Data Management Contract Job Trends in Leicester

Data Management
Leicestershire > Leicester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leicester requiring Data Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 17 16
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Data Management 4 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Leicester 5.06% 1.12% 1.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.06% 1.52% 2.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £615 - £383
25th Percentile £638 £368 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £385 £481
Median % change year-on-year +75.32% -20.00% -
75th Percentile £700 £403 £552
90th Percentile - - £584
Leicestershire median daily rate £625 £385 £481
% change year-on-year +62.34% -20.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 66 66 75
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 83.54% 74.16% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 33 56
10th Percentile £302 £250 £298
25th Percentile £389 £368 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £548 £523 £563
90th Percentile £675 £621 £625
Leicestershire median daily rate £425 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +6.25% -11.01% +6.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £15.12 - £13.20
25th Percentile £17.50 - £15.38
Median hourly rate £18.00 - £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.20%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £25.38
90th Percentile £28.90 - £27.40
Leicestershire median hourly rate £26.70 £20.90 £22.75
% change year-on-year +27.75% -8.13% +11.19%

Data Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester.

Data Management job vacancy trend in Leicester

Data Management
Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Management

Data Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leicester citing Data Management

Data Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leicester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 4 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 4 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 4 (100.00%) Power BI
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 4 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) AI
1 4 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 4 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 4 (100.00%) ETL
1 4 (100.00%) Validation
1 4 (100.00%) Wealth Management
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Databricks