx
4 7 (6.48%) Databricks
5 5 (4.63%) Ariba
6 4 (3.70%) Oracle
7 2 (1.85%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.85%) QAD
7 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.85%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.93%) Google
8 1 (0.93%) Guidewire