Data Mining Contracts in the West Midlands

Data Mining
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data Mining skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Mining over the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 106 120
Rank change year-on-year -5 +14 +65
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Data Mining 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.35% 0.11% 0.33%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.96% 0.63% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £504 £230 £336
25th Percentile £504 £275 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £350 £488
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -28.21% -17.02%
75th Percentile £556 £425 £581
90th Percentile £582 £470 £638
England median daily rate £550 £494 £475
% change year-on-year +11.39% +3.95% -13.64%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
West Midlands

Data Mining falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the West Midlands.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 306 317 347
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 17.63% 16.74% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 213 241
10th Percentile £289 £313 £325
25th Percentile £408 £358 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £510
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -4.41% +2.00%
75th Percentile £569 £626 £600
90th Percentile £623 £725 £700
England median daily rate £513 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -5.96% -0.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £17.01 £34.14 £24.19
25th Percentile £21.39 £34.47 £24.47
Median hourly rate £31.61 £35.00 £28.15
Median % change year-on-year -9.70% +24.36% -
75th Percentile £34.71 £37.75 £32.05
90th Percentile £35.49 £39.40 £33.87
England median hourly rate £34.99 £35.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -0.03% -36.36% +35.04%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Data Mining in the West Midlands

Data Mining
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Mining
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Data Mining
DemandTrendContract 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 Mining within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +9 5 £508 +45.00% 8
Staffordshire - 1 - - 10
Data Mining
England

Data Mining
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 2 (33.33%) Apache Pig
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (33.33%) Apache Hive
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (16.67%) MySQL
3 1 (16.67%) OLTP
3 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Data Engineer
1 2 (33.33%) Data Scientist
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Architect
2 1 (16.67%) TOGAF Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Middleware
1 1 (16.67%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (16.67%) CCTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Data Visualisation
1 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
1 4 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 3 (50.00%) Data Collection
2 3 (50.00%) Data Science
2 3 (50.00%) Machine Learning
3 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Munging
3 2 (33.33%) Linear Algebra
3 2 (33.33%) Naive Bayes
3 2 (33.33%) Statistics
3 2 (33.33%) Support Vector Machines
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Statistical Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (50.00%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) Scala
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Splunk