Data Lineage Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Lineage
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Lineage skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 114 130
Rank change year-on-year -55 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing Data Lineage 9 3 6
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.16% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.18% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
10th Percentile £407 £376 -
25th Percentile £441 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £413 £510
Median % change year-on-year +18.04% -19.02% +4.62%
75th Percentile £594 £436 £587
90th Percentile £650 £450 £594
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -12.50%

All Process & 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 3,399 1,688 2,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.66% 87.78% 82.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,134 1,113 1,502
10th Percentile £300 £200 £232
25th Percentile £400 £360 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 83 176
10th Percentile £13.54 £12.62 £11.09
25th Percentile £16.35 £14.56 £13.98
Median hourly rate £22.81 £18.51 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.23% -2.58% +7.22%
75th Percentile £32.62 £24.91 £35.00
90th Percentile £68.60 £33.75 £55.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%

Data Lineage
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Data Lineage job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Data Lineage
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Lineage in the Midlands over the 6 months to 23 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram 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 23 April 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 - 8 £525 - 4
East Midlands -35 1 £393 -4.84% 4
Data Lineage
England

Data Lineage
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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Copilot
1 2 (22.22%) Power Automate
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (44.44%) Metadata
2 2 (22.22%) Delta Lake
2 2 (22.22%) Power BI
2 2 (22.22%) Power Query
2 2 (22.22%) Snowflake Schema
2 2 (22.22%) Spark SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Tableau
3 1 (11.11%) Data Vault
3 1 (11.11%) IBM InfoSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) ERwin
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 5 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence Specialist
1 2 (22.22%) Data Analytics Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Data Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Data Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI Developer
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI Specialist
2 1 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Data Modeller
2 1 (11.11%) Lead
2 1 (11.11%) Lead Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 2 (22.22%) Onboarding
2 2 (22.22%) Reference Data
2 2 (22.22%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Data Modelling
2 6 (66.67%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Data Governance
3 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) AI
4 3 (33.33%) Data Management
4 3 (33.33%) Dimensional Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Metadata Management
5 2 (22.22%) Anomaly Detection
5 2 (22.22%) Business Analytics
5 2 (22.22%) Change Data Capture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Data Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Data Transformation
5 2 (22.22%) Domain-Driven Design
5 2 (22.22%) Master Data Management
5 2 (22.22%) Translating Business Requirements
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) GRC
3 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Databricks
2 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Sparx
3 1 (11.11%) Virgin Media