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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 183 173
Rank change year-on-year +69 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Management 845 802 1,412
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.96% 1.43% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 1.60% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 492 896
10th Percentile £350 £325 £369
25th Percentile £450 £425 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 20 21
10th Percentile £15.62 £20.81 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.25 £29.02 £31.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £37.30 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.24% +6.57% +31.33%
75th Percentile £45.00 £64.63 £49.59
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £64.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £38.35 £35.00
% change year-on-year +17.34% +9.57% -18.49%

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 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Data Management in the UK

Data Management
Top 16 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 1 June 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 +62 747 £550 - 688
London +57 392 £550 -8.33% 303
UK excluding London +58 353 £525 +5.00% 411
Work from Home +73 276 £550 -4.35% 261
South West +54 92 £530 +11.58% 56
North of England +45 90 £500 -2.44% 92
North West +42 71 £500 - 56
Midlands +32 65 £585 +56.00% 87
West Midlands +37 57 £609 +74.11% 49
South East -5 52 £504 -13.10% 84
East of England +13 39 £500 - 34
Scotland +34 29 £515 +3.00% 47
Yorkshire +24 22 £513 -10.87% 23
East Midlands 0 7 £550 +10.00% 37
North East +14 3 - - 13
Wales +16 2 £550 +20.55% 10

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 33 (3.91%) SharePoint
2 19 (2.25%) Apache
2 19 (2.25%) SAS
3 13 (1.54%) Apache Spark
3 13 (1.54%) ArcGIS
4 10 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.36%) Confluence
6 2 (0.24%) CMS
6 2 (0.24%) IIS
6 2 (0.24%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.12%) JBoss
7 1 (0.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.12%) nginx
7 1 (0.12%) Smallworld
7 1 (0.12%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 94 (11.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 49 (5.80%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.55%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (3.55%) Spreadsheet
4 27 (3.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (2.13%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.42%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.59%) AutoCAD
8 4 (0.47%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.24%) Revit
Business Applications
1 26 (3.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.95%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.95%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.59%) MIS ActiveH
4 5 (0.59%) NEC Housing
4 5 (0.59%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.59%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.47%) Adobe Campaign
5 4 (0.47%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.47%) SAP IS-U
6 3 (0.36%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.36%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.36%) OPENHousing
6 3 (0.36%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.36%) Siebel CRM
7 2 (0.24%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.24%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 154 (18.22%) Azure
2 103 (12.19%) Power Platform
3 78 (9.23%) AWS
4 46 (5.44%) GCP
5 44 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 30 (3.55%) Collibra
6 30 (3.55%) Snowflake
7 27 (3.20%) Serverless
8 20 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
8 20 (2.37%) Azure Data Factory
8 20 (2.37%) Power Automate
9 19 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 18 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (2.01%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
12 15 (1.78%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (1.66%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 11 (1.30%) AWS Step Functions
14 11 (1.30%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.84%) Network Security
2 18 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.71%) Firewall
4 5 (0.59%) FTP
5 4 (0.47%) LAN
5 4 (0.47%) WAN
6 3 (0.36%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.36%) VoIP
6 3 (0.36%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.24%) Internet
7 2 (0.24%) MPLS
7 2 (0.24%) SSL
8 1 (0.12%) DHCP
8 1 (0.12%) DNS
8 1 (0.12%) DWDM
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) SDH
8 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
8 1 (0.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (11.24%) Power BI
2 85 (10.06%) Data Warehouse
3 82 (9.70%) Metadata
4 51 (6.04%) Big Data
5 49 (5.80%) SQL Server
6 35 (4.14%) Data Lake
7 34 (4.02%) Tableau
8 27 (3.20%) Relational Database
9 17 (2.01%) GIS
10 16 (1.89%) Data Mining
11 14 (1.66%) NoSQL
12 13 (1.54%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.30%) Metadata Repository
13 11 (1.30%) MySQL
13 11 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.18%) Ataccama
14 10 (1.18%) KDB
15 9 (1.07%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (1.07%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
15 9 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 55 (6.51%) JIRA
2 25 (2.96%) Git
3 8 (0.95%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.83%) ERwin
4 7 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.59%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.36%) JUnit
6 3 (0.36%) RStudio
7 2 (0.24%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.24%) Gradle
7 2 (0.24%) kappa
7 2 (0.24%) Selenium
7 2 (0.24%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Maven
8 1 (0.12%) Mockito
8 1 (0.12%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.12%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 254 (30.06%) Social Skills
2 224 (26.51%) Finance
3 195 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
4 91 (10.77%) Public Sector
5 59 (6.98%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (6.63%) Banking
7 38 (4.50%) Marketing
8 37 (4.38%) Manufacturing
9 29 (3.43%) Retail
10 27 (3.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 26 (3.08%) Legal
12 22 (2.60%) Telecoms
13 21 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.37%) Aerospace
14 20 (2.37%) Electronics
15 16 (1.89%) Billing
15 16 (1.89%) Law
16 13 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 12 (1.42%) Investment Banking
18 11 (1.30%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 183 (21.66%) Architect
2 152 (17.99%) Analyst
3 94 (11.12%) Data Analyst
4 90 (10.65%) Lead
5 86 (10.18%) Data Architect
6 63 (7.46%) Solutions Architect
7 59 (6.98%) Senior
8 57 (6.75%) Data Engineer
9 52 (6.15%) Consultant
9 52 (6.15%) Developer
10 42 (4.97%) Data Manager
11 41 (4.85%) Business Analyst
12 25 (2.96%) Project Leader
13 24 (2.84%) Data Consultant
14 21 (2.49%) Project Manager
15 20 (2.37%) Data Business Analyst
15 20 (2.37%) Enterprise Architect
16 19 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
17 17 (2.01%) Administrator
18 16 (1.89%) Enterprise Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.50%) XML
2 19 (2.25%) Apache NiFi
2 19 (2.25%) JSON
3 18 (2.13%) REST
4 16 (1.89%) HTML
5 15 (1.78%) RESTful
6 14 (1.66%) .NET
7 12 (1.42%) SGML
8 11 (1.30%) CSS
9 10 (1.18%) Node.js
10 9 (1.07%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.83%) PySpark
11 7 (0.83%) TensorFlow
12 6 (0.71%) Kafka
12 6 (0.71%) Web Services
13 5 (0.59%) HTML5 Canvas
13 5 (0.59%) React
13 5 (0.59%) Spring
14 4 (0.47%) Hugging Face
14 4 (0.47%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 103 (12.19%) Management Information System
2 30 (3.55%) Product Ownership
3 28 (3.31%) Data Structures
4 20 (2.37%) Reference Data
5 19 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
5 19 (2.25%) Distributed Applications
6 17 (2.01%) Data Protection Act
7 12 (1.42%) Animation
7 12 (1.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 12 (1.42%) Onboarding
8 10 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 10 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.18%) Derivative
8 10 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
9 9 (1.07%) Cloud Native
9 9 (1.07%) Life Science
10 7 (0.83%) Data Fabric
10 7 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (0.83%) NHS
11 6 (0.71%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 43 (5.09%) Windows
2 33 (3.91%) Linux
3 27 (3.20%) Unix
4 18 (2.13%) Android
5 16 (1.89%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.07%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.36%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 204 (24.14%) Analytics
2 171 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (20.12%) Data Governance
4 167 (19.76%) Migration
5 164 (19.41%) Agile
5 164 (19.41%) Data Modelling
6 148 (17.51%) Business Intelligence
7 126 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 114 (13.49%) Data Analysis
9 100 (11.83%) Data Migration
10 97 (11.48%) Data Architecture
11 90 (10.65%) Project Management
12 89 (10.53%) ETL
12 89 (10.53%) Project Delivery
13 86 (10.18%) Computer Science
14 81 (9.59%) DevOps
15 71 (8.40%) Data Strategy
16 68 (8.05%) Visualisation
17 67 (7.93%) Decision-Making
18 65 (7.69%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 175 (20.71%) SQL
2 99 (11.72%) Python
3 38 (4.50%) Java
4 36 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 21 (2.49%) C#
6 18 (2.13%) R
7 13 (1.54%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.42%) T-SQL
9 10 (1.18%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.18%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.07%) VB
11 7 (0.83%) Bash
11 7 (0.83%) Scala
12 6 (0.71%) ABAP
13 5 (0.59%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.47%) Go
14 4 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.47%) VBA
15 3 (0.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 140 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 137 (16.21%) Degree
3 81 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 65 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.20%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.84%) APMP
7 16 (1.89%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
8 9 (1.07%) CISSP
9 8 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 7 (0.83%) ACCA
10 7 (0.83%) ISEB
11 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (0.71%) PMP
12 5 (0.59%) PhD
12 5 (0.59%) PMI Certification
13 4 (0.47%) CIMA
14 2 (0.24%) CISA
14 2 (0.24%) CISM
14 2 (0.24%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 209 (24.73%) Data Quality
2 49 (5.80%) QA
3 41 (4.85%) GDPR
4 39 (4.62%) PMO
5 20 (2.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 14 (1.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 13 (1.54%) Accessibility
7 13 (1.54%) Def Stans
8 8 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.83%) CDISC
9 7 (0.83%) SLA
10 6 (0.71%) COBIT
10 6 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.59%) ISO 22301
11 5 (0.59%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.47%) GxP
13 3 (0.36%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.36%) NCSC
14 1 (0.12%) GRC
14 1 (0.12%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (1.30%) Active Directory
2 5 (0.59%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (1.78%) Terraform
2 9 (1.07%) Grafana
3 8 (0.95%) Kubernetes
4 7 (0.83%) ITRS Geneos
5 3 (0.36%) Ansible
5 3 (0.36%) Control-M
6 2 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.12%) Kibana
7 1 (0.12%) logstash
7 1 (0.12%) Matomo
7 1 (0.12%) MOM
7 1 (0.12%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.12%) Puppet
7 1 (0.12%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 150 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 90 (10.65%) SAP
3 57 (6.75%) Oracle
4 31 (3.67%) Databricks
5 29 (3.43%) Informatica
6 22 (2.60%) Google
7 19 (2.25%) Adobe
7 19 (2.25%) Alteryx
8 17 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.66%) Red Hat
9 14 (1.66%) Sparx
10 13 (1.54%) IBM
10 13 (1.54%) Talend
11 9 (1.07%) ESRI
12 7 (0.83%) Dataiku
12 7 (0.83%) Dynatrace
12 7 (0.83%) Genesys
12 7 (0.83%) Remedy
12 7 (0.83%) ServiceNow
12 7 (0.83%) Trillium