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 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 69 68 101
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 -1
Contract jobs citing Data Management 53 66 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.63% 2.39% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 2.92% 1.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 48 34
10th Percentile £278 £363 £231
25th Percentile £373 £425 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £584 £375
Median % change year-on-year -11.17% +55.73% -25.00%
75th Percentile £594 £750 £528
90th Percentile £725 £879 £638
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £16.93 £25.75
25th Percentile - £20.02 £35.78
Median hourly rate £29.33 £26.05 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.59% -52.64% +57.14%
75th Percentile - £31.26 £61.25
90th Percentile - £32.86 £63.50
England median hourly rate £29.90 £40.00 £37.30
% change year-on-year -25.25% +7.24% +6.57%

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 1,781 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 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 29 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 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 -6 36 £513 -12.39% 250
East Midlands +16 16 £550 - 165
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 5 (9.43%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) ArcGIS
2 3 (5.66%) Moodle
3 2 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.89%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.77%) Siemens NX
3 1 (1.89%) AutoCAD
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.77%) SAP PM
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (1.89%) Primavera
3 1 (1.89%) SAP MDG
3 1 (1.89%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.75%) Power Platform
2 7 (13.21%) Azure
3 6 (11.32%) AWS
4 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.77%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (3.77%) Collibra
5 2 (3.77%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (3.77%) Power Automate
5 2 (3.77%) PowerApps
5 2 (3.77%) SaaS
5 2 (3.77%) Serverless
5 2 (3.77%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.89%) Copilot Studio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.89%) Firewall
1 1 (1.89%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.87%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) GIS
2 5 (9.43%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.55%) MySQL
3 4 (7.55%) NoSQL
4 3 (5.66%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (5.66%) Metadata
4 3 (5.66%) Tableau
5 2 (3.77%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (3.77%) Big Data
5 2 (3.77%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.77%) Delta Lake
5 2 (3.77%) Hadoop
5 2 (3.77%) Oracle Database
5 2 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.77%) Spatial Data
6 1 (1.89%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.89%) Impala
6 1 (1.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Git
2 3 (5.66%) PHPUnit
2 3 (5.66%) Plastic SCM
2 3 (5.66%) Postman
3 2 (3.77%) GDB
4 1 (1.89%) ER Studio
4 1 (1.89%) ERwin
4 1 (1.89%) JIRA
4 1 (1.89%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (45.28%) Social Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (20.75%) Finance
3 4 (7.55%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (5.66%) Games
4 3 (5.66%) Law
5 2 (3.77%) Automotive
5 2 (3.77%) Marketing
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Legal
6 1 (1.89%) Local Government
6 1 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.89%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (18.87%) Analyst
1 10 (18.87%) Developer
2 7 (13.21%) Lead
3 6 (11.32%) Data Analyst
4 5 (9.43%) Architect
4 5 (9.43%) Consultant
5 4 (7.55%) Data Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Accountant
6 3 (5.66%) Administrator
6 3 (5.66%) Data Architect
6 3 (5.66%) Games Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Moodle Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Senior
6 3 (5.66%) Senior Developer
6 3 (5.66%) Systems Accountant
7 2 (3.77%) Data Engineer
7 2 (3.77%) DBA
7 2 (3.77%) GIS Analyst
7 2 (3.77%) Salesforce Architect
8 1 (1.89%) Data Migration Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.66%) .NET
1 3 (5.66%) Behat
1 3 (5.66%) JSON
1 3 (5.66%) Kafka
1 3 (5.66%) RESTful
1 3 (5.66%) Unity (Game Engine)
1 3 (5.66%) XML
2 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 2 (3.77%) ADO
2 2 (3.77%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.77%) CSS
2 2 (3.77%) GeoJSON
2 2 (3.77%) HTML
2 2 (3.77%) KML
3 1 (1.89%) Blazor
3 1 (1.89%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.89%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.89%) SOAP
3 1 (1.89%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.89%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.55%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.66%) e-Learning
2 3 (5.66%) IoT
2 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.66%) VLE
3 2 (3.77%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.77%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.77%) SCADA
3 2 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.89%) CMDB
4 1 (1.89%) Data Fabric
4 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.89%) Lidar
4 1 (1.89%) Pricing Data
4 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.89%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.89%) Linux
1 1 (1.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.96%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (26.42%) Data Governance
3 10 (18.87%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (18.87%) Data Modelling
4 9 (16.98%) Analytics
4 9 (16.98%) Data Integration
4 9 (16.98%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (16.98%) Visualisation
5 8 (15.09%) Agile
6 7 (13.21%) Data Analysis
6 7 (13.21%) Data Architecture
7 6 (11.32%) DevOps
7 6 (11.32%) ETL
7 6 (11.32%) Migration
7 6 (11.32%) Validation
8 5 (9.43%) Code Quality
8 5 (9.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (9.43%) Process Improvement
8 5 (9.43%) Project Management
9 4 (7.55%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.30%) SQL
2 10 (18.87%) Python
3 7 (13.21%) JavaScript
4 6 (11.32%) C#
5 3 (5.66%) PHP
5 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
6 2 (3.77%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (3.77%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.77%) VBA
7 1 (1.89%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.89%) Bash
7 1 (1.89%) Bicep
7 1 (1.89%) Java
7 1 (1.89%) R
7 1 (1.89%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (3.77%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.77%) OCP
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (1.89%) ACCA
5 1 (1.89%) CBAP
5 1 (1.89%) CIMA
5 1 (1.89%) CIPFA
5 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.89%) ICAEW
5 1 (1.89%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.89%) PMP
5 1 (1.89%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (24.53%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.55%) GDPR
3 3 (5.66%) QA
4 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.89%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (7.55%) Docker
2 1 (1.89%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.89%) Podman
1 1 (1.89%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Microsoft
1 8 (15.09%) Oracle
2 7 (13.21%) SAP
3 3 (5.66%) Informatica
3 3 (5.66%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.66%) Siemens
4 2 (3.77%) Databricks
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) OpenText
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Civica
5 1 (1.89%) Marketo
5 1 (1.89%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.89%) VMware