Data Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Data Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Data Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data Management over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 187 173
Rank change year-on-year +68 -14 -17
Contract jobs citing Data Management 359 299 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.77% 1.30% 1.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 1.45% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 175 293
10th Percentile £345 £300 £319
25th Percentile £431 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% - +2.50%
75th Percentile £670 £625 £600
90th Percentile £750 £695 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 20 13
10th Percentile £14.64 £23.96 £15.60
25th Percentile £27.84 £30.39 £31.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.18 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +14.79% -8.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £51.80
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £40.18 £39.75
% change year-on-year +5.79% +1.07% +49.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Data Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the UK excluding London

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK excluding London

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 Data Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South West +54 97 £530 +11.58% 46
North of England +47 90 £510 -1.21% 91
North West +34 71 £510 - 54
Midlands +44 67 £585 +67.14% 66
West Midlands +50 59 £609 +74.11% 40
South East -2 53 £500 -11.50% 85
East of England +21 40 £518 +3.50% 29
Scotland +41 29 £575 +16.40% 34
Yorkshire +19 22 £513 -10.87% 22
East Midlands 0 7 £550 +83.33% 26
North East +17 3 - - 16
Wales +18 1 £550 +20.55% 16
Data Management
UK

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 10 (2.79%) Apache
1 10 (2.79%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (2.51%) SAS
3 7 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.67%) ArcGIS
4 6 (1.67%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.28%) CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Confluence
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
5 1 (0.28%) Tomcat
Applications
1 57 (15.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 37 (10.31%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (7.52%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (6.69%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (3.34%) Acrobat
6 10 (2.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.84%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.84%) MicroStation
7 3 (0.84%) MS Visio
8 1 (0.28%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (2.51%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.95%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.11%) Infor SunSystems
3 4 (1.11%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.84%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.84%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.56%) SAP BPC
5 2 (0.56%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.56%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.56%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.56%) SmartPlant
6 1 (0.28%) Adobe Campaign
6 1 (0.28%) Eloqua
6 1 (0.28%) Hyperion Planning
6 1 (0.28%) Odoo
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.04%) Azure
2 44 (12.26%) Power Platform
3 21 (5.85%) Snowflake
4 20 (5.57%) AWS
4 20 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (3.62%) Power Automate
6 11 (3.06%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.06%) Azure Data Factory
7 10 (2.79%) Serverless
8 8 (2.23%) Amazon EC2
9 7 (1.95%) Collibra
9 7 (1.95%) PowerApps
10 6 (1.67%) Amazon EMR
10 6 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (1.67%) Azure Stack
10 6 (1.67%) GCP
10 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
11 5 (1.39%) Amazon SQS
11 5 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 16 (4.46%) Network Security
2 15 (4.18%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.39%) FTP
4 3 (0.84%) LAN
4 3 (0.84%) WAN
5 2 (0.56%) RS-232
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.28%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (11.98%) Power BI
2 34 (9.47%) Data Warehouse
3 32 (8.91%) Metadata
4 28 (7.80%) Big Data
5 19 (5.29%) SQL Server
6 14 (3.90%) Data Lake
7 13 (3.62%) Tableau
8 8 (2.23%) GIS
8 8 (2.23%) Metadata Repository
9 7 (1.95%) Ataccama
9 7 (1.95%) Data Mining
9 7 (1.95%) MySQL
9 7 (1.95%) Qlik Sense
10 6 (1.67%) Relational Database
10 6 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (1.39%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.11%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.11%) Geospatial Data
12 4 (1.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 42 (11.70%) JIRA
2 14 (3.90%) Git
3 8 (2.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 4 (1.11%) ERwin
5 2 (0.56%) Gradle
5 2 (0.56%) JUnit
5 2 (0.56%) kappa
5 2 (0.56%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.28%) LSMW
General
1 118 (32.87%) Social Skills
2 93 (25.91%) Finance
3 82 (22.84%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (10.58%) Public Sector
5 35 (9.75%) Presentation Skills
6 26 (7.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 24 (6.69%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.57%) Aerospace
9 15 (4.18%) Law
10 14 (3.90%) Marketing
11 12 (3.34%) Legal
12 11 (3.06%) Electronics
12 11 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (2.79%) Retail
14 8 (2.23%) Billing
15 7 (1.95%) Banking
15 7 (1.95%) Telecoms
16 5 (1.39%) Military
16 5 (1.39%) Publishing
17 3 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 86 (23.96%) Architect
2 58 (16.16%) Analyst
3 46 (12.81%) Data Architect
4 42 (11.70%) Data Analyst
5 39 (10.86%) Lead
6 28 (7.80%) Data Manager
7 26 (7.24%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (6.96%) Project Leader
9 23 (6.41%) Senior
10 22 (6.13%) Data Engineer
11 17 (4.74%) Developer
12 16 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
13 13 (3.62%) Administrator
13 13 (3.62%) Data Quality Analyst
13 13 (3.62%) Quality Analyst
14 12 (3.34%) Author
14 12 (3.34%) Technical Author
15 10 (2.79%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.79%) Enterprise Architect
15 10 (2.79%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.08%) XML
2 15 (4.18%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (3.34%) JSON
3 12 (3.34%) SGML
4 7 (1.95%) REST
5 4 (1.11%) CSS
5 4 (1.11%) HTML
5 4 (1.11%) Kafka
6 2 (0.56%) Android Jetpack
6 2 (0.56%) Dagger
6 2 (0.56%) Jetpack Compose
6 2 (0.56%) Node.js
6 2 (0.56%) PySpark
6 2 (0.56%) React
6 2 (0.56%) RESTful
6 2 (0.56%) Retrofit
6 2 (0.56%) SOAP
7 1 (0.28%) Hugging Face
7 1 (0.28%) LangChain
7 1 (0.28%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (12.81%) Management Information System
2 16 (4.46%) Cyber Defence
2 16 (4.46%) Distributed Applications
3 13 (3.62%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.34%) Animation
4 12 (3.34%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.51%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.95%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.39%) Life Science
7 5 (1.39%) NHS
7 5 (1.39%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.11%) e-Health
8 4 (1.11%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.84%) Algorithms
9 3 (0.84%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (0.84%) FMCG
9 3 (0.84%) Lidar
9 3 (0.84%) Taxonomies
9 3 (0.84%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 24 (6.69%) Windows
2 17 (4.74%) Unix
3 15 (4.18%) Android
3 15 (4.18%) Linux
4 13 (3.62%) Apple iOS
5 8 (2.23%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.56%) zOS
7 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (23.40%) Agile
2 80 (22.28%) Problem-Solving
3 74 (20.61%) Analytics
3 74 (20.61%) Migration
4 66 (18.38%) Business Intelligence
5 62 (17.27%) Data Governance
5 62 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 60 (16.71%) Project Management
7 54 (15.04%) Project Delivery
8 53 (14.76%) Data Analysis
9 51 (14.21%) Data Modelling
10 50 (13.93%) Data Migration
11 44 (12.26%) Data Architecture
12 37 (10.31%) Computer Science
13 31 (8.64%) Data Pipeline
13 31 (8.64%) PRINCE2
14 30 (8.36%) Data Engineering
14 30 (8.36%) Data Strategy
15 29 (8.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 29 (8.08%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 66 (18.38%) SQL
2 33 (9.19%) Python
3 17 (4.74%) Java
4 8 (2.23%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.67%) C#
6 5 (1.39%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.11%) ABAP
7 4 (1.11%) Bash
8 3 (0.84%) R
8 3 (0.84%) TypeScript
9 2 (0.56%) C
9 2 (0.56%) C++
9 2 (0.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 2 (0.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (0.56%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.28%) Perl
10 1 (0.28%) PHP
10 1 (0.28%) VB
Qualifications
1 75 (20.89%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.43%) Degree
3 50 (13.93%) DV Cleared
4 25 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.69%) APMP
6 8 (2.23%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.95%) ACCA
8 6 (1.67%) ISEB
9 4 (1.11%) CIMA
10 3 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
10 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
10 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.56%) PhD
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.28%) ICAEW
12 1 (0.28%) MCSA
12 1 (0.28%) MCSE
12 1 (0.28%) OCP
12 1 (0.28%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (20.89%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.47%) PMO
3 23 (6.41%) QA
4 15 (4.18%) Actionable Recommendations
4 15 (4.18%) GDPR
5 13 (3.62%) Def Stans
6 3 (0.84%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.56%) GxP
7 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.56%) SLA
8 1 (0.28%) COBIT
8 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
8 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.28%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (2.23%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.84%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.84%) Terraform
2 2 (0.56%) Ansible
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Control-M
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 74 (20.61%) Microsoft
2 52 (14.48%) SAP
3 16 (4.46%) Oracle
4 15 (4.18%) Informatica
5 14 (3.90%) Adobe
6 12 (3.34%) Databricks
7 11 (3.06%) Alteryx
8 10 (2.79%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.95%) Dataiku
9 7 (1.95%) Remedy
9 7 (1.95%) Trillium
10 6 (1.67%) Talend
11 5 (1.39%) Atlassian
11 5 (1.39%) Autodesk
12 4 (1.11%) Siemens
12 4 (1.11%) Sparx
12 4 (1.11%) Sun
13 3 (0.84%) ESRI
13 3 (0.84%) Hyperion
13 3 (0.84%) Keysight