Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making 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 94 124 155
Rank change year-on-year +30 +31 +45
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 17 9 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.89% 0.33% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.01% 0.40% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 11
10th Percentile £264 £309 £413
25th Percentile £300 £406 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £501 £638 £650
90th Percentile £615 £788 -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 - -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £74.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.41% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making 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-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the Midlands

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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-Driven Decision Making 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 +21 15 £400 -11.11% 31
East Midlands +11 2 £396 +76.00% 8
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

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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 4 (23.53%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Power Platform
2 3 (17.65%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) 5G
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
1 1 (5.88%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (5.88%) Modbus
1 1 (5.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) Power BI
2 2 (11.76%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.88%) Big Data
3 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Metadata
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Spark SQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 8 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (17.65%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Local Government
5 2 (11.76%) Marketing
5 2 (11.76%) Retail
6 1 (5.88%) Advertising
6 1 (5.88%) Banking
6 1 (5.88%) Games
6 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Data Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Data Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Python Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Support Officer
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Data Science Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Payments Business Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) PMO Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (23.53%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (23.53%) PySpark
2 2 (11.76%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (5.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
1 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Educational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (5.88%) IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) NB-IoT
2 1 (5.88%) Operational Technology
2 1 (5.88%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) Decision-Making
2 12 (70.59%) Analytics
3 6 (35.29%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (35.29%) Data Analysis
3 6 (35.29%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (29.41%) Data Governance
4 5 (29.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (23.53%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Visualisation
6 3 (17.65%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Data Analytics
6 3 (17.65%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (17.65%) Data Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Data Modelling
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
7 2 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.76%) Data Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Machine Learning
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 1 (5.88%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (11.76%) DV Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
2 2 (11.76%) Accessibility
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) NCSC
3 1 (5.88%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kibana
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) logstash
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Databricks
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle
2 1 (5.88%) Splunk