Data-Driven Decision Making Contracts in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Data-Driven Decision Making skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Decision Making 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 82 103 131
Rank change year-on-year +21 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making 15 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 0.41% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.26% 0.49% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
10th Percentile £264 £395 £417
25th Percentile £283 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -28.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £538 £675 -
90th Percentile £625 £800 £665
England median daily rate £500 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £15.63 - -
25th Percentile £16.15 - -
Median hourly rate £17.59 £74.54 -
Median % change year-on-year -76.41% - -
75th Percentile £18.45 - -
90th Percentile £18.62 - -
England median hourly rate £31.64 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.55% -10.53% +7.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making 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-Driven Decision Making
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Data-Driven Decision Making as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Decision Making in the West Midlands

Data-Driven Decision Making
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-Driven Decision Making 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 +19 6 £285 -62.00% 16
Coventry - 2 £513 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £575 - 3
Warwickshire 0 1 - - 3
Herefordshire - 1 £400 -
Data-Driven Decision Making
England

Data-Driven Decision Making
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 4 (26.67%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) 5G
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) LoRaWAN
1 1 (6.67%) Modbus
1 1 (6.67%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.67%) Big Data
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
3 1 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (20.00%) Local Government
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Marketing
5 2 (13.33%) Retail
6 1 (6.67%) Games
6 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Python Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Support
4 1 (6.67%) Data Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (26.67%) Apache NiFi
2 3 (20.00%) PySpark
3 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (13.33%) Onboarding
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Educational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) Industrial Internet of Things
2 1 (6.67%) IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) NB-IoT
2 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
2 1 (6.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Decision-Making
2 11 (73.33%) Analytics
3 6 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 6 (40.00%) Data Pipeline
4 5 (33.33%) Data Governance
4 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (26.67%) Dashboard Development
5 4 (26.67%) Visualisation
6 3 (20.00%) Agile
6 3 (20.00%) Data Ingestion
6 3 (20.00%) Data Integration
6 3 (20.00%) Data Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) High Availability
6 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (13.33%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (13.33%) ETL
7 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) R
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (13.33%) GDPR
3 1 (6.67%) NCSC
3 1 (6.67%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (13.33%) logstash
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Databricks
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Splunk