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 23 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 43 62
Rank change year-on-year -27 +19 -7
Contract jobs citing Data Management 18 15 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.61% 2.60% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 2.99% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 11 5
10th Percentile £246 £368 £349
25th Percentile £425 £455 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +41.03%
75th Percentile £600 £669 £606
90th Percentile £690 £725 £625
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
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 £30.49 £30.16 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.09% -32.98% +12.01%

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 874 502 603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.18% 87.15% 78.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 341 413
10th Percentile £200 £213 £200
25th Percentile £388 £325 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% +2.91% -13.05%
75th Percentile £550 £519 £550
90th Percentile £638 £588 £622
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 37 56
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.25 £12.74
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £16.82
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +12.22% -25.27%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.85 £37.80 £35.00
England median hourly rate £45.59 £28.55 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.67% -21.78% -2.67%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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
Leicestershire -2 8 £625 +62.34% 1
Nottinghamshire -23 4 £525 -8.70% 4
Northamptonshire -9 3 £447 -3.04% 2
Derbyshire -12 1 - - 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 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Power Platform
2 5 (27.78%) Azure
3 4 (22.22%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (11.11%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.56%) PowerApps
5 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (44.44%) Power BI
2 7 (38.89%) Data Lake
3 4 (22.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata
4 1 (5.56%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 1 (5.56%) Power Query
4 1 (5.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Git
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (11.11%) Aerospace
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Data Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Architect
3 3 (16.67%) Administrator
3 3 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) SAP Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Administrator
5 1 (5.56%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.56%) ERP Architect
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technology Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Kafka
1 1 (5.56%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.56%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Data Modelling
2 8 (44.44%) Data Engineering
3 7 (38.89%) AI
3 7 (38.89%) Analytics
3 7 (38.89%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (33.33%) ETL
4 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (27.78%) Data Analysis
6 4 (22.22%) Agile
6 4 (22.22%) Data Validation
6 4 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 4 (22.22%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (22.22%) Validation
6 4 (22.22%) Wealth Management
7 3 (16.67%) Change Control
7 3 (16.67%) Data Governance
7 3 (16.67%) Data Integration
7 3 (16.67%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (16.67%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (5.56%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) R
3 1 (5.56%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Databricks
2 4 (22.22%) SAP
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.11%) NEC