Data Management Contracts

Data Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 176 176
Rank change year-on-year +70 0 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Management 875 839 1,425
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.06% 1.47% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 1.64% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 520 900
10th Percentile £363 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £431 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 19
10th Percentile £15.52 £23.96 £20.90
25th Percentile £19.57 £30.39 £31.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -0.44% -5.47% +59.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £51.05
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £66.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.18 £35.00
% change year-on-year +12.01% +14.79% -8.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 36,687 51,295 79,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.22% 89.83% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,611 35,552 55,630
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £476
% change year-on-year - +5.04% +8.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,428 1,693 1,906
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.77 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Data Management over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 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 +63 772 £550 - 540
London +60 405 £550 -8.33% 214
UK excluding London +59 365 £525 +5.00% 364
Work from Home +75 288 £550 -4.35% 228
South West +69 97 £530 +11.58% 56
North of England +42 92 £510 -1.21% 82
North West +37 73 £510 - 50
Midlands +42 67 £585 +61.38% 59
West Midlands +48 59 £609 +74.11% 36
South East -2 53 £504 -8.36% 90
East of England +23 40 £518 +3.50% 29
Scotland +50 34 £538 +19.44% 34
Yorkshire +26 22 £513 -10.87% 20
East Midlands +2 7 £550 +83.33% 23
North East +14 3 - - 13

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 34 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.40%) SAS
3 14 (1.60%) Apache
4 13 (1.49%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.26%) ArcGIS
6 10 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.34%) Confluence
8 2 (0.23%) CMS
8 2 (0.23%) IIS
8 2 (0.23%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.23%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.11%) JBoss
9 1 (0.11%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 98 (11.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.83%) Microsoft Office
3 31 (3.54%) Spreadsheet
4 30 (3.43%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 20 (2.29%) MS Visio
7 12 (1.37%) Acrobat
8 4 (0.46%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.34%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.23%) Revit
Business Applications
1 27 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (2.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.91%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.57%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.57%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
5 4 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.34%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.34%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.34%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.34%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.34%) SAP CO
6 3 (0.34%) SAP FI
6 3 (0.34%) SAP FI/CO
6 3 (0.34%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 157 (17.94%) Azure
2 111 (12.69%) Power Platform
3 86 (9.83%) AWS
4 45 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
5 44 (5.03%) GCP
6 34 (3.89%) Collibra
7 29 (3.31%) Snowflake
8 27 (3.09%) Serverless
9 21 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (2.17%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (1.94%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 15 (1.71%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 14 (1.60%) Microsoft 365
14 14 (1.60%) PowerApps
15 11 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (1.26%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.40%) Network Security
2 15 (1.71%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.57%) FTP
5 4 (0.46%) LAN
5 4 (0.46%) WAN
6 3 (0.34%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.34%) VoIP
6 3 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Internet
7 2 (0.23%) MPLS
7 2 (0.23%) RS-232
8 1 (0.11%) 4G
8 1 (0.11%) 5G
8 1 (0.11%) DNS
8 1 (0.11%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.11%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.11%) SAN
8 1 (0.11%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (11.77%) Power BI
2 87 (9.94%) Metadata
3 83 (9.49%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.71%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.49%) Big Data
6 37 (4.23%) Tableau
7 33 (3.77%) Data Lake
8 23 (2.63%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.83%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.71%) Data Mining
11 13 (1.49%) GIS
12 11 (1.26%) BigQuery
12 11 (1.26%) Snowflake Schema
13 10 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
13 10 (1.14%) Ataccama
13 10 (1.14%) MySQL
14 9 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (1.03%) KDB
14 9 (1.03%) Metadata Repository
15 8 (0.91%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 55 (6.29%) JIRA
2 27 (3.09%) Git
3 14 (1.60%) ERwin
4 8 (0.91%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.91%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.34%) JUnit
6 3 (0.34%) Xcode
7 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.23%) Gradle
7 2 (0.23%) JMeter
7 2 (0.23%) kappa
7 2 (0.23%) LabVIEW
7 2 (0.23%) RStudio
7 2 (0.23%) Selenium
7 2 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.11%) TestNG
8 1 (0.11%) TestRail
General
1 257 (29.37%) Social Skills
2 241 (27.54%) Finance
3 188 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
4 98 (11.20%) Public Sector
5 61 (6.97%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (6.40%) Banking
7 46 (5.26%) Marketing
8 45 (5.14%) Manufacturing
9 37 (4.23%) Retail
10 31 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 29 (3.31%) Telecoms
12 27 (3.09%) Electronics
13 24 (2.74%) Legal
14 20 (2.29%) Aerospace
15 19 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
16 17 (1.94%) Law
17 12 (1.37%) Billing
17 12 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.37%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.26%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 195 (22.29%) Architect
2 159 (18.17%) Analyst
3 98 (11.20%) Data Analyst
4 93 (10.63%) Data Architect
5 83 (9.49%) Lead
6 64 (7.31%) Solutions Architect
7 62 (7.09%) Senior
8 61 (6.97%) Data Engineer
9 53 (6.06%) Data Manager
10 52 (5.94%) Developer
11 44 (5.03%) Consultant
12 42 (4.80%) Business Analyst
13 29 (3.31%) Enterprise Architect
14 25 (2.86%) Project Leader
15 23 (2.63%) Project Manager
16 22 (2.51%) Data Business Analyst
17 21 (2.40%) Enterprise Data Architect
18 19 (2.17%) Senior Analyst
19 18 (2.06%) Administrator
20 17 (1.94%) Data Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.34%) XML
2 22 (2.51%) JSON
3 20 (2.29%) REST
4 16 (1.83%) Apache NiFi
5 14 (1.60%) HTML
6 13 (1.49%) RESTful
7 12 (1.37%) SGML
8 10 (1.14%) .NET
8 10 (1.14%) CSS
8 10 (1.14%) Node.js
9 8 (0.91%) PySpark
9 8 (0.91%) PyTorch
10 7 (0.80%) Web Services
11 6 (0.69%) TensorFlow
12 5 (0.57%) Hugging Face
12 5 (0.57%) LangChain
12 5 (0.57%) Spring
13 4 (0.46%) Kafka
13 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
14 3 (0.34%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 93 (10.63%) Management Information System
2 32 (3.66%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 26 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.29%) Reference Data
6 16 (1.83%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (1.83%) Distributed Applications
7 15 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.49%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.37%) Animation
9 12 (1.37%) Wiki
10 11 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.26%) Life Science
11 10 (1.14%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.14%) Derivative
12 8 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.80%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.80%) Mobile App
13 7 (0.80%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.03%) Windows
2 33 (3.77%) Linux
3 26 (2.97%) Unix
4 16 (1.83%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.71%) Android
6 10 (1.14%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (22.97%) Analytics
2 192 (21.94%) Data Governance
3 178 (20.34%) Problem-Solving
4 177 (20.23%) Agile
5 173 (19.77%) Data Modelling
6 168 (19.20%) Migration
7 159 (18.17%) Business Intelligence
8 127 (14.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 110 (12.57%) Data Analysis
10 108 (12.34%) Data Architecture
11 102 (11.66%) Data Migration
12 97 (11.09%) Project Management
13 93 (10.63%) ETL
14 86 (9.83%) Computer Science
14 86 (9.83%) Project Delivery
15 84 (9.60%) Data Strategy
16 83 (9.49%) DevOps
17 76 (8.69%) Visualisation
18 75 (8.57%) Decision-Making
19 69 (7.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 183 (20.91%) SQL
2 101 (11.54%) Python
3 41 (4.69%) Java
4 32 (3.66%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.51%) C#
6 16 (1.83%) R
7 15 (1.71%) PowerShell
7 15 (1.71%) T-SQL
8 12 (1.37%) PL/SQL
9 9 (1.03%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.91%) VB
11 7 (0.80%) Bash
11 7 (0.80%) Scala
12 6 (0.69%) ABAP
13 5 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.57%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) VBA
15 3 (0.34%) C
Qualifications
1 141 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 135 (15.43%) Degree
3 86 (9.83%) SC Cleared
4 59 (6.74%) DV Cleared
5 28 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.74%) APMP
7 14 (1.60%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.03%) CISSP
9 8 (0.91%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.80%) ACCA
10 7 (0.80%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) ISEB
11 6 (0.69%) PMP
12 4 (0.46%) CIMA
12 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.34%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) CISM
14 2 (0.23%) Tableau Certification
15 1 (0.11%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 216 (24.69%) Data Quality
2 53 (6.06%) QA
3 48 (5.49%) GDPR
4 39 (4.46%) PMO
5 17 (1.94%) Actionable Recommendations
6 15 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 15 (1.71%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.49%) Def Stans
8 10 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.80%) CDISC
9 7 (0.80%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 7 (0.80%) SLA
10 6 (0.69%) COBIT
10 6 (0.69%) GxP
11 5 (0.57%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.57%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.34%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.34%) NCSC
12 3 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 2 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.11%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (1.83%) Terraform
2 10 (1.14%) Grafana
3 9 (1.03%) Kubernetes
4 8 (0.91%) ITRS Geneos
5 4 (0.46%) Ansible
6 3 (0.34%) Control-M
7 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.23%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) logstash
8 1 (0.11%) Matomo
8 1 (0.11%) MOM
8 1 (0.11%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.11%) Puppet
8 1 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 153 (17.49%) Microsoft
2 100 (11.43%) SAP
3 57 (6.51%) Oracle
4 32 (3.66%) Databricks
4 32 (3.66%) Informatica
5 21 (2.40%) Adobe
5 21 (2.40%) Google
6 20 (2.29%) Sparx
7 18 (2.06%) Alteryx
8 16 (1.83%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.71%) IBM
10 14 (1.60%) Talend
11 10 (1.14%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.03%) ESRI
13 8 (0.91%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.80%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.80%) Genesys
14 7 (0.80%) Remedy
14 7 (0.80%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.80%) Trillium