DAMA Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

DAMA International
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring DAMA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 116 -
Rank change year-on-year -60 - -
Contract jobs citing DAMA 3 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.069% 0.10% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.11% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £475 -
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% - -
75th Percentile £794 £488 -
90th Percentile £880 - -
England median daily rate £440 £494 £525
% change year-on-year -10.89% -5.95% -40.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

DAMA 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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,591 1,753 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.32% 88.18% 81.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,248 1,154 1,518
10th Percentile £303 £200 £235
25th Percentile £400 £357 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -1.84% -5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £600
90th Percentile £669 £640 £692
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.25% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 94 172
10th Percentile £13.82 £12.62 £11.07
25th Percentile £16.72 £14.64 £13.81
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.87 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.49% +2.00% -17.45%
75th Percentile £51.25 £26.51 £34.20
90th Percentile £70.23 £50.00 £55.00
England median hourly rate £46.43 £28.18 £36.50
% change year-on-year +64.76% -22.79% -2.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

DAMA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing DAMA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing DAMA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 28 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for DAMA in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DAMA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
West Midlands - 3 £650 - 2
DAMA
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) ERwin
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Architect
1 3 (100.00%) Data Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
1 2 (66.67%) Data Structures
1 2 (66.67%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) DAMA DMBOK
1 3 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Data Architecture
2 2 (66.67%) Data Design
2 2 (66.67%) Data Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Lineage
2 2 (66.67%) Data Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (66.67%) Master Data Management
2 2 (66.67%) Metadata Management
3 1 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 1 (33.33%) Logical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Physical Data Model
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Databricks
2 1 (33.33%) Sparx