Hybrid/Remote Master Data Management Contract Job Trends

Master Data Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Master Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 279 294
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +136
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 37 37 71
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.36% 0.34% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.38% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 55
10th Percentile £335 £483 £420
25th Percentile £475 £524 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £600 £663 £738
90th Percentile £668 £822 -
UK median daily rate £575 £638 £600
% change year-on-year -9.80% +6.25% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,155 9,844 14,171
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 90.28% 89.58% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,014 6,207 9,574
10th Percentile £330 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 184 378
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.65 £15.95
25th Percentile £20.36 £22.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £45.46 £35.14 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.37% -29.72% -13.04%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.63 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

Master Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Master Data Management and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Master Data Management job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Master Data Management
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Master Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Master Data Management

Master Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Master Data Management over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Master Data Management daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Master Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Master Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Master Data Management

Master Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.70%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) JDE EnterpriseOne
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.70%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 16 (43.24%) Azure
2 5 (13.51%) AWS
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Data Factory
3 4 (10.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 4 (10.81%) OCI
3 4 (10.81%) Snowflake
4 3 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (8.11%) Serverless
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Functions
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (5.41%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.70%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Storage
6 1 (2.70%) Matillion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.22%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.51%) Metadata
3 4 (10.81%) Data Lake
3 4 (10.81%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.81%) Relational Database
4 3 (8.11%) Oracle Database
4 3 (8.11%) Power BI
4 3 (8.11%) RDBMS
5 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (5.41%) Data Vault
5 2 (5.41%) Delta Lake
5 2 (5.41%) NoSQL
6 1 (2.70%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.70%) CockroachDB
6 1 (2.70%) DynamoDB
6 1 (2.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (2.70%) SAP Data Services
6 1 (2.70%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (2.70%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.70%) ER Studio
2 1 (2.70%) ERwin
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Liquibase
2 1 (2.70%) LSMW
2 1 (2.70%) PowerDesigner
2 1 (2.70%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 21 (56.76%) Social Skills
2 14 (37.84%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (24.32%) Finance
4 3 (8.11%) Marketing
5 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 1 (2.70%) Banking
6 1 (2.70%) General Ledger
6 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.70%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (21.62%) Analyst
1 8 (21.62%) Architect
1 8 (21.62%) Lead
2 6 (16.22%) Data Architect
3 5 (13.51%) Business Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.11%) SAP Analyst
4 3 (8.11%) SAP Business Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Data Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.41%) Consultant
5 2 (5.41%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Data Migration Lead
5 2 (5.41%) Developer
5 2 (5.41%) Governance Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Master Data Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (5.41%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.41%) SAP MDM Analyst
6 1 (2.70%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) REST
2 2 (5.41%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.70%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (2.70%) boto
3 1 (2.70%) JSON
3 1 (2.70%) Kafka
3 1 (2.70%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (2.70%) Middleware
3 1 (2.70%) NumPy
3 1 (2.70%) Pandas
3 1 (2.70%) PySpark
3 1 (2.70%) RESTful
3 1 (2.70%) Visualforce
3 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.81%) Data Structures
2 3 (8.11%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (8.11%) Public Cloud
2 3 (8.11%) Taxonomies
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.70%) Data Fabric
4 1 (2.70%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (56.76%) Data Governance
2 18 (48.65%) Data Modelling
3 14 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (32.43%) Data Integration
5 11 (29.73%) Data Architecture
6 10 (27.03%) Analytics
6 10 (27.03%) Data Management
6 10 (27.03%) ERP
7 8 (21.62%) ETL
7 8 (21.62%) Migration
8 7 (18.92%) Agile
8 7 (18.92%) AI
8 7 (18.92%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
10 5 (13.51%) Data Cleansing
10 5 (13.51%) Data Engineering
10 5 (13.51%) Data Strategy
10 5 (13.51%) Data Transformation
10 5 (13.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (13.51%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.03%) SQL
2 5 (13.51%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) Korn
3 1 (2.70%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Degree
2 3 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (8.11%) SC Cleared
2 3 (8.11%) Security Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.70%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (51.35%) Data Quality
2 6 (16.22%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) EU AI Act
3 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) PMO
3 1 (2.70%) QA
3 1 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Oracle
2 12 (32.43%) SAP
3 8 (21.62%) Informatica
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 6 (16.22%) Databricks
5 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
6 2 (5.41%) Ariba
6 2 (5.41%) MuleSoft
6 2 (5.41%) Workday
7 1 (2.70%) Google
7 1 (2.70%) JD Edwards
7 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.70%) Talend