Data Collection Contracts in the Midlands

Data Collection
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Collection skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Collection over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 118 142
Rank change year-on-year +13 +24 +41
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 17 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.58% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.71% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 11
10th Percentile £310 £203 £425
25th Percentile £313 £264 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £355 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% -29.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £394 £481 £520
90th Percentile £518 £500 £775
England median daily rate £525 £463 £475
% change year-on-year +13.51% -2.63% -5.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Collection 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 1,781 2,261 2,859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.30% 81.71% 88.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,168 1,528 2,004
10th Percentile £203 £234 £258
25th Percentile £356 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 172 98
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £12.35
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.63 £18.50 £22.46
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -17.61% +27.88%
75th Percentile £26.51 £34.20 £45.25
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £59.75
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data Collection as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data Collection in the Midlands

Data Collection
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data Collection in the Midlands

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in the Midlands over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in the Midlands

Data Collection
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data Collection in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data Collection in the Midlands

Data Collection
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 Data Collection within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
West Midlands +22 16 £314 -30.22% 34
East Midlands +2 1 £625 +212.50% 17
Data Collection
England

Data Collection
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) R Markdown
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
General
1 14 (82.35%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
1 5 (29.41%) Lead
2 4 (23.53%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Data Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) IFS Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Supply Chain Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (58.82%) Workflow
3 8 (47.06%) Demand Management
4 6 (35.29%) Visualisation
5 5 (29.41%) Decision-Making
5 5 (29.41%) Process Improvement
6 4 (23.53%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (17.65%) Data Analysis
7 3 (17.65%) Data Management
7 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
8 2 (11.76%) Actionable Insight
8 2 (11.76%) Agile
8 2 (11.76%) Content Management
8 2 (11.76%) Data Cleansing
8 2 (11.76%) Data Sharing
8 2 (11.76%) Enterprise Content Management
8 2 (11.76%) Metadata Management
8 2 (11.76%) Migration
8 2 (11.76%) Sprint Retrospective
8 2 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
1 2 (11.76%) R
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) GDPR
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Atlassian
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (11.76%) OpenText
4 1 (5.88%) IFS