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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 466 522 501
Rank change year-on-year +56 -21 -72
Contract jobs citing Master Data Management 105 174 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.31% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.34% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 112 232
10th Percentile £450 £463 £426
25th Percentile £509 £500 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £553
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +8.60% +3.03%
75th Percentile £725 £696 £676
90th Percentile £803 £750 £738
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 - - +63.46%

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 36,539 50,904 80,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.04% 89.75% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,560 35,264 56,167
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £440 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,684 1,915
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.27 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.51
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.21%

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 21 May 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 21 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
England +50 91 £560 -8.57% 55
Work from Home +88 52 £565 -9.60% 23
London +69 51 £638 +2.00% 21
UK excluding London +13 33 £550 - 32
Midlands +22 9 £570 +3.64% 8
West Midlands +18 9 £570 +8.57% 5
North of England +23 8 £550 +15.79% 7
South East +16 6 £475 -23.39% 8
East of England +14 6 £600 +33.33% 2
Yorkshire +22 4 £550 +10.00% 3
North West +21 4 £600 +26.32% 4
South West -7 4 £525 -19.23% 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 1 (0.95%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (10.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (8.57%) SAP MDG
3 4 (3.81%) SAP MDM
3 4 (3.81%) SAP SD
4 3 (2.86%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.95%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.10%) Azure
2 8 (7.62%) Power Platform
3 6 (5.71%) AWS
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Data Factory
4 4 (3.81%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.86%) Serverless
6 2 (1.90%) Azure Stack
6 2 (1.90%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.95%) Collibra
7 1 (0.95%) IaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Lucidchart
7 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.95%) Oracle CX
7 1 (0.95%) PaaS
7 1 (0.95%) SaaS
7 1 (0.95%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (17.14%) Data Warehouse
2 16 (15.24%) Metadata
3 7 (6.67%) Big Data
3 7 (6.67%) Power BI
4 4 (3.81%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.81%) Parquet
4 4 (3.81%) Star Schema
5 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.86%) OLAP
5 3 (2.86%) OLTP
6 2 (1.90%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.90%) TIBCO EBX
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.95%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.95%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.95%) SAP Data Services
7 1 (0.95%) SAP HANA
7 1 (0.95%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) ERwin
2 2 (1.90%) kappa
3 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 30 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 21 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 17 (16.19%) Finance
4 14 (13.33%) Manufacturing
5 12 (11.43%) Telecoms
6 9 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (8.57%) Retail
7 8 (7.62%) Marketing
7 8 (7.62%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (6.67%) Electronics
9 6 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
10 5 (4.76%) Publishing
11 4 (3.81%) Legal
12 3 (2.86%) Law
13 2 (1.90%) Billing
13 2 (1.90%) French Language
13 2 (1.90%) Police
14 1 (0.95%) Back Office
14 1 (0.95%) General Ledger
14 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (35.24%) Architect
2 27 (25.71%) Data Architect
3 13 (12.38%) Lead
4 12 (11.43%) Consultant
4 12 (11.43%) Data Manager
5 11 (10.48%) Enterprise Architect
6 10 (9.52%) Enterprise Data Architect
7 9 (8.57%) Senior
7 9 (8.57%) Senior Architect
8 8 (7.62%) Senior Data Architect
9 7 (6.67%) Analyst
9 7 (6.67%) Data Consultant
9 7 (6.67%) Data Engineer
9 7 (6.67%) Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (5.71%) Data Analytics Architect
10 6 (5.71%) Data Governance Analyst
10 6 (5.71%) Data Governance Manager
10 6 (5.71%) Governance Manager
11 5 (4.76%) Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) JSON
1 6 (5.71%) JSON Schema
2 4 (3.81%) Apache Avro
2 4 (3.81%) YAML
3 3 (2.86%) REST
3 3 (2.86%) XML
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.95%) PySpark
4 1 (0.95%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (9.52%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.62%) Wiki
4 7 (6.67%) Freedom of Information
5 6 (5.71%) Data Structures
6 5 (4.76%) Freedom of Information Act
6 5 (4.76%) Product Ownership
7 4 (3.81%) Reference Data
8 3 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (2.86%) Life Science
8 3 (2.86%) Taxonomies
8 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.90%) Hackathon
10 1 (0.95%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.95%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (54.29%) Data Governance
2 44 (41.90%) Data Management
3 42 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 32 (30.48%) Data Architecture
5 31 (29.52%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (28.57%) Analytics
7 23 (21.90%) Data Strategy
8 21 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 19 (18.10%) Data Integration
10 18 (17.14%) Migration
11 17 (16.19%) Physical Data Model
12 16 (15.24%) Agile
12 16 (15.24%) Data Protection
13 14 (13.33%) ERP
13 14 (13.33%) ETL
13 14 (13.33%) Information Management
14 13 (12.38%) Data Lineage
15 12 (11.43%) Data Flow Diagram
15 12 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
16 11 (10.48%) Data Mapping
Programming Languages
1 22 (20.95%) SQL
2 3 (2.86%) Python
3 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
3 2 (1.90%) R
3 2 (1.90%) T-SQL
4 1 (0.95%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 13 (12.38%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (1.90%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.95%) OCP
5 1 (0.95%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (51.43%) Data Quality
2 14 (13.33%) GDPR
3 5 (4.76%) QA
4 2 (1.90%) PMO
5 1 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
Vendors
1 28 (26.67%) SAP
2 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
3 10 (9.52%) Informatica
4 8 (7.62%) Sparx
5 6 (5.71%) Ariba
5 6 (5.71%) Databricks
6 4 (3.81%) Oracle
6 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.90%) JD Edwards
7 2 (1.90%) MuleSoft
7 2 (1.90%) QAD
7 2 (1.90%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.95%) Guidewire