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

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 50 56
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Management 25 22 10
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.10% 2.86% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 3.32% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 7
10th Percentile £230 £313 £284
25th Percentile £381 £447 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £463 £375
Median % change year-on-year +13.51% +23.33% -31.82%
75th Percentile £650 £640 £622
90th Percentile £695 £725 £645
England median daily rate £510 £510 £550
% change year-on-year - -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £21.73
England median hourly rate £37.50 £30.81 £45.00
% change year-on-year +21.73% -31.54% +32.35%

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 896 662 604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 75.36% 85.97% 79.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 451 452 413
10th Percentile £220 £219 £263
25th Percentile £400 £331 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £410 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.90% -8.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £625 £623
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 60 37
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.96 £12.73
25th Percentile £15.06 £17.87 £14.27
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.87 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.61% -5.65% -53.50%
75th Percentile £27.73 £25.15 £26.15
90th Percentile £38.43 £25.29 £50.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -40.82% +1.00%

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 9 August 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 9 August 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 0 9 £625 +62.34% 6
Northamptonshire +12 6 £456 +2.07% 8
Derbyshire -10 4 - - 4
Nottinghamshire -18 2 £525 -8.70% 1
Lincolnshire - 2 £475 - 1
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 (8.00%) Oracle Workflow
1 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) iTrent
2 2 (8.00%) SAP HR
3 1 (4.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (44.00%) Power Platform
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (12.00%) AWS
4 3 (12.00%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (8.00%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (8.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon S3
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (4.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (44.00%) Power BI
2 4 (16.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (16.00%) Data Lake
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (8.00%) Big Data
3 2 (8.00%) Metadata
4 1 (4.00%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (4.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (52.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (44.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (16.00%) Retail
5 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (12.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Finance
7 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (4.00%) Police
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Administrator
2 5 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) SAP Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Data Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Cloud Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.00%) Data Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Data Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) ERP Architect
6 1 (4.00%) GDPR Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Transformation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) Decision-Making
3 10 (40.00%) Data Modelling
4 9 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (32.00%) AI
5 8 (32.00%) Data Engineering
5 8 (32.00%) Data Governance
5 8 (32.00%) Validation
6 7 (28.00%) Analytics
6 7 (28.00%) Data Analysis
6 7 (28.00%) ETL
7 6 (24.00%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
8 5 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
8 5 (20.00%) Data Migration
8 5 (20.00%) Migration
8 5 (20.00%) Process Improvement
8 5 (20.00%) Project Management
8 5 (20.00%) User Experience
9 4 (16.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) SQL
2 1 (4.00%) Java
2 1 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (4.00%) R
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.00%) Degree
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (24.00%) GDPR
3 1 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
Systems Management
1 2 (8.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) SAP
2 8 (32.00%) Workday
3 5 (20.00%) Databricks
3 5 (20.00%) Oracle
4 4 (16.00%) Microsoft
5 2 (8.00%) NEC