Data Management Contracts in the Midlands

Data Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Management 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 68 65 106
Rank change year-on-year -3 +41 +11
Contract jobs citing Data Management 43 69 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.25% 2.50% 1.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 3.05% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 54 44
10th Percentile £248 £368 £231
25th Percentile £431 £430 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £586 £375
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% +56.33% -25.00%
75th Percentile £581 £750 £500
90th Percentile £673 £875 £600
England median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £16.24 £25.75
25th Percentile - £18.30 £35.78
Median hourly rate - £21.73 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -60.49% -
75th Percentile - £26.05 £61.25
90th Percentile - £28.64 £63.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £38.35
% change year-on-year -25.00% +4.30% +4.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data Management 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 Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the Midlands

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the Midlands

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the Midlands

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the Midlands

Data Management
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 Management 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
West Midlands -17 29 £525 -12.50% 60
East Midlands +17 14 £461 -16.18% 40
Data Management
England

Data Management
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 3 (6.98%) Moodle
1 3 (6.98%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.33%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) AutoCAD
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (2.33%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Power Platform
2 4 (9.30%) AWS
2 4 (9.30%) Azure
3 3 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.65%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (4.65%) GCP
4 2 (4.65%) Power Automate
4 2 (4.65%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 1 (2.33%) Copilot Studio
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Power BI
2 3 (6.98%) MySQL
2 3 (6.98%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.65%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.65%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.65%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (2.33%) Big Data
4 1 (2.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.33%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.33%) HBase
4 1 (2.33%) Impala
4 1 (2.33%) QGIS
4 1 (2.33%) RDBMS
4 1 (2.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.33%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (2.33%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Git
2 3 (6.98%) PHPUnit
2 3 (6.98%) Plastic SCM
2 3 (6.98%) Postman
3 1 (2.33%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.33%) ERwin
3 1 (2.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.23%) Finance
3 8 (18.60%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.98%) Games
5 3 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Law
6 2 (4.65%) Local Government
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (16.28%) Developer
2 6 (13.95%) Lead
3 5 (11.63%) Data Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Data Manager
5 3 (6.98%) Accountant
5 3 (6.98%) Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) Consultant
5 3 (6.98%) Games Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Moodle Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Senior
5 3 (6.98%) Senior Developer
5 3 (6.98%) Systems Accountant
6 2 (4.65%) Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Data Migration Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Data Migration Lead
6 2 (4.65%) DBA
6 2 (4.65%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Salesforce Architect
7 1 (2.33%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) RESTful
2 3 (6.98%) Behat
2 3 (6.98%) JSON
2 3 (6.98%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (6.98%) XML
3 2 (4.65%) ADO
4 1 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.33%) Middleware
4 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.33%) REST
4 1 (2.33%) SOAP
4 1 (2.33%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.98%) Data Structures
1 3 (6.98%) e-Learning
1 3 (6.98%) Management Information System
1 3 (6.98%) VLE
2 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.33%) CMDB
3 1 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.33%) Lidar
3 1 (2.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.33%) Linux
1 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (20.93%) Analytics
2 9 (20.93%) Data Governance
2 9 (20.93%) Project Management
3 8 (18.60%) Agile
4 7 (16.28%) ETL
5 6 (13.95%) Data Integration
5 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
5 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
5 6 (13.95%) Migration
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (11.63%) Business Intelligence
6 5 (11.63%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (11.63%) Data Mapping
6 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 4 (9.30%) Data Architecture
7 4 (9.30%) Process Improvement
7 4 (9.30%) Roadmaps
7 4 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (9.30%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 8 (18.60%) SQL
2 5 (11.63%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.98%) C#
3 3 (6.98%) PHP
3 3 (6.98%) Python
4 1 (2.33%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.33%) Bash
4 1 (2.33%) Java
4 1 (2.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.33%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (9.30%) Degree
1 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.98%) PMI Certification
2 3 (6.98%) PMP
3 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.65%) OCP
3 2 (4.65%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ACCA
4 1 (2.33%) CBAP
4 1 (2.33%) CIMA
4 1 (2.33%) CIPFA
4 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.33%) ICAEW
4 1 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) Data Quality
2 5 (11.63%) QA
3 2 (4.65%) GDPR
3 2 (4.65%) PMO
4 1 (2.33%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 4 (9.30%) Docker
2 1 (2.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.33%) Podman
Vendors
1 4 (9.30%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 3 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.65%) Epicor
3 2 (4.65%) Google
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Adobe
4 1 (2.33%) Civica
4 1 (2.33%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.33%) Marketo
4 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.33%) Siemens
4 1 (2.33%) VMware