Data Collection Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Collection
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Collection skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 87 104
Rank change year-on-year -40 +17 +51
Contract jobs citing Data Collection 11 25 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.48% 1.49% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 1.73% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £395 £281 £344
25th Percentile £482 £315 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +26.81% -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £542 £503 £494
90th Percentile £627 £571 £500
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £22.00 £25.38
% change year-on-year +93.18% -13.32% +36.01%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Collection 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,997 1,444 1,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 86.71% 86.26% 84.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,264 904 1,038
10th Percentile £263 £225 £263
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% +3.80% -
75th Percentile £584 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 50 54
10th Percentile £13.25 £14.70 £14.26
25th Percentile £16.12 £16.81 £17.56
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £24.80
Median % change year-on-year -13.42% -12.12% +40.11%
75th Percentile £27.21 £33.70 £54.06
90th Percentile £36.80 £52.50 £68.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Data Collection
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Data Collection job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Collection
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Collection
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data Collection in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data Collection in the West Midlands

Data Collection
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Collection.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Data Collection

Data Collection
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Collection within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
Birmingham -8 8 £507 -17.18% 2
Shropshire -45 1 - - 3
Data Collection
England

Data Collection
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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 3 (27.27%) Apache Pig
2 1 (9.09%) Apache
2 1 (9.09%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (45.45%) Power Platform
2 3 (27.27%) Azure
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Copilot Studio
3 1 (9.09%) Figma
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (9.09%) Miro
3 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
3 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) Data Mining
1 5 (45.45%) Power BI
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Hive
2 4 (36.36%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects XI
3 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (9.09%) OLTP
3 1 (9.09%) Power Query
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Git
1 1 (9.09%) GitLab
1 1 (9.09%) Jaeger
1 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Military
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Data Scientist
2 3 (27.27%) Data Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Business Intelligence Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Power BI Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Security Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Service Designer
4 1 (9.09%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (9.09%) Lucene
2 1 (9.09%) Middleware
2 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Algorithms
2 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
3 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
4 1 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (9.09%) MISP
4 1 (9.09%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Visualisation
2 5 (45.45%) Analytics
2 5 (45.45%) Data Science
2 5 (45.45%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (45.45%) Decision-Making
2 5 (45.45%) Machine Learning
3 4 (36.36%) Actionable Insight
3 4 (36.36%) Data Munging
3 4 (36.36%) Linear Algebra
3 4 (36.36%) Naive Bayes
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (36.36%) Statistics
3 4 (36.36%) Support Vector Machines
4 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
5 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
5 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (18.18%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) SQL
3 5 (45.45%) Java
3 5 (45.45%) Scala
4 2 (18.18%) Bash
5 1 (9.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (9.09%) Go
5 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) CEH
2 1 (9.09%) CISSP
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (9.09%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Fluentd
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Kibana
1 1 (9.09%) logstash
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Rsyslog
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Splunk
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) Databricks
3 1 (9.09%) VMware