Data Matching Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Data Matching (Record Linkage)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Matching skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data Matching 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.029% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £656 - -
England median daily rate £650 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +36.84% -13.64% +15.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data Matching 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 2,906 1,549 1,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 84.85% 88.16% 81.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,781 989 1,007
10th Percentile £313 £250 £250
25th Percentile £413 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £477 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -4.60% -3.66% +3.80%
75th Percentile £579 £588 £625
90th Percentile £675 £653 £725
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 196 103 44
10th Percentile £13.45 £12.62 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.72 £15.56 £15.10
Median hourly rate £30.25 £24.34 £22.05
Median % change year-on-year +24.26% +10.41% -19.84%
75th Percentile £53.75 £35.30 £35.63
90th Percentile £70.11 £50.00 £54.25
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Data Matching
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Data Matching job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Data Matching
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Matching
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Matching
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 Matching within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 September 2026. 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
Shropshire - 1 £656 - 2
Data Matching
England

Data Matching
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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Data Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Batch Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Consent Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Information Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Master Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance