Data Collection Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Data Collection
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Data Collection skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 60 75
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +16
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 4 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.68% 0.70% 0.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.77% 0.85% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £504 - -
25th Percentile £504 £231 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £238 -
Median % change year-on-year +113.68% - -
75th Percentile £572 £244 -
90th Percentile £609 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £508 £238 £450
% change year-on-year +113.68% -47.22% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Data Collection falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 521 590 722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 88.01% 82.29% 83.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 397 473
10th Percentile £200 £200 £264
25th Percentile £363 £388 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.41%
75th Percentile £554 £638 £619
90th Percentile £643 £750 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 10 28
10th Percentile - £21.18 £13.34
25th Percentile £12.62 £28.55 £15.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £46.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.42% +69.09% +52.78%
75th Percentile £22.08 £54.38 £49.06
90th Percentile £26.51 £55.45 £67.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £24.34 £21.59 £27.50
% change year-on-year +12.74% -21.49% +61.76%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in Birmingham

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Collection.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (50.00%) Apache Pig
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Mining
2 2 (50.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (50.00%) Hadoop
2 2 (50.00%) Power BI
3 1 (25.00%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jaeger
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (25.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Science
1 3 (75.00%) Data Visualisation
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Visualisation
2 2 (50.00%) Data Munging
2 2 (50.00%) Linear Algebra
2 2 (50.00%) Naive Bayes
2 2 (50.00%) Statistics
2 2 (50.00%) Support Vector Machines
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Data Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Observability
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Predictive Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) Scala
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) Bash
4 1 (25.00%) Go
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
2 1 (25.00%) VMware