Data Design Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Design
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Design skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 - 112
Rank change year-on-year - - +57
Contract jobs citing Data Design 16 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.43% - 0.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% - 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 0 13
10th Percentile £520 - £453
25th Percentile £542 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £571 - £700
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.64%
75th Percentile £583 - -
90th Percentile £618 - £730
England median daily rate £591 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -1.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Design 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 3,159 1,774 2,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 84.69% 89.19% 83.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,993 1,134 1,534
10th Percentile £263 £208 £230
25th Percentile £400 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £483 £463
Median % change year-on-year -0.62% +4.43% -3.65%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 74 174
10th Percentile £14.00 £13.77 £11.83
25th Percentile £16.34 £15.22 £14.38
Median hourly rate £20.25 £19.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% -12.49% +32.40%
75th Percentile £25.15 £29.75 £39.69
90th Percentile £30.25 £35.00 £57.13
England median hourly rate £28.91 £35.00 £34.21
% change year-on-year -17.40% +2.31% -3.42%

Data Design
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Design job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Design
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Design

Data Design
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Design in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data Design in the Midlands

Data Design
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 Design within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 March 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 - 16 £571 - 4
Data Design
England

Data Design
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 2 (12.50%) Matillion
2 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
2 2 (12.50%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (87.50%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (75.00%) Metadata
3 10 (62.50%) Metadata Repository
4 4 (25.00%) Oracle Database
4 4 (25.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
5 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
6 1 (6.25%) Power BI
6 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) JIRA
2 1 (6.25%) ERwin
2 1 (6.25%) Git
General
1 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (81.25%) Architect
2 12 (75.00%) Data Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) SAS Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Business Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
1 1 (6.25%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Data Architecture
1 13 (81.25%) Data Modelling
2 12 (75.00%) Metadata Management
3 11 (68.75%) Data Governance
3 11 (68.75%) Reverse Engineering
4 10 (62.50%) Problem Management
4 10 (62.50%) Strategic Thinking
5 9 (56.25%) Business Intelligence
6 8 (50.00%) Data Analysis
6 8 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
6 8 (50.00%) Scrum
7 7 (43.75%) Strategic Planning
8 6 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
9 5 (31.25%) Enterprise Architecture
9 5 (31.25%) Integration Patterns
10 4 (25.00%) Change Management
11 3 (18.75%) Agile
11 3 (18.75%) ETL
11 3 (18.75%) Risk Assessment
11 3 (18.75%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (68.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Remedy
2 4 (25.00%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Informatica
3 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.25%) SAP