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

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 39 62
Rank change year-on-year -25 +23 -6
Contract jobs citing Data Management 16 18 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.68% 3.19% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.98% 3.68% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 2
10th Percentile £353 £350 £560
25th Percentile £386 £385 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £439 £414 £613
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% -32.41% +22.50%
75th Percentile £458 £475 £663
90th Percentile £500 £561 £685
England median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.21 - -
Median hourly rate £25.42 £39.68 -
Median % change year-on-year -35.95% - -
75th Percentile £25.62 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £22.75 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -7.14% -50.00%

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 809 489 651
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.80% 86.55% 83.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 294 450
10th Percentile £190 £250 £197
25th Percentile £353 £350 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £439 £448
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -1.84% -0.56%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £613 £624 £664
England median daily rate £500 £525 £528
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.47% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 20 60
10th Percentile £14.85 £16.81 £11.18
25th Percentile £16.33 £17.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +27.03% +5.24%
75th Percentile £23.90 £30.44 £33.69
90th Percentile £25.15 £41.21 £51.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £36.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -3.47% +2.86%

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 1 February 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 1 February 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 8 £425 +2.54% 3
Derbyshire - 4 - - 2
Leicestershire -12 2 £430 +22.86% 8
Nottinghamshire -15 2 £573 +9.14% 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 6 (37.50%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (12.50%) PowerApps
4 1 (6.25%) AWS
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) Power BI
2 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
3 2 (12.50%) Power Query
4 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata
4 1 (6.25%) Metadata Repository
4 1 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (6.25%) Tableau
General
1 6 (37.50%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Aerospace
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Finance
3 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Architect
2 6 (37.50%) Salesforce Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Data Scientist
5 1 (6.25%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Data Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Junior
5 1 (6.25%) Junior Data Scientist
5 1 (6.25%) Power BI Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Architect
5 1 (6.25%) Technology Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) Lightning Web Components
1 6 (37.50%) Middleware
1 6 (37.50%) REST
1 6 (37.50%) SOAP
1 6 (37.50%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.25%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Data Modelling
2 9 (56.25%) Data Governance
2 9 (56.25%) Migration
2 9 (56.25%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 7 (43.75%) Analytics
4 7 (43.75%) Integration Patterns
5 6 (37.50%) Architecture Roadmap
5 6 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (37.50%) Data Flow Diagram
5 6 (37.50%) Data Migration
5 6 (37.50%) Data Security
5 6 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 6 (37.50%) Mentoring
5 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
5 6 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
5 6 (37.50%) Workshop Facilitation
6 5 (31.25%) Actionable Insight
6 5 (31.25%) Data Analytics
6 5 (31.25%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) Apex Code
1 6 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 2 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (6.25%) Java
3 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) R
3 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (18.75%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.25%) AWS Certification
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (43.75%) Data Quality
1 7 (43.75%) GDPR
2 6 (37.50%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.25%) HIPAA
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (37.50%) Salesforce
3 4 (25.00%) Databricks
4 1 (6.25%) Workday