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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 190 174
Rank change year-on-year +64 -16 -14
Contract jobs citing Data Management 353 296 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.69% 1.29% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.45% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 172 299
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £368 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.30%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £601
90th Percentile £741 £711 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 19 13
10th Percentile £14.59 £23.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £30.37 £30.26 £28.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £38.35 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.34% +9.57% -18.49%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.75 -
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £48.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £37.30 £35.00
% change year-on-year +7.24% +6.57% +31.33%

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 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 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
South West +57 92 £530 +11.58% 54
North of England +52 90 £500 -2.44% 92
North West +37 71 £500 - 56
Midlands +35 65 £585 +56.00% 86
West Midlands +38 57 £609 +74.11% 46
South East -7 52 £504 -13.10% 85
East of England +16 39 £500 - 36
Scotland +37 29 £515 +3.00% 49
Yorkshire +27 22 £513 -10.87% 23
East Midlands -2 7 £550 +10.00% 39
North East +14 3 - - 13
Wales +16 2 £550 +20.55% 9
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 13 (3.68%) Apache
2 10 (2.83%) Apache Airflow
3 9 (2.55%) SAS
3 9 (2.55%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.98%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.57%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) CMS
6 1 (0.28%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.28%) Smallworld
Applications
1 56 (15.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 35 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (7.65%) Spreadsheet
4 24 (6.80%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (3.40%) Acrobat
6 9 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (1.13%) MicroStation
8 3 (0.85%) AutoCAD
9 2 (0.57%) Autodesk Inventor
9 2 (0.57%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.83%) Dynamics CRM
1 10 (2.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (1.98%) Teamcenter
3 4 (1.13%) Infor SunSystems
3 4 (1.13%) SAP IS-U
3 4 (1.13%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.85%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.85%) SAP PLM
5 2 (0.57%) 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%) SAP BPC
6 1 (0.28%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.28%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.28%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 56 (15.86%) Azure
2 46 (13.03%) Power Platform
3 21 (5.95%) Snowflake
4 20 (5.67%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (4.82%) AWS
6 16 (4.53%) Power Automate
7 11 (3.12%) Azure Data Factory
8 10 (2.83%) Amazon S3
8 10 (2.83%) PowerApps
9 9 (2.55%) Serverless
10 8 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
11 7 (1.98%) Collibra
11 7 (1.98%) GCP
12 6 (1.70%) Amazon EMR
12 6 (1.70%) Azure Stack
12 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.42%) Amazon SQS
13 5 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 5 (1.42%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.42%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 19 (5.38%) Network Security
2 18 (5.10%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (1.42%) FTP
4 3 (0.85%) LAN
4 3 (0.85%) WAN
5 2 (0.57%) SSL
6 1 (0.28%) DHCP
6 1 (0.28%) DNS
6 1 (0.28%) DWDM
6 1 (0.28%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (0.28%) Firewall
6 1 (0.28%) Internet
6 1 (0.28%) iSCSI
6 1 (0.28%) MPLS
6 1 (0.28%) RS-232
6 1 (0.28%) SAN
6 1 (0.28%) SDH
6 1 (0.28%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.28%) VPN
6 1 (0.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (12.75%) Power BI
2 34 (9.63%) Data Warehouse
3 31 (8.78%) Big Data
4 28 (7.93%) Metadata
5 19 (5.38%) SQL Server
6 15 (4.25%) Data Lake
7 12 (3.40%) Tableau
8 11 (3.12%) GIS
9 8 (2.27%) Metadata Repository
10 7 (1.98%) Ataccama
10 7 (1.98%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.98%) MySQL
10 7 (1.98%) Qlik Sense
10 7 (1.98%) Relational Database
11 6 (1.70%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
11 6 (1.70%) Geospatial Data
11 6 (1.70%) Snowflake Schema
12 5 (1.42%) BigQuery
13 4 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (1.13%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 44 (12.46%) JIRA
2 14 (3.97%) Git
3 7 (1.98%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 2 (0.57%) Gradle
4 2 (0.57%) JUnit
4 2 (0.57%) kappa
5 1 (0.28%) ERwin
5 1 (0.28%) IntelliJ
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.28%) LSMW
5 1 (0.28%) RStudio
General
1 118 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 95 (26.91%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (23.23%) Finance
4 36 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 34 (9.63%) Presentation Skills
6 23 (6.52%) Pharmaceutical
7 21 (5.95%) Manufacturing
8 20 (5.67%) Aerospace
9 15 (4.25%) Law
10 12 (3.40%) Billing
10 12 (3.40%) Legal
10 12 (3.40%) Marketing
11 10 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (2.55%) Electronics
12 9 (2.55%) Retail
13 7 (1.98%) Banking
14 6 (1.70%) Telecoms
15 5 (1.42%) Publishing
16 4 (1.13%) Military
17 3 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 82 (23.23%) Architect
2 59 (16.71%) Analyst
3 44 (12.46%) Data Architect
4 42 (11.90%) Data Analyst
5 40 (11.33%) Lead
6 28 (7.93%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (7.08%) Project Leader
8 23 (6.52%) Data Engineer
9 22 (6.23%) Data Manager
9 22 (6.23%) Senior
10 18 (5.10%) Developer
11 16 (4.53%) Senior Analyst
12 13 (3.68%) Data Quality Analyst
12 13 (3.68%) Quality Analyst
13 12 (3.40%) Author
13 12 (3.40%) Technical Author
14 11 (3.12%) Administrator
15 10 (2.83%) Business Analyst
15 10 (2.83%) QA Analyst
16 9 (2.55%) Senior QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.22%) XML
2 18 (5.10%) Apache NiFi
3 12 (3.40%) JSON
3 12 (3.40%) SGML
4 7 (1.98%) HTML
4 7 (1.98%) REST
5 6 (1.70%) CSS
6 5 (1.42%) Kafka
6 5 (1.42%) RESTful
7 4 (1.13%) React
8 3 (0.85%) .NET
8 3 (0.85%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (0.57%) Android Jetpack
9 2 (0.57%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.57%) Dagger
9 2 (0.57%) Jetpack Compose
9 2 (0.57%) PySpark
9 2 (0.57%) Retrofit
9 2 (0.57%) SOAP
10 1 (0.28%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 50 (14.16%) Management Information System
2 19 (5.38%) Cyber Defence
2 19 (5.38%) Distributed Applications
3 12 (3.40%) Animation
3 12 (3.40%) Data Structures
4 11 (3.12%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.27%) Product Ownership
6 7 (1.98%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.70%) NHS
8 4 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.13%) e-Health
8 4 (1.13%) FMCG
8 4 (1.13%) Life Science
9 3 (0.85%) Analogue Electronics
9 3 (0.85%) Data Fabric
9 3 (0.85%) Lidar
9 3 (0.85%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.85%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.37%) Windows
2 20 (5.67%) Unix
3 19 (5.38%) Linux
4 18 (5.10%) Android
5 16 (4.53%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.98%) Windows Server
7 3 (0.85%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (22.66%) Problem-Solving
2 79 (22.38%) Agile
3 77 (21.81%) Analytics
4 74 (20.96%) Migration
5 67 (18.98%) Business Intelligence
6 58 (16.43%) Data Analysis
6 58 (16.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (15.86%) Data Governance
7 56 (15.86%) Project Delivery
8 55 (15.58%) Project Management
9 50 (14.16%) Data Migration
10 49 (13.88%) Data Modelling
11 41 (11.61%) Data Architecture
12 37 (10.48%) Computer Science
13 35 (9.92%) Data Pipeline
14 34 (9.63%) Data Engineering
15 29 (8.22%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 29 (8.22%) Workshop Facilitation
16 28 (7.93%) PRINCE2
17 27 (7.65%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.98%) SQL
2 33 (9.35%) Python
3 17 (4.82%) Java
4 10 (2.83%) JavaScript
5 6 (1.70%) C#
6 5 (1.42%) MATLAB
7 4 (1.13%) ABAP
7 4 (1.13%) Bash
7 4 (1.13%) R
7 4 (1.13%) TypeScript
8 2 (0.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (0.57%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.28%) C
9 1 (0.28%) C++
9 1 (0.28%) Groovy
9 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.28%) Scala
9 1 (0.28%) VBA
9 1 (0.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 75 (21.25%) Security Cleared
2 59 (16.71%) Degree
3 54 (15.30%) DV Cleared
4 24 (6.80%) APMP
5 22 (6.23%) SC Cleared
6 8 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (1.98%) ACCA
8 6 (1.70%) ISEB
8 6 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.13%) CIMA
10 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.57%) PhD
12 1 (0.28%) BC Cleared
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 70 (19.83%) Data Quality
2 34 (9.63%) PMO
3 21 (5.95%) QA
4 18 (5.10%) Actionable Recommendations
5 14 (3.97%) GDPR
6 13 (3.68%) Def Stans
7 3 (0.85%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.57%) SLA
9 1 (0.28%) COBIT
9 1 (0.28%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.28%) GxP
9 1 (0.28%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (1.98%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.57%) Docker
3 1 (0.28%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.28%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (0.85%) Terraform
2 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.28%) Ansible
3 1 (0.28%) Control-M
3 1 (0.28%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.28%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 76 (21.53%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.31%) SAP
3 16 (4.53%) Oracle
4 14 (3.97%) Adobe
4 14 (3.97%) Informatica
4 14 (3.97%) Red Hat
5 13 (3.68%) Databricks
6 11 (3.12%) Alteryx
7 7 (1.98%) Dataiku
7 7 (1.98%) Remedy
7 7 (1.98%) Trillium
8 6 (1.70%) Autodesk
8 6 (1.70%) Talend
9 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.13%) Siemens
10 4 (1.13%) Sun
11 3 (0.85%) Brio
11 3 (0.85%) ESRI
11 3 (0.85%) F5
11 3 (0.85%) Google