Data Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West 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 51 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 +56 -13
Contract jobs citing Data Management 29 61 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.16% 3.13% 1.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 3.73% 1.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 49 24
10th Percentile £206 £406 £269
25th Percentile £475 £444 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £363
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +65.52% -25.26%
75th Percentile £575 £750 £491
90th Percentile £655 £878 £626
England median daily rate £553 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +0.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £16.42 -
25th Percentile - £18.75 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £22.62 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -58.87% -
75th Percentile - £26.50 £57.50
90th Percentile - £28.82 -
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Management in the West Midlands

Data Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data Management in the West Midlands

Data Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Data Management in the West Midlands

Data Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Data Management in the West Midlands

Data Management
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 Management within the West 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
Birmingham +17 10 £538 +13.16% 22
Warwickshire -11 6 £500 -28.57% 6
Coventry +2 4 £213 -62.88% 4
Staffordshire +3 2 £550 +307.41% 13
Shropshire -2 2 - - 4
Walsall - 1 - -
Data Management
England

Data Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (10.34%) Moodle
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) Power Platform
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) AWS
3 2 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EMR
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon MSK
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CodePipeline
4 1 (3.45%) Copilot Studio
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.69%) Power BI
2 3 (10.34%) MySQL
2 3 (10.34%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (6.90%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.45%) Big Data
4 1 (3.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (3.45%) Metadata
4 1 (3.45%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.45%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Git
2 3 (10.34%) PHPUnit
2 3 (10.34%) Plastic SCM
2 3 (10.34%) Postman
3 1 (3.45%) ER Studio
3 1 (3.45%) ERwin
3 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 8 (27.59%) Finance
3 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Games
5 2 (6.90%) Law
5 2 (6.90%) Local Government
5 2 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 3 (10.34%) Accountant
3 3 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Games Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Moodle Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Senior
3 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
3 3 (10.34%) Systems Accountant
4 2 (6.90%) Administrator
4 2 (6.90%) Analyst
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Data Manager
4 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Data Migration Lead
4 2 (6.90%) DBA
4 2 (6.90%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) RESTful
2 3 (10.34%) Behat
2 3 (10.34%) JSON
2 3 (10.34%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 3 (10.34%) XML
3 2 (6.90%) ADO
4 1 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Data Structures
1 3 (10.34%) e-Learning
1 3 (10.34%) VLE
2 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.45%) CMDB
3 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Agile
2 6 (20.69%) Analytics
2 6 (20.69%) ETL
2 6 (20.69%) Project Management
3 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (17.24%) Data Integration
3 5 (17.24%) Data Mapping
3 5 (17.24%) DevOps
4 4 (13.79%) Data Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
4 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
4 4 (13.79%) Data Modelling
4 4 (13.79%) Migration
4 4 (13.79%) User Experience
5 3 (10.34%) Financial Analysis
5 3 (10.34%) Project Planning
5 3 (10.34%) Software Architecture
5 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
5 3 (10.34%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 3 (10.34%) C#
3 3 (10.34%) PHP
4 2 (6.90%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Java
5 1 (3.45%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.90%) OCP
2 2 (6.90%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (3.45%) ACCA
3 1 (3.45%) CBAP
3 1 (3.45%) CIMA
3 1 (3.45%) CIPFA
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (10.34%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) Epicor
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Adobe
4 1 (3.45%) Civica
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.45%) ServiceNow