MBA Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Master of Business Administration (MBA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for MBA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 - 135
Rank change year-on-year - - +58
Contract jobs citing MBA 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.066% - 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.19% - 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £343 - -
25th Percentile £401 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 - £339
Median % change year-on-year - - +47.39%
75th Percentile £607 - -
90th Percentile £667 - -
England median daily rate £463 £550 £339
% change year-on-year -15.91% +62.24% -32.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

MBA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,053 726 797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.76% 28.46% 29.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 433 497
10th Percentile £250 £267 £277
25th Percentile £400 £393 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £510
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +3.03%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £668 £719 £688
England median daily rate £525 £531 £550
% change year-on-year -1.04% -3.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 30 42
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.30 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.92 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £33.80 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.19% -5.71% +16.67%

MBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

MBA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing MBA

MBA
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MBA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MBA 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 MBA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 December 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 - 2 £502 - 2
MBA
England

MBA
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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Corporate Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Banking Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) HR Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PMI
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Lean Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Six Sigma
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Wealth Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (50.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PMP
2 1 (50.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Basel III
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft