MBA Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for MBA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MBA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.22% - 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.83% - 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - £339
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £667 - -
England median daily rate £463 £550 £320
% change year-on-year -15.91% +71.88% -41.82%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

MBA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 242 162 221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 27.07% 23.31% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 79 148
10th Percentile £161 £304 £218
25th Percentile £307 £353 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.06% -14.95% +4.17%
75th Percentile £508 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £715 £700
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 15 12
10th Percentile - - £17.71
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.27 £24.18 £17.83
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +35.60% +5.96%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £20.13
90th Percentile - £38.85 £23.41
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.83% +19.26%

MBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MBA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

MBA job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

MBA
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MBA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing MBA

MBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MBA in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MBA in the East Midlands

MBA
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 MBA within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 November 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
Lincolnshire - 1 £700 -
Northamptonshire - 1 £304 - 1
MBA
England

MBA
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 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) HR Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Basel III
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft