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 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 60
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 0
Contract jobs citing Data Management 20 17 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.23% 2.38% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.59% 2.82% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 2
10th Percentile £313 £295 £358
25th Percentile £376 £325 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £385 £513
Median % change year-on-year +16.10% -24.88% +2.50%
75th Percentile £453 £475 £619
90th Percentile £609 £561 £668
England median daily rate £492 £519 £575
% change year-on-year -5.20% -9.74% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £39.68 £31.76
Median % change year-on-year - +24.94% -8.71%
England median hourly rate £26.50 £33.22 £35.00
% change year-on-year -20.22% -5.10% -50.00%

All Process and 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 772 603 661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.06% 84.57% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 507 358 477
10th Percentile £191 £267 £213
25th Percentile £350 £355 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.62% -6.32% -
75th Percentile £519 £550 £588
90th Percentile £625 £628 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 28 51
10th Percentile £16.17 £14.90 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £18.87 £23.25 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.84% +4.38% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.11 £50.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £51.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -32.03% -16.85% +23.61%

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 21 November 2025.

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 21 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
Northamptonshire -6 13 £447 +25.56% 3
Derbyshire - 6 £700 - 10
Leicestershire -13 1 £430 +22.86%
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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Siemens NX
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 10 (50.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 10 (50.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (25.00%) Azure
3 4 (20.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (5.00%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Power BI
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Power Query
General
1 10 (50.00%) Marketing
2 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Aerospace
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Architect
1 9 (45.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) CAD Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Junior
5 1 (5.00%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (5.00%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Technical Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (45.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 9 (45.00%) Middleware
1 9 (45.00%) REST
1 9 (45.00%) SOAP
1 9 (45.00%) Visualforce
2 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (10.00%) CSS
2 2 (10.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (20.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Migration
2 12 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (55.00%) Data Modelling
4 10 (50.00%) Agile
4 10 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
4 10 (50.00%) Data Flow Diagram
4 10 (50.00%) Data Governance
4 10 (50.00%) Data Migration
4 10 (50.00%) Roadmaps
5 9 (45.00%) Data Security
5 9 (45.00%) Integration Patterns
6 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
6 8 (40.00%) Technical Leadership
6 8 (40.00%) Workshop Facilitation
7 7 (35.00%) Design Patterns
8 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
9 4 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
9 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 9 (45.00%) Apex Code
2 6 (30.00%) SQL
3 2 (10.00%) C#
3 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
5 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 10 (50.00%) GDPR
2 9 (45.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Databricks
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
4 2 (10.00%) Siemens
5 1 (5.00%) Workday