Data Mining Job Trends in the Midlands

Data Mining
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Data Mining skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 189 226 228
Rank change year-on-year +37 +2 +76
Permanent jobs citing Data Mining 27 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.35% 0.16% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 3.88% 1.20% 0.54%
Number of salaries quoted 27 8 6
10th Percentile - £44,600 £30,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £51,875 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £58,750 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -9.62% -3.70%
75th Percentile £45,000 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £48,951 £73,000 -
England median annual salary £40,000 £56,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -28.57% +6.67% -12.50%

All Database & Business Intelligence Skills
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 permanent job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 696 836 1,110
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 8.97% 13.11% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 515 471 964
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -4.76%

Data Mining
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Mining relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Data Mining job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Data Mining
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Mining.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Data Mining

Data Mining
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Mining in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Mining in the Midlands

Data Mining
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Mining within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands +34 19 £40,000 -33.33% 3
East Midlands -1 8 £42,695 -4.06% 7
Data Mining
England

Data Mining
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the 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:

Applications
1 21 (77.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Power Platform
2 3 (11.11%) Snowflake
3 2 (7.41%) AWS
4 1 (3.70%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (77.78%) Tableau
2 6 (22.22%) Power BI
3 4 (14.81%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
General
1 25 (92.59%) Analytical Skills
2 20 (74.07%) Finance
3 4 (14.81%) Public Sector
3 4 (14.81%) Social Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Social Housing
5 2 (7.41%) Local Government
6 1 (3.70%) Banking
Job Titles
1 20 (74.07%) Analyst
2 18 (66.67%) Trainee
3 17 (62.96%) Data Analyst
4 15 (55.56%) Trainee Analyst
4 15 (55.56%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 4 (14.81%) Developer
6 3 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Business Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 2 (7.41%) Data Scientist
7 2 (7.41%) Senior
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) Senior Data Analyst
7 2 (7.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.41%) JSON
1 2 (7.41%) XML
2 1 (3.70%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.41%) Mashup
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (77.78%) Data Analysis
2 20 (74.07%) Analytics
3 18 (66.67%) Business Analysis
4 17 (62.96%) Data Analytics
5 15 (55.56%) Project Management
6 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
7 6 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
7 6 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
7 6 (22.22%) Data Science
8 5 (18.52%) Data Modelling
8 5 (18.52%) Decision-Making
8 5 (18.52%) ETL
8 5 (18.52%) Visualisation
9 4 (14.81%) Predictive Modelling
9 4 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (14.81%) Statistical Modelling
10 3 (11.11%) Data Cleansing
10 3 (11.11%) Mathematics
10 3 (11.11%) Statistical Analysis
10 3 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (96.30%) SQL
2 23 (85.19%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) T-SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (11.11%) R
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) DBS Check
2 2 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
3 1 (3.70%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.70%) GDPR
Vendors
1 22 (81.48%) Microsoft
2 3 (11.11%) Civica
2 3 (11.11%) Databricks
2 3 (11.11%) Northgate
3 1 (3.70%) Google
3 1 (3.70%) Orchard