Data Lineage Contracts in the Midlands

Data Lineage
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Lineage skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lineage over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 127 162
Rank change year-on-year +20 +35 +46
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 4 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.21% 0.22% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.26% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £376 - £465
25th Percentile £390 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.02% +2.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £436 £587 £581
90th Percentile £450 £594 £615
England median daily rate £560 £538 £600
% change year-on-year +4.19% -10.42% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Lineage 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 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Lineage in the Midlands

Data Lineage
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Lineage in the Midlands

Data Lineage
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 Lineage within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
East Midlands - 3 £413 - 1
West Midlands +9 1 - - 2
Data Lineage
England

Data Lineage
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EMR
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Data Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (75.00%) Data Integration
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
3 2 (50.00%) Data Science
3 2 (50.00%) Data Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) ETL
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) Python
1 2 (50.00%) Scala
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) SAP