Commercial Awareness Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Commercial Awareness
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Commercial Awareness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 61 63
Rank change year-on-year -11 +2 +19
Contract jobs citing Commercial Awareness 3 2 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.34% 0.27% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.32% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £400 £650
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year - -33.33% +22.50%
75th Percentile £475 £500 £700
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £519
% change year-on-year -12.50% +15.61% -5.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £20.51
England median hourly rate £55.00 £28.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year +96.43% -53.33% +50.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Commercial Awareness 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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 767 616 670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.28% 84.38% 83.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 513 373 486
10th Percentile £205 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £538 £588
90th Percentile £625 £625 £700
England median daily rate £507 £525 £546
% change year-on-year -3.43% -3.85% -0.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 52
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.39
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +3.85% +33.02%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £52.06
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £69.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +27.14%

Commercial Awareness
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Commercial Awareness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Commercial Awareness job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Commercial Awareness
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Commercial Awareness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Commercial Awareness

Commercial Awareness
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Commercial Awareness within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 2025. 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
Lincolnshire - 2 - -
Leicestershire - 1 £450 - 4
Commercial Awareness
England

Commercial Awareness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Sales Executive
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) B2B Sales
1 2 (66.67%) Business Development
1 2 (66.67%) Client Onboarding
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
1 2 (66.67%) Telesales
2 1 (33.33%) AI
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks