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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 49 61
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 -2
Contract jobs citing Data Management 19 18 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.70% 2.64% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.20% 2.97% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 5
10th Percentile £263 £313 £349
25th Percentile £431 £407 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £725 £606
90th Percentile £693 - £625
England median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.73% -22.99% +14.29%

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 862 607 679
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.24% 88.87% 77.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 484 406 442
10th Percentile £213 £221 £207
25th Percentile £400 £327 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £410 £445
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -7.87% -6.32%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £567
90th Percentile £650 £588 £625
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 50 61
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £16.17 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% +11.00% -37.01%
75th Percentile £25.50 £25.14 £26.15
90th Percentile £33.75 £26.34 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.50 £38.12
% change year-on-year +84.31% -33.11% +1.87%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 7 £625 +62.34% 6
Northamptonshire +5 4 £447 +17.63% 7
Nottinghamshire -19 4 £525 -8.70% 8
Derbyshire -11 1 - - 4
Lincolnshire - 1 £650 - 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 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) iTrent
1 1 (5.26%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Power Platform
2 6 (31.58%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (15.79%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
5 1 (5.26%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (5.26%) Serverless
5 1 (5.26%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) Power BI
2 7 (36.84%) Data Lake
3 4 (21.05%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.26%) Big Data
4 1 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata
4 1 (5.26%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Git
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Banking
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.26%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Architect
1 5 (26.32%) Data Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Project Manager
3 3 (15.79%) SAP Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Data Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Data Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) Data Entry Administrator
5 1 (5.26%) ERP Architect
5 1 (5.26%) SAP Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.26%) Technology Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) Kafka
1 1 (5.26%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Data Modelling
2 8 (42.11%) Data Engineering
3 7 (36.84%) AI
3 7 (36.84%) Analytics
3 7 (36.84%) Data Pipeline
3 7 (36.84%) ETL
4 6 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (26.32%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (26.32%) Data Governance
5 5 (26.32%) Validation
6 4 (21.05%) Agile
6 4 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (21.05%) Data Analysis
6 4 (21.05%) Data Architecture
6 4 (21.05%) Data Integration
6 4 (21.05%) Data Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Data Validation
6 4 (21.05%) Migration
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (21.05%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Python
3 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Data Quality
2 4 (21.05%) GDPR
3 1 (5.26%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Databricks
1 5 (26.32%) SAP
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) NEC
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) Workday