Data Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 34 61
Rank change year-on-year -39 +27 -16
Contract jobs citing Data Management 12 17 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.18% 3.34% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% 3.86% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 4
10th Percentile £381 £356 £403
25th Percentile £386 £400 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £447 £569
Median % change year-on-year -3.86% -21.41% +13.75%
75th Percentile £468 £538 £614
90th Percentile £524 £588 £628
England median daily rate £491 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.73% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 - -
Median hourly rate £25.42 - £21.73
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.00 £31.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -14.70% -29.66% -28.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Data Management 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 838 440 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 82.40% 86.44% 79.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 304 418
10th Percentile £190 £200 £188
25th Percentile £360 £320 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.79% - -5.56%
75th Percentile £540 £519 £550
90th Percentile £625 £587 £638
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 21 62
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £21.94 £21.59 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% +23.37% +3.98%
75th Percentile £25.08 £24.66 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.25 £33.75 £51.50
England median hourly rate £37.00 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +13.85% - -13.33%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Data Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Management

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the East Midlands

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data Management

Data Management
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 Data Management within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 April 2026. 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
Northamptonshire -20 5 £413 -4.18% 12
Leicestershire -7 2 - - 1
Derbyshire -10 2 - - 3
Nottinghamshire -20 2 £573 -0.35% 4
Data Management
England

Data Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
1 1 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) Power BI
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata
3 1 (8.33%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) Power Query
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Marketing
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Data Entry Administrator
3 1 (8.33%) Data Scientist
3 1 (8.33%) ERP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Architect
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technology Architect
3 1 (8.33%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (16.67%) Middleware
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) Visualforce
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (41.67%) Analytics
2 5 (41.67%) Data Governance
2 5 (41.67%) Data Modelling
2 5 (41.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (41.67%) Migration
2 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (33.33%) Integration Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (25.00%) Data Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Data Architecture
4 3 (25.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 2 (16.67%) Data Flow Diagram
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Presales
5 2 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Apex Code
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
1 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) Data Quality
1 4 (33.33%) GDPR
2 2 (16.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
3 1 (8.33%) SAP