Data-Driven Decision Making Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 5 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.58% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.57% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £368 - -
25th Percentile £395 £263 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £275 £160
Median % change year-on-year +57.82% +71.88% -
75th Percentile £448 £288 -
90th Percentile £449 - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -13.64% -4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making 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 727 528 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.85% 86.13% 83.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 323 435
10th Percentile £188 £261 £213
25th Percentile £355 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £430 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -9.47% -
75th Percentile £525 £548 £588
90th Percentile £625 £634 £700
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 25 47
10th Percentile £15.95 £15.86 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.46
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £31.76 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £53.00 £59.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Data-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Data-Driven Decision Making job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data-Driven Decision Making.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Data-Driven Decision Making

Data-Driven Decision Making
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-Driven Decision Making within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 -12 3 £447 - 1
Leicestershire -12 1 - - 3
Nottinghamshire - 1 £421 - 6
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Data Factory
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (40.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CodeBuild
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Google Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (40.00%) Metadata
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Corporate Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (20.00%) Junior
2 1 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) PMO Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Kafka
1 2 (40.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (20.00%) Enzyme
2 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (20.00%) Jest
2 1 (20.00%) Node.js
2 1 (20.00%) React
2 1 (20.00%) Redux
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytics
1 4 (80.00%) Decision-Making
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (60.00%) Data Governance
3 2 (40.00%) Data Architecture
3 2 (40.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (40.00%) Data Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (40.00%) Data Science
3 2 (40.00%) Dimensional Modelling
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) ETL Development
3 2 (40.00%) Metadata Management
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (20.00%) R
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Informatica
1 2 (40.00%) Talend
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft