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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 177 178
Rank change year-on-year +70 +1 -10
Contract jobs citing Data Management 869 832 1,433
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.04% 1.45% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.37% 1.62% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 507 907
10th Percentile £363 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
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 £530 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% - +3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 20 21
10th Percentile £15.52 £23.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.73 £30.39 £31.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.18 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.01% +8.58% +38.84%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.63 £49.59
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £64.75
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £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 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
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% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 May 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 20 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 +65 769 £550 - 631
London +57 407 £550 -8.33% 275
UK excluding London +58 358 £530 +6.00% 426
Work from Home +72 288 £550 -4.35% 269
South West +58 96 £530 +11.58% 49
North of England +50 90 £510 -1.92% 102
North West +32 71 £510 -1.92% 57
Midlands +28 67 £585 +61.38% 81
West Midlands +47 59 £609 +74.11% 54
South East +3 53 £500 -11.50% 111
East of England +20 39 £518 +3.50% 28
Scotland +38 29 £575 +15.69% 37
Yorkshire +24 22 £513 -10.87% 27
East Midlands +2 7 £550 +41.03% 27
North East +15 3 - - 19
Wales +18 2 £550 +20.55% 15

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 (3.80%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.42%) SAS
3 16 (1.84%) Apache
4 13 (1.50%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.38%) ArcGIS
6 10 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.35%) 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 (0.12%) JBoss
9 1 (0.12%) WebSphere
Applications
1 96 (11.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 51 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (3.45%) Microsoft Project
3 30 (3.45%) Spreadsheet
4 27 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (2.19%) MS Visio
6 12 (1.38%) Acrobat
7 5 (0.58%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.35%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.23%) Revit
10 1 (0.12%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 27 (3.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 20 (2.30%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.92%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 8 (0.92%) Teamcenter
4 5 (0.58%) Adobe Campaign
4 5 (0.58%) Salesforce CRM
4 5 (0.58%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.46%) Infor SunSystems
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
5 4 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.46%) Siebel CRM
6 3 (0.35%) Eloqua
6 3 (0.35%) ENOVIA
6 3 (0.35%) MIS ActiveH
6 3 (0.35%) NEC Housing
6 3 (0.35%) SAP BPC
6 3 (0.35%) SAP PLM
7 2 (0.23%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.23%) SmartPlant
Cloud Services
1 152 (17.49%) Azure
2 106 (12.20%) Power Platform
3 84 (9.67%) AWS
4 45 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
4 45 (5.18%) GCP
5 34 (3.91%) Collibra
6 29 (3.34%) Snowflake
7 28 (3.22%) Serverless
8 22 (2.53%) AWS Lambda
9 21 (2.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 21 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (2.30%) Amazon S3
11 17 (1.96%) Microsoft Purview
11 17 (1.96%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.73%) Cloud Computing
13 14 (1.61%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 14 (1.61%) Microsoft 365
13 14 (1.61%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (1.38%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 21 (2.42%) Network Security
2 15 (1.73%) Intrusion Detection
3 6 (0.69%) Firewall
4 5 (0.58%) FTP
5 4 (0.46%) LAN
5 4 (0.46%) WAN
6 3 (0.35%) IP Telephony
6 3 (0.35%) VoIP
6 3 (0.35%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.23%) Internet
7 2 (0.23%) MPLS
7 2 (0.23%) RS-232
7 2 (0.23%) SSL
8 1 (0.12%) DHCP
8 1 (0.12%) DNS
8 1 (0.12%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (0.12%) iSCSI
8 1 (0.12%) SAN
8 1 (0.12%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.12%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (11.28%) Power BI
2 86 (9.90%) Metadata
3 83 (9.55%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (5.75%) SQL Server
5 48 (5.52%) Big Data
6 37 (4.26%) Tableau
7 32 (3.68%) Data Lake
8 24 (2.76%) Relational Database
9 16 (1.84%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.73%) Data Mining
11 14 (1.61%) GIS
12 12 (1.38%) BigQuery
13 11 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
14 10 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
14 10 (1.15%) Ataccama
14 10 (1.15%) KDB
14 10 (1.15%) MySQL
15 9 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
16 8 (0.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 54 (6.21%) JIRA
2 26 (2.99%) Git
3 12 (1.38%) ERwin
4 8 (0.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 5 (0.58%) CircleCI
6 3 (0.35%) JUnit
6 3 (0.35%) Xcode
7 2 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.23%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.23%) Gradle
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 (0.12%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.12%) Mockito
8 1 (0.12%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.12%) TestNG
General
1 255 (29.34%) Social Skills
2 239 (27.50%) Finance
3 187 (21.52%) Analytical Skills
4 93 (10.70%) Public Sector
5 61 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (6.44%) Banking
7 43 (4.95%) Marketing
8 42 (4.83%) Manufacturing
9 34 (3.91%) Retail
10 30 (3.45%) Pharmaceutical
11 25 (2.88%) Telecoms
12 24 (2.76%) Electronics
13 23 (2.65%) Legal
14 20 (2.30%) Aerospace
14 20 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
15 16 (1.84%) Law
16 12 (1.38%) Billing
16 12 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 12 (1.38%) Investment Banking
17 10 (1.15%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 191 (21.98%) Architect
2 158 (18.18%) Analyst
3 97 (11.16%) Data Analyst
4 90 (10.36%) Data Architect
5 85 (9.78%) Lead
6 64 (7.36%) Senior
7 62 (7.13%) Solutions Architect
8 61 (7.02%) Data Engineer
9 53 (6.10%) Developer
10 50 (5.75%) Data Manager
11 46 (5.29%) Consultant
12 42 (4.83%) Business Analyst
13 27 (3.11%) Enterprise Architect
14 25 (2.88%) Project Leader
15 24 (2.76%) Project Manager
16 22 (2.53%) Data Business Analyst
17 19 (2.19%) Data Consultant
17 19 (2.19%) Enterprise Data Architect
17 19 (2.19%) Senior Analyst
18 17 (1.96%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (4.37%) XML
2 22 (2.53%) JSON
3 20 (2.30%) REST
4 16 (1.84%) Apache NiFi
5 14 (1.61%) HTML
6 13 (1.50%) RESTful
7 12 (1.38%) SGML
8 11 (1.27%) Node.js
9 10 (1.15%) .NET
9 10 (1.15%) CSS
10 8 (0.92%) PySpark
11 7 (0.81%) PyTorch
11 7 (0.81%) Web Services
12 6 (0.69%) Kafka
13 5 (0.58%) Spring
13 5 (0.58%) TensorFlow
14 4 (0.46%) Hugging Face
14 4 (0.46%) LangChain
14 4 (0.46%) Oracle Fusion
15 3 (0.35%) iOS SDK
Miscellaneous
1 95 (10.93%) Management Information System
2 32 (3.68%) Product Ownership
3 29 (3.34%) Data Structures
4 24 (2.76%) Data Protection Act
5 20 (2.30%) Reference Data
6 16 (1.84%) Cyber Defence
6 16 (1.84%) Distributed Applications
7 15 (1.73%) Onboarding
8 13 (1.50%) Algorithms
9 12 (1.38%) Animation
9 12 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 11 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
10 11 (1.27%) Life Science
11 10 (1.15%) Cloud Native
11 10 (1.15%) Derivative
11 10 (1.15%) Wiki
12 8 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
13 7 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
13 7 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
13 7 (0.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 44 (5.06%) Windows
2 32 (3.68%) Linux
3 26 (2.99%) Unix
4 16 (1.84%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.73%) Android
6 10 (1.15%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) zOS
8 1 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (22.90%) Analytics
2 186 (21.40%) Data Governance
3 174 (20.02%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (19.79%) Data Modelling
5 171 (19.68%) Agile
6 167 (19.22%) Migration
7 152 (17.49%) Business Intelligence
8 124 (14.27%) Stakeholder Management
9 106 (12.20%) Data Analysis
10 104 (11.97%) Data Architecture
11 101 (11.62%) Data Migration
12 95 (10.93%) Project Management
13 92 (10.59%) ETL
14 87 (10.01%) Project Delivery
15 84 (9.67%) Computer Science
16 82 (9.44%) DevOps
17 81 (9.32%) Data Strategy
18 74 (8.52%) Visualisation
19 73 (8.40%) Decision-Making
20 69 (7.94%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 183 (21.06%) SQL
2 100 (11.51%) Python
3 41 (4.72%) Java
4 34 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 22 (2.53%) C#
6 17 (1.96%) R
7 15 (1.73%) T-SQL
8 14 (1.61%) PowerShell
9 12 (1.38%) PL/SQL
10 9 (1.04%) TypeScript
10 9 (1.04%) VB
11 7 (0.81%) Bash
11 7 (0.81%) Scala
12 6 (0.69%) ABAP
13 5 (0.58%) MATLAB
14 4 (0.46%) Go
14 4 (0.46%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.46%) VBA
15 3 (0.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 3 (0.35%) Swift
Qualifications
1 144 (16.57%) Security Cleared
2 136 (15.65%) Degree
3 88 (10.13%) SC Cleared
4 60 (6.90%) DV Cleared
5 27 (3.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (2.76%) APMP
7 14 (1.61%) Master's Degree
8 9 (1.04%) Azure Certification
8 9 (1.04%) CISSP
9 8 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
10 7 (0.81%) ACCA
10 7 (0.81%) PMI Certification
11 6 (0.69%) ISEB
11 6 (0.69%) PMP
12 4 (0.46%) CIMA
12 4 (0.46%) PhD
13 3 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.23%) CISA
14 2 (0.23%) CISM
14 2 (0.23%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 212 (24.40%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.87%) QA
3 46 (5.29%) GDPR
4 39 (4.49%) PMO
5 17 (1.96%) Actionable Recommendations
6 16 (1.84%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.73%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 13 (1.50%) Def Stans
9 10 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 7 (0.81%) CDISC
10 7 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 7 (0.81%) SLA
11 6 (0.69%) COBIT
11 6 (0.69%) GxP
12 5 (0.58%) ISO 22301
12 5 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.35%) NCSC
13 3 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 2 (0.23%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (1.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.69%) Docker
3 1 (0.12%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
3 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 16 (1.84%) Terraform
2 10 (1.15%) Grafana
3 8 (0.92%) ITRS Geneos
3 8 (0.92%) Kubernetes
4 4 (0.46%) Ansible
5 3 (0.35%) Control-M
6 2 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.23%) 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
1 151 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 98 (11.28%) SAP
3 60 (6.90%) Oracle
4 32 (3.68%) Databricks
4 32 (3.68%) Informatica
5 22 (2.53%) Google
6 20 (2.30%) Adobe
7 18 (2.07%) Alteryx
7 18 (2.07%) Sparx
8 17 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 15 (1.73%) IBM
10 14 (1.61%) Talend
11 10 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.04%) ESRI
13 8 (0.92%) Dynatrace
14 7 (0.81%) Dataiku
14 7 (0.81%) Genesys
14 7 (0.81%) Remedy
14 7 (0.81%) ServiceNow
14 7 (0.81%) Trillium