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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 39 60
Rank change year-on-year -34 +21 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Management 15 14 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.37% 2.62% 0.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.72% 3.04% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
10th Percentile £381 £349 £349
25th Percentile £408 £414 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £447 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.06% -18.73% +83.33%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £606
90th Percentile £576 £630 £625
England median daily rate £492 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.55% - -
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 £30.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% -23.99% -0.44%

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 874 460 608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 79.89% 86.14% 78.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 303 408
10th Percentile £200 £200 £197
25th Percentile £380 £325 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £417
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +7.32% -7.44%
75th Percentile £540 £525 £550
90th Percentile £606 £600 £625
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 29 56
10th Percentile £13.54 £13.81 £11.33
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.09 £12.75
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% +11.00% -7.43%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £31.00 £37.00 £38.75
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 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 2 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
Northamptonshire -17 5 £413 -4.18% 2
Nottinghamshire -22 4 £525 -8.70% 3
Leicestershire -7 3 £600 +55.84% 2
Derbyshire -9 1 - - 3
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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 4 (26.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata Repository
3 1 (6.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (6.67%) Power Query
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Git
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Aerospace
3 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 2 (13.33%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Data Engineer
3 3 (20.00%) SAP Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Senior
4 2 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Data Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Entry Administrator
5 1 (6.67%) ERP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Technology Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (13.33%) Middleware
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
1 2 (13.33%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.67%) Kafka
2 1 (6.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Data Modelling
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 7 (46.67%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (33.33%) Data Engineering
5 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
6 4 (26.67%) Data Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 4 (26.67%) Integration Patterns
6 4 (26.67%) Migration
7 3 (20.00%) Data Architecture
7 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 3 (20.00%) ETL
7 3 (20.00%) Logical Data Model
7 3 (20.00%) Ontologies
7 3 (20.00%) Roadmaps
7 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) R
4 1 (6.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) Data Quality
2 4 (26.67%) GDPR
3 2 (13.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (6.67%) HIPAA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) SAP
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (13.33%) Databricks
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce